Both WMP & WMC can get feisty when dealing w/ a large library. There are a
number of potential variables, for more information you should search the
forums & wiki at thegreenbutton.com.
I have fixed the same situation on XP platform via a reinstall of WMP -
which isn't an option w/ Windows Vista, as far as I can tell. Have you
reviewed the watched folders in WMC? Try removing the folders from the
watch list, and then add the correct ones back. It will then rescan (you
might want to let the rescan occur overnight - and make certain that there
is no TV signal tuned - even in the background - while you are doing so.)
Also, have you tried deleting your WMP media
database thereby forcing a
rebuild / reindex?
"Plopper" <Plopper.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B93DD574-3EDC-4233-9CB8-2FE528362B3E@microsoft.com...
> Type of files: MP3s (192kbps)
> Location: local HD (I want to move it to a NAS, but that is not yet the
> case)
> Number of files: 96100 files in 1450 folders (96,2 GB)
>
> When I use Media Player everything works great and fast. With Media Center
> the
problems begin...
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>
>
> "LSHD" wrote:
>
>> Hey - does your media reside on a local drive or a network share? Also,
>> can
>> you provide more specific info on your library = type of files, size of
>> library, etc.? Also, what has your experience been with your library
>> when
>> working with Windows Media Player, (not Windows Media Center...)
>> Thanks...
>>
>> "Plopper" <Plopper.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2E8CBCB6-6961-4780-B123-C98D936BAA47@microsoft.com...
>> > Every time I restart my box (with Vista Media Center on it), it appears
>> > to
>> > me
>> > when accessing my
Music Libary, VMC is sort of reinitializing my
>> > complete
>> > library. This results in the following:
>> >
>> > 1. the first time I select my
Music Library after a reboot, it appears
>> > to
>> > be
>> > empty.
>> >
>> > 2. after pressing the 'back button' and selecting my
Music Library
>> > again,
>> > it
>> > displays some albums, most of them still without artwork (that is
>> > loading),
>> > but only a couple of dozens and not nearly all of them.
>> >
>> > 3. when pressing a letter on the remote (to jump to the first artist
>> > who's
>> > name starts with that letter) the library becomes unresponsive for a
>> > very
>> > long time (minute(s)?) and eventually jumps to that artist. Most of the
>> > time
>> > it still is collecting artwork at that time...
>> >
>> > 4. after pressing 'back' and selecting my
Music Library for the third
>> > time
>> > it appears to have all artists and albums, but is still loading
>> > artwork.
>> > Just
>> > like in the previous step, pressing a letter will make the
Music Libary
>> > unresponsive for quite some time.
>> >
>> > 5. when all is loaded, in many cases selecting an album to play, will
>> > not
>> > play it (it will display the play screen, with the clock at 0:00). Only
>> > after
>> > a couple of minutes it will start playing.
>> >
>> > 6. Navigating the library is VERY slow at this point and a real pain.
>> >
>> > This happens every time my box is restarted (which I have to do
>> > regularly
>> > to
>> > refresh my FloppyDTV-S sat tuner cards to work perfectly).
>> >
>> > Yesterday it really pissed me of, so I tried some more extreme
>> > measures: I
>> > killed the mplayer processes in my Task Manager. When switching back to
>> > Media
>> > Center, Media Center gave me the error that it had lost its remote
>> > connection
>> > to Media Player (which made sense of course), and needed to be
>> > restarted.
>> > After Media Center was restarted, what do you know: the
Music Library
>> > appeared to work perfectly! I need to test this more to find out if
>> > this
>> > was
>> > a just luck (maybe the Musci
Library finally was loaded completely
>> > after
>> > 10
>> > minutes?), or maybe killing the mplayer process and restarting VMC
>> > really
>> > makes a difference.
>> >
>> > My question to all of you: please
help me out on this - I really need
>> > to
>> > regularly restart the
computer; How will my
Music Library work
>> > correctly
>> > immediately after starting it up?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Silverstone LC18-Asus P5W-DH-Core2Duo E6600+IBL 1210
>> > cooler-2048MB-Plextor
>> > PX-755A DVD-RW+PX-310 DVD-ROM-Samsung 500GB-2x FloppyDTV-S-GeForce
>> > 7950GT
>> > 512Mb passive-IBL Power 500W-SmartWi-Vista Ultimate
>>
