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[RobOK]

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.











Media Center Registered 10.0.150 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2992 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 597 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1514 (xpsp2.040109-1800) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1556 (xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive D:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive E:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  Drive E: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8483B    Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Dragyn]

I would think if you copied the playlist file after you imported your music files, it should load up.

[RobOK]

Media Center gave me a warning to not Import from a directory it Normally excludes, so I didn't hit import yet.

Does anyone have some advice considering my edit above....  the playlists are there in the Data directory, but not sure the best way to get them into MC.  Should i go ahead and import and ignore the warning?  I think it will end up making duplicate playlists which I don't want.

[RobOK]

I would think if you copied the playlist file after you imported your music files, it should load up.

What do you mean copy it?  WItihn MC or out in the file system?

[Dragyn]

Did you have a backup made?

If you import your files, *maybe* the playlists will fill up. I had this happen before.

If not, copy the playlists.mjd file (I think that's it, I don't have MC installed right now) into your library directory after you imported.

If you don't have a backup, backup that playlists file you have now, run a import, then *if* the playlist didn't fill up, close MC and copy the file you just backed up into it.

[RobOK]

I did figure out that the Playlists saved in the JRiver data directory of as a result of me doing an Export - All Playlists command a few months ago.  At least I will have some of my playlists backed up.

[JimH]

Try a search in Windows for *.jmd files.  They are the library files.  You may have another set somewhere.  One of them is a playlists file and sometimes you can just substitute this file into your current data set.  It depends on whether the drive and path is still the same.

[RobOK]

Try a search in Windows for *.jmd files.  They are the library files.  You may have another set somewhere.  One of them is a playlists file and sometimes you can just substitute this file into your current data set.  It depends on whether the drive and path is still the same.

Good call Jim!  I had been searching for the playlists themselves.   A within-couple-days backup was found in the Media Server files.  I guess when you run Media Server it makes a copy of the Library?  Luckily I run Media Server frequently!

[IanG]

First off, everyone back up your library right now.  My last backup is a few months old at least.

Cobian Backup - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cbu5.htm is a freeware app that sits in the systray and will backup your libraries at predefined intervals.

Ian G.