Mastering Windows Media Player 11
11_0789735865_ch08.qxd 7/27/07 10:09 AM Page 175 Chapter Eight Mastering Windows Media Player 11 IN THIS CHAPTER How Microsoft’s New Media Player Is the ܋ How Microsoft’s New Media Player Is the Master of Its Domain Master of Its Domain ܋ WMP 11’s Play Controls ܋ Configuring WMP 11’s Options ܋ Working with Audio in WMP 11 ܋ Playing Video in WMP 11 ܋ Media Sharing and Your Home Network ܋ Windows Media Player Tips and Tricks t wouldn’t seem like a new version of Windows if Microsoft didn’t pony up a new version of Windows Media Player I(WMP) to go with it. Vista is no exception—it includes ver- sion 11 of Windows Media Player as its dice-slice-rip-play multimedia powerhouse. With version 11, WMP offers big improvements in usability, support for portable media players, the Xbox 360 game console, CD and DVD burning, Internet access, network support, and file synchronization. 11_0789735865_ch08.qxd 7/27/07 10:09 AM Page 176 MAXIMUM PC MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA EXPOSED NOTE WMP 11’s Play Controls When you start Windows Media Player, the Library view is dis- After you configure WMP, played by default. The newly uncluttered Explorer-style interface you can start it directly uses a menu along the left side of the WMP display for selecting from the QuickLaunch tool- different views of your digital library (see Figure 8.1). The play bar, next to the Start but- controls are centered along the bottom center of the display, for ton, or from the Start easier access when running WMP 11 in a windowed mode.
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