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Windows Media Player 12: Always show list
Hi everyone,
I recently updated my computer to Windows 7.
When I was on XP, the list pane of WMP 11 was always displayed in the right part of the screen (except in full screen mode).
Now on WMP 12, I have to manually right-click and choose "Show list" each time I open WMPand each time a new video starts .
Could you tell me how to permanently display the list pane ?
Thank you
Regards,
Phil
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There is no way to get or save the "list pane" in Windows Media Player 12. You must create a playlist to see your play list pane.
I've been playing around with this for hours trying to get the same thing your tyring to get. Microsoft has changed alot in version Windows Media Player 12. The last version of windows media player 11 is the only version that can show the playing list pane.
Click "Organize > Layout > Show List". It displayed the list and came back after opening and closing WMP. Hope that helps.
All of the normal options as mentioned above regarding Organize → Layout → etc. but to get this to work I also did the following:
→ play video in your playlist or start playing playlist to populate in sidebar
→ right-click anywhere on playing video
→ Video
→ make sure both are checked:
√ Fit Player to Video on Resize
√ Fit Player to Video (this has to be checked for this to work)
→ right-click and Show List
→ test by clicking through each selection.
If list closes, just close WMP 12 and re-open and it should work. Now if I could only get rid of that rating column.
I just want to take a minute and show my disgust for Microsoft's WMP team. I have been following this thread since the beginning, and I even posted in Microsoft's Technet forums abuot this same issue:
(scroll down to the first post from November 26, 2009)
I decided to come back and check out both threads now that several months have passed (3/4 of a year), in hopes that MS has finally fixed the issue. Of course, absolutely nothing has been done, and one user is suggesting people reinstall Windows to fix the issue - are you kidding me? You're suggesting people reinstall their entire operating system so that some tiny option in a media player will work? That's absurd (and won't work anyway - why would using the same install disc change anything?)! How on earth are we going to get any of the changes we want if no one is listening?
The least they could do is say "Nope, we're not going to add the feature", and then we'd know we could stop waiting for it, but instead we get nothing. I normally don't make angry posts, but this is just ridiculous. Why change something that's been standard for the last six versions, and not at least have an option to change it back? I am a programmer, and I can't fathom any situation where this option would be difficult to implement. Just do it already.
Fortunately, there are still ways to install WMP11 on Windows 7, and that's what I intend to do when I finally upgrade from Vista.
MS needs to include at least a shortcut that will save the layout(show list) of WMP. Such a user-friendly, yet basic feature. Is MS really that blind to making applications user-friendly; not to mention deaf for not listening to people's complaints???
