How do I clear the Windows Media Player database?? HELP!

[Black88GTA]

This has been driving me absolutely nuts. A while back, I let my roommate use my computer, and he scanned THE ENTIRE THING into the Windows Media Player library . Now probably 2/3 of the stuff in there is video game sounds which is super annoying. If I put it on shuffle, I'll get one song...then "Clunk" "Whap" "Red Team to base, compound secure" RRRRAAAAARRGGGGHHH" "Splash" "Applause" "Boom" then another song. It's awful. I've since moved a bunch of stuff around, in an effort to clean up my music folders, and now there's hundreds of invalid entries in the DB as a result. I just want to wipe the whole thing out and rescan it. I tried reinstalling WMP, but it kept my damn database. I'm running WMP version 9 under Windows XP.

I've tried going into the documents and settings folder and deleting the DB in there, but it didn't do anything. It still shows up. Does anyone know how I can wipe out the WMP database for good so I can do a fresh scan of my music folder? I can't find any information anywhere on this!

Thanks....

 

[loup garou]

C:\Documents and Settings\~user you are logged in as~\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

Deleting the files called CurrentDatabase_59R and wmpfolders will reset the Library and the files will be recreated by WMP when you restart it!

 

[Black88GTA]

Thanks! That did it! Now if only they'd just TELL you that. I ran a search, and all I came up with was questions from people looking to clear the recently played cache so they could hide their pron viewing from their parents.

 

[loup garou]

I know...they really need to work on making it easier to delete the library and start from scratch. Other than that, I freakin love WMP9.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: werk
C:\Documents and Settings\~user you are logged in as~\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

Deleting the files called CurrentDatabase_59R and wmpfolders will reset the Library and the files will be recreated by WMP when you restart it!

Cuts&pastes to "tweaks list" Thanks, I didn't know that one either :beer: