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:
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> 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