Library doesn't seem to update

Mike, before I start messing with this, a question. Can it be that the WMA
content I have is in some way 'wrong'? I mean, that it does not contain some
special info that WMP needs to find the track or album in the database on
the server? I've used Lance Perkins' Simple ripper for these albums.

WMP9 found about a few hundred tracks, so it isn't so that WMP or the local
database doesn't work. Do you still think the problem is ODBC/MDAC related?

Ava.

"Mike Williams [MVP]" <mikew@Nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message
news:41EFD0B0.5060702@Nospam.mvps.org...

> Ava wrote:

> > I've a lot of loose tracks and albums in WMA format.
> >
> > I added all these tracks and albums to WMP's library but after a long

wait

> > it seems only tracks I didn't convert myself show up in WMP's albums and
> > artists lists. I can add those missing tracks file-by-file to the

library

> > manually but that's going to take a month or so. I could delete the

albums

> > and recode but they are in storage since I'm on the move.
> >
> > I've tried renaming and deleting and re-adding and such things but all

to no

> > avail.
> >
> > I have WMP 9 and run XP.
> >
> > Any thought on this?

>
> Possibly an MDAC or library corruption issue. See:
> nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#medialibrary

Ava wrote:

> Mike, before I start messing with this, a question. Can it be that the WMA
> content I have is in some way 'wrong'? I mean, that it does not contain some
> special info that WMP needs to find the track or album in the database on
> the server? I've used Lance Perkins' Simple ripper for these albums.
>
> WMP9 found about a few hundred tracks, so it isn't so that WMP or the local
> database doesn't work. Do you still think the problem is ODBC/MDAC related?

To diagnose that you'd need specialist help from Microsoft. However, WMP
does not need to locate information in the online database to add a file
to the local library.

> To diagnose that you'd need specialist help from Microsoft. However, WMP

> does not need to locate information in the online database to add a file
> to the local library.

It's not that the files are not added to the WMP database, they all (wel,
most) wind up as Unkown album/artist in the local library. For some reason
they are either not found or not presented to the server at
Windowsmedia.com.

Ava.

Ava wrote:

>>To diagnose that you'd need specialist help from Microsoft. However, WMP
>>does not need to locate information in the online database to add a file
>>to the local library.

>
>
> It's not that the files are not added to the WMP database, they all (wel,
> most) wind up as Unkown album/artist in the local library. For some reason
> they are either not found or not presented to the server at
> Windowsmedia.com.

Windowsmedia.com is far from complete or accurate. In that case simply
add the information manually.