Songs do not appear in the Windows Media Player library

I have been having very similar issues. And another grievance I have with the new player - what happened to the feature that allowed us to select whether or not we wanted to "add files previously deleted from library"? I can't seem to resolve the fact that WMP12 keeps adding folders from the MyMusic/iTunes folder. I don't want it in there! I delete it from my library and it just keeps putting it back in. Grrrr. This is giving me huge problems inside of iTunes with regards to syncing my iPod because WMP12 keeps moving and renaming the songs I have purchased through iTunes! Why can't WMP give you the option of checking off which folders inside of the MyMusic folder you want in the library as opposed to just adding everything. It seems as though user control over the library has gone down hill with this release.

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?

I had similar issue, been working on it for a day. I had over 35K tracks in my collection, only saw 11K. In attempt to fix this I removed all my directories from "Music" Library folder, I found 1 song still listed and many albums, genre's, years, etc when I went into WMC. If I went into WMP I had 5K songs still listed. I finally foundthis info , which listed these as symptoms:

When you try to use Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, you may experience any of the following symptoms:

• You cannot view, add, or delete items in the library.
• When you try to use the Apply media information changes option, no changes are applied, and the progress indicator does not appear.
• You receive an error message that states that the library database has become corrupted.
• The player's Monitored Folders list is empty.
• Folders that are added to the Monitored Folders list are not saved.

I followed the instructions and once I purged all the WMP database files I confirmed that my Songs in WMC was now empty (and all others, Video, Photos). I'm now letting WMP / WMC rebuild it's database (they share the same database).

To Fix this problem:

It sounds like you have a corrupted Database, so you need to delete it and rebuild it, by re-adding your media to your database.

NOTE: These steps will delete your media list, so you should make a backup of any of these files before you do this, especially if you have purchased music via one of the online music shops. I would recommend just cutting all your music and placing it in a different folder through a different directory.

I.E If you music is located in my music, then cut it and paste it in a temporary folder in My Documents.

First: close your Media Player.

Second: go to the start menu.

Third: go to your control Panel.

Fourth: go to Administrative Tools.

Fifth: go to Services.

Sixth: Scroll down to the Ws, and right click on everything that says Windows Media Player and click stop. Do it for each one. Most of you will only have one; Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.

Seventh: Click Start Menu

Eighth: Copy and Paste:

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\

into the Search Programs and Files search bar, and press enter.

Ninth: You will see a bunch of files. You can just delete them, but I would back them up to a different folder first.

I.E Cut it and paste it into a Temprary Folder somewhere else on your drive(My Documents works fine.)

Restart Windows Media Player.

Add all of your music files back to the Library Folders(Music), and it should automatically detect them all.

After it does this you can clean up:

Delete the files you backed up, that were found in the

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\

folder.

Afterwords, return to Services, and renable the services that begin with Windows Media Player!

How to get there:

(go to the start menu.

go to your control Panel.

go to Administrative Tools.

go to Services.)

Your problem should be fixed now!

*Edit

Didn't see the last post that had an explanation on how to do this as well.

Realized it AFTER I typed out the entire way to fix the problem, from my memory.

Fail.