Songs do not appear in the Windows Media Player library

Anonymous
2009-11-10T05:30:29+00:00

WIndows Media Player 12 not adding songs

I got my new PC with Windows 7 this afternoon, and copied over 10,000 songs into My Music folder.  None of these songs will show up in Windows Media Player 12 song library. My Music folder is one of the default save location in WMP Libraries.  Only 3 songs are showing up in the Library, and these are the three on the Public Music folder.  Yet when I add a song to the Public Music folder, it gets added to the Library. Then when I close WMP and re-open it, we're back to the original 3 songs!  I spent an hour with HP support this evening and did not get any where.  I have tried system restore.  I have tried restoring media library.  I think my WMP may be corrupt.  Any thoughts on what I'm missing here?

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Anonymous
2010-11-08T18:58:41+00:00

I read this on another topic, try it.

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Hi,

This problem occurs because the Windows Media Player library database has become corrupted. 

To resolve this problem, clear the Windows Media Player database. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Exit Windows Media Player.
  2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player, and then click OK.
  3. Select all the files in the folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.

      Note You do not have to delete the folders that are in this folder.

 4. Restart Windows Media Player.

Note Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database. 

If this does not resolve the problem, clear the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:

   1. Exit Windows Media Player.

   2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, and then click OK.

   3. Select the Media Player folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.

   4. Restart Windows Media Player.

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Anonymous
2010-12-18T07:21:53+00:00

I had same symptoms as cturner003 in a 64 bit Win 7 environment.  But the problem was entirely different from everythin I read up to Nov 2010.   As I started looking into the file properties under the details tab, I noticed that all of these files had file attributes 'R' and 'S' set.  Turns out that somehow all of my music got marked as 'Read Only' \ 'System' files when I restored them.  My fault I'm sure.  Tried all of the solutions up to the Nov 2010 entries to no avail.  Finally discovered the issue.  Once I changed the file attributes, all of the music started showing up in WMP.  Should have picked that up sooner.

For these files, I couldn't find any way to change the attributes except through the command prompt.

1.  Click Start, Click All Programs, ClickAccessories.  Thenright clickCommand Prompt and select 'Run as administrator'.

2.  Type Attrib /? to get familiar with the attributes command.

3.  My music is stored in the path c:\users\glym\music.  So I fixed the problem with the following command string:attrib -r -s c:\users\glym\music\*.* /s /d

  1. Once the file attributes are cleaned up, make sure Media Player is closed.  ClickStart , ClickRun, Copy and paste in: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, ClickOK
  2. Delete the 'Media Player' folder completely.  That gets rid of the database and the cached entries.

6.  Restart Media Player . . .  Bingo!

Thanks Microsoft for several useful Knowldege Base articles that I plagiarized here.

 

 I was having an issue like this. No new tv shows I was recording and adding to my videos folder would show on one pc, but showed fine on two others, all win 7 64bit home prem.

steps 4 5 and 6  worked like a charm for me. I didnt do anything but steps 4,5 and 6 Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-11-10T23:39:47+00:00

    Hi Cturner003,

    Welcome to Microsoft Answers Community Forum!

    In order to add songs in Windows Media player, follow these steps:

    Add a folder to be monitored by the player:

    1.    Click the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player.

    If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player.

    2.    In the Player Library, click Organize.

    3.    Click Manage libraries, and then click one of the following options:

    ·         Music. Click this option to open the Music Library Locations dialog box.

    ·         Videos. Click this option to open the Videos Library Locations dialog box.

    ·         Pictures. Click this option to open the Pictures Library Locations dialog box.

    ·         Recorded TV. Click this option to open the Recorded TV Library Locations dialog box.

    4.    Click Add.

    5.    Find the folder in the list, click Include folder, and then click OK.

    To know more about features in windows media player, visit the below mentioned link:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Add-items-to-the-Windows-Media-Player-Library

    In addition, would suggest you to perform a SFC scan:

    Use the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) to determine which file is causing the issue, and then replace the file. To do this, follow these steps:

    1. Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
    2. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    sfc /scannowThe sfc /scannow command scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.

           For more information, visit the below mentioned link:

           http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

    Hope this helps!

    Thanks & Regards,

    Supreeth - Microsoft Support.

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-11-12T00:14:53+00:00

    I had the same problem as described by cturner003.

    I did a clean install of Win7 and transferred all my albums to the default location of c:\users\name\music

    • whenever I would close and open Media player/center it would only find the sample music from the install at c:\users\public\public music and two (always the same two) albums from c:\users\name\music
    • I deleted the aforementioned library locations and then added them back
    • Media player/center would then index everything and seem fine
    • but after closing and opening Media player/center I would have the sample music from c:\users\public\public music and two of my albums from c:\users\name\music again
    • I ran sfc /scannow (and had no errors)
    • I deleted c:\users\public\public music from my library and Media player/center has kept the index from c:\users\name\music after both open/close and re-boot, but this seems a temp fix as this kind of defeats the point of the libraries system if it will only work with monitoring a single location

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-11-20T00:19:31+00:00

    yea i'm missing a few random tracks aswell. they play fine if i open them from explorer where they're actually saved. they just don't show up in the media player library! what's going on microsoft?!

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