track numbers in front of song names in windows music library, windows 7

Off topic? I will see you and raise... :D

I was only in this Forum to find a way to change the size of Album Art in WMP. Scary, huh?

Currently, WMP in both my Win 7 and Win 10 machines is set to display Album Art at full resolution, whatever that resolution is. I drew some Art at the resolution of the Win 10 laptop, 1376 by 768, and WMP displays it full size.

The good news: It is pretty easy. Bad news, it involves editing the Registry. This is the method I used. In Win 7, the 'PlayerModeAlbumArtSelected' was there. In Win 10, I had to write it.

I just went and looked and in Win 7, and it looks as though the Windoze Update reset the 'ShowAlbumArt' value to '0'. WMP Album Art is still displaying at full size as I write this.

I took a screenshot of the Registry and tried to upload it but MS is not cooperating. I will try again in a separate post.

Thank you! What finally pushed me into turning off WMP (this is W10 specific) was its album art... Because the art size has not been updated since XP days (200x200 px large and 75x75 small) and it will eventually always overwrite to those sizes, I finally decided to call it a day. The main issue is the folder image which invariably ends up with a white border around it because the folder template is now one-third bigger than the large artwork thus - and looks horrible!

Although I had 'fixed' most of the folder art by disabling system interference (in properties 'security') there would always be a few I'd missed getting hit after updates.

Apologies to Janet for momentarily going off-topic but it's kind of relevant to the point about WMP being behind the times. - Cheers, R.

Thanks Ric. This has been a great thread. I learned a lot about WMP from your efforts.

Hi again - after a good night's sleep! - I agree! Don't upgrade the W7 PC - I've 'mothballed' mine and taken it offline - I reset it to factory settings and it no longer updates so I can run the original programs (such as WMP 12) and other W7 compatible software without the concern of security issues etc. It's a useful option to have. I have found W10 to be very reliable so I'm sorry you had difficulties with it. However as Cyber said - WMP is indeed a bit of a dinosaur and does not work so well which is why I have turned it off permanently. Groove Music seems to be better than when it first arrived so I can use that although you cannot rip or burn discs - but MS presumed the world was moving on from disc technology!

I mainly use streaming now - I have a Spotify Premium account (Amazon does something similar) which for the equivalent cost of a mid-price CD per month gives me access to all the music I could ever need on any device - you can download favourites for offline play too - although they cannot be copied to disc etc.

Amazon also has a music player you can install - have you tried that? My main issue with it (this was a good while back - it may have improved) was its tendency to muddle up albums with a similar name - e.g.

'Greatest Hits' - you'd get all the Tr1s and Tr2s mixed/mucked in together in album view. However it played OK and looked pretty good!

Let me know if you need anything more - thanks too to Cyber for his input - good to have some extra help/brainpower... I'm still feeling a little below par after the recent flu! - Cheers, Ric.

On the File /Folder Quiz, you get an A.

You had me going when I said 'files' and you said, "No! Not songs." Each song is a separate music file. When a CD is ripped, WMP usually makes a Folder with the Album name as the name of the Folder, and the Files in the Folder are the songs.

<In my computer, under music i opened files to catagorize my music......>

If I understand this, in Windows Explorer, you navigated to C:\Users\Username\Music. That is where I get lost... The only way that I know to organize music there is to move it in to other Folders. I have some tricks that I use, but I am very curious to learn what you did.

<i had music in types files.>

Computer files are 'typed' by what they do.  Types of files would be, say, word files, picture files, executable files, audio files, etc.

<When i moved these files to documents.....they were still under their appropriate files.  Somewhere i lost file name ie: country, 80,s etc.  My music is all run together in alpha. >

The filename is, well, the name of the file. Without the file name, Windows cannot find or do anything with the file. I confess that I get a bit lost when you say that files are under files...

I am at a loss trying to think of where and how you added labels like country, 80's.

I hope that you know that Ric and I are just regular Users, just like you. We just try to pass along what we know.

I too have a Win 7 Desktop and a Win 10 Laptop. I think that my wife wanted me to have the Win 10 because her online banking has all gone to Win 10 and she wanted to have someone handy who could walk her through the vagaries of Win 10.

I am loathe to update an old computer to a new Operating System. I am going to limp along with the Win 7 machine until it croaks. It is just my personal prejudice, but everyone that I know who tried to upgrade an old machine to a new Windows has had problems. It is just me, but for all the headaches of turning a Win 7 machine in to a Win 10 machine, I would just as soon have new machine with Win 10 already installed.

Your mileage may vary...