Vista - Can't get Media Library to see ANY media

New pc, Vista Ultimate. I have ~4000 tracks ripped from cd to m4a and anther
400 to mp3 (my wife has ripped these) in my NAS. I have downloaded a codec to
play m4a (doesn't anyone else think that is just plain wrong - to have to
mess around just to get stuff that worked perfectly well in XPSP2 to work in
Vista?) which Media Centre now does. But I cannot get it to recognize a
single track in the Music Library. I've copied tracks to the /Music folder
which appears to be watched by default in Library Setup and I still can't see
a single track. To make it even more annoying I can dbl-clk to play m4a
tracks, which launch and play but are never added to the library. Media
Center seems to be an unusable beta. I've now got iTunes 7.1 which works
perfectly.

Anyone got a suggestion?

After 4 weeks of Vista I've nearly had it. Next time I'm getting a Mac So
long Bill, Vista is the worst software I have ever used and until Jan 30th I
was a MS fan.

I have heard of some folks being successful by copying the media from their
network storage to their local PC and then copying it back to the network
storage. I am not really current on inexpensive NAS devices but I think it
helps by fixing permissions.

Dale

"Jim Smith" <Jim Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:709EAD8A-4559-4C23-B79C-9C5F48AA2882@microsoft.com...
> New pc, Vista Ultimate. I have ~4000 tracks ripped from cd to m4a and
> anther
> 400 to mp3 (my wife has ripped these) in my NAS. I have downloaded a codec
> to
> play m4a (doesn't anyone else think that is just plain wrong - to have to
> mess around just to get stuff that worked perfectly well in XPSP2 to work
> in
> Vista?) which Media Centre now does. But I cannot get it to recognize a
> single track in the Music Library. I've copied tracks to the /Music folder
> which appears to be watched by default in Library Setup and I still can't
> see
> a single track. To make it even more annoying I can dbl-clk to play m4a
> tracks, which launch and play but are never added to the library. Media
> Center seems to be an unusable beta. I've now got iTunes 7.1 which works
> perfectly.
>
> Anyone got a suggestion?
>
> After 4 weeks of Vista I've nearly had it. Next time I'm getting a Mac So
> long Bill, Vista is the worst software I have ever used and until Jan 30th
> I
> was a MS fan.

You actually had to download a codec on XP to play M4A there too, so that's
the same experience.

M4A files won't show up unless a compatible filter is installed-
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#mpeg4
It sounds as if they play now, but aren't being added? Have you tried the
WMP Tag Extender?

The MP3 files should show up fine - at what point did they stop showing
up... ?

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Jim Smith" <Jim Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:709EAD8A-4559-4C23-B79C-9C5F48AA2882@microsoft.com...
> New pc, Vista Ultimate. I have ~4000 tracks ripped from cd to m4a and
> anther
> 400 to mp3 (my wife has ripped these) in my NAS. I have downloaded a codec
> to
> play m4a (doesn't anyone else think that is just plain wrong - to have to
> mess around just to get stuff that worked perfectly well in XPSP2 to work
> in
> Vista?) which Media Centre now does. But I cannot get it to recognize a
> single track in the Music Library. I've copied tracks to the /Music folder
> which appears to be watched by default in Library Setup and I still can't
> see
> a single track. To make it even more annoying I can dbl-clk to play m4a
> tracks, which launch and play but are never added to the library. Media
> Center seems to be an unusable beta. I've now got iTunes 7.1 which works
> perfectly.
>
> Anyone got a suggestion?
>
> After 4 weeks of Vista I've nearly had it. Next time I'm getting a Mac So
> long Bill, Vista is the worst software I have ever used and until Jan 30th
> I
> was a MS fan.