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Songbird Destroyed My Library
I just installed Songbird and it completely screwed up my library, neither Songbird nor WMP can no longer play any of my music. How can I resolve this?
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Inappropriate?Hi dimo414,
So that I can assist you, please let me know:
1) what operating system you are using; and
2) a bit more information as to what you mean by "screwed up your library".
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Why don't Songbird make a database like any normal program would do, and then arrange, rearrange, cut, experiment with it acording to them, Why move and rearrange my files. Nobody is doing that. And so without warning, notice or anything. I now have 31.643 albums in my library where there were less than 1.600, some containing 3-4 times same song with differet tags or something, but most of them are named "unknown album" having just one song in it. Obviously that in my Songbird's options "Structure Folder" was set to "genre" but I neve had the chanse to set things wright, because, I just instaled the damn thing, glanced how it look and so on, and went on to do some work I had to do. Later I wanted to play some music, I started my regular player (think it was foobar2000 cause I got a few that I use regulary just for simple listening music) Dud! I tried another one, same thing. Whe I looked closely I couldn't find anything that I recognize, but a zillion of new folders unfamiliar to me. Hm, either I have pixies in my mashine or someone's made a very bad joke. After a while things started tobe more clear. Anyway, this is my sad story, I'm sure that you've heard thousands simillar. It seems to me that Songbird is a program made for people who just want to have something to listen, just like transistor radio, while they doing some domestic stuff (Ironing, coocking, vacuming etc.) There are some of us, spending years to make their media collections and now, what. Even System Restore in Windows can' do much help. All I can say: not a nice thing to do to your fellow human beings. Shame on you! -
bokizegi011, did you enable manage mode by chance? If so, you may find some useful information here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
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Inappropriate?Laura,
Sorry for the poor problem description, here's a bit more detail:
I'm running Vista Home (on a 64 bit processor, if that matters). I installed Songbird, had it load the wrong location for music, and since I couldn't find how to set that in the program itself, I removed the Songbird data directory (as per the wiki: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/index.ph...) and relaunched songbird. After selecting the correct directory, I played around with it for a bit (adjusting metadata,etc) before clicking play on a song. I did not get any kind of error message, but the song did not play. I tried other songs, same problem. When I loaded up WMP every song I tried to play threw an error (don't remember exact wording, I'm afraid, but it was something about a bad file/bad metadata I believe) and a red (X) next to the song.
I managed to resolve this problem by doing a system restore to a few days ago, music plays in WMP again. I've uninstalled Songbird.
Someone told me Songbird uses WMP's library files, and a bad exit or something corrupted the library. This seems like a terrible plan, I don't want two applications built by two completely different groups using the same backend. If that's not the case, great, but Songbird should be more failsafe so even if something goes wrong on its end, it doesn't totally screw up other programs.
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