vista media player media library doesn't index my mp3 files

I have 3000 songs on my harddrive. The media library in windows xp sp2 index
all those mp3 files automatically for me after I put in the monitoring path
in the setting menu. But the media library doesn't index my songs even I
have put in the correct monitoring path. It works fine with less songs(e.g.
10) if i copy them to a different floder. But I think media player should
work for 3000 songs instead of just working with 10 songs.

Does any one have the same problem as me?

I had the same problem, all my music was in individual folders. I put them
into the music folder by themselves (no sub folders) and then selected them
all and dragged it into my library in Windows Media Player. All my music
shows up in media center too.

"Tom" wrote:

> I have 3000 songs on my harddrive. The media library in windows xp sp2 index
> all those mp3 files automatically for me after I put in the monitoring path
> in the setting menu. But the media library doesn't index my songs even I
> have put in the correct monitoring path. It works fine with less songs(e.g.
> 10) if i copy them to a different floder. But I think media player should
> work for 3000 songs instead of just working with 10 songs.
>
> Does any one have the same problem as me?
>
>

Yes, it works this way.
But media player should search sub folders automatically. Copying all the
mp3 files into one single folder is not so convenience when you want to find
them in "my computer".
I really think this should be a bug for Vista's media player as I had no
problem with XP's media player 11.
By the way, even with one single folder, the indexing speed of vista's media
player is so slow.



"Rasma" <Rasma@discussions.microsoft.com> 写入消�
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>I had the same problem, all my music was in individual folders. I put them
> into the music folder by themselves (no sub folders) and then selected
> them
> all and dragged it into my library in Windows Media Player. All my music
> shows up in media center too.
>
> "Tom" wrote:
>
>> I have 3000 songs on my harddrive. The media library in windows xp sp2
>> index
>> all those mp3 files automatically for me after I put in the monitoring
>> path
>> in the setting menu. But the media library doesn't index my songs even I
>> have put in the correct monitoring path. It works fine with less
>> songs(e.g.
>> 10) if i copy them to a different floder. But I think media player should
>> work for 3000 songs instead of just working with 10 songs.
>>
>> Does any one have the same problem as me?
>>
>>

So how did you fix it, i got thousands of music files and the thought of
taking them all out of their folders and putting them into one folder fills
me with dread.

"Tom" wrote:

> Yes, it works this way.
> But media player should search sub folders automatically. Copying all the
> mp3 files into one single folder is not so convenience when you want to find
> them in "my computer".
> I really think this should be a bug for Vista's media player as I had no
> problem with XP's media player 11.
> By the way, even with one single folder, the indexing speed of vista's media
> player is so slow.
>
>
>
> "Rasma" <Rasma@discussions.microsoft.com> 写入消�
> news:A005373D-0F3D-4F5F-A57F-6535A511BFAB@microsoft.com...
> >I had the same problem, all my music was in individual folders. I put them
> > into the music folder by themselves (no sub folders) and then selected
> > them
> > all and dragged it into my library in Windows Media Player. All my music
> > shows up in media center too.
> >
> > "Tom" wrote:
> >
> >> I have 3000 songs on my harddrive. The media library in windows xp sp2
> >> index
> >> all those mp3 files automatically for me after I put in the monitoring
> >> path
> >> in the setting menu. But the media library doesn't index my songs even I
> >> have put in the correct monitoring path. It works fine with less
> >> songs(e.g.
> >> 10) if i copy them to a different floder. But I think media player should
> >> work for 3000 songs instead of just working with 10 songs.
> >>
> >> Does any one have the same problem as me?
> >>
> >>
>
>

yes, it's very annoying. I didn't find a way to fix it. I just installed
iTunes instead.
iTunes works fine on Vista. If anybody find a way to fix this problem,
please let us know.


"EndoMachine" <EndoMachine@discussions.microsoft.com> 写入消�
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> So how did you fix it, i got thousands of music files and the thought of
> taking them all out of their folders and putting them into one folder
> fills
> me with dread.
>
> "Tom" wrote:
>
>> Yes, it works this way.
>> But media player should search sub folders automatically. Copying all the
>> mp3 files into one single folder is not so convenience when you want to
>> find
>> them in "my computer".
>> I really think this should be a bug for Vista's media player as I had no
>> problem with XP's media player 11.
>> By the way, even with one single folder, the indexing speed of vista's
>> media
>> player is so slow.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rasma" <Rasma@discussions.microsoft.com> 写入消�
>> news:A005373D-0F3D-4F5F-A57F-6535A511BFAB@microsoft.com...
>> >I had the same problem, all my music was in individual folders. I put
>> >them
>> > into the music folder by themselves (no sub folders) and then selected
>> > them
>> > all and dragged it into my library in Windows Media Player. All my
>> > music
>> > shows up in media center too.
>> >
>> > "Tom" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have 3000 songs on my harddrive. The media library in windows xp sp2
>> >> index
>> >> all those mp3 files automatically for me after I put in the monitoring
>> >> path
>> >> in the setting menu. But the media library doesn't index my songs even
>> >> I
>> >> have put in the correct monitoring path. It works fine with less
>> >> songs(e.g.
>> >> 10) if i copy them to a different floder. But I think media player
>> >> should
>> >> work for 3000 songs instead of just working with 10 songs.
>> >>
>> >> Does any one have the same problem as me?
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

Rename the Media Player folder instead. I've had the problem for weeks and
I
finally renamed the media player folder to media player. I restarted WMP11,
opened the monitor dialog box and the folders were then. I then went to
apply media changes and it scanned my folders and rebuilt my library

"jelzi" wrote:

> an easier solution is to delete the library.
> when you start wmp next time the lbirary will be created again and
> monitoring works now..
>
>
>
> "jay bob" wrote:
>
> > I found a solution for anyone experiencing this problem. When you first
> > install vista you need to create 2 user accounts. After logging into
> > one
> > account for the first time open up wmp11 and try to compile a library.
> > It
> > won't be able to. Now log into the second account and try to compile a
> > library and it will work for the second account. Simply make the second
> > account an admin account and don't use the first account. That's the
> > only
> > solution I've been able to find and it's worked well for two vista
> > installs.
> > Good luck.
> >
> > "jelzi" wrote:
> >
> > > i´ve the same problem.
> > > wmp11 works very fine with windows xp. but not on vista.
> > >
> > > "jay bob" wrote:
> > >
> > > > For some strange reason windows media player running in vista
> > > > refuses to
> > > > detect any media within my user folders (music, video, pictures).
> > > > All of
> > > > those folders are specifically marked as monitored folders, but
> > > > there is no
> > > > media in my library. I backed up all this media on a second
> > > > partition on my
> > > > hard drive and then simply copied it all in to the respective
> > > > folders. Any
> > > > ideas...?

I have been using windows since the 1.X versions. and Vista s the first to be
worse than the previous versions. Like wise I can not make it find my multi
thousands of MP3s I have been Ripping over the last 6 years. It did find a
few .wav files I have on my server. Is this another case of Vista trying to
force you to use the Microsoft prefered formats? I had been using musicmatch
on my XP machines and it ran fine like most other programs. Is there a
straight forward setting to make Windows find MP3s? will music match work
with VISTA? can we go mack to XP?

It should find your MP3s just fine. It does mine.

Can you provide more information? How are you trying to add them?
Monitored folders? Drag and drop?

Do the files play if you double click them in Explorer?

Was this an upgrade from XP or a new clean install of Vista? Perhaps on a
new machine? How did you get the files to where Vista can see them?

Dale

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have been using windows since the 1.X versions. and Vista s the first to
>be
> worse than the previous versions. Like wise I can not make it find my
> multi
> thousands of MP3s I have been Ripping over the last 6 years. It did find a
> few .wav files I have on my server. Is this another case of Vista trying
> to
> force you to use the Microsoft prefered formats? I had been using
> musicmatch
> on my XP machines and it ran fine like most other programs. Is there a
> straight forward setting to make Windows find MP3s? will music match work
> with VISTA? can we go mack to XP?
>

We have a brand new ACER with Vista premium.
I added my NDAS network drive to the list of files to search.
The machine recognizes files on the NDAS drive after hours of trying to get
that set up. When I used the add to library function it searched all of the
folders and I could see them display in the status window. I also added the
few WAV files on that drive to the library but it ignored all of the MP3s.
When I ripped a couple of CDs to the local drive it allowed me to rip them as
MP3s and added them to the library. I have no plans to rerip hundreds of CDs.
In music match there is an option inthe search menu to id the types of files
included in the search but I could not find an equivalent in windows media
player.


"Dale" wrote:

> It should find your MP3s just fine. It does mine.
>
> Can you provide more information? How are you trying to add them?
> Monitored folders? Drag and drop?
>
> Do the files play if you double click them in Explorer?
>
> Was this an upgrade from XP or a new clean install of Vista? Perhaps on a
> new machine? How did you get the files to where Vista can see them?
>
> Dale
>
> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BA8F2C47-EEA0-459C-B87A-3A9504FC6C24@microsoft.com...
> >I have been using windows since the 1.X versions. and Vista s the first to
> >be
> > worse than the previous versions. Like wise I can not make it find my
> > multi
> > thousands of MP3s I have been Ripping over the last 6 years. It did find a
> > few .wav files I have on my server. Is this another case of Vista trying
> > to
> > force you to use the Microsoft prefered formats? I had been using
> > musicmatch
> > on my XP machines and it ran fine like most other programs. Is there a
> > straight forward setting to make Windows find MP3s? will music match work
> > with VISTA? can we go mack to XP?
> >
>
>

If you copy the files to your local drive can you play them?

An interesting test would be to copy the files to your local drive, delete
them on the network drive, and then copy the local version back to the
network drive - it is a simple way of tweaking the permissions so that you
own and have access to them on the network.

I like to keep a FAT partition on a hard drive so that I can strip all
permissions and other hidden things like alternate data streams from a file.
If you have a portable drive with FAT partitioning, that would work. Copy
them to the portable, delete them from the NDAS drive, copy back from the
portable to the NDAS drive.

There are other ways to work on the permissions but I find these are
easiest, especially when things start getting complex.

Dale

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a brand new ACER with Vista premium.
> I added my NDAS network drive to the list of files to search.
> The machine recognizes files on the NDAS drive after hours of trying to
> get
> that set up. When I used the add to library function it searched all of
> the
> folders and I could see them display in the status window. I also added
> the
> few WAV files on that drive to the library but it ignored all of the MP3s.
> When I ripped a couple of CDs to the local drive it allowed me to rip them
> as
> MP3s and added them to the library. I have no plans to rerip hundreds of
> CDs.
> In music match there is an option inthe search menu to id the types of
> files
> included in the search but I could not find an equivalent in windows media
> player.
>
>
> "Dale" wrote:
>
>> It should find your MP3s just fine. It does mine.
>>
>> Can you provide more information? How are you trying to add them?
>> Monitored folders? Drag and drop?
>>
>> Do the files play if you double click them in Explorer?
>>
>> Was this an upgrade from XP or a new clean install of Vista? Perhaps on
>> a
>> new machine? How did you get the files to where Vista can see them?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BA8F2C47-EEA0-459C-B87A-3A9504FC6C24@microsoft.com...
>> >I have been using windows since the 1.X versions. and Vista s the first
>> >to
>> >be
>> > worse than the previous versions. Like wise I can not make it find my
>> > multi
>> > thousands of MP3s I have been Ripping over the last 6 years. It did
>> > find a
>> > few .wav files I have on my server. Is this another case of Vista
>> > trying
>> > to
>> > force you to use the Microsoft prefered formats? I had been using
>> > musicmatch
>> > on my XP machines and it ran fine like most other programs. Is there a
>> > straight forward setting to make Windows find MP3s? will music match
>> > work
>> > with VISTA? can we go mack to XP?
>> >
>>
>>