WMP11 Library missing 4000 songs and all playlists

Everything worked ok until this morning. I have about 4500 songs, most of
which were ripped from CDs using WMP10-11. Format is .wma lossless. Songs
are on an external drive from my laptop which is connected and working. Now
my library only shows 4 albums.

I tried "add to library" which scans through my 4500 songs but does not add
any--these were already added before and I guess WMP recognizes them as
already added (?). I also have about 6 playlists, also located on external
drive, but none are visible.

Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions to restore view and access to
my songs/playlists?

I'm having a similar problem, so any help would be awesome

AlCapwn wrote:
> I'm having a similar problem, so any help would be awesome

Me three...just noticed it today. I also have Winamp Pro installed, but I
never had a conflict before today. I've tried everything I can think of.

After trying multiple things, I deleted the old database which forced WMP to
create a new one -- now contains all songs and playlists again. Here's what
I used for reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925718

Hope it helps.


"eorstail" wrote:

> Everything worked ok until this morning. I have about 4500 songs, most of
> which were ripped from CDs using WMP10-11. Format is .wma lossless. Songs
> are on an external drive from my laptop which is connected and working. Now
> my library only shows 4 albums.
>
> I tried "add to library" which scans through my 4500 songs but does not add
> any--these were already added before and I guess WMP recognizes them as
> already added (?). I also have about 6 playlists, also located on external
> drive, but none are visible.
>
> Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions to restore view and access to
> my songs/playlists?

eorstail wrote:
> After trying multiple things, I deleted the old database which forced
> WMP to create a new one -- now contains all songs and playlists
> again. Here's what I used for reference:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925718
>
> Hope it helps.
>

Thank you. Seems to have fixed my problem too.