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Windows Media Player getting rid of Playlist Question?.

#1 bluesjunior

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 10:46 AM

I have WMP11 and use it as the default for playing video / audio. I have around 12GB of Audio and 10GB of Video on my PC. I noticed today while learning to burn a CD using WMP that all the music I have played since I last reformatted is also stored on WMP. My question is if this is neccessary?. I like to keep my PC neat and uncluttered and try to keep on top of uninstalling older programs etc. Is there for example a tutorial or such explaining how to delete these files from the WMP library and to stop it adding any in future?. I have all my audio / video in appropriately named folders on my hard drive and would prefer to keep it this way rather than WMP making playlists I never use.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3, CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 Processor, Memory: OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz,Graphics: PowerColor HD 5750 1GB GDDR5,
PSU: Corsair 430W CX PSU 4x SATA 1x PCI-E, Hard Drive:Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache.

#2 hillbillygreek

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 05:47 PM

Don't normally use WMP myself as default, but it seems that a good place to start would be Options > Library > Monitor Folders. Make sure that Advanced Options are expanded. Click on the Learn more about monitoring folders link.
See also:

Windows Media Player FAQ

Windows Media Player Tutorial

This post has been edited by hillbillygreek: 22 March 2008 - 10:32 PM