[Fiji Dave]

Can someone help me, please. Windows Media Player is being a pain in the arse.

Here's the problem. I have a laptop from work onto which I have copied a few CD's so I can have some soothing background music. I've copied the files using Windows Media Player (version 9) onto the hard drive so that i don't have to carry a stack of cd's in and out of the office. However, now that the files are on the hard drive do you think WMP will play them in the correct order? I cannot get it to play song 1, then 2 then 3 then 4 etc. It seems intent on putting them in some semi random order before playing.

The filenames start with 01, 02, 03, 04 but WMP seems to ignore this entirely, the playlist doesn't show this part of the filename at all.

What I'm doing at the moment is opening up WMP, highlighting the songs I want to play(in the order I'd like them played) and then hit open. I then have to manually re-order the tracks in the playlist, however this has to be done every time I want to listen to an album as unfortunately WMP decides it knows best and re-orders the tracks. Now, on a music cd this wouldn't be too much of a problem, but I've also copied Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds which really does need to be played in the right order.

Does anyone out there know how to get Windows Media Player to p[lay things in the correct order, or at least in numerical order, based on the filename?

Unfortunately as it's a works laptop, the option of uploading and using another software package is out of the question.


please help before i have an unfortunate "heavy object/Computer screen accident"