![]() ![]() This is the blood, sweat and tears for anyone who’s into music ‘liner notes’ data, so it’s loss will be sorely felt. What you don’t have is all the metadata that you may have added, altered etc. You now have a list of everything that was in your WMP library database. Media Info Exporter exports all the main data (titles, albums, artists, file format, bit rate, etc.) to a text file and opens the text file in Excel.Click Properties on the Media Info Exporter window and choose the application to use to open the list (Excel is selected by default) and give the text file a name and location.Once installed, WMP re-opens with the Media Info Exporter window hovering nearby.Go to the Microsoft site and download and install the Winter Player Pack 2003 ( ).You can add that drive back in later after you’ve copied across whatever you’ve got still remaining from your backup. Tools > Options > Library > Monitor Folders > Advanced - select the drive that no longer exists and click Remove.Tools > Options > Devices: turn off the When deleting playlists option.Now turn off these options in WMP too (I’m not sure if they made any difference, but with them all turned off, none of the listings in the WMP library database disappeared):.Do this as quick as you can, because if it is turned on, it will start deleting unfound files straight away. Open WMP and IMMEDIATELY go to Tools > Options > Library and TURN OFF the Delete files from my computer check box and click Apply.somewhere else on the computer, a thumb drive, an external hard drive, etc.). ![]() Paste the copy of the database (the *.wmdb file) to another location for safekeeping (e.g.Make a copy of the *.wmdb file (in Windows XP, this database is located here: C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player - this may be a hidden folder for you, so make sure you turn off the setting to hide system and hidden folders).If you have the ‘delete files’ option turned on, as soon as you open WMP and it can’t find the files, it will start deleting them before your eyes! DO NOT open Windows Media Player (WMP) until you are told to in these steps. ![]() Here’s how to get a copy of the database and a text listing of everything in the database (but WITHOUT the metadata, unfortunately). Not so easy at first glance, though I was able to find a way after some Googling. While he had a backup from some months ago, he asked me if he could get a listing from his Windows Media Player (v11) of the albums he had added since the last backup. He lost a LOT of documents about musicians, songwriters, discographies, etc. His C: drive was fine, which meant we didn’t have to have a complete OS reinstall plus the agony of reinstalling all his apps. The old D: drive was irrecoverable (scratched on the inner circle of the platter and even the ‘almost 100% guarantee’ data recovery people couldn’t get the data off it). He got his computer back late last week, with a new hard drive. My husband’s data drive (D:) crashed a couple of weeks back. ![]()
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