Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP How-to Center

Learn how to navigate the new user interface in Windows Media Player 11.

Play CDs or watch movies on your computer.

Find out how to choose Windows Media Player 11 as the default player for audio and video files.

Build your own digital media collection by ripping (copying) tracks from your CDs onto your computer.

Find out how to specify the folders on your computer where you want the Player to automatically search for digital media files and add them to the library.

Find radio stations that broadcast over the Internet and listen to them in Windows Media Player 11.

Learn how to burn you own custom CDs that you can play in any standard CD player.

Fit music and video into your busy life by synchronizing them to a portable device so you can listen to them anywhere.

Stream music, pictures, and video from your computer to devices that are connected to your wired or wireless home network such as an Xbox 360.

• Stream music from your computer to Xbox 360

• Stream music from your computer to a digital media receiver

Find out how to use advanced search to find all items in your library or in compatible online stores.

Mix your favorite songs into playlists. Once you create playlists, you can sync your playlists to a device or burn them to a CD.

Let the Player help you find, organize, and play just the music that you want to listen to, according to criteria that you set.

Use the Windows Media Player library to organize and search your digital media collection.

Display the album cover artwork associated with the songs in your library.

Update items in your library that have missing or incorrect media information, such as songs that have missing or incorrect song titles, track numbers, artist names, album titles, genres, and so on.