Re: How make WMP 11 do two things ...

Rav

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>
> A: No.
> B: Just push play when you restart it. Voila. =)
>

B - Doesn't work here. It starts playing a seemingly random song, not
the one that was playing when I last shut WMP down. I was hoping it was
that simple, but thanks anyway.
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zachd [MSFT]

B: Did you turn off "Save File History"? You need to do that so WMP
remembers what track you were on. Otherwise - you told it to forget what
you were doing. =)

I did this again just now - played a track until midway through the track,
shut down the player, restarted it, pressed play and that last track was
playing again. =)

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"Rav" <> wrote in message
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> zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>>
>> A: No.
>> B: Just push play when you restart it. Voila. =)
>>
>
> B - Doesn't work here. It starts playing a seemingly random song, not the
> one that was playing when I last shut WMP down. I was hoping it was that
> simple, but thanks anyway.
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Rav

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
> B: Did you turn off "Save File History"? You need to do that so WMP
> remembers what track you were on. Otherwise - you told it to forget what
> you were doing. =)
>
> I did this again just now - played a track until midway through the track,
> shut down the player, restarted it, pressed play and that last track was
> playing again. =)
>

OK, now we're getting somewhere. I did have "Save file and URL history
in the Player" turned off; now it's on. Now, if I do NOT sort on any of
the columns, whatever song I was playing when I shut down starts playing
again when I restart and press Play. That's good. However, I had
sorted by the Date Added column (because I wanted to play the songs I
had most recently added), and when I shut down and restarted, it was on
the wrong song. Seems it didn't remember the sort sequence, so ended up
with a "random" song. Is there a way to make it remember how it was
last sorted (I have Library, Songs selected)? Thanks. p
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zachd [MSFT]

Sorts don't save - but if you had built a playlist, you could use that.

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"Rav" <> wrote in message
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> zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>> B: Did you turn off "Save File History"? You need to do that so WMP
>> remembers what track you were on. Otherwise - you told it to forget what
>> you were doing. =)
>>
>> I did this again just now - played a track until midway through the
>> track, shut down the player, restarted it, pressed play and that last
>> track was playing again. =)
>>
>
> OK, now we're getting somewhere. I did have "Save file and URL history in
> the Player" turned off; now it's on. Now, if I do NOT sort on any of the
> columns, whatever song I was playing when I shut down starts playing again
> when I restart and press Play. That's good. However, I had sorted by the
> Date Added column (because I wanted to play the songs I had most recently
> added), and when I shut down and restarted, it was on the wrong song.
> Seems it didn't remember the sort sequence, so ended up with a "random"
> song. Is there a way to make it remember how it was last sorted (I have
> Library, Songs selected)? Thanks. p
> .
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Rav

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
> Sorts don't save - but if you had built a playlist, you could use that.
>

OK, I created an auto playlist, and it does help some. At least, after
you set it up, it remembers where it last was when you press Play upon
startup. Still wish it would auto-position the Listview so you could
actually see which song it was playing (I still have to manually scroll
down), but at least it's playing the right song. I also wish I could
specify a specific date to filter the "Date Added" column on (i.e. "Is
After Feb 11, 2006"), but it only gives a few pre-defined time extents.
Or is there a way to do that? Anyway, I appreciate all of your help.
You've been very responsive. p
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