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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 11:19:20 am

Title: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 11:19:20 am

I bought the license for MC15 (because it seems to retain tag information better when autoconverting for MIDs than MC14, making ReplayGain behavior better than MC14's), but immediately hit a snag.  I'm trying to import my MC14 library, which seems to work fine, but when I quit and restart, MC15 is back to a blank library.  Here's what I'm doing:

• Launch MC15
• File/Library/Restore LIbrary...
• I locate my latest MC14 library in C:\Documents and Settings\fred\Application Data\J River\Media Center 14\Library Backups\ and press OK
• It says it loaded fine, and my whole MC14 library is now loaded in MC15 and seems to be working fine
• Quit MC15 and restart MC15 and...
• ...library is empty again.  If I wait 30 seconds it starts trying to scan my system as if this is the first time I ran the program

Any ideas what it is/I'm am doing wrong?

Title: Re: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: JimH on October 17, 2010, 11:51:01 am

Are you using Library Server?

Title: Re: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 11:57:56 am

Quote from: JimH on October 17, 2010, 11:51:01 am

Are you using Library Server?

Nope.

Title: Re: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 12:04:09 pm

OK, while trying to troubleshoot a different (though I'm sure related) problem with tagging, I ran "Update Library (from tags)".  MC15 seemed to crash after it was done - it was nonresponsive for several minutes - so I killed it.  When I restarted it, the library was there and I could see all the tags on the few songs I looked at.

So I guess I found a work-around, though I'm still curious why the original import failed, and a little nervous that I had to force the app to close after the library update, and that that might have corrupted data somewhere.

-Fred

Title: Re: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 12:14:57 pm

Quote from: JimH on October 17, 2010, 11:51:01 am

Are you using Library Server?

But this was version 15.130, which has the "Read-only library error from build 130" that's corrected (or compensated for) in 132.  So I deleted all my "Application Data\J River\Media Center 15\" directory, downloaded and installed 15.132, and had the same problem - it forgets my restored library when I quit and restart.

I would like to not that the very first time I installed 15.130 (which was my first MC15 installation ever), I did get the "Read-only library error from build 130".  I quit and re-started and didn't get the error after that, though it sure seems like it could be related to this problem...

Title: Re: MC15 doesn't remember MC14 library import
Post by: yonkiman on October 17, 2010, 05:35:12 pm

Completely uninstalling (including libraries, config files, etc.) and reinstalling worked.  Library imported normally.  Thanks for the support.