Windows Media Center is a great way to organize your music and watch TV shows and movies. You can create playlists of your favorite songs, movies, and TV shows, and then access them from any device in your home. To create a Windows Media Center playlist, you first need to create a media center account. Then, you can find the media center program in the Start menu and open it. In the left pane, you’ll see a list of programs that are associated with your media center account. The programs on this list are usually listed in alphabetical order. The next step is to find the folder that contains your music files. To do this, open the properties of the program that’s associated with your media center account and click on the link that says " Browse for files." This will take you to a location where you can find all of your music files. Once you’ve found all of your music files, you’ll need to add them to a Windows Media Center playlist. To do this, open the playlist editor program and click on the Add button at the top left corner of the screen. This will add all of your music files into one place so they can be organized according to their genre or type of song. Now that you have an organized collection of songs, it’s time to make some Windows Media Center playlists! To make a new Windows Media Center playlist, just click on New Playlist in the top right corner of the editor window and enter an name for it. You can also use these playlists as templates if you want to make custom ones without having to copy everything over again!
Create Manual Playlists
Open Windows Media Center and select the Music Library.
From within the Music Library, choose playlists from the top menu.
Then select Create Playlist.
Give your new playlist a name, and select Next.
Choose Music Library and select Next.
Select “songs” from the top menu, choose the songs for your playlist from your library, and select Next when finished. You can also click Select All to add all songs to your playlist, or clear all to remove them.
Note: you can also sort by artist, album, genre, etc. from the top menu.
Now you can review and edit your playlist. Click the up and down pointers to move songs up and down in the playlist, or “X” to remove them. You can also go back and add additional songs by selecting Add More. Click Create when you are finished.
Auto Playlists
Windows Media Center also allows you to create six different auto playlists. These are dynamic playlists based on pre-defined criteria. Auto Playlists include All Music, Music added in the last month, Music auto rated at 5 stars, Music played in the last month, Music played the most, and Music rated 4 or 5 stars.
These Auto Playlists will change dynamically as your library and listening habits change.
Your new music playlists can be found under playlists in the music library.
Select play playlist to start the music.
Now kick back and enjoy the music from your playlist.
Conclusion
While earlier versions of WMC allowed you to create playlists, you had to do it through Windows Media Player. This is a nice new feature for music lovers who use WMC and prefer to do everything with a remote.
Do you already have playlists that you’ve created in Windows Media Player? Windows Media Center can play those too. If your playlists are in the default Music folder, Media Center will detect them automatically and add them to your Music Library. Plus, any playlists you create in Media Center are also available for Media Player.
For more on creating Playlists in Media Player, check out our previous articles on how to create a custom playlist in Windows Media Player 12, and how to create auto playlists in WMP 12.
