WMP no longer recognized in contextual menu

Ever since a day ago whenever I right click a generic folder with (only) music files in it, the "Add To WMP" and "Play With WMP" no longer show up. If I open any of those folders and right click on any music file those commands do show up. And after I've done that, if I close the folder and right click on that folder the contextual commands show up again, but only with that specific folder.
But it only works once. If I try it again on that same folder anytime afterwards I see that I've lost the command again.

I'm still on 1803. Any ideas what happened?

Oh, and Merry Christmas!

I get the feeling that changing media apps won't solve the internal problem.

Corona said:

I get the feeling that changing media apps won't solve the internal problem.

bro67 said:

Actually it will. VLC does a very good job in handling media.

In some strange manner, it does happen...

when 3rd party apps initialize right click options, it seems, almost immediately, that there is a struggle for right click context menu supremacy!
(with folders and files)

AndreTen said:

sorry, couldn't help

It's true!!!

bro67 said:

The sad thing Edwin, is that Microsoft does not make it easy to edit the Right Context menu. It would be nice if they would make a way to change that in Settings.

Alternatively, you could pin Play to the Quick Access Toolbar, select a folder then press Play...