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

Hi guys.  Thank you so so much for all your help Ric and Cyberguy654.  I agree that WMP is getting to be a dinasour and I think there will be a day when Windows 7 will not longer be supported either and I will then be forced to upgrade.  I'm lazy when it comes to sitting on my computer for hours to change everything............but...................it is what it is.  Back to my question to both you guys.  What software out there is better than WMP?  Yes, I too mostly stream my music ........from Amazon, but there is an occasion when one of my friends have a CD with some good music that I might want to rip........but not necessarily a requirement on the software.  I have read about so many of the softwares that I am going crazy.  Of course, everyone thinks theirs is the best.  Now that you know what I have gone through the last week or so, what would you recommend?  One that easy to use and easy to transfer music from flash back and forth and songs streamed from Amazon.

Thanks guys....................you are both fantastic.   If I have any more problems, how can I get back with you?  I can't use anyone else cause this has been such a snafu that no one else would get it and I can't explain it all to them.....omg!!!!

Please get back to me, ok?

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.