Background audio file type and location

[Mitd9922]

In windows media player, what do i specify for a location that I can use for the show? I created a song list to use for background audio, but when I try use it it only lets me pick one artist and not the whole list. i know I'm a bit new to the BA player but I need a little more detail on how to get the whole playlist into the BA. Thanks for any help!

And if this is the wrong thread, please send it to the correct location.

[Roy Dennis]

You don't do anything with Windows Media Player to use the BA player in Hoster. When you open Bkgnd Audio (the yellow button) there is a Browse button, selecting this brings up Windows explorer window to find an audio folder containing mp3 or wma audio files, you can't load playlist files from media player.
You select one folder at a time, you can make a folder if you wish with a selection of songs of your choice by copying and pasting from other folders but it will list them in alpha order in the BA playlist regardless of the order you place them in your folder, you can select any song to play next time or randomise them by clicking on the header bar several times.

[Mitd9922]

Thanks, I don't know how to create the folder outside of media player.

[Roy Dennis]

First off, do you know which folder on your computer contains your mp3 or wma audio files ?

[Mitd9922]

They're in my windows media player. I don't know how to create a different folder. I did this before from media player, but don't know how I did it.

[Roy Dennis]

I'll try and explain a way to put the songs in your media player playlist into a BA list but it's not how I would normally setup a BA playlist.

First off create a folder on your desktop by right clicking on an empty space on your desktop, a window should pop up, select "New" another window will open choose "Folder" you should now see an extra icon on your desk top named "New folder" If you want you can right click on the new folder and select "Rename" the choice is yours for the rest of these instructions we will leave it as New folder, we will place a group of music tracks in this folder to use in th BA player.
Open your Windows Media Player, as you say you prepared a playlist in media player load the playlist so you can see the list of tracks.
Right click on the first track in the list, from the window that pops up select "Open file location" in the window that opens you should see the track highlighted, again right click on it and select "Copy"
Now click the minimize button top right The "-" so you can see your desktop and right click on the new folder and select"Paste"
Repeat this process with each individual song from your playlist. This is going to take a time but as you don't seem to know were your music files are I can't tell you an easier way.

When you have a good selection in the New folder start Hoster, click on the yellow Bkgnd Audio button, in the BA dialog click the brows button in this window at the top click the little drop down arrow and select "Desktop" then double click on the New folder and it should open showing all the songs you loaded in it, press select button you should now see all these songs listed in the BA player

See how you get on with that.

[Mitd9922]

This must be a media player thing. I bring up the media player file and try to copy a song to put in my new folder on my desktop and it has no copy in the drop down box. Now I'm just going to get a differant player to rip from. Thanks for the help.

[Roy Dennis]

You can't copy a file directly from media player.
When you right click on a song in media player there is no copy option, you have to select "Open file location" then copy it from the folder that opens there.

Which version of Windows do you have ?
Also which version of media player do you have ?
You can find the version from the program Help about Windows media player.

[Mitd9922]

Windows 7
media player 10
I will try your suggestion, Thanks

I just tried to open a file location and when I click on open file location, nothing happens.

[Roy Dennis]

Lets try a different approach to finding where you store your mp3 files.

First off media player 10 is an old version for windows 7 (12 is the latest)but what you need to find is the default folder where your music is stored, try this:

Open media player, if you have the menu displayed on the top line click on Tools then options then the "Rip Music" tab.
If you don't see a menu list at the top you may find a small downward pointing arrow bottom right, right clicking this should display a menu that you can select Tools from.
Then look for "Rip music to this location" and jot down the path displayed.
In my case it shows "C:\Documents And Settings\Roy Dennis\My Documents\My Music\MP3"

Now from the Brows button in Hoster follow the path that you noted from above then select from the list of folders that may be shown as album names, you may have folders in folders keep opening untill you see the actual mp3 files then choose select, it should then populate the lower window with the songs.

Alternatively create a folder solely for your BA songs.
If you right click on your desktop prior to doing the above and select New from the fly out then choose "Folder" it will create a new folder on your desk top which if you right click again will allow you to rename it to something you like. Then copy some of the mp3 files from the previous path you followed and paste into your new desktop folder.
Once you have a collection use the brows button in Hoster's BA player to Brows to the folder you just created.