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I don't understand why Windows has removed the menu-bar from most of its programs. Am I more daft than the average user, or do other people also have to randomly click on the various icons in the program window, as well as right-clicking everywhere in the window, while trying to find the darn File-Open or Edit-Undo** (etc) options?
So... I've double-clicked a video file, and it opens and plays in Windows Media Player. But where is the File-Open option in order to open a different video file? I don't want to open a Library or create a library, I just want to open a file in a folder on my C: drive. I can't figure out how to do it except by switching back to my Windows Explorer window and double-clicking the other video file there!
And why, in WMP's "Now Playing" view, is the little icon for "Switch to Library" in the top-right corner of the screen, but when you click that and open the Library view, the "Switch to Now Playing" icon is shown in the bottom-right corner, instead of the top-right corner which would have been consistent?
AAHHH!!! I FOUND IT!!!! In the Library view, in the lower left-hand corner where it shows the current file-name, right-click the file-name, and it then displays a context menu which contains File-Open! Naturally, the file-name is in the bottom-left of the Library view, because if they had put it in the top-left corner, it would have been consistent with the Now Playing view, and nobody wants consistency in their user inteface, right?!
When you right-click the file-name in the Now Playing view, the context menu does NOT contain File-Open. Tricky, tricky media player, haah!!! But I found it anyway, you idiotic user interface!!!
** (updated) There's a little curved arrow icon near the top left of the window; that's how you access the Undo function.
So... I've double-clicked a video file, and it opens and plays in Windows Media Player. But where is the File-Open option in order to open a different video file? I don't want to open a Library or create a library, I just want to open a file in a folder on my C: drive. I can't figure out how to do it except by switching back to my Windows Explorer window and double-clicking the other video file there!
And why, in WMP's "Now Playing" view, is the little icon for "Switch to Library" in the top-right corner of the screen, but when you click that and open the Library view, the "Switch to Now Playing" icon is shown in the bottom-right corner, instead of the top-right corner which would have been consistent?
AAHHH!!! I FOUND IT!!!! In the Library view, in the lower left-hand corner where it shows the current file-name, right-click the file-name, and it then displays a context menu which contains File-Open! Naturally, the file-name is in the bottom-left of the Library view, because if they had put it in the top-left corner, it would have been consistent with the Now Playing view, and nobody wants consistency in their user inteface, right?!
When you right-click the file-name in the Now Playing view, the context menu does NOT contain File-Open. Tricky, tricky media player, haah!!! But I found it anyway, you idiotic user interface!!!
** (updated) There's a little curved arrow icon near the top left of the window; that's how you access the Undo function.