Well, this is a little too many simple tutorials here. But I figured this is itching me, so this may be itching you.
- Click the arrow next to “Create Playlist” on the toolbar of Windows Media Player.
- Select “Create Auto Playlist”.
- Fill in the details as follows.
- Done! You may want to sort the list by “Album” to make things easier to browse.
It’s very simple. Perhaps because how simple it is Microsoft decided to remove this from the standard feature set of WMP12 in W7.
Thank you very much for this post! You saved me a lot of frustration. I kept tweaking around with the Recent Music folder, always reusing the older versions of the playlist.
Boy, anyway THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Now if we can find a way to send WMP to the darn taskbar again…
Thanks, but the content in “recently added” is a playlist, not an album as it in wmp11.
No perfect.
Yeah, I wish Auto-Playlists can have default views! Right now you can click the top of the “Album” column to sort and group by Album, which works fine for me.
I sent MSoft a message requesting the return of ‘recently added’ using the “send feedback” button. This is pretty handy, considering I rage-reinstalled windows 7 after switching WMP 12 for this odd version of WMP 11. I really don’t recommend it, it’s terrible. haha all that for the Recently Added tab.
Also, Merriweather Post Pavilion is fantastic.
I also sent feedback about this one. “Recently Added” was better than an auto playlist because it showed album art and grouped the tracks by album.
Having said that, though, I think the best solution would be to be able to create auto playlists that could produce views like “Recently Added” did — with album art, and grouped as we like.
is there a way to make it the 100 most recently added tracks, rather than giving a date frame?
Yeah, thanks from me too—this was what I needed!
Wow, great post! I missed this feature from WMP12 after the version 11. Think, engineers of Microsoft are ill-considered.
Thank you so much for this post PKM. I don’t know, but WMP12 seems like a downgrade to me compared to WMP11. Microsoft removed so many useful features and this has made it more difficult for users to organize and personalize their music like they want to. WMP12 has me so frustrated at the moment. >.<
Thank you so much!!! MS took out this function and the advanced tag editors in WMP12… the two functions I liked most in WMP 11! Sent feedback about these too
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Thanks alot this has saved the day… still confused as to why microsoft took it out…
Thank you soo much. Could not figure it out!