Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P40: Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve got a strange biography. I’ve been a writer all my life. My first semi-pro job was sports editor of my high school newspaper. (Go Commodores!) After college I was a political reporter for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York (I covered four national nominating conventions and two Presidential campaigns) and a correspondent for The Associated Press. And then, in 1983, I gave in to my inner geek and became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine, back in the days when most people asked, “What is a PC?”. | 364 Sounding Out Windows Media Player A group of items gathered by clicking with the pointer on multiple items while holding down the Ctrl key Collections of items items sorted into categories such as albums artists genres and other information or ratings If the List pane isn t visible click the Show List Pane button a large blue arrow . The button is to the right of the WMP search box. If the arrow points to the left the pane isn t displayed if it points to the right clicking the arrow removes the List pane. If the List pane already contains items you can remove all of them at once by clicking the Clear List Pane button a stylized red X at the top of the playlist . 5. Double-click an item to begin playing it. If you selected a group or collection all the items play to select a single item only drag the item to the List pane instead. Right-clicking a track opens the way to a Properties window with details about the bit rate and other details of the recording in this case a subpar 128 Kbps disc. Some audio or video files contain markers which are like tracks on a CD or chapters on a DVD. If the file you selected has markers you can jump to any section by selecting a marker and play audio or video from that point 1. Click the View menu part of the Classics Menu . 2. Point to File Markers. 3. Click the marker you want. The WMP includes electronic versions of the familiar VCR control buttons. The large right-facing triangle starts the selected item once a piece of music or video is playing that icon changes to a pair of vertical bars that function as a pause button. On either side of the play pause button you find a button that returns to the start or end of a file. And finally all the way to the left is a square box that stops things. See Figure 1-1. If you re playing a recorded video an added control sits just above the VCR-like buttons. You can grab the Seek slider with the onscreen pointer and move it left to back up to an earlier part of the video move the slider
