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Windows Media Player supports full media management, via the integrated media library introduced first in version 7, which offers cataloguing and searching of media and viewing media metadata.

Media can be arranged according to album, artist, genre, date et al .. Windows Media Player 9 Series introduced Quick Access Panel to browse and navigate the entire library through a menu.

The Quick Access Panel was also added to the mini mode in version 10 but was entirely removed in version 11.

WMP 9 Series also introduced ratings and Auto Ratings.

Windows Media Player 10 introduced support for aggregating pictures, Recorded TV shows, and other media into the library.

A fully featured tag editor was featured in versions 9-11 of WMP, called the Advanced Tag Editor.

However, the feature was removed in Windows Media Player 12.

Since WMP 9 Series, the player features dynamically updated Auto Playlists based on criteria.

Auto Playlists are updated every time users open them.

WMP 9 Series and later also supports Auto Ratings which automatically assigns ratings based on the number of times a song is played.

Pre-populated auto playlists are included in Windows Media Player 9 Series.

Custom Auto Playlists can only be created on Windows XP and later.