Windows 7 RC: Media Center issues

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Hmmm :rolleyes:

So I have one disk partitioned into two. C and D. D has all my data on, music, vids, etc. C was W7 .7000

Yesterday, I put on RC and installed it to the C drive overwriting the previous partition. All good.

I point the relative Music, Videos, Downloads folders back to the D: drive and all is well.

I fire up Media Center and set it up, it finds the music based on the location but for some reason it shows duplicate album art, but not for all albums. Weirder still is that fact that one of the albums will have 14 tracks in (for instance), and the other duplicate will have one track in, which, after pondering, seems to be the track most played or the one that was rated when I was using 7000 build.

Furthermore, I have some album art for a song I dont even have! When you see the album art move at the home screen (when music is playing) there is a Mr Scruff, Ninja Tuna.

WTF is that about?

So in short, I'm sure there used to be a way to view the track location within WMC but I cant for the life of me see where it is now!
 
Sort it using Windows Media Player - the two libraries are one and the same thing.

Mr Scruff etc is pre-loaded music - it'll be in Public somewhere.
 
Hi, thanks for the reply.

Nope, not sorted. Viewed in WMP the albums are all correct. Only one instance with the correct number of tracks.

I've now removed all folder arts (my MP3s use embedded art), desktop.inis and unrated any songs which had ratings (which were the ones showing as duplicates).

Still, the problem remains :(
 
Sounds odd, as they are supposed to be the same libraries! Only thing I can suggest is removing all target folders and deleting everything in WMP (not the files, just clearing the whole library).... open WMC and check that's blank... then start again and see if it happens twice!

Mine's perfect, but I do realise that doesn't really help other than to confirm that there isn't some major bug that's causing it to show incorrectly.
 
Deleted the music from WMP library only, removed the target folder in WMC and rebooted.

Went to WMC and re added the music folder and the same thing happened!

Reformatting now and have moved all the music off to USB drive

This is most bizarre
 
I've had exactly the same problem with vista re-install and earlier win7 builds. With me it's always the first track thats on it's own. It's possible to drag the first track to the rest of the album, or use the 'update info' feature.. but if you close and start wmp the problem comes back.

I found that from my ripped files, the problem appears for any file with the (properties-details) showing unknown album/artist info in the file itself, regardless of what info wmp has stored in the db. Only answer seems to be to re-rip the offending songs/albums. That is working for me.

As for finding file locations, RMB-Open File Location on one song from an offending album. To check all the locations WMP is searching, RMB-Properties on the music library to see a list of all the actual folders that have been added to this library. Uncheck the ones you don't want eg the one that points to the c:\users public folders with the sample music.
 
hmm, its not quite that. WMP shows all the files correctly under one album. No dups.

Managed to sort it though. For each of the albums where one song was listed as a seperate album, I viewd the details of the track by right clicking. All of the offending tracks had "Contributing Artist, Album Artist and Album" all showing the Artist. Every other track in the offending album just had "contributing artist and album" filled in. As soon as I removed the "album artist" section, WMC sorted itself out :)
 
I have a similar problem where by its added a different partition (vista one) to the Media center and I'm finding it impossible to remove atm. It doesn't show up in WMP either.

Its very buggy to say the least

sid
 
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