Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are trying to play

I had music on an external hard drive and uploaded it to the library in WMP
11. The hard drive crashed and I had to get a new hard drive and transfer
the music to that. Now how do I get the new library of music from my
external hard drive to WMP11 because when I go into WMP11, and try and play
any music I get this."Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are
trying to play, burn, or sync an item that is in your library, the item might
point to a file that has been moved, renamed, or deleted." I am assuming
it's because it's pointing to the old hard drive (although they have always
been in the same location-drive "J"). I can play music from my external hard
drive in Napster, on the internet, and through other sources, but cannot play
any through WMP11. How do I get the info. from my ext. hard drive to WMP11?

[Tim De Baets]

Originally Posted by WMP11 Library trouble

I had music on an external hard drive and uploaded it to the library in WMP
11. The hard drive crashed and I had to get a new hard drive and transfer
the music to that. Now how do I get the new library of music from my
external hard drive to WMP11 because when I go into WMP11, and try and play
any music I get this."Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are
trying to play, burn, or sync an item that is in your library, the item might
point to a file that has been moved, renamed, or deleted." I am assuming
it's because it's pointing to the old hard drive (although they have always
been in the same location-drive "J"). I can play music from my external hard
drive in Napster, on the internet, and through other sources, but cannot play
any through WMP11. How do I get the info. from my ext. hard drive to WMP11?

You can check the paths of the music files by enabling the File Path-column in WMP's Media Library: go to Songs, right-click on a column, click Choose Columns, put a check mark next to File Path, and click OK.

The files on the new hard drive are probably in a different folder than they were on the old. You can probably move them so the file locations match with the old ones, and WMP will find them again.

Regards

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:07:01 -0700, WMP11 Library trouble <WMP11
Library trouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I had music on an external hard drive and uploaded it to the library in WMP
>11. The hard drive crashed and I had to get a new hard drive and transfer
>the music to that. Now how do I get the new library of music from my
>external hard drive to WMP11 because when I go into WMP11, and try and play
>any music I get this."Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are
>trying to play, burn, or sync an item that is in your library, the item might
>point to a file that has been moved, renamed, or deleted." I am assuming
>it's because it's pointing to the old hard drive (although they have always
>been in the same location-drive "J"). I can play music from my external hard
>drive in Napster, on the internet, and through other sources, but cannot play
>any through WMP11. How do I get the info. from my ext. hard drive to WMP11?


You should be able to press F3 to bring up the Monitor Folders
dialogue, then click Advanced. Add the new drive (letter and/or
folder) and WMP should update all the tracks it previously knew about
with their new location.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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