Re: Window Medial Player doesn't import / recognize all MP3's

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What attributes did you change exactly? I tried reapplying security
settings and removing read-only attributes, but that doesn't seem to
work either.

Thanks.

Walter wrote:
I did a batch update on the file and directory attributes and believe it or
not WMP was able to import / recognize all MP3's.


"elitvak@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

I have the exact same problem here with WMP11.

Bunch of music purchased on emusic residing in d:\emusic

I added that folder as a watch folder but many songs aren't found. If I
manually add a specific subfolder as a watch folder, then it does find
the "missing" songs. They are all mp3s, properly tagged with id3v1 and
v2, and all playable.


Walter wrote:
Add. Info:
I did reset/rename/delete the WMP database folder and the database file and
tried the proces from scratch, without result so far.

"Walter" wrote:

Missing files are all regular MP3's with ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.
Path names are correct.

My settings:
I have an external 250GB Lacie Harddisk G:
My watch/search path in WMP for music files = G:\MY MUSIC
When I add a specific path name to the library search path WMP does find the
Mp3's
located in that directory and which was originally not found
e.g. G:\MY MUSIC\Rolling Stones\Sticky Fingers
Directories are not hidden

The path search setting G:\MY MUSIC is for Real Player sufficient to find
all MP3's


"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Is there any commonality to the missing files? If you reset/rename the WMP
database folder (not just the database file) ala--
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary
, does that fix you up?

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"Walter" <Walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, when I click on a non found file, it plays correctly in WMP

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Do the files that aren't found play correctly in WMP?

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"Walter" <Walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently installed WMP Rel 11.
When I add the path where my MP3 songs are stored and let WMP search
for
Mp3's to be imported in the library, the result is 2643 songs imported.
When I do the same procedure with Real Player V 10.5 , I get a result
for
the same search path of 3984 songs imported in the library.
Why doesn't Windows Media Player recognize all MP3's ?
Is there a relation to tha file tagging format.
Any help would be much aprreciated !









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