TomKo

I have the same problem in the Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition. I even
copied the files where they should be in hopes the Media Player would
recognize them, but to no avail. Also, some of the files that I could play
with Media Player on WinXP are unplayable on the Vista version (says it is an
unsupported format). It seems that Vista really wasn't and isn't ready for
Prime Time yet!

"Steve" wrote:

> If I try to rip CDs under Vista Home Premium (clean upgrade from an earlier
> Media Centre Edition 2005 system) using the Windows Media Player 11 Rip
> facility, or via the Windows Media Center 'Copy CD to Library' facility, the
> files are duly ripped to my default music folder but album info is never
> located (even though I am online at all times) and the library is never
> updated. The ripped files are stored under an 'Unknown Artist/Unknown Album'
> folder and I am able to play them by clicking on the individual files, but
> not from the library. I am ripping in WMA (variable bit rate) format.
>
> If I click on 'Find Album Info' whilst the rip is actually in progress, the
> CD information is correctly displayed and I am prompted to click 'Finish' to
> update the Media Library - I get a brief progress bar but the library never
> updates.
>
> The music library I copied across from my earlier MCE2005 system is
> recognised fine and I can play all the existing albums (around 600 in
> total) - I just don't seem to be able to add any new ones to the library.
>
> I have tried playing with the monitored folders settings but have not
> succeeded in getting WMP11 to update the library regardless of where I put
> the files. I have used the F3 facility in WMP11 and have selected Apply
> Media Changes but all to no avail.
>
> This seems bizarre. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I did
> find some reference to this problem on an MS site but I'm damned if I can
> find it again.
>
> The only remotely unconventional thing about my set up is that I have
> elected to move my personal folders (documents, favorites, downloads, music,
> pictures, videos, etc) to a separate harddrive (i.e. in
> D:\Users\Steve\Music, etc). I did originally have some difficulty adding
> Internet Explorer bookmarks to my Favorites folder with this configuration
> which was resolved by manually altering the security permissions on the
> folder. I'm wondering if this might be a similar problem, but at the very
> least I would have expected some kind of error message.
>
> I never had any problems with an identifical configuration under MCE2005.
>