Album Art in Media Player

Working with Album Art in Windows Media Player

Set your own Album Art for your media folders and Media Player for Windows XP (MPXP).

If you don't like the album art or have a folder of downloaded music that you want to add art to:

• Simply select any graphic from your browser.
• Save it inside the folder you want, and call it Folder.jpg.

Now when you play any music that resides in that folder, the Media Player will automatically pick it up and display that as album art.

Managing Multiple Photos or Other Files

If you have numerous files to rename, select a group of photos then rename the FIRST one and the rest will follow.

Turn Off File Names in Thumbnail View

Find that you need more space for thumbnails and would like to turn the file names off?

• Hold down shift when you open a folder or when you switch into thumbnail view. This will turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails. Doing it again turns them back on.

Try Grouping Files for Effortless Manageability

• In any My Computer window, select View > Arrange Icons by > Type.
• Then, select View > Arrange Icons by > Show in Groups.
• If you prefer Details view, you can right-click on the column header in and choose the columns you want displayed. And you can drag and drop the column headers to reorder them.

Add a Map Drive Button to the Toolbar

Do you want to quickly map a network drive, but can't find the toolbar button? If you map drives often, use one of these options to add a Map Drive button to the folder toolbar in My Computer.

Option One (Long Term Fix):

• Open My Computer, right-click the toolbar, then unlock the toolbars, if necessary.
• Right-click the toolbar again and click Customize.
• Under Available toolbar buttons, locate Map Drive, and drag it into the position you want on the right under Current toolbar buttons.
• Click Close, click OK, and then click OK again.
You now have a drive mapping buttons on your My Computer toolbar, so you can map drives from any folder window. To unmap drives, follow the above procedure, selecting Disconnect under Available toolbar buttons.

Option Two (Quick Fix):

• Right-click My Computer and choose Map Network Drive. If you place your My Computer icon directly on the desktop, you can make this move in only two clicks! Otherwise, you can right-click the My Computer icon in the Start Menu.