I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

According to MS Help and Support, Vista WMP 11 monitors only default or
selected folders on your computer. It will not automatically add played files
from a removable storage device or from a shared network.

Library tab Add to library Advanced options shows where Library monitors
files.


--
oscar

....Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

Hi Oscar.

Appreciate the post but I've added the external drive & its music folder
with the 'Add to Library' dialogue and it's there in the list. When I click
OK, it looks for new files but makes no difference - WMP only finds a few of
the albums at that location (and no new ones now) but barely 5% of the ones
in the music folder - but it does find a few of them on the drive in that
folder, bizarrely!

Think I'm gonna have to try iTunes...

Daniel

"oscar" wrote:

According to MS Help and Support, Vista WMP 11 monitors only default or
selected folders on your computer. It will not automatically add played files
from a removable storage device or from a shared network.

Library tab Add to library Advanced options shows where Library monitors
files.


--
oscar

...Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

This has helped me a lot, thanks Oscar. Btw DPK, I had to add the songs
manually to iTunes since it didn't auto add the folders. Good luck!

"DPK" wrote:

Hi Oscar.

Appreciate the post but I've added the external drive & its music folder
with the 'Add to Library' dialogue and it's there in the list. When I click
OK, it looks for new files but makes no difference - WMP only finds a few of
the albums at that location (and no new ones now) but barely 5% of the ones
in the music folder - but it does find a few of them on the drive in that
folder, bizarrely!

Think I'm gonna have to try iTunes...

Daniel

"oscar" wrote:

According to MS Help and Support, Vista WMP 11 monitors only default or
selected folders on your computer. It will not automatically add played files
from a removable storage device or from a shared network.

Library tab Add to library Advanced options shows where Library monitors
files.


--
oscar

...Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

You're welcome. Hope it all works out for you.

oscar

....Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

This has helped me a lot, thanks Oscar. Btw DPK, I had to add the songs
manually to iTunes since it didn't auto add the folders. Good luck!

"DPK" wrote:

Hi Oscar.

Appreciate the post but I've added the external drive & its music folder
with the 'Add to Library' dialogue and it's there in the list. When I click
OK, it looks for new files but makes no difference - WMP only finds a few of
the albums at that location (and no new ones now) but barely 5% of the ones
in the music folder - but it does find a few of them on the drive in that
folder, bizarrely!

Think I'm gonna have to try iTunes...

Daniel

"oscar" wrote:

According to MS Help and Support, Vista WMP 11 monitors only default or
selected folders on your computer. It will not automatically add played files
from a removable storage device or from a shared network.

Library tab Add to library Advanced options shows where Library monitors
files.


--
oscar

...Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel

Well, it's now getting even more bizarre! This evening, I found that WMP11
has found over 100 of the albums it couldn't find yesterday but still not all
of them. Nothing has changed in the meantime except I did run iTunes which
found ALL of them without any problems whatsoever - no need to manually add a
thing (just like WMP11, I just had to point it at the right folder to start
with).

Am I confused!!

Anyway, looks like I'll be using iTunes for a while yet, at least until
WMP11 finds the rest of my collection.

Thanks guys.

Daniel

"oscar" wrote:

You're welcome. Hope it all works out for you.

oscar

...Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

This has helped me a lot, thanks Oscar. Btw DPK, I had to add the songs
manually to iTunes since it didn't auto add the folders. Good luck!

"DPK" wrote:

Hi Oscar.

Appreciate the post but I've added the external drive & its music folder
with the 'Add to Library' dialogue and it's there in the list. When I click
OK, it looks for new files but makes no difference - WMP only finds a few of
the albums at that location (and no new ones now) but barely 5% of the ones
in the music folder - but it does find a few of them on the drive in that
folder, bizarrely!

Think I'm gonna have to try iTunes...

Daniel

"oscar" wrote:

According to MS Help and Support, Vista WMP 11 monitors only default or
selected folders on your computer. It will not automatically add played files
from a removable storage device or from a shared network.

Library tab Add to library Advanced options shows where Library monitors
files.


--
oscar

...Right click is your best friend...


"Sheila P" wrote:

I am also having the same problems with Vista not adding songs from my
external. It took about a week for the songs to even show up in my external
when looking through Vista.

"DPK" wrote:

I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate
very recently with WMP11's library. My music collection is on an external
USB-connected drive (J and was previously indexed just fine with WMP11 on
the XP machine. I plugged the drive into the new Vista box and put the drive
/ path in the "Add to library" dialogue but it could only find about 30 of my
albums - the other 200+ are missing.

I've followed and actioned all the suggestions around deleting the
CurrentDatabase_360 (took me a while to find out how to stop the network
sharing service so I could delete it but I found it in the end through Task
Manager) but everytime, it just finds the same album folders each time.
Checking their properties, I cannot see any difference between a folder /
file that is indexed and one that isn't (securities, permissions, etc.).

Also, if I open a track in WMP11 from one of the 'missing' albums to play
it, it adds the track to the library. Weird! Even weirder, if I add a
direct path to one of the missing album folders and "Add to library" again,
it still can't find the album.

Any idea? This is driving me nuts!

Daniel