WMP12 in Win7 just absolutely sucks, it needs to be fixed

I have a new Win7 64 bit Home Premium system. I keep all of my music and
video files on an external hard drive.

When I installed Winamp and Zune and properly gave them the files to
monitor, they just ate music and video up, Winamp in a couple of minutes,
Zune in its tortured half hour. Also, WMC with a little help loaded
everything in.

Everything but WMP12. It grabbed my music files right away and stopped
there. All of my video files are .mp4. When I checked WMP 12' s "defaults",
..mp4 is not even in the list.

I have tried every trick in the book to get WMP12 to load in my videos. Not
because I need it, but because I am a Microsoft fanboy and stockholder. I
want it to work. I even loaded vistacodecs.exe and ffdshow from Shark, which
have helped in the past. So, now .mp4 is in the list, but with "Program
unknown" instead of "Windows Media Player"

I searched many many forums and found only disgust with WMP12. No one even
tries to defend it.

What are we to do?

This works, and the change stuck through re-boots:

Something Else To Try
by jazacoop - 10/29/09 6:47 AM In reply to: Try This. by jazacoop
If the above steps don't work, your database it probably corrupted and in
need of rebuilding from scratch. You can do this by following these steps:

If you want to rebuild you library,

1. Shutdown windows media player.
2. Stop the media sharing service. Go to Start->Control Panel->All Control
Panel Items->Administrative Tools->Services. Right-click on the “Windows
Media Player Network Sharing Service� and select Stop.
3. Navigate to “c:\Users\�your username�\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media
Player. Now delete the files named CurrentDatabase_***.wmdb and
LocalMLS_*.wmdb.
4. Start the media sharing service.
5. Now start Windows Media Player and watch it build up your library again.

Your problem should hopefully go away then



"Richard Mitnick" wrote:

> I have a new Win7 64 bit Home Premium system. I keep all of my music and
> video files on an external hard drive.
>
> When I installed Winamp and Zune and properly gave them the files to
> monitor, they just ate music and video up, Winamp in a couple of minutes,
> Zune in its tortured half hour. Also, WMC with a little help loaded
> everything in.
>
> Everything but WMP12. It grabbed my music files right away and stopped
> there. All of my video files are .mp4. When I checked WMP 12' s "defaults",
> .mp4 is not even in the list.
>
> I have tried every trick in the book to get WMP12 to load in my videos. Not
> because I need it, but because I am a Microsoft fanboy and stockholder. I
> want it to work. I even loaded vistacodecs.exe and ffdshow from Shark, which
> have helped in the past. So, now .mp4 is in the list, but with "Program
> unknown" instead of "Windows Media Player"
>
> I searched many many forums and found only disgust with WMP12. No one even
> tries to defend it.
>
> What are we to do?