If you want more control over your music library and you are using a desktop computer, laptop, or Windows 8.1 Pro tablet, you can use Windows Media Player. You can start Windows Media Player by searching for media at the Start screen.
This software offers several advantages over the Music app, especially for people with large music collections. In the left panel are quick links to let you arrange and view your music by Artist, Album, or Genre, and you can also view your Videos and Pictures here as well. Below these links are direct links to any other computers or network devices that are sharing pictures, music, and video on your network. This can include other computers and network storage.
Perhaps the best functionality with Windows Media Player is the advanced ability to control playlists. Click/Touch Create Playlist in the options bar that runs along the top of the window and you can create either a standard playlist or an auto playlist. Let me explain the difference.
When you create a Standard playlist, it will appear in the left-side navigation panel in Windows Media Player. You can drag and drop music onto this playlist using your mouse to add music to it.
Auto playlists, however, will automatically add music to the playlists depending on various criteria that you set . You can choose from a great many options here to create, for example, auto playlists of your most played music or even music tracks that you’ve never played.
If, at any time, you want to create an audio CD—perhaps to play your favorite music in the car—you can do this by clicking the Burn link in the top right of the window and dragging and dropping the music tracks you want into the panel that appears. When you have selected the tracks you want, click/touch the Start Burn button to burn your audio CD (you will need a blank CD and a CD burner drive in your computer to do this).
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