The library is on a network drive. It can see the library storage location fine, because it displays and play the files correctly when it first starts importing. It isn't until about minutes into the import process that it dies and looks like the attached screenshot.
I have no idea if it is choking on a particular file or hitting a certain library size that may be causing the problem. I am having the exact same problems as duckworth Tried all the same fixes also to no avail. Please get this fixed soon MS! If anyone has overcome these issues successfully, please post your solution.
Saturday, November 7, AM. Sunday, November 8, AM. OK, I Just confirmed this is definitely a problem not specific to my computer. I just clean installed Windows 7 Ultimate x86 on an old test machine, opened WMP12 and added the same network folder of mp3's and it crashed about an hour into the import with the same appearance as the screenshot I posted above and the library disappears.
So the problem has to be one of several things: The large size of the library The fact that the library is on the network in my case A specific file or file is causing it the player to crash Does anyone have any insights on how I may further narrow the problem down?
At this point, from the other posts I have read I think there is a size limit to the library. I think I will start a thread to see what the largest library that people have successfully loaded is.
Sunday, November 8, PM. I have a music library of just over GB, around 30, tracks. WMP 11 in Vista handled it fine. It keeps "updating" forever, and WMP 12 will not close normally during this unending process. It is constantly accessing my external HDD. One folder on the external drive has GB of music in it, and WMP 12 is evidently choking on updating the library on that folder. The library is still being updated, it just takes forever. I have turned off internet updating of music files so that the update process could should?
Shall I keep waiting? Does anyone have any suggestions? Tuesday, November 10, AM. OK, so I just tried some more things to narrow down the problem. I tried adding the local files to the library on a clean install of Windows Server R2, which has the same version of Windows Media Player 12 as Windows 7 and had the same problem. So it isn't network related, nor is it related to Windows 7 specifically.
I also removed the "Maintain my star ratings as global ratings in files" option. So it has to be down to 1 of 2 things The large amount of files in the library A specific file or file is causing it the player to crash I guess I will have to keep trying to narrow it down.
I can't believe how many posts I find on the internet with similar problems with no real acknowledgment from Microsoft that WMP12 is severely broken. Wednesday, November 11, PM. I just found that my library update problem was related to two corrupted files in my library. The update would always stop and hang on one of two artists, so I did a disk error check. The check detected and fixed disk problems on files from the same two artists.
I then deleted those artists and re-copied them from a backup. The library then updated fine. At least one track is still corrupted, I think from its original source a friend. So, duckworth, it seems like your 2 item was the problem for me. WMP 12 never crashed for me, but would hang. It couldn't get past the disk error on reading my files. The bad files were on an external eSata HDD. To further try and narrow the problem down I watched all file activity with Process Monitor as WMP12 added my music to the library and it actually finished reading all of the files in the directory I added.
I tried adding only the last files that were read by WMP12 just to confirm that they weren't and issue an it had no problem with those particular files on their own. So something is killing the library database on the post file scan process. Thursday, November 12, PM. What file types are involved here?
MP3, right? I'm curious if there's some memory leak or something else going on here, since the player's images not showing up indicate something catastrophic is going on. Can you add subsections of the MP3 collection successfully? Or are they all in one giant folder? They are all MP3. I have tried from 3 machines Win7 x64, Windows Server R2 x64 and Win7 x86 and they all do the same thing. I will try looking at memory usage next. Friday, November 13, AM. I also have the same error as duckworth, I am importing Gb of music.
WMP 12 also seems to have changed some of the ID Tags as there a number of albums that I have created almost 2 years ago now coming up with Unknown album. Several albums now do not have album art or the wrong album art which I then have to correct.
At this stage I am giving up until this is fixed as there are too many inconsistencies; my backup which is running on Windows Vista has none of these problems. Vista is now my 'good' backup - not my 'bad' backup - this is not good! Can someone confirm a change in ID Tag versions? Could this be the root of the problems? Seems this has been around since January how did this get to RTM?
I'm also having problems with the library. Not even a directory with some pictures. Tried deleting the db folder, etc. But it just doesn't let me add directories. Sunday, November 22, AM. I want to add my situation here as well.
I have been running Vista Ultimate 64 for 2 years now and just upgraded to Win7. I used the upgrade option and all went smoothly. Smoothest I have ever seen an update. Unfortunately, I just added a 1TB drive and I got cute - adding an M: drive for my music and a P: drive for my Photos my videos have always been on a V: drive and then moving all of my Windows libraries to correspond with the drives. Now media player cannot find any of my music or pictures.
The same for Photos also moved to a new drive. Videos - as I said - work fine. I have stopped all the services, deleted the Dbase files, restarted my computer several times and have no luck. I am not sure at all even where to start. As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Sunday, November 29, PM. If you enter "Libraries" on the Start Menu and go there, can you click on the Music and Pictures locations there and get to your files In the libraries, all of my files are visible and I can navigate through them all.
Step 1: Restore your PC back to the latest restore point, "snapshot", or backup image before error occurred. In the search results, find and click System Restore. Follow the steps in the System Restore Wizard to choose a relevant restore point. Restore your computer to that backup image. If this Step 2 fails as well, please proceed to the Step 3 below.
In the Windows Update dialog box, click " Check for Updates " or similar button depending on your Windows version If updates are available for download, click " Install Updates ". After the update is completed, restart your PC. Click the appropriate "Download Now" button and download your Windows file version.
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Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Jun 11, Messages I know it's a simple question, but I was wondering where WMP actually stores the audio files mp3s you add to its library?
Also, does anyone know how to eliminate duplicate mp3s in your library in WMP? Joined Mar 18, Messages 8, Which version of media player and windows do you have? Media player doesn't actually store your mp3 files anywhere. The mp3 files stay wherever you've saved them too. Media player creates a database of these files which is basically a series of shortcuts to the files which it holds in one file.
The location and name of this file depends on the 2 questions I asked. You can delete duplicate entries in the library by selecting the files you want to get rid of whilst holding down the control key. All files remain selected.
Moby- THanks for your repoly.
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