Music help please.

[malt25]

First up, I'm of the older generation & not all that IT savvy. I do usually manage to work my way through stuff though.

My issue. I have several albums on my laptop that I "recorded" from CD. The problem is that the music stops after each song. I have to select, start each song individually.

To try & solve the problem, I have transferred the songs to a USB stick, track by track, as I thought I may have originally transferred the album as a whole. I'm not sure if this could have been the cause.

Now, when I play from the USB stick, I have the same problem. The next song will not play unless I start it manually. I have tried it with both repeat & shuffle on & off & makes NO difference.

Would really appreciate some help.

Thanks.....     Mal.

[Forkinhades]

Playlist mu3

What software are using for playback?

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[maxpower]

I guess you are using windows default media player and want to keep it simple.

If you double click one song it will play only that song and ignore other songs in the same folder.

 

If you highlight several songs then right click the selected songs and choose play with media player it will play all of your selected songs.

 

If you right click a folder full of songs and choose play with media player it will play all the songs in the folder you selected.

 

If you want to keep it all tidy then place each album in its own folder and name it accordingly.

The shuffle and loop switches will work only when the player has more than one song to work with.

[malt25]

55 minutes ago, maxpower said:

I guess you are using windows default media player and want to keep it simple.

If you double click one song it will play only that song and ignore other songs in the same folder.

 

If you highlight several songs then right click the selected songs and choose play with media player it will play all of your selected songs.

 

If you right click a folder full of songs and choose play with media player it will play all the songs in the folder you selected.

 

If you want to keep it all tidy then place each album in its own folder and name it accordingly.

The shuffle and loop switches will work only when the player has more than one song to work with.

Thanks to you & Forkinhades for your replies. Your advice sounds pretty good. I'll give it a try & let you know how I grt on.

Thanks again.....     Mal.

[tutsiwarrior]

 

I'm a bit old fashioned too and I use the free VLC media player for playback...keep all the tracks from the album in one folder and then right click on the folder in the file explorer and click on 'play with VLC media player' and all the tracks should then play in sequence without any disruption...an absolute must for music in movements like symphonies, sonatas, etc where you can't be fumbling with the controls when the music ends...

 

if you open the folder in the file explorer with the individual tracks listed then each track will havta be started manually...

 

 

Edited January 2, 2018 by tutsiwarrior

[JaseTheBass]

I use Music Bee.

 

It's free and you can use it to organise your collection and it's fully customisable so you can set it up to show what you want to see.

[bendejo]

Your problem is with the player software, not the files themselves.

There are a bunch of music players out there, some free.  A good place to start would be portableapps.com because these programs will probably not mess up your system settings.

 

Myself, my long-time fave is Winamp.  It's been officially discontinued, but is still available for free download.  Old habits die hard. 

I use VLC as my movie player, but sometimes I'll use it to play very large and varied sound files, like a hours of recorded radio play.