[SlimDevices: Beginners] Scan has only found a small amount of my songs

[Phil Leigh]

funkstar;274230 Wrote: 
> What format are the tracks in?
> 
> Is there any DRM on any of the tracks? If so, these won't show up.
> 
> Were thy ripped with Windows Media Player? There were several version
> of WMP that had DRM enabled by default even when ripping your own
> media. I think this has changes in WMP 11.
> 
> Playlist scanning can slow down the scan process, especially if you
> have a playlist for each album (some rippers inlude one be default), or
> they reference tracks that no longer exist. Especially true whenn a
> playlst has been created for each album then the files are moved to a
> new location, meaning the playlist is out of date.
> 
> EDIT: in my opinion scanning all of c:\ is a bad idea, the scanner has
> to look through all the tens of thousands (and perhaps hundreds of
> thousands) of files in your Windows, Program Files, and Application
> Data folders. This includes your Internet Explorer cache, That itse;f
> can run into hundreds of thousands of files. That really is going to
> take hours.


The point is that at least it would eventually find everything!
Once you've established what it can and can't find, then the paths can
be optimised.


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Phil Leigh

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