Re: My library is gone! "There are no items in this library yet"
- From: "Sean" <seanpur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:34:03 -0700
Done. Mail should be in your inbox.
Also, FWIW I just tried to reproduce the registry failure below, but I couldn't get the bad behavior that I saw earlier. WMP launched and displayed the Library just fine. So I'm not sure what the difference is (did an idle process patch up something in the .wmdb file?) but I can't get it to repro now.
-Sean
"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uNs%235lIdHHA.2332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sean,
Another point you made intrigues me. You said you had the original (bad) registry settings and the rebuilt (good) registry settings. Can you zip those up and send them to me at dalesngaddy23498 (remove the number) then the at symbol and then hotmail dot com (and post me here when you've sent it because I don't check that email otherwise).
Dale
"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eCPGeMIdHHA.3408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxThanks, Sean, for the update and the solution. From your original posts, I had begun to formulate an opinion that rebuilding the database does not only fix a corrupted database but also could fix other configuration and settings. This seemed to be the case because your tests had made it clear that the database file itself was not corrupt.
That's good information to know. If there was a way to get this to the Windows Media Player product team, it could help in troubleshooting the high number of reportedly corrupt databases.
Dale
"Sean" <seanpur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FD359E53-A957-4C10-AAD9-BF9333E2D976@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxThanks Dale you're a lifesaver.
I'll summarize the fix just in case it helps the next person that runs into this:
I didn't end up using the export tool. But at your URL I did find what ended up to be the key:
"As I understand it, renaming the folder causes the player to build a new, empty, database faster than just deleting or renaming the database files. This is because the database data is cached within Windows Media Player and renaming the folder, apparently, causes the cache to be thrown out and the new database built. Just remember to do this with Windows Media Player not running!"
I had tried everything but renaming the "Media Player" folder. Once I did this, Media Player got unsuck, and rebuilt the folder, along with the CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb file. (Note that before, I had just deleted all of the files in the "Media Player" folder and Media Player never attempted a rebuild.) Once I saw that WMP was rebuilding the .wmdb file, I exited WMP11 and swapped in my original CurrentDatabse_360.wmdb file. This did the trick.* Now my 16,000 songs and all of their ratings and Date Added values have been resurrected.
(* actually, there was still some bizarre behavior, with WMP11 trying to re-add all of the songs that were already in the library as duplicates. I fixed this by shutting down WMP11, swapping in a fresh copy of the original .wmdb file, and deleting all of the other temp-looking WMDB files in the directory leaving only CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb and wmpfolders.wmdb.)
I should note that I also tried to swap back in the original registry node for Media Player (which I had renamed temporarily) but when I did this, all the original symptoms returned. So I swapped back to the new registry node.
So to sum up, renaming the "Media Player" folder worked. But the solution might have also depended on the fact that I previously cleared out the registry and reinstalled WMP11. Not sure.
Thanks!!
-Sean
"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ei2G2gzcHHA.4392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI suggest rebuilding your database even though you think it is not corrupt. At least if the database is removed, then WMP will have to make whatever adjustments it needs to make use of a new database. After that, you could always try copying the old database back in if you're confident it will work. To rebuild your database, http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/03/windows-media-player-metadata-backup.html#rebuilding might help.
Or you could export the metadata from the old library where you have used it for another user, and then restore the metadata to the newly created database on your problematic user. To export/restore the metadata, use my Metadata Backup program on the same page as the link above.
Dale
"Sean" <seanpur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:23F94CD9-BCD0-4286-8522-07D6AA908795@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSome more diagnostic information:
If I copy the CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb file over to the guest account on that same machine, sign in to the guest account, and run WMP11 from there, everything is fine. My library is as it should be. (Same is true if I copy the .wmdb file over to my Vista machine and run it on Vista WMP11.) So I think this means that the WMDB file is not corrupt.
If in my main account I clear out the registry (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Media Player), and clear out the Local Settings\Microsoft\Media Player directory, and reinstall WMP11, I still get the same problem. WMP11 isn't letting itself access or create any libraries, even after a clean install.
And yes I even tried a cold boot of the machine.
Any ideas?
thanks
-Sean
"Sean" <seanpur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:971DE4EA-0E08-4123-BA67-7FF59257C146@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxHi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this pretty catastrophic problem.
I'm running WMP11 on XP (Media Center), and have been running it for months. I have a large media library (~16,000 tracks, CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb is about 200MB) that I've been building up over years.
Yesterday I went into the Library and the entire library is missing. I get this error text: "There are no items in this library yet - the Player is searching for digital media files in the background. CLICK HERE to add files to the library now." Incidentally, if I do click to add files, I find that my list of folders to track has been cleared out, and whenever I add a new folder, hit OK, and then return to the same dialog, the list of folders has been cleared out again.
How do I recover my library?
Thanks,
Sean
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