Vista - Media Players

My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of
getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four
Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing.

I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want
to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded
this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music
Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of
'My Music'.

Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists
of My Music.

Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I
haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also
produce results from 'My Music'.

What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs?

I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try
and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right
direction.

Regards.
--
Websken

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:54:01 -0700, Websken
<Websken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of
>getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four
>Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing.
>
>I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want
>to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded
>this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music
>Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of
>'My Music'.
>
>Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists
>of My Music.
>
>Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I
>haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also
>produce results from 'My Music'.
>
>What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs?
>
>I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try
>and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right
>direction.
>
>Regards.

Different strokes for different folks. ;-)

What programs you install depends on what you want to do and also to a
great extent on your experience level. For example I have over a dozen
different players and each does certain things the others don't at all
or as well. Media Player is basic and free. Real Player is free too.
Roxio makes a suite of application that mainly do CD/DVD
copying/burning.

If you have multiple copies of your music or anything for that matter
that suggests you haven't altered WHERE you store your data so each
application just does it's own thing. EVERY Windows based program
should allow you to set up a folder and automatically gets downloads
or stores files regardless on what hard drive you put it. VERY simple
to set up. Assume you want to store your music in a folder named
Music. Go to Windows Explorer, make a new folder, call it music. Now
in EVERY application you use direct it's download folder or use the
"save as" option and it will bring up the directory tree and you
simply click on which folder you want the files stored and give it a
name you want it to have. This is all very basic Windows stuff and
isn't new to Vista.

Many thanks for the explanation; greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Websken


"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:54:01 -0700, Websken
> <Websken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of
> >getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four
> >Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing.
> >
> >I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want
> >to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded
> >this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music
> >Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of
> >'My Music'.
> >
> >Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists
> >of My Music.
> >
> >Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I
> >haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also
> >produce results from 'My Music'.
> >
> >What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs?
> >
> >I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try
> >and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right
> >direction.
> >
> >Regards.
>
> Different strokes for different folks. ;-)
>
> What programs you install depends on what you want to do and also to a
> great extent on your experience level. For example I have over a dozen
> different players and each does certain things the others don't at all
> or as well. Media Player is basic and free. Real Player is free too.
> Roxio makes a suite of application that mainly do CD/DVD
> copying/burning.
>
> If you have multiple copies of your music or anything for that matter
> that suggests you haven't altered WHERE you store your data so each
> application just does it's own thing. EVERY Windows based program
> should allow you to set up a folder and automatically gets downloads
> or stores files regardless on what hard drive you put it. VERY simple
> to set up. Assume you want to store your music in a folder named
> Music. Go to Windows Explorer, make a new folder, call it music. Now
> in EVERY application you use direct it's download folder or use the
> "save as" option and it will bring up the directory tree and you
> simply click on which folder you want the files stored and give it a
> name you want it to have. This is all very basic Windows stuff and
> isn't new to Vista.
>
>