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My WMP12 has two issues – perhaps related. Unfortunately, your suggestion has not helped. But let’s hope that we can forget all about Media Player issues and other annoying problems once Service Pack 1 For Windows 7 is bought out to the public. This trick will certainly help you whenever you’re having library problems with WMP 12. For my little 429-track library, it took less than 2 minutes, which is quick keeping in mind that all my tracks ( yes, all of them) are tagged with album art and all other information. Depending on the number of songs you have, and how fast your computer is this process can take from 30 seconds to 15 minutes. Now all you have to do is open up WMP 12 and watch your library rebuild itself. Again, a small dialog box will temporarily appear while the process enables itself. From the Services window, find the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service again, but this time when Right-Clicking select Start. You can now close the Explorer window and get back to the Services window. Step 3 – Re-enable The Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service

There are only a few files, though, you should find them easily.) ( Warning – there are several LocalMLS_*.wmdb files, make sure to delete them all!) (Note – The “*” stands for a random number, the numbers differ on each machine, so we can’t really tell exactly what the file is called. %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player.įrom here delete all of the files named CurrentDatabase_ ***.wmdb and LocalMLS_*.wmdb.

Keep the Services window open we’ll need it again, later on, to re-enable this service after we first eliminate a few files.

Step 2 – Delete The Library Database File A small dialog box may temporarily appear while the process is stopping. To disable it, right-click it and select Stop. Then press Enter to open the Services window.įrom the Services window find the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. To start, click the Windows Start Menu Orb and type services.msc in the search box. How To Rebuild The Windows Media Player 12 Library Step 1 – Disable The Windows Media Player Network Sharing Serviceįirst of all, make sure that Windows Media Player is closed. But, with these simple steps, you can rebuild your music library in just a few clicks. Sadly enough, you may have already encountered problems refreshing your library and keeping things tidy. If you have an Xbox 360 or a Windows Mobile phone, then your best bet on syncing all your music and media would be Windows Media Player 12.