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Hello!
I used Groove Music.
Today, I received the new Media Player which replaced Groove Music.
It correctly found my music and videos as I have included them in the Libraries.
Unfortunately, it is buggy.
For instance, when I click on Artists, it says that it could not find any content.
Also, it stucks when I click on an artist or album
Do you have similar issues?
Should I just wait a little bit, maybe they are going to provide updates and fixes?
I have tried resetting the app 2 times, but still the same problems.
EDIT [19.5.2022]: There was some improvements in my experience with Media Player.
Some day ago, the Media Player started anew. FIrst, it scanned again from scratch my Music library.
For 5-10 minutes, it used a lot of CPU and RAM. Then when it was done, I could see the Artists and it did not say that it couldnt find any music.
But still it is not completely stable. Very often, when I click on an Album or Artist, it freezes or crashes.
So, still I am anxiously waiting if it will get stable in the future.
But for now, I am happy that I can listen to music again.
DId this update also happen to you?
EDIT [11.9.2022]: Overall, my experience with Media Player has improved a lot.
Now, I can play all my music.
There are now 3 issues remaining as I can see them at least:
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It's very frustrating agree. IMO Windows development seems to be going backwards these days. The new Photo app on Windows 11 has just dropped red-eye removal and spot fix. Two of my most widely used features....Why?
Anyway I'm pleased to say Media Player (Groove) is now working for me since the latest Windows Updates (Start of March 2022). I have a suspicion it has trouble co-existing and indexing against the older WMP. But now both work fine for me.
That’s great it started working for you. Not for me, I’m afraid. I’m all up to date with updates. What build number are you on? I am on 556 (supposedly the most recent)
I tried using the Dev preview ring a while ago, not realising that you can’t just switch back to the public builds without a reinstall😳.
So I did a reinstall, but my account still seems to be set to an Insider account.
I’ve set preferences to not take any dev, beta or preview builds.
My media player goes through the folder scanning ok, and builds the song, album and artist views, then suddenly - bang! The artist view disappears and says can’t find any music.
The album and song views are still there, but media player can still be using my cpu (a 6 core 12 thread ryzen 5000 cpu!) up to 46% for ages. Disk scanning still goes on, and the underlying media database is fully populated, cause I’ve looked at it.
Tried resetting, reinstalling the app, no use.
My music is on a separate internal hd from windows in an \artist\album structure. About 128gb music.
Groove didn’t have a problem with it. Only this new ‘improved’ product does🤪
Same with me as everybody else. I guess at least I'm not the only one. Say what you like but I actually liked Groove once they got it working ok. But this has been a huge step backwards. I can't find any notes at all about when or if they are fixing this.
**** I N G garbage app and MS wont even let us know when they plan to fix it. my whole library wont show up so I just use amazon to listen to music now since this app is useless.
