Comments on: Reindexing Media Center Library

By: Krunk

Krunk — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:15:10 +0000

RE: Gordon

Are you hitting this issue with both Media Center and Windows Media Player?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:57:14 +0000

I have found this ‘fix’ before and tried it quite a few times but while it refreshes the index it still does not find and index all of the music files. Sometimes it leaves out whole albums other times it just leaves songs out of an album, picking up some and not others.

ANy hints would be appreciated as it is painful going direct to the folders to find songs to play because media player will not pick them up

By: Paulie

Paulie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:47:44 +0000

Just figured that some other windows media player applications are still running in the background, such as wmp network sharing. Did end the process in task manager. The steps above worked afterwards, could delete the CurrentDatabase file. Awesome! Crunk4Ever!

By: Paulie

Paulie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:41:06 +0000

Finally a blog that describes the same problem I have. In my case D:\ is showing up in VMC under Picture Library and Video Library. I followed the steps as outlined above, but unfortuantely for some reason I cannot delete the following file: CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb This file is approx 70mb and I noticed this file gets updated everytime you close VMC. Anyone any ideas why I cannot delete it and complete all the steps above. Thanks.

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Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:35:28 +0000

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By: Krunk

Krunk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:51:58 +0000

Well, that could be the case, but I wouldn’t know where it would be.

Moving the files to a different directory would force it to hopefully delete the old stale entries since it no longer exists.

By: G1

G1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:17:19 +0000

No, I have tried some of the plugins and found them to be more trouble than they are worth. The data for the DVDs was about 50% inaccurate, and I didn’t have the patience to correct all of them. I can try moving the titles, but the thing that is throwing me is that whenever I delete the library and then open media center, the titles are all immediately there. So, this is leading me to believe that there must be another file somewhere. I don’t see how it could rebuild the list instantly like that.

By: Krunk

Krunk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:06:34 +0000

Are you using any external tools/plugins like MyMovies?

How about moving your DVD rips to a different folder, delete the library meta data and rescan?

By: G1

G1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:35:59 +0000

I am dying here. I have tried everything I can think of to DELETE the Windows Media Center Library. It is full of duplicate DVD titles. I have deleted the entire directory under C:\Users\G1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player but WMC just rebuilds it, and the duplicates are still there. I can’t use Media Player to delete the duplicates, because it does not index the ripped DVD files. If I am deleting everything under the directory above, then WHERE is it getting this library data from? I am going insane. BTW, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940161 explains why I can never delete some of the watched folders. But, as it stands now, it is not watching any folder twice. So, the duplicates must be from a time when it was. That is why I am trying to find out how to delete the library. Anyone have any ideas?

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