First off, everyone back up your library right now. My last backup is a few months old at least.
Now to my problem.
I started up Media Center today and there were no songs in my library. There were Play Lists -- both static and SmartLists defined, but since the library was empty, all the playlists were empty too. I re-imported the songs and the SmartLists of course populated, but none of the Static ones did. I had a process of creating a static album smart list for every album and the grouping them, so I had hundreds of static playlists. Again, the playlist entries are still there and I have re-imported the songs, but the songs are no longer listed on the playlists.
Does anyone have a crafty idea on how to get them re-linked? I would love to know how or why this happened, but I don't think I will ever know.
Sadly,
Rob.
EDIT: after some hunting around, i found that the static playlists are stored in the JRiver program directory.... I think I am saved! I am going to import those playlists back in, I think that will work, not much to lose at this point.
EDIT2 -- it also looks like all my BPM, audio analysis data has been dropped from the library. Not sure how MC saves the library, its as if the library was truncated mid save. Yesterday i did a big Image update from the internet and I think it bombed out in the middle of that process or something. I thought it had finished successfully but it had not apparently.
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