From what you've said, your library is partially corrupt, and renaming the
"Media Player" folder ala-
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary
should fix you up.
But there may be missing context here, so...
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See
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"Steve" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:37F9B7C6-404B-4177-8926-0FD96A9271A1@microsoft.com...
>I received the following response from Microsoft Product Support today
>which seems to confirm there is a serious issue with the WMP11
>implementation on Vista:
>
> <quote>
> Regarding the simplicity of the ability to monitor designated folders and
> update the media library is indeed rather counter-itnuitive. We have
> tested this function in the test lab for several days, and hav concluded
> that the code written for WMP11 vista for this particular function is
> faulty to say the least.
> We have therfore escalated this matter to the Microsoft camp in the USA,
> so as they will be able to provide customers with a possible fix / patch.
>
> As for a possible security or authorization issue, this does only apply
> when you have mp3s downloaded from a pay site before when running XP and
> try to insert these into WMP11 on a Vista machine. Unfortunately the case
> is then that it will simply not accept the licenses provided by that pay
> site, and customers are forced to get those licenses again from that site
> through the Vista machine.
>
> The .wmdb fies are Windows Media Player Ver. 9+ library files, and indeed
> they are the files that you suspected them to be. As for anomalies in the
> list you provided, there are none. The files themselves cannot cause any
> issues associated with your problem.
>
> I sincerely hope that Microsoft will fix this problem,as there are no
> workarounds left for us to attempt to execute.
>
> Albert van de Vondervoort
> Microsoft Product Support Services
> The Netherlands
> </quote>
>
>
> "TomKo" <TomKo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9F78C501-04CD-4BE1-AD27-17FB0ECDAE4D@microsoft.com...
>>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.
>>>
>