Transfer music from Windows 8 to Surface RT operating system

I find that Surface RT doesn't have an app to run just about everything. Now, I find I can't transfer music from a flash drive that was on Windows Media Player.  This flaw is never told to potential buyers. I would have not bought.

Windows Media Player is a program on Windows 8.  Mainly, it gets its music from files stored in the music folder.

If you have opened the file manager on your computer that has the music, click the MUSIC folder you see in the left tree.  If this folder is empty, then your music was stored somewhere else.  Check other records, including the downloads folder.

Windows Media Player scans the entire computer for files and catalogues, but does not appear where they are stored.  You will need to manually browse the folder via the file manager to find.

Better to stick a USB stick in the USB port and when you are looking and find the files, copy them to the USB.

If it's music you've been downloading, most while they go in the Downloads folder or to the last place where you downloaded a file from Internet Explorer.

When I backed up popular data to work on their computers, I noticed that a lot of them stored images, videos and music in the Documents folder for some strange reason.  However, the program in windows scans the computer for the type of media, they are intended and throw them in their own built in file manager.

Always best to stay organized.  Chances are, your music files are scattered everywhere.

You can organize at the same time that you copy them.  Simply tell the program to 'Cut' and then 'paste' to the USB.  In this way, it will move the files to the USB, and then when you are done, and you want the music to stay on your main computer, just copy the music on the main computer to the MUSIC folder.

This way you'll always know where they are and the music is not only organized on your computer but also copied on the USB so that you can copy on the RT.

I kept my is fairly simple.  I put all my files on a Microsd card and inserted into the RT of mine.  I opened the music app XBox and waited about two minutes and bingo, my music has been catalogued and ready to play.  Most of the people that screw up and think that the computer does not find their music.  They forget that they must WAIT and let the computer analyzes the disks for the media.  What RT can be slow but sure.

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