Post by VincentThe maximum library (CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb) file size for WMP11 is 1GB.
A users hit this limitation having a collection of 250.000 songs.
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Post by JethroUK©For anyone struggling to add album to the library i found cure
Click "Folder" Icon in left hand pane > from there you can
navigate directly
to the album/folder and force it to 'find album info'
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Post by JethroUK©I've just added 3 albums to huge library of CD's and WMP 11 wont add them
Tried adding folder seperately but no joy
Is there maximum library size for WMP 11
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Hi,
I have a large library of about 220.000 songs. All mp3's. When the count was at
about 135.000 songs with a library size of about 800-900GB of music I started
to
get problems loading the library. I started to reorganise my collection such
that all was alphabetically such that all artists with a name starting with the
letter 'A' were stored in a folder simply called 'A'. So I have a root folder
called 'Music'. Inside of this folder I have a bunch of folders with all the
letters from the alphabet and all numbers. Inside of these folders I have all
the artists. And inisde the artists fodlers I have all there albums. In case of
double CD's I would place additional albums named "Disc 01', 'Disc 02'
etc.. inside the folder with teh album name. Now this may sound a little
complicated but it definitely has a lot of advantages.
Anyway, let me get back to the WMP12 bug of large libraries. I will not load
teh
folder 'Music' into WMP12, but I will only load the folders with the letters
and
numbers into the library. And now with 220.000 I still have never really had a
problem again. However, load one folder and when you see that WMP12 is finished
loading all the songs and albums into WMP12, only then you add the next folder
to the library.
So surely MS has a problem with WMP12, but I am not so sure if it is related to
the maximum database size. I read that the maximum database size is about 1GB
equal to roughly 250.000 songs. Depending on compression ratio these numbers
could easily match, but will be different fo rdifferent users. I myself have a
database size of 1.3-1.4GB with only 220.000 songs. I clearly exceeded the size
of 1GB.
What I do really not understand os that MS doesn't fix this bug. Has been there
for years now. But if we're talking about bugs I can make a very large list for
them including all there workarounds, if any. When organising 220.000 songs you
are kinda getting the hang of it I'm afraid...
I hope this will help somebody.
All the best,
Joey