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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: lockeness on June 04, 2006, 05:45:58 pm
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I have been using MC for some time now. In the past 3 months I have been experiencing library corruption. I think it has to do with syncing my ipod and nano but am unsure. Here is what is happening:
- files are disappearing
- tags are getting screwed up and shifted - for example, all of the tags for an album get shifted by one - so the tag for song #2 - with all of #2's info, is now attached to #1's file. Also, this is happening across artists, where 2 or 3 songs for one artist refer to the file of another, and vise versa.
- goofy things are happeing with cover art - basically it is dissapearing
Is this just me? This product has been so stable for me for so long, I am at a loss. The biggest problem is that it is so darn time consuming to fix all of these errors over a 20,000 song library. At least MC's awesome views and filters makes it so easy to find the issues.
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Have you made any backups of your library? Have you tried restoring?
Can you copy your system info from MC Help and paste it here?
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I have never made a backup of the library. Probably dumb but it is what it is.
Here's a few more things that are happening:
- songs are "disappearing" out of media center. So in one album, track #7 is just gone. Go to the windows folder, its there. Do a media import on the folder - it does not re-import that file.
- folder art (saved as folder.jpg) is being replaced by 1k x 1k white squares.
- again info is just getting all jumbled - here's an example
Name Track # Filename Artist Album
A Kiss Before I Go 1 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\02 - The End.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights
A Kiss Before I Go 1 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\01 - A Kiss Before I Go.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:05 128 mp3 2005
The End 2 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\03 - Hard Way To Fall.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 3:44 128 mp3 2005
Hard Way To Fall 3 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\03 - Hard Way To Fall.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 4:06 128 mp3 2005
Dear John 4 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\04 - Dear John.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 4:36 128 mp3 2005
The Hardest Part 5 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\05 - The Hardest Part.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:52 128 mp3 2005
Games 6 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\06 - Games.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:12 128 mp3 2005
Silver Bullets 7 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\07 - Silver Bullets.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:56 128 mp3 2005
Peaceful Valley 8 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\08 - Peaceful Valley.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 3:42 128 mp3 2005
September 9 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\09 - September.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:30 128 mp3 2005
My Heart Is Broken 10 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\10 - My Heart Is Broken.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:14 128 mp3 2005
Trains 11 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\11 - Trains.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 4:08 128 mp3 2005
Pa 12 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\12 - Pa.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 3:52 128 mp3 2005
Withering Heights 13 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\13 - Withering Heights.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 2:53 128 mp3 2005
Don't Fail Me Now 14 D:\My Music\Adams, Ryan\Jacksonville City Nights\14 - Don't Fail Me Now.mp3 Adams, Ryan Jacksonville City Nights ? Rock 4:27 128 mp3 2005
It pasted kind of jumbled, but the first 3 tracks are all messed up - these were accurate a few days ago.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
System info:
Media Center Registered 11.1.161 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2979 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 376 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.60 (1021) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1999 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)
Ripping / No CD drives found.
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / No burners found.
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
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Try restoring an older library. MC makes automatic backups. But you may have to start over by clearing your library and reimporting if that doesn't work.
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ok - but why is this happening. It happened once and I fixed it and now its happened again.
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Have you experienced OS (or MC) crashes?
I think MC 11.1 had a problem that could lead to library corruption on abnormal termination. This problem should be fixed in the recent builds. I have not seen it happening anymore.
Also, give MC a few seconds after closing the program before switching off anything else. I have noticed that MC always closes background tasks for about 10-15 seconds after the main GUI has disappeared from sight.
System info:
Media Center Registered 11.1.161
Please, install the latest build from this forum (11.1.186 at the moment).