RE: Media Player 11 stopped showing library contents
- From: Frank <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:16:05 -0700
I'm using Windows OneCare...I think its a problem within vista. I had Urge
and WMP11 when I was running XP, I never rebuilt my database, ever. But I
will take your suggestion and cough up the 59.00...
"Dale" wrote:
What about virus scanners, etc? Can you set exclusions on your anti-virus.
software to exclude the media library?
Like I said, if you're losing your library that often, something is really
wrong. While some people have occasional problems with their database, most
people, including me, never have a problem. To have that much of a problem
means something outside of WMP, perhaps drive or NTFS related, is going
wrong. I suggest paying the $59.00 to get product support on this one.
Dale
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"Frank" wrote:
Media files are located D:\my stuff\my music (its just a partition of my same
hard drive). Symptoms have included
WMP not being able to read playlists all of a sudden
WMP not being able to detect changes in the rip folder or any other folder
it has told to automatically search
or nothing...there literally have been times where WMP was working fine,
open it up the next day...and it shows that nothing is in my library.
I originally had Windows XP and upgraded to vista and had the same
issues...I then did a clean install because of another Vista problem (corrupt
explorer taskbar issue).
I only use WMP and Urge to access my media library...no plugins, nothing else.
"Dale" wrote:
If you're rebuilding that often, something is seriously wrong. What is
causing you to have to rebuild? What symptoms are you having?
What is the location of your media files? Network drive, removable drive,
USB drive, etc?
Are you using any third-party plugins or other applications to access your
Windows Media Player library?
Dale
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"Frank" wrote:
Is there ever going to be something more than just "rebuild your database"?
I've rebuilt it about 6 times since installing vista, 2x in the past week
alone.
"Dale" wrote:
You probably have a corrupted Windows Media Player library database. This is
a common problem posted on the newsgroup; in fact it is probably the most
common problem posted on the newsgroup.
To rebuild your database, follow the instructions at
http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/03/windows-media-player-metadata-backup.html#rebuilding
Dale
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"Dangerdawg_1" wrote:
Hi, I'm a newbie so forgive me if I state the obvious
Running Media Player 11 on Vista Ultimate, everythihg was running fine and
then one day I open media player and it says
There are no items in this player yet
Yet the playlists still work. I've tried to add the files manually (which
are located in my Public Music Folders) but it doesn't accept it.
I've tried moving some files but it doesn't see them.
I have not installed anything recently or had any windows updates, other
user accounts on my machine are not affected only my login.
When I try to enable media sharing it freezes (but I never turned media
sharing off!)
What could the problem be, is it a config setting that I've missed.
TIA
Danger
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