Is there a limit to the number of songs Media Player can handle

I have 3,000 "songs" in my Music library. That's 22.5 GB's. (Many "songs" are
classical and very long, therefore very big files) Is there a limit? I heard
of a friend who lost 3,500 songs - well I don't believe it either.

But I need some peace of mind.

OK-ish. What do you mean "You MUST also backup your tracks away to avoid WMP
overwriting track data or even deleting tracks."

Why would WMP delete tracks? Is my urban myth true the?

I do back up my music - on CD's, do you mean something else?

"However the performance declines very rapidly managing a large library."
And how does the performance decline?

Helpful answer, but you've also raised a load more questions!



"Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:

> Keke wrote:
> > I have 3,000 "songs" in my Music library. That's 22.5 GB's. (Many "songs" are
> > classical and very long, therefore very big files) Is there a limit? I heard
> > of a friend who lost 3,500 songs - well I don't believe it either.
>
> I have over 30000. WMP is simply pointing to tracks on your hard drive,
> so the relative length of each track is immaterial. However the
> performance declines very rapidly managing a large library.
>
> You MUST also backup your tracks away to avoid WMP overwriting track
> data or even deleting tracks.
>
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Hi Keke,

My library is 135.000+ songs. I also have a back-up. Creating a large
library takes a long time as you know. There is many more reasons beyond WMP,
such as HDD failure, why you could loose all your data and you should
therefore always have a backup available on an external drive. Just in case...

"Keke" wrote:

> OK-ish. What do you mean "You MUST also backup your tracks away to avoid WMP
> overwriting track data or even deleting tracks."
>
> Why would WMP delete tracks? Is my urban myth true the?
>
> I do back up my music - on CD's, do you mean something else?
>
> "However the performance declines very rapidly managing a large library."
> And how does the performance decline?
>
> Helpful answer, but you've also raised a load more questions!
>
>
>
> "Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Keke wrote:
> > > I have 3,000 "songs" in my Music library. That's 22.5 GB's. (Many "songs" are
> > > classical and very long, therefore very big files) Is there a limit? I heard
> > > of a friend who lost 3,500 songs - well I don't believe it either.
> >
> > I have over 30000. WMP is simply pointing to tracks on your hard drive,
> > so the relative length of each track is immaterial. However the
> > performance declines very rapidly managing a large library.
> >
> > You MUST also backup your tracks away to avoid WMP overwriting track
> > data or even deleting tracks.
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > Check the newsgroups archives for prior discussion or solution of your
> > problems e.g.
> > http://groups.google.com.au/groups?g...c.windowsmedia
> > Error message codes may be found searching there or via a general search
> > engine query.
> >
> > For posting guidelines see
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...=mp10/faq.aspx
> > .. Please supply ANSWERS to the questions there, don't just paste the
> > questions into a post.
> > --------------------------------------
> > http://msmvps.com/thinice/
> >