Dale

Click on Find Album Info before ripping. When the rip list simply states
"track 1" etc., do not start ripping.

Dale

"Steve" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:058971A9-B0F5-4198-9A99-91725338CCD5@microsoft.com...
> 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.