Am I the only one who listens to music via Windows Media?

 I have always preferred Windows Media over i-tunes for several reasons. With i-tunes you get a popup window asking you to please sign in or log in or whatever. 

They prefer you only listen to what you bought via the i-tunes store. You can import your own music via CDs, but i-tunes can only play those songs IF they can find the "original file" and if I didn't use i-tunes for a while I found most of my songs disappeared into the cloud. Even the ones I'd paid for.

That's the most annoying part. 

So, Windows Media. Load up your songs and they are always there, sort them into playlists, mix and match, no problem, nothing disappears into any cloud. All of my i-tunes songs are here too 😀 

BUT, (there's always a but, everyone has one) with the more modern versions of Windows there have been changes (bring back Windows XP? Windows98?) and I can't figure out how to even out the volumes of the different songs. 

Much of the older ones are all at the same volume, but newer ones are all over the place, I am constantly adjusting the volume via the little icon on my taskbar. I'm running on Windows10. 

Any help for someone who doesn't have a clue?  (And gets lost following directions.)

One other thing which Windows Media used to have and that I miss, is above the list of songs in the "library" there used to be a taskbar where you could select "now playing" and get a drop down window of various multi-coloured patterns that would play "in time" with the rhythm, ebbing and flowing with the beat and the volume. 

I really miss that, it was fun to watch.