Here's an idea, download iTunes. It's a library, a CD ripper, CD creator, internet radio, music store, and streaming service. The optional streaming service is $9.99 a month. It is easy to navigate. With an Airport Express, attached to your Home Theater System you have a wireless connection from your computer to the HT from which you can enjoy your iTunes Library. You can place digital music AAC, ALAC, and AIFF files from any music download source into the iTunes Library, and you can purchase music from the iTunes Store for as little as .99 cents a tune. iTunes supports files up to 24/192 but it sounds awesome from 256k files. Finally, iTunes on your computer can automatically sync to iTunes on your cell phone, and thus, you can listen to your digital library anywhere you might find yourself. The phone does not even need much storage, since your music is stored on the iCloud. At any rate, Windows Media Player is seldom used by me because it does so little and what it does is not easy, as you have discovered.