Question: Windows Media Player 11 Show Play List
February 9th, 2007 by Kat Kingsley-HughesQuestion: “I closed the play list in Windows Media Player 11 and now I can’t find an option to get it back. Is there a button to get it back?”
Yup. Right click on the Now Playing button and click “Show List Pane”.
The ‘mystery meat’ style of navigation on Microsoft’s redesigned menu-less apps are leaving a lot of people feeling lost.
You’ll find most of the options from previous versions under the Windows Media Player icon in the top left of the application. If you prefer to have the classic menu you can get them back by clicking on “Show Classic Menus”. (To hide the menus again click Classic Menus on the View menu.)
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July 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
thanx a lot friend that was very useful
July 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
thanks a lot.. this helps!
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
how do you show the playlist menu? the one on the right side. where i can manage the songs etc. it seems that this only showed me the toolbars.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
You’ll find playlists by clicking Library where they appear under the Playlists section on the left.
From there you can create a new Playlist by clicking Create Playlist.
Your existing playlists will appear in the right hand pane. To see the songs in a playlist you need to double click on it. You can manage the songs from there (ie delete or move songs).
To get that list into the List Pane click the “Edit in List Pane” button that you’ll find on the bottom right of the pane. That moves the list into the list pane and you can manage your list in a similar way to previous versions of Windows Media Player.
Hope that helps! 🙂
Kathie
Vexentricity.com
September 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Thanks i was looking for it for 15 mins until i thought of serching the internet. Thnx a lot!!!!
December 10th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
haha i accidentally hid it before!! Cheers mate i couldnt figure out how to get it back!!
HAHA thanks so much mate 😀
by the way – cool site 😉
January 11th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Thanks a lot. I have been figuring out for the solution for more than half a year until I decided to search the Internet. I didn’t realise it was that simple!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:22 am
hey mate,thanx alot.
this piece of info really helped me out..
cheers 🙂
May 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
damn! ! ! ! thnx 🙂 🙂 🙂
May 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
wow.. what an intuitive place to hide the menu..
thanks.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Love it…Ryan been wondering for half a year. I feel your pain mate. All tech’d up, search engine handy, but as stubborn as a mule. MS intuition hey…pfft!
Cheers Kathie
August 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
cool. very useful info. i was kinda lost there for a sec. thought the playlist was gone forever..lol.thanks!!
October 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
God, it sucked, I’d open like 20 songs and have no idea where i was in the playlist, thought i messed up my Wmp, this worked, simple, fixed. like a year of wondering. 🙂 Only reason I use this stupid program is cause Winamp keeps messing up and closing. 🙁 Microsoft blows!
December 9th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Ahhhhhhhh so there it is XD I already wondered where my playlist dissapeared off to 🙁 Thx for that ^^,
December 10th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
thank you! i’ve been here for 30 mins trying to figure this stupid thing out!
this was SUPER helpful.
they really need to redesign this interface…this is why itunes is blowing past them.
stupid microsoft…
December 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
THANK U!!!!!!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Thank you…I’ve lost this panel too…Windows Media Player is badly programed…In my opinion..I think that this option could be in “View” menu!
Na minha opinião essa opção da playlist deveria de estar no menu “Ver”
January 31st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
you can’t imagine how useful was that.it seems so easy but i’ve been looking it for 10 minutes:) thank you.
February 8th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Thanks, you were a better help than the windows help files lol
May 31st, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Thanks! Spent like 15 mins searching,glad i saw your post =] Bloody Microsoft can’t even put it in the help file?
May 26th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Thankz Mate 😉 Could not figure it out lol
October 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Cheers 😀
December 26th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
WoW! I spent so much time trying to find that stupid option to turn the playlist back on! Finally I thought if I was having this much trouble, surly someone else did too. I went to yahoo ran a search open this link, and fixed it in about 2 seconds 🙂
Microsoft is stupid. They just can’t leave stuff alone that works just fine. They have to screw with the stuff that works, and they never fix the stuff that don’t.
Anyway, I’m done ranting 🙂 Thanks for the Info!
August 24th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Nice site… Thanks lots… Bye…. Muahhhhhhhhhhhhh
August 24th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
WoW! I spent so much time trying to find that stupid option to turn the playlist back on! Finally I thought if I was having this much trouble, surly someone else did too. I went to yahoo ran a search open this link, and fixed it in about 2 seconds 🙂
Microsoft is stupid. They just can’t leave stuff alone that works just fine. They have to screw with the stuff that works, and they never fix the stuff that don’t.
Anyway, I’m done ranting 🙂 Thanks for the Info!