Please FIX WMP11 Library Search/Manage performance

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This is really a WPM11 item, but in Vista there is no option to roll-back to
the WMP10 version.

Please reinstate the "Add to Library by searching computer" function
available in previous versions.

The "monitor Folders" function does not provide a manageable alternative for
large libraries. It forces unnecessary searches through the library each time
WMP is opened. It also forces an automatic multi-hour search merely by
looking at the list of monitored folders and pressing "OK".

I have more than 50,000 tracks and I know when I'm adding an album or
deleting one and don't need to waste cpu cycles for no useful function.

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co....public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
 
CVP,

Did you check under Options, Library, Monitor Folders? This is, or at least
to me, sounds like much the same thing. Just to check I copied some older
MP3's off of a CD, and dropped them in the monitored folders, and they were
automatically added to my Library.


Bill F.
 
Sure, Bill, I've tried. That bit is just like the monitor feature of WMP10.

It differs from "Add to library" in that it requires an active entry in the
monitored folders for the library (in my case: 60K files 1TB +). That's what
gives rise to all the extra searching/cpu activity. That isn't free for 60K
files - all for no purpose than to verify that I haven't
changed/added/deleted any tracks (Events that I perform carefully and
knowingly).

With an "Add to library" I wouldn't need to have the active monitoring set
for the library.

It's all there in WMP10 and doesn't detract from the use ofmonitoring for
those who want to use it.
 
CVP,

Did you read the help in WMP 11?

a.. Monitoring folders. When you start the Player for the first time, it
automatically searches certain default folders on your computer for music,
video, and picture files, and then adds those files to your library. If you
ever add or remove files from these folders, the Player automatically
updates the library accordingly. You can change which folders the Player
monitors if you store some of your digital media files in a location that is
not already monitored automatically.

a.. Add media files that you play. When you play a file on your computer or
on the Internet, the Player automatically adds the file to your library if
it isn't already in your library. The Player does not automatically add a
file that you play from removable storage media, a removable storage device,
or on a shared network folder. For example, if you play a file that is
stored on a CompactFlash card, a data CD, or in a shared folder on another
computer on your network, the Player will not automatically add the file to
your library
 
Bill Frisbee said:
CVP,

Did you read the help in WMP 11?
Click to expand...

You bet! And scoured the web too. I even installed WMP11 on XP to ensure
that it too exhibited the same performance problems.
a.. Monitoring folders. When you start the Player for the first time, it
automatically searches certain default folders on your computer for music,
video, and picture files, and then adds those files to your library. If you
ever add or remove files from these folders, the Player automatically
updates the library accordingly.
Click to expand...

Sure. I've set all those to Ignore. The last thing I want is random "sample"
music or any other library versions in any library. Im really asking to be
able to turn off monitoring of the folder the library is in, but still be
able to add tracks to the library and the library folder - just like WMP10.
You can change which folders the Player
monitors if you store some of your digital media files in a location that is
not already monitored automatically.
Click to expand...

Right! That's the only way to get WMP11 to look at my library at all. That's
where the problem above starts. No matter which folder or folders you put 60K
tracks in, monitoring that folder with all it brings in time delays and
performance hits is the only way to add tracks to the library. Unlike WMP10
which allows monitoring on all folders (except the RIP folder) to be turned
off.

a.. Add media files that you play. When you play a file...
Click to expand...

One of the first things I turn off. Wish I could also turn off the RIP
folder too, but at least I know how to deal with any unwanted tracks gained
there (prior to editing multi-CD albums etc.)

If monitor scanning of the library was an instantaneous function, none of
this wouldn't be a big deal.

If manual management (without the performance hit) hadn't been supported in
every version of WMP I can remember prior to WMP11, I wouldn't know I'd lost
the function!

Interestingly the delete from library function is still available. It's only
the add function that's been removed.
 
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