Alot has changed since the wild and wooly days of Napster. Now there is Windows 7. Today there is a lot more attention paid to artists’ rights and fair compensation for work. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t get the music you want or that it’ll be too expensive to bother with - far from it! In this task you’ll discover how you can use Windows Media Player to surf the Web, find, pay for, and download music.
1. If Windows Media Player isn’t already running, select Start > All Programs > Windows Media Player.
2. Click Media Guide on the taskbar on the left edge of the window. This part of the Windows 7 Media Player essentially works exactly like a Web browser.
3. Click Music in the list of links along the left-hand side of the page. Here you’ll see featured music and music videos that you can download. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see a group of links along the left where you can select a genre and subgenre that you like and then look at the bands listed
4. When you find an artist that you are interested in, click the artist’s name and you will see an Artist Profile. On the right side of the page is a list box labeled Available Media. You can scroll through this list to find songs and entire albums available for purchase and download.
5. Click on a song or album that you’d like to download. A new browser window opens and shows a shopping cart with the song or album in it. (This cart and how it works depends on the provider you are purchasing from.)
6. Follow the steps for checking out, entering billing and shipping information, and downloading. These steps will be different for different providers.
7. When you download the file, save it to your My Music folder (which is inside My Documents).
8. When the download is complete, there’s still one step left. You must have Windows Media Player add the new song to your Media Library. Select File > Add To Media Library > Add File or Playlist. An Open dialog appears. Make your way to your My Music folder, find the file, and double-click it. The song is added to your Media Library.
Listening to your vast collection of digitized music can be quite satisfying. But after awhile you might miss the friendly voice of a disk jockey. Not to worry! Radio, too, has gone digital - and Windows Media Player is equipped to make it easy to access radio. You can find hundreds of radio stations on the Internet, playing virtually any type of music you enjoy (and some you likely won’t enjoy). Many of the stations are actually traditional radio stations from cities throughout the world, while others are Internet-only stations. If you’re looking for a friendly voice and cool tunes to accompany you throughout the day, you’ll find no lack of options here.
1. Start Windows Media Player.
2. Click Radio Tuner on the taskbar on the left edge of the window. This is the opening page for the Radio Tuner. Notice under the Featured Stations is a bar called My Stations. If you’ve never listened to Internet radio before, this will be empty. You can add stations you like to this list so that you can easily get to them here in the future. It is sort of a Favorites for Internet radio.
3. At this point you can simply select one of the featured stations, click on a favorite genre, or type in keywords to search for. Click your favorite genre. A new page displays a list of the many, many stations that play music of that genre.
4. Click on a station. A description of the station opens up, along with a few links. The first link is Add to My Stations. As you might expect, this adds the station you’re looking at to the list you’ll see when you first come to the Radio Tuner. It also adds the station to your Media Library under Radio Tuner Presets. Usually you’ll also see a Play link here. Some stations will only play through their own Web site, so the link will say Visit Website to Play.
5. Find a station with a Play link, and click it. It will take some time (sometimes 30 seconds or longer) to begin hearing the station. Often, Windows Media Player opens the station’s Web site for you to browse. Minimize the Web browser and click Now Playing in the taskbar. You will see the name of the song and artist. Some broadband stations may even have video content that is displayed through Windows Media Player. If so, it will play automatically.
6. Try out several different stations and save the best to My Stations so that you can find them again later.
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