Windows 10: Alterative to windows media player

For years I have used Windows Media Player. I use it to play the media stored on my PC.

I like the fact that I can open it up, set it to random, and it finds all the media on my PC and plays it.

Is there any other programs that will play all music in the Windows Music folder randomly? I ask because of late Media Player has crashed on several occasions and I would like to switch.

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Renamed Media Player Playlists Do Not keep the new name

1. I am using media player 12 on Windows 10

2. The only other players I have are Spotify (which does not see these lists) and MS-Groove (that came with the machine. Altering the name in Groove ... seems to alter the filename and then make it appear in media Player (with the new name)... but not visa
versa

I ran the Troubleshooter and it listed the media Player Library as Corrupt. I fixed it, but it deleted ALL the playlists from Media Player (I have to add them, or perform a "Save As" to make them reappear (after manually loading), or wait for the library
to rebuild.

Kind Regards

 

lack of artist backgrounds and smart dj function

Try altering the properties on a couple of albums and see if that makes any difference ? Try opening an album in Windows Media Player and right click on album and select find album info, see if thet helps ?

 

I have used this player for many years Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN I'm sure there will be several members here that will also recommend it.

 

We can try and help you with the crashing

 

Welcome to TenForums @mawallace

Although Windows 10 still includes Media Player, Microsoft's recommended app for playing music is now Groove Music. Open it, select 'My Music' and 'Songs' (if you wish, set a filter and a genre) then click 'Shuffle all'.

 

VLC is a well known alternative that can play almost anything. Think about giving it a go. There;'s a desktop version and a Store version.

Also WMP hasn't really been updated since Windows 7.

 

+1 for VLC, quite useful for playing videos downloaded from YouTube and other such sites. Works with a variety of audio and video files.

 

Yes I use (and like) VLC too, but @BaconTime @swarfega and @Berton - does it do what @mawallace requires?

As far as I can see, if you run VLC and use it to open the Music folder it plays everything it can find (including in subfolders) but in alphabetical order, not a random shuffle. Is there an option I've missed?

Groove Music does at least offer the same 'random' playback as the old Media Player (which it was designed to replace).

 

Yes it does, you can open a folder of say music and then press random button.

 

Ah, thank you - I did indeed miss seeing the option. It's on the toolbar at the bottom, I was looking in the menus at the top *Smile

 

It's really quite a feature rich program. Often over looked.

 

??? Shuffle Playlist - addons.videolan.org ???

 

It's built in. Shuffle and random.

 

Ok! *Smile That was my 1 cents worth of knowledge of VLC, although I do love it!