Windows Media 10 files into Excel

> Melvin Cotterill wrote:

>> Hello;
>> I am running Windows XP Pro, Windows Media Player 10, and Windows Media
>> Bonus Pack for Windows XP. Everything seems to be functioning OK.
>> I am trying to export Media Player 10 data into an Excel 2003 spreadsheet
>> in accordance with the commands listed in the Bonus Pack. They do not
>> seem to work.
>> My goal is to be able to select/play, from an Excel spreadsheet, the CD's
>> stored on my hard drive. The reason is that Excel makes it easy to
>> edit/manipulate the data.
>> Evidently, CD music files get stored on the hard drive as .wma files
>> which do not work within Excel. Do I need to convert the .wma files to
>> extension .xxx so that Excel recognizes them? If so how do I accomplish
>> this?
>> Thanks for all the help.

>
> Excel is not a music player so trying to open WMA and MP3 files etc with
> it is kinda foolish. The best you could do really is create hyperlinks to
> the music files in Excel so that they invoke WMP to load the files on
> demand.
>
> What problem, specifically, are you having with the Bonus pack outputting
> playlist data to an Excel-compatible file?

> Thanks for responding. How do you create the hyperlinks you mention?

> Melvin Cotterill wrote:

>> Thanks for responding. How do you create the hyperlinks you mention?

>
> Use the hyperlink creation button in Excel. There's one in pretty much all
> Office applications.