WMP 12 Constantly Updating Library!

[ryana1980]

Well, the title says it all. Everytime I open WMP 12, it starts updating my music library. All of my music is in the library, but yet it keeps updating it. I'm just wondering if any of you out there have this problem, and if so, is it really updating something or is it a bug or what? It's driving me a little crazy. thanks for any help on this.

 

[RST101]

It updates the library in wmp from your saved files. It is not a bug or anything but what it is basically doing is rescanning where you save your music to. Once it has done the scan and added the new items it will then settle down and resume as normal. All is good

 

[ryana1980]

OK, thank you so much for replying. So it will keep updating until it has found every file? The reason I ask is that it will update for at least 10 minutes at a time and then say that the update is complete. Then the next time I open media player it does the same thing. I have around 30 gigabytes in music, so that may be why it's taking so long. Who knows! Anyway, thanks for the response.

 

[Orbital Shark]

WMP12 will check each time it's run to make sure that any changes with the files are recorded within the player. It's normal for it to take a bit of time as you have so much data, but it shouldn't affect any performance.

 

[Meyithi]

I had my "My Music" file as a sub-folder of "My Documents" and even if I left WMP on for a couple of hours to index everything, I'd close it and it would start all over again with an empty library.

I had to move "My Music" out of "My Documents" in the end it it was fine.

 

[ryana1980]

hmmm. well, that's interesting. but my problem is a little different in that all of my music is there, it just keeps updating. "Updating Media Library" in the bottom corner it says.

 

[SqdnGuns]

I had my "My Music" file as a sub-folder of "My Documents" and even if I left WMP on for a couple of hours to index everything, I'd close it and it would start all over again with an empty library.

I had to move "My Music" out of "My Documents" in the end it it was fine.

No need to do that at all.

If you go to Libraries > Music.............you will see Includes: X Locations. Click on it and add another location where your music is. Simple...........

 

[Meyithi]

No need to do that at all.

If you go to Libraries > Music.............you will see Includes: X Locations. Click on it and add another location where your music is. Simple...........

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Yeah I know, but I only had the one location and it was a sub-folder in "My Documents" and no matter what I did WMP would forget my library whenever I closed it down. Only thing I could do to fix it was to physically move the folder out of "My Documents" and it was fine.

Incidentally, Libraries seem to track the physical location of folders so if you move them you don't have to tell your Library of the new location, which is a nice feature.

 

[skynet]

Hi guys,
i've the same problem! Every time i open WMP it starts scanning my drive using half of cpu and in the bottom there's "updating media library", or "retrieving media informations for ...." it works for a couple of hours, then it says "update complete", or something similar. If i close WMP and reopen it, it starts scanning again... but the main problem is that it uses a lot of cpu!
Windows 7 runs fine, but media player 12 sucks!!

 

[Dzomlija]

Hi guys,
i've the same problem! Every time i open WMP it starts scanning my drive using half of cpu and in the bottom there's "updating media library", or "retrieving media informations for ...." it works for a couple of hours, then it says "update complete", or something similar. If i close WMP and reopen it, it starts scanning again... but the main problem is that it uses a lot of cpu!
Windows 7 runs fine, but media player 12 sucks!!

You need to tell WMP to NOT download media information:

1. When in Player view, right-click the main Media Player window, then select "More options..."
2. Open the "Library" tab
3. Remove the check from "Retrieve additional information from the Internet"
4. Click "OK"

 

[skynet]

I did but nothing changed.
Every time i run WMP, in the bottom of the player there's "updating media library [My pictures or My Music]" and my hd starts to work heavy....
Don't know what to do

 

[CXXXIX]

I had the same problem; I don't normally use WMP since I use iTunes for music so I decided to disable the library functions entirely until a better solution is found.

Files --> Manage Libraries --> Music

Then delete all the directories listed in there and WMP won't build a library at all. Repeat for the other categories as well if necessary. I realize this is not ideal but at least stops the annoyance.

 

[skynet]

Yes i tried that workaroung one hour ago, but i saw that removing libraries from WMP, it also removes library from Windows too, and i cannot use them then. Microsoft introduced libraries but i prefer a direct link in the start menu to my pictures and music folders, like in windows xp.
So i decided to restore libraries.
It's strange that only few people has this annoyance.
I'm thinking of switching back to windows xp pending the final version released.

 

[adricha]

hmm - I have the same problem.

I have a very large music library on a separate drive. I have mapped the "My Music" folder to this the same as I did in Vista and the Win 7 Beta. So it appears as the default location in the Library and WMP.

However, everytime I open WMP it seems to have forgotten all the tracks it had previously catalogued and starts scanning the folders again. As the library is very large it takes well over an hour to find everything.

Have tried turning off the "retrieve additional info from the internet" option but that makes no difference.

 

[jivester]

Updating Library CPU Hog

I have close to 500gb of music on a USB connected 1TB external HDD. The "Updating Library" has now run more than a couple of days. I believe all the songs are indexed. I turned off the "get media information from the internet" option. This issue seems to even freeze my media center extender (XBOX 360) and is extremely frustraing (I want my music on my TV BADDDD). What are potential workarounds? If I tell my WMP to stop adding files from the folder my music is in, will that delete all the music already indexed or just any additional music I don't manually tell Wmp to add? PLEASE help!

 

[skynet]

My situation is a little different.
I added windows xp music folder into music library, and set it as default location for music files.
WMP remembers the tracks, but for some reason it start scanning music/pictures/videos folders every time i run it. And the the processing takes half an hour...

 

[dananski]

I have two computers running W7 RC1 - my HTPC, which contains no media itself, and my main PC. They both do the "updating media library" thing when WMP12 is run. The HTPC discovers no media and immediately says "Update complete", while my main PC has about 90GB of music and is still updating several hours after starting media player. My thought at the moment is that it might stop once it has finished checking all new media and this will take a long time for collections like mine (500GB, jivester? I feel so sorry for you!).

 

[RST101]

I have close to 500gb of music on a USB connected 1TB external HDD. The "Updating Library" has now run more than a couple of days. I believe all the songs are indexed. I turned off the "get media information from the internet" option. This issue seems to even freeze my media center extender (XBOX 360) and is extremely frustraing (I want my music on my TV BADDDD). What are potential workarounds? If I tell my WMP to stop adding files from the folder my music is in, will that delete all the music already indexed or just any additional music I don't manually tell Wmp to add? PLEASE help!

Yes it will delete them from media player library as well.

 

[skynet]

Ok but it doens't have sense that WMP checks all the files already cataloged at every startup. It should check for new files, instead it seems that it scans everything, catalogued files too....

 

[rhumbus]

I have the same problem of constant library updating. It makes WMP12 almost useless, considering that my music is on an external USB drive (USB is CPU intensive, and the drive is louder than an internal drive.)
this is certainly undesired behavior, having no option to tell wmp how to handle the library. It should have just a simple monitor to update after file additions, and file changes. nothing more.

Maybe Microsoft intended users to never close WMP, and never shut the computer down...