Windows 7 Media Library audio and video files for LAN sharing

Task analysis more than one computer connected to the home network has become more and more common, every member of the family want to enjoy the fun of multimedia, "home" as the unit of multimedia management and sharing has become the central issue to solve.

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preset scheme uses the Windows 7 Media Library to manage audio and video files to achieve LAN sharing.


Each computer's resources can be quickly shared out, on any one device can be viewed at any time;


The Media Library, whether it is the network to share or find resources, will become very efficient.

Unified command of
collection Listening Media Library


Traditional folder classification is not suitable for large hard drive mass storage of multimedia files, this time can help WMP Media Library to organize.


you want to import media file information into the Media Library before using the Media Library. You can add this folder to your music library in Windows 7 by selecting the Music folder on your hard disk that you want to add to your library, right-clicking, selecting include in Library from the pop-up menu, and choosing Music. At the same time, WMP will automatically add new content from the music library to the Media Library. If you want to add photos and videos to the Media Library, you can also follow this method by adding the corresponding folders to your own pictures and videos libraries. Note that once you import the media Library, if you change the media name and file name, the library's index records are automatically invalidated, and you need to update the Media Library information to keep up with the latest media information. Now, run WMP in the Start menu and choose Go to Media Library to see the list of audio media files you just imported. However, some details need to be set: press ALT to open the menu bar, click Tools/Options/Media Library, and then check the "Add a new file's volume tuning information Value" (Figure 1), WMP automatically sets all the song volume to uniform so that you don't have to worry about the low volume. When you are done, you can use the Media Library to manage all media files.


in the establishment of the Media Library, if you want to find the songs needed, open the WMP, in the search box input keywords, the keyword can be the name of the singer, can also be the album name, directly to the needs of the song index display, click Play can be.


sharing also starts with the Media library


members of the family want to share other computer movies and music on the local area network, just share the media Library from all the computers.


Click on the Start menu of the "Search Programs and Files" box, enter the "Media streaming options", enabled, you can find this option under the Control Panel category, click to open the media stream sharing interface. Here you need to set a name for this computer's media library so that someone else can find it over the network, in this case the name "ALAI-PC" is set. Here you will see all the devices in the entire LAN, as well as the status of the connection, by default to prevent access state, click "Allowed" to allow the other computer's WMP access to the computer's shared Media Library.


then, in WMP on other computers that are allowed to access, you can see a node named "Other Media Library" from the left side of the window, which will list "ALAIPC" (Figure 3). You can also share the native Media library on other computers that have Windows 7 installed, and then allow other computers to access it.


need to be aware that all Windows 7 computers first join the homegroup and share, it may be necessary to enter a homegroup password, which is set up when one of the computers is established on the HomeGroup network, and the other computer prompts for a password to join when it is added, after opening streaming media options and allowing access, Different Media Library content can be displayed on any host, according to the previous method search, you can find the content, directly in the local playback.


easy to use Media Library to manage synchronization


using Media Library synchronization, you can make a sync list directly, and then sync the required media files to MP3, MP4. Material


operation is very simple, after running WMP, click on the right side of the "Sync" button, you can see the access to the computer MP3 equipment (This example is Meizu MP3 device), and then click on the Media Library/music, through the search method mentioned above to find the songs you want, the song name directly dragged to the right "sync list" , establish a synchronization list. Then click on the "Start Sync" button to sync the songs you want to the music catalogue of the MP3 player. Finally, after the "Sync is completed" Prompt, click "Click here" to see the link buttons in the sync results, and you can list how to add the songs in sync.


need to be aware that sometimes the media files on the computer are of high quality, the MP3 device does not support the high bit rate of such files or space is limited, you need to click on the "Tools/options/Media Library/equipment", select the sync device letter, and then click on Properties, on the Quality tab, set the quality level, In order to meet the requirements of MP3 equipment media. When synchronizing, the files in the list are automatically compressed to meet the device requirements.


Non-Windows 7 users


if the home computer system is not all Windows 7 system, how to manage the network of multimedia files?


This is the best time to share a multimedia folder on a local area network and set it up to a workgroup. First, find a Windows XP system computer that requires a shared resource. Right-click on my Computer on the desktop, select Properties from the pop-up menu, click the Computer Name tab, click the "Change" button below "To rename this computer or join a domain, click Change", and then enter the computer name. For example CHENGYU-PC, the workgroup is set to a consistent "WORKGROUP", and the computer can then be added to the "WORKGROUP" workgroup.


second, share folders. Double-click "My Computer", locate the folder you want to share, right-click, select "Properties" in the pop-up menu, click "Share", watch "network sharing and security", and if not, click on the Open Network Sharing wizard. Follow the wizard steps to turn on folder sharing.


Finally, specify the share. Select the folder you want to share, right-click, select Properties in the pop-up menu, click Sharing and security under sharing, check "Share this folder on the network", and click "OK" to complete the folder sharing.


and so on, after sharing on other home computers, you can access these shared folders to play the required media files. However, there is no easy access to Windows7 media libraries for hardware compatibility and retrieval convenience for non-system devices.


TIPS: Managing multimedia files with third party software


in Windows XP system WMP version is not high, management function is weak. You can use the Cool music box, dog music and Foobar2000 and other MP3 special software for audio files for specialized management. For example, cool music Box can automatically search the computer inside the music file, in order to ID3 identify the media file index, but also to exclude some of the system from the small file audio, but also to set the synchronization of the device. Video files can use PPStream Local management to index local video.