Re: Titles staying in library when theyshouldn't

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And...Ron,Before you start to delete or Remove files from the library, I can
recommend that you protect your music maps with tagging "Read Only", so you
won't have to update your files again,it happened to me when I was in Library
and and clicked "Music info update"( I'm not sure how it's called in English)
,PLayer changed a lot of info in my Maps and files (I've got XP)

"Vincent" wrote:

I wonder if closing down WMP works, there is also a services WMPNetworkSvc
running (media sharing in Vista).

If you have done the tagging right, you might consider deleting everything
from the library. There is an option to remove library contents without
removing the files. Then set the monitor directories right and do a rescan.

Maybe the sync options is of use. It allows you to transcode on the fly from
WMA lossless to MP3

"RonM" wrote:

Hmm. This does appear to contradict what is in the WMP help files, which
says that the target folders are monitored and tracks deleted from the
library when they aren't there.

If I put the files in a different place with WMP turned off, will that mean
the existing listings will go away?

And one more thing, I do note that sometimes WMP does NOT in fact find the
new location -- but the old file and location are still listed in the
library, even though the file is no longer there (it shows the old location
string, but can't play the file).

R.

"Swifty" wrote:

RonM wrote:
Further to this, I'm using Vista Home Premium; I want to keep the compressed
files as inventory for my portable devices, so deleting them isn't an option.

I've always been impressed by how WMP manages instantly to follow files
that get renamed/moved. I suspect it gets realtime notification of such
events, much the way that explorer does.

If you want WMP to lose track (no pun intended) of files, you should
move/rename them whilst is is not running. You could probably make a
case that files which moved beyond the folders which it monitors should
get deleted from the library, but I imagine that would bring howls of
protest from people who take advantage of this feature.

I'm reasonably sure that you'll have to delete the library entries
manually, but if you attempt to play such an "orphaned" file, you get
prompted if you'd like the entry deleted (in WMP11, at least).

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

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