Comments on: Fix a Corrupt Windows Media Player Database

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:02:37 +0000

Well, the database is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is only one problem left it will still not let me sync to my windows phone or to my mp3 player, is there a fix for that? You click on the “sync” tab, plug in the mp3 and wmp says “connect a device” and that is all it ever says.

By: Winxchot

Winxchot — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:42:43 +0000

the problem i have with my w media player is that, few of the video files stopped playing in wmp. i got a error s windows media player encountered a problem. while playing, and in the the troubleshoot it detected as library corrupted, i followed all these steps correctly, but still i am getting same error, all these video files were working before in wmp, but now almost all the video players are denying to play it, im hopeless, thinking of reinstalling the OS. or if anyone has a solution please mail it to me, Thanks

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:14:10 +0000

Thank you for these instructions – it worked beautifully – Cheers!!

By: Vishu

Vishu — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:36:00 +0000

thanks a lot!..I was facing the corrupt library problem from quite some time now, this resolved the issue flawlessly!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:22:14 +0000

This fix did not work for me… but helped to fix my problem. I had deleted some albums and they were still in the library as “ghosts” (only way I can describe it). I could do nothing with them but as I followed the instructions for this fix I found that they were stored in the same location that this fix takes you to. I viewed them as icons and they came up as music so I deleted them and my not so friendly ghosts disappeared! Thank you very much.

By: BookwormDragon

BookwormDragon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:13:30 +0000

I tried this as described above, but it didn’t work at first. Finally, I deleted everything in the \Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player folder, and that finally did the trick. Got rid of “ghost” tracks, stuck playlists, and everything. It found all my proper media and playlists right away. Thanks!

By: JimZeller

JimZeller — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:43:37 +0000

I have the TV setup cannot continue error
windows tells me to restart windows media center and retire tv set up……….
nothing works so far just wondering if I was the only one that just wanted to throw windows 7 out the window????????
for me vista was much better I just never had any problems the media center and that is the only thing this computer does.
I have a hp quad

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:22:46 +0000

p.s. I found another post on another website. It said to delete all of the files, but not the folders within the Media Player folder. I did this and the old library with all of the dups was deleted and a new one was rebuilt.

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:20:49 +0000

Help. I followed your directions and everything seemed to work fine except the library name appeared to be a file currentdatabase-372. The library repopulated but it didn’t appear to delete the old content. Now I have two copies of most everything. What’s the problem? Help!

By: Shahid

Shahid — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:32:33 +0000

After performing the last step, when the windows media player is restarted, please wait for a while till the songs get re populate. You might also see an error message that this program is not responding as the status. But eventually the files will be added back in the library. This worked for me!!! THNKS!!!