Odd "Unknown" album in Windows Media Player library

[Matt_]

This just appeared a few days ago without any reason that I am aware of. I tried deleting it from the library but it does not work. Any help would be appreciated, even if the problem could be considered benign. The song file is named "0" and everything else is marked as "Unknown" (ie: "Unknown artist, album, etc)

 

[rridgely]

You have great taste in music.

I'm not sure what that file could be. Have you tried looking in my music or wherever its at and tried deleting it from there?

[Matt_]

That's what I tried beforehand, but Windows Media Player claims it is 0 bytes. I'm not sure if it's actually even exists.

 

As for my taste, I know.

[rridgely]

Try deleting it from the library only.(choose it from the prompt after Right Click>Delete) That might get rid of it.

[Matt_]

That I tried too to no availability.

 

I tried Googling for it, seems like the undeletable unknown artist of doom syndrome has only happened to me.

[hazelnut]

Have you tried (and failed) to burn any music to cd?

[Matt_]

I didn't burn a CD in a while.

 

I did rip a few recently though.

[hazelnut]

There is a mention here about ripping and 0 bytes

 

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofive...php/t53285.html

 

Andavari frequents that forum so if he sees this post he may be able to help.

[Andavari]

This is actually the first I've heard of having a 0 bytes album. I don't use WMP11, however I know how to completely kill the WMP10 library.

 

Warning this will cause you to have to completely rebuild the library in WMP, it however will NOT touch any of your music files (this is of course a CCleaner winapp2.ini add-on):

 

[Windows Media Player (Flush Library)]; This doesn't delete your music or videos, it only; removes the list in the WMP Library so that it can; quickly, and instantly be cleaned for later; rebuilding.;; Warning: Only enable this cleaner when it's needed,; then immediately disable it to avoid having to; constantly rebuild the WMP Library which can take many; minutes or longer with large music and video collections.LangSecRef=3023Detect=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerDefault=FalseFileKey1=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player|*.wmdb

 

 

Edit: The above cleaner works with WMP10, I have no idea if it works in WMP11 though.

[Matt_]

Wow Andavari, this worked perfectly.

 

Thank you very much !

[Andavari]

Wow Andavari, this worked perfectly.

 

Thank you very much !

You're welcome! Just remember to disable that cleaner though, unless you wish to rebuild the library after each running of CCleaner!!!

[Raggs]

I have the exact same problem. Is no possible way of getting rid of it without having to rebuild my library, its taken me ages to get it organised?

 

your help would be much appreciated.

 

screenshot = http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/dav.../Untitled-1.jpg

[Andavari]

Is no possible way of getting rid of it without having to rebuild my library, its taken me ages to get it organised?

There isn't another way that I know of, I also don't know if those .wmdb files are even editable - I suspect they aren't. "If deleting the library is the only current solution," I'd recommend allowing it to build overnight whilst you sleep.

[Humpty]

I have the exact same problem. Is no possible way of getting rid of it without having to rebuild my library, its taken me ages to get it organised?

 

your help would be much appreciated.

May be some help at the link below.

WMP library fix?

[Andavari]

May be some help at the link below.

WMP library fix?

That does exactly the same thing as the winapp2.ini entry I made, it merely gives manual instructions to delete those .wmdb files - much easier and ten times faster via CCleaner in my opinion.

[jsd1710]

There is a mention here about ripping and 0 bytes

 

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofive...php/t53285.html

 

Andavari frequents that forum so if he sees this post he may be able to help.

 

How do you apply that code to flush your library?