[quidoza]

Can anyone help me and tell me how one gets Windows Media Player 11 to display the song title and artist info on the main window of the player as version 9 so usefully did (please see attached screenshot to explain what I mean).

I am prevented from upgrading to version 11 due to this bizarre omission of a very useful and essential basic feature which I use all the time when quickly checking multiple song info when entering mp3 tag info on bulk files. 'If it ain't broke.......' Microsoft!

It shows in tiny text on v11 at the bottom of the player but this gets cut off unless you have media player stretched right across your screen.

Thanks.

Can't upload attachment - what's wrong PC Pro??

[quidoza]

For some reason the forum won't allow me to upload the attachment - tiny file of 60kb?? Please click on link here to download:

www.chilledwithgod.co.uk/drewtodd/winmp9.jpg

[Lindburgh]

Click my signature and look under Sound for Lone Wolf's tips

[quidoza]

Thanks for that Lindburgh but could you perhaps direct me exactly to the relevant tip, struggling to find it in amongst your wonderful database.

[Lindburgh]

Search for Lone Wolf and there are some 20-30 tips on media

[Lindburgh]

I realized your problem with the Library
It is caused by lazy people
Each subject has its own sub section and each of the sub sections have a small down arrow to the left of them.

The cretins who open them and are to lazy to close them when they have finished browsing leaves the site in a mess, for there are as many as 300 in a sub section.

In the Introduction I do request that everyone closes them similar to a filing Cabinet Put the files back in the drawer and close it.

I have gone to a lot of trouble to post these tips, and I am disappointed at the abuse .

It raises the question why do I bother

If you go down the list and click the ones with the down arrow you will come to Sound and if you open Sound you will find the tips relating to Media

Please do not be like the Cretins and close the Sound sub directory when you have finished.
Lindburgh

[quidoza]

Thanks for your kind reply. However I have no problem in finding the 'sound' section, it's within the sound and media player sections that my colleague and I cannot find any info relating to making Windows media player 11 look like media player 9 and the screenshot link I provided above.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to point me to the relative info.

Many thanks.

[cats_five]

Lindburgh: my browser remembers the state I left it in. The state you leave it in doesn't affect me one jot. The initial load seems have all the tabs expanded.

[greemble]

I find the same as cats_five, closing all the sub-categories makes no difference - they are all open by default

[mrstevenrogers]

you could try using another skin for win media player that may give you the song title display back ...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... s?T1=techy

[Lindburgh]

If one considers that there are more than 2,500 hits per day then finding the one that I have just corrected as to be like the needle in the Haystack

I do not know what else that I can do other than request as I have in the Introduction
Lindburgh

[quidoza]

Any ideas how to make Windows Media Player 11 look like Windows Media Player 9? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. So far the info kindly provided above hasn't answered the question.

Many thanks.

[Josefov]

It's not a perfect solution but when WMP is in the Library/Playlist view, click on the Organize drop-down menu and in Layout tick Show menu bar. After that, the well known File-View-Play... menu bar appears. Under View menu there is a Skin chooser option. Have a look if you have a skin available that looks similar to the traditional WMP interface.