Why can't I force an update to the Media Library like I could in previous versions of WMP?
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samedi 30 mai 2009 01:58At first I had issues with WMP always rescanning my media library but now it isn't even picking up new albums that have been added. I would be ok with it if I had the same options I had under library in WMP 10. Here it seems all I have is the ability to delete / add the library to WMP but that did nothing to help with the issue
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dimanche 31 mai 2009 17:42Andy,
Windows Media Player is supposed to update the library automatically by default, so this feature has been removed. As a temporary workaround, have you tried right-clicking on Music, selecting Manage Music library, and removing then re-adding locations which are failing to update?
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lundi 8 juin 2009 22:31
Andy,
Windows Media Player is supposed to update the library automatically by default, so this feature has been removed. As a temporary workaround, have you tried right-clicking on Music, selecting Manage Music library, and removing then re-adding locations which are failing to update?
-Alex
Well by now you should have realised that the WMP12 library update mechanism is totally flawed. PLEASE dump the code of WMP12 and go back to WMP11. I can't see a single improvement of WMP12 over earlier versions. To be honest I can't even understand why you had to fiddle with something that was working so well as WMP11.
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lundi 4 janvier 2010 00:39Completely agree. WMP12 will only index a certain amount of my music and then simply stops and will go no further. Impossible to force an index, it is utterly ridiculous.
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mardi 5 janvier 2010 16:17Same here - WMP12 only picks up 75% of my files and yet they will all play nicely if asked to 'play with WMP'
It seems to be a random thing and I have tried all sorts of tricks to refresh the library, even deleting the library completely - still no luck.
Please MS, bring a patch out soon or I am seriously thinking about moving on to Media Monkey (which recognises all of my files) -
mardi 5 janvier 2010 22:31WMP doesn't index anything anymore: there is no index. There's not even an index file. It simply reads the music files that are within your Music library. They removed the index because (like you said) it had major issues.
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mercredi 6 janvier 2010 12:01Definitely not true. It creates a database and it uses that database to show your content, not the actual file system content.
I can easily create a synchronisation problem between the WMP database and the file system. It happens almost 100% of the times I remove a folder from the music library.
1) I delete a folder with a music album
2) I open WMP12 and let it "update the library" until it says "update complete" in the lower right corner.
3) I navigate to the music album within WMP12 and the album still appears; I try to delete it from WMP12 with right click and "delete". Nothing happens, no error message, nothing
4) I try to play the music files: it fails to play them (obviously as they don't exist) and it says "several files failed to play do you want to remove those entries from the libraries" or something like that. If I answer yes WMP12 rescans the files but again doesn't remove the missing music from library so you can go back to step 2 and loop!
This software is not even in beta stage.... I am thinking about shooting a video of me using WMP12 and showing how many things can go wrong with this piece of junk in just a few minutes.
By the way if I delete the hidden database files and let WMP12 rebuild from scratch then the library content finally re-alignes with the file system but as soon as I delete a folder containing music files everything goes into the previous scenario again.
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vendredi 8 janvier 2010 11:46I managed to get further, but it's still not good.
I'm running Windows 7 x64. I tried rolling back to WMP11 which didn't work. I then removed the windows media player and media center from my installed windows components, deleted all WMP files from users folder, and reinstalled. Things were slightly better but not everything indexed again. My media is on a Netgear ReadyNAS and all the permissions are fine, I can access everything.
Indeed, running Windows 7 XP mode and using WMP11, everything indexes fine.
So I ended up running WMP12 and Media Center simultaneously. I forced Media Center to perform the indexing by alternately adding and removing an empty music folder in addition to my real network folder until I had a status bar saying it was indexing files. I could see the files being added to the WMP12 library at the same time. As soon as Media Center had finished indexing I found a library item with incorrect tags, did a Find Album info, updated the media and immediately selected tools > apply media information changes.
I repeated the above steps as many times as necessary to get everything consistently into WMP12. Now all my library items are present and correct - and more importantly they are staying correct after reboots etc - and the library updates correctly. The libraries appear consistent between WMP12 on Windows 7 and WMP11 in XP mode.
So, I thought I had it all sorted. Not so. When syncing to my MP3 player I always set WMP to transfer at 160kbps max to get decent quality but as much music on there as I can get. I thought WMP12 was doing the conversion correctly, everything seemed to sync fine. But, amazingly having got this far, the converted to 160kbps media went to my player without album/artist/track information, so despite my efforts I still have to sync using XP mode and WMP11 which transfers the metadata to the converted WMA files fine.
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mardi 2 février 2010 21:45I've been reporting this problem to Western Digital as a bug in their product. Unfortunately they weren't even aware of this bug in WMP12. Poor form on their part.
I'm not a sophisticated user of the WMP12 product. I just tell it to add a folder and all subfolders to a library. That works well.
Now if I add a file to the {root} of that folder, voila almost immediately it appears at my WD Live TV! Magic and just what you'd like to see.
Now add a file to a sub-folder of {root} and wait and wait and wait and wait. Leave it for 24 hours.... No change ...
Then you do what our friend above recommends {Delete the folder and add it again to force WMP12 to re-read the folder. Wait an hour or so and Voila! There is the new file.
Just a thought.... Would it be possible to have WMP12 refresh the folders AND sub-folders correctly OR provide an option to allow the user to choose when and what to refresh.
A cynical person might say that Apple (tm) has infiltrated Micro$oft and snuck in some iTunes code ;-)
But seriously+++++
Thanks guys for pointing out this major issue with WMP12 [Beta obviously].
Based on what I see and hear, Micro$oft is not going to fix it in a hurry.
Can anyone recommend a good, stable Media Server for Win7 that will just stream media.
Nothing outside the square, just be a media centre (sic).......
It would be nice if it could do the HDTV tuner bit and provide an EPG but I'm happy to use Blaze.
Cheers
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mercredi 3 février 2010 11:33I have been having the same problem. Windows media player 12 will not add all my music or photos and if i add new ones they wont show up for days sometimes never. This is really dissapointing as i like to stream my music and photos to different rooms in the house but seems like my library isnt adequate even tho i have all my music saved to my hdd.Really poor
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lundi 22 février 2010 15:05I've now got to the stage where everything appears to work ok in WMP12 (except the syncing problem). However, I still find that adding new music to the filesystem can take a while to filter through to the library - this is when I use Media Center to force the index of new items as described above.
Another couple of things that I think were affecting WMP12. Firstly, I found that if I went to the Music node in WMP 12, thus showing all tracks in the database, and sorted them in order of length or bitrate (ascending) I could see a number of items that had no information. Turns out these mp3 files were probably corrupt. I deleted them from library, after copying them elsewhere on the filesystem, and used Free Cd Music Converter to convert them to a similar or the same format. I then returned the re-written files to the library location and they reappeared with the missing information filled in.
I also found that AVG may have been affecting my PC in ways including linking to the NAS filesystem. I have removed AVG and replaced with Avast antivirus and connection problems are now virtually non-existent. -
samedi 6 novembre 2010 02:16
I also found that AVG may have been affecting my PC in ways including linking to the NAS filesystem. I have removed AVG and replaced with Avast antivirus and connection problems are now virtually non-existent.
I replaced my file server and completely re-organized my files. I changed my libraries in Media Center and it was still seeing the old location for SOME of my movies as well as the new location. If I tried to delete the old entry it said it couldn't find the file. It was like that for months. I just replaced AVG the other night for a totally unrelated reason. When I just read this post I opened Media Center and low and behold all the old entries are gone. -
mardi 4 janvier 2011 23:10
I've found a pseudo-force refresh:
- Delete your music folder from your music Library using Organise -> Manage Libraries -> Music.
- Hit OK, and watch as Media Player stops displaying a lot of your stuff
- Use the Organiser again to reinstate your music folder into your library
- Hit OK, and watch Media player Load everything again including new stuff, sans any deleted tracks
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lundi 31 janvier 2011 16:53
I was just able to fix this issue by going to Tools -> Advanced -> Restore Media Library...
This is not exactly the ideal solution, as it deletes the entire index and has to rescan the entire library, but it does solve the problem (or at least it did for me)
I hope this helps someone
Chris Ellis Developer SPAMfighter- Proposé comme réponse zachd [MSFT] lundi 31 janvier 2011 18:16
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samedi 5 février 2011 00:10
Using the Tool - Adv - Restore Media Library to resync files to Library worked great (turns off streaming)
I am also using WD TV Live - so after "Restore" remember to turn "streaming back on".
Until MS fixes resync - this manual 2-step operation is now performed after adding files to the source folders.
Thank you Chris.
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samedi 5 février 2011 18:17
I'm not able to reproduce this. I have my Music Library set to gather contents from 4 folders, (two of which are on external drives). I haven not change any settings within Media Player.
When I download new music files to any of my hard drives or music folder, the song shows up inside WMP instantly -- no sync or refresh. In fact I even see it "pop in".
Since yours won't work, I'd recommend trying a new user account, or ensuring that your Windows Libraries are set correctly to gather contents.
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mardi 14 juin 2011 18:10The solution was pretty simple for me: Simply close WMP, navigate to the the file location of your new media and double click to launch the new media in WMP (or Open With if not your default player). At that point WMP begins to play your media and updates your library...true that it is very clunky but it works and doesn't require major surgery.
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vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:01
Hi guys..Check out this Link. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fixing-when-windows-media-player-library-wont-let-you-add-files/ Worked for me.
l8rs
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dimanche 15 avril 2012 00:24Wow, it is now April 14, 2012, and this stupid issue has still not been resolved by M$. I am using Windows 7 (64) with wmp 12 (obviously) and my stupid library in WMP is still a damned mess. Really Microsoft?!
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lundi 16 avril 2012 14:56TynMahn: 'mess' isn't exactly well-defined. Please clarify your issue by describing the symptoms, preferably in a new forum thread.
Tim De Baets
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mardi 24 avril 2012 10:09
TynMahn: 'mess' isn't exactly well-defined. Please clarify your issue by describing the symptoms, preferably in a new forum thread.
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tkWhen streaming media to other devices, such as my samsung tvs, we are forced to go into Windows Media Player, Right mouse click on "Videos", choose "Manage Video Library", select the folder (external USB drive in my case), Remove button, OK, then Add the folder back. We are forced to do this in order for the streaming of new videos in this included folder to be available on the other devices such as the samsung tvs.
Many people think that adding videos to a folder which is listed in the "Manage Video Library" should be sufficient without having to remove and re-add the folder to get the new items visible.This is the problem. New videos should automatically be scanned and available via SOME mechanism that doesn't require someone to go into the PC, launch and fiddle with Windows Media Player to get new videos available.
- Brett
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mercredi 25 avril 2012 00:32
That sure doesn't sound good. I don't use that much myself, but I do sometimes stream to my playstation or xbox and haven't had to go to that to make a new video show up. I'm wondering if what you describe might be a symptom of an issue with the indexing service, which is what is supposed to notice new files and update the library.
From your username I'm guessing you're a pretty technical guy. Do you happen to have another Windows installation, virtual or otherwise, that you could test to see if it's an issue on a baseline install?
Shawn Keene
- Modifié Shawn B. KeeneMVP mercredi 25 avril 2012 00:33
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vendredi 27 avril 2012 19:04
When streaming media to other devices, such as my samsung tvs, we are forced to go into Windows Media Player, Right mouse click on "Videos", choose "Manage Video Library", select the folder (external USB drive in my case), Remove button, OK, then Add the folder back. We are forced to do this in order for the streaming of new videos in this included folder to be available on the other devices such as the samsung tvs.
If you keep WMP running while new videos are added to the folder, does WMP automatically pick up the videos then?Tim De Baets
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dimanche 29 avril 2012 22:26My Media Player does (I just drag-dropped a video file into my external hard drive where my videos are stored -- and that folder is included in my library) and Media Player showed that video file appear in the list. But my Xbox did not see the video appear until I returned to the Xbox dashboard and loaded the video list again.
Shawn Keene
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mardi 1 mai 2012 14:22My question was actually for Brett, but it's good to know what the normal behavior is. With Brett's response we should be able to pinpoint where the failure occurs.
Tim De Baets
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samedi 7 juillet 2012 13:52Here's some more information that might be helpfull,
Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
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