Re: WMP11: Losing my LIBRARY !

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I scan all of my artwork as well. When I put Folder.jpg into the album
folder I always put in a backup copy so it is there handy when WMP screws it
up.

Then I use a program I wrote to embed the Folder.jpg (or any other specified
file name) from the album's folder into each song file, fix the
capitalization in file names, set the album artist, etc.

And then I backup! Nightly! :)

Dale

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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Raymond" wrote:

Hi Zach,
I figgered maybe the Beta database might mean that I was carrying around
some problems I didn't need, so I completely uninstalled WMP11 (along with
Format 11 Runtime & User-Mode Driver Frameworks Feature Pack), the
reinstalled with a fresh download. No problems with the download or the
install and the new database is a 360. WMP scanned for music files and added
them to the library very nicely. Everything seems to be working OK now.

HOWEVER, one very peculiar thing, over a thousand files lost their
"Composer" information — and many files reverted from my very standardized
format to the shape they were in at metaservices. It took me 2 days to get
that back into the system, and I have not yet pasted in the album artwork.
(I've been scanning all the artwork as I rip the discs.) As soon as I get
the artwork back in, I'm going to do a brand new Norton image of the C drive
as insurance. (My current image has the defective WMP11.)

Now, the two old Beta databases are still in there, should I delete them?

Thanks for your help.

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Yeah, 346 should be Beta 1 or 2. I don't know what exact player version
you're using - you want 5145. I would suggest you try renaming the "Media
Player" folder you found the WMDB in. That will reset your library. Then
make sure WMP knows the right folders to scan...

The library file size is pretty irrelevant. The true test is the tally
presented when you're in Songs view and press CTRL-A (select all).

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Raymond" <Raymond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello zachd,
I just reset the Library by renaming CurrentDatabase_346. (Please note
that
I have the file name you identified as being BETA -- even though I
downloaded
through Update. ???) WMP11 immediately looked for music files, but it
came
up with fewer files that the original Database! The original (old) had
945,0008KB. The new CurrentDatabase_346 came up with only 75,968KB. I
haven't been moving any files around recently either. I also noticed that
some of the file titles reverted to the sme format/content that
metaservices
has -- NOT the format/spelling I had changed them to.

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


If you reset the library--
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary
and let WMP refind 'em, does that get 'em all found?

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
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"Raymond" <Raymond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:65EA207F-AB7F-45A2-99A4-81FFB25DAA92@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am ripping a very large number of my CDs to hard drive using WMP11,
then
moving them to external hard drives. So far I have ripped over a
thousand
CDs (over 500GBs) (and have pasted album art in for them). However,
some
of
the Library Listings are disappearing from the Library even though they
are
on the external drive(s) and playable by clicking on the external file.
AND
they don't reappear in the Library even after running MONITOR FOLDERS.

I'm running a P4 Prescott 3.6 and have 3 GB of SDRAM.

This is a really big problem. Any suggested fixes will be muchly
appreciated.






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