There are separate Tiles, Icons, Details or Extended Tiles views for Music, Pictures, Video and Recorded TV which can be set individually from the navigation bar. Missing album art can be added directly to the placeholders in the Library itself (though the program re-renders all album art imported this way into 1x1 pixel ratio, 200x200 resolution jpegs). In Windows Media Player 11, the Quick Access Panel was removed and replaced with an Explorer-style navigation pane on the left which can be customized for each library to show the user selected media or metadata categories, with contents appearing on the right, in a graphical manner with thumbnails featuring album art or other art depicting the item. Custom Auto Playlists can be created only on Windows XP and later. Pre-populated auto playlists are included in Windows Media Player 9 Series.

WMP 9 Series and later also supports Auto Ratings which automatically assigns ratings based on the number of times a song is played. Auto Playlists are updated every time users open them. Since WMP 9 Series, the player features dynamically updated Auto Playlists based on criteria. However, the feature was removed in Windows Media Player 12. A fully featured tag editor was featured in versions 9-11 of WMP, called the Advanced Tag Editor. Windows Media Player 10 introduced support for aggregating pictures, Recorded TV shows, and other media into the library. WMP 9 Series also introduced ratings and Auto Ratings. The Quick Access Panel was also added to the mini mode in version 10 but was entirely removed in version 11. Windows Media Player 9 Series introduced Quick Access Panel to browse and navigate the entire library through a menu. Media can be arranged according to album, artist, genre, date et al.

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.

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