unable to delete songs in windows media player

Anonymous
2010-05-09T01:09:19+00:00

The song files are already deleted off of my recycle bin but i can not delete them off of windows media player. when i click on them they say "Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are trying to play, burn, or sync an item that is in your library, the item might point to a file that has been moved, renamed, or deleted." I have had this problem before and i figured out how to delete them but i have no idea how i did it. i can't remember.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2010-05-09T13:43:00+00:00

This is the reply that I received that solved my problem.

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Hi,

This might be because of the corruption in Windows Media Player. Let’s try rebuilding the Media library and check if that helps.

** Shutdown windows media player. 

** Stop the media sharing service.  Go to Start >> Type in Services.msc in start search >> Right-click on the “Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service” and select Stop.

** Navigate to “c:\Users\”your username”\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player.  Now delete the files named CurrentDatabase_***.wmdb and LocalMLS_*.wmdb. 

** Start the media sharing service.

** Now start Windows Media Player and watch it build up your library again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-12-30T05:02:49+00:00

    I just signed on to specifically thank user kenpaq for his or her assistance with this issue. I had the exact same problem so I followed these steps and SHA-ZAM! no more stuck songs on WMP. THANK YOU KENPAQ!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-05-29T05:25:07+00:00

    Thank you soo very much your advice helped me and i have been trying to delete them with the information given on other forums and none worked except yours thank you thank you thank you...

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-05-16T00:30:22+00:00

    Right click on the folder, click on properties.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-05-15T23:51:12+00:00

    how do i navigate to find the c:\user...thing?

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