Doubling of song titles

Hello everyone,

I ripped my 500 CDs into a network HD and use Window Media to play the
songs. Unfortunately, Media has managed to "double" all of my song titles.
Not the files themselves but just the titles. When you open an album, all
songs all there twice. Two of song number 1, two of 2 and so on.

How did it double? How do I get rid of that?


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Thanks for the help

What version of WMP and Windows?

This could happen if the same folder is monitored twice by WMP, for
example, if both C:\Media and C:\Media\Music are in WMP's list of
monitored folders.

Another possibility is that WMP's media library got corrupted. To reset
it, follow the instructions for your WMP version at
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#library
Note that resetting the library will make you lose all current play
counts, and possibly ratings too.

Regards

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Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

On 18/05/2010 13:56, Jay wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I ripped my 500 CDs into a network HD and use Window Media to play the
> songs. Unfortunately, Media has managed to "double" all of my song titles.
> Not the files themselves but just the titles. When you open an album, all
> songs all there twice. Two of song number 1, two of 2 and so on.
>
> How did it double? How do I get rid of that?
>
>

On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:51:32 +0200, Tim De Baets <>
wrote:

>This could happen if the same folder is monitored twice by WMP, for
>example, if both C:\Media and C:\Media\Music are in WMP's list of
>monitored folders.

I wondered about this, but would it add tracks twice when they were,
in fact, the identical files?

I was wondering about Junction points in the filesystem (where a
folder can appear at two distinct locations). This would at least give
the impression that they were distinct files, because the paths would
be different.

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

On 26/05/2010 16:51, Tim De Baets wrote:
> Another possibility is that WMP's media library got corrupted. To reset
> it, follow the instructions for your WMP version at
> http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#library

My apologies, that link should have been
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary instead.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

On 26/05/2010 18:54, Swifty wrote:
> I wondered about this, but would it add tracks twice when they were,
> in fact, the identical files?

I haven't tried or experienced this myself, but I guess that it's a
possibility.

> I was wondering about Junction points in the filesystem (where a
> folder can appear at two distinct locations). This would at least give
> the impression that they were distinct files, because the paths would
> be different.

Then it's the responsibility of the creator of the junction point to
know that this could happen and to fix this I don't think that there
are a lot of everyday computer users who have created junction points.

Regards

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Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk