WMP11 - is there a way to reset the library?

[MichaelD]

I thought I was pretty savvy with WMP until now. Under the Monitor Folders tab, I manually set which folder I want WMP to monitor. All was well until a few days ago.

I have a folder called "Media" and inside that I have "Music" where I have my 320KB/s MP3 collection. A few days ago I ripped/copied my MP3 library to a much lower bitrate for my MP3 player. Those lower bitrate files are in a folder "Low BR MP3s" under the "Music" folder, which WMP is monitoring.

So then under WMP I had duplicates of all the songs; one song at 320KBs and a duplicate at the lower BR. I hid the Low BR MP3 folder and rescanned the library; WMP did not delete the files. I REMOVED the Low BR MP3 folder from the Music folder and rescanned; all songs still there.

I restarted the computer. Still there.

Is there a way to WIPE the library and start fresh?

 

[MichaelD]

TTT.

 

[cjbee]

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

Delete all of the '.wmdb' files. Voila.

 

[vshah]

or, you could list all your songs, sort by bitrate, select the low ones and hit delete, and remove them from the library that way. they shouldn't reappear now that the files are not in a watched folder

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks much, cjbee and vshah. I deleted the Current_Database_### files (there were three ) , rescanned for media and now all is well. :thumbsup: