Build your own Media Library

Discover how simple it is to add your own photos, music, and home videos stored on your PC to your Windows Media Center library.

This overview explores the following:

• Setting up your Media Library

• Adding files to your Media Library

Setting up your Media Library

Each time you start Windows Media Center, it automatically scans the Music, Pictures, and Videos folders on your hard disk. But if your music files are on an external hard drive, or your pictures are on a shared computer on your home network, you’ll want to define which folders for Windows Media Center to scan and monitor.

Learn more: Setting up libraries

Adding files to your Media Library

Through your Media Library, you can control which songs, movies, and other media appear in Windows Media Center. You can add files to your Media Library either through Windows or Windows Media Center.

Learn more: Adding files to libraries