Vista Media Player 11 Duplicate files

External Since: Mar 17, 2007 Posts: 3

I am running Vista Home Premium. When I set up my Media Player Library it
created duplicate and a few triplicates of each song. When playing an album
it plays all the sounds including the duplicates. Has anyone seen this and
have any ideas on a solution. I know I could delete them but that would take
a very long with so many songs.

Thank,

Joel

External Since: Feb 23, 2007 Posts: 120

It is likely that you have multiple copies of your files on your hard drive
or that those files are accessible through multiple reparse points in your
file system.

The best solution is to open WMP in the Songs view. Right-click on any
column header and select Choose Columns. Add the File Path column to the
view. Click on the File Path column header to sort by file path. Now you
can see which entries are the desired set and which are duplicates.

Select all of the duplicates by using your favorite multi-select method and
right-click and delete them. Do NOT tell WMP to delete them from your
computer as well. If the files are duplicated by a reparse point, you could
end up deleting both the duplicate library pointer to the file and the
original file as well!

If you think their are undesired duplicates on your computer, use Windows
Explorer to delete them but if you're unsure, test by making a copy of a
couple files to a safe location first and delete those couple of files and
test in WMP.

Dale

"JoelRub" wrote in message

>I am running Vista Home Premium. When I set up my Media Player Library it
> created duplicate and a few triplicates of each song. When playing an
> album
> it plays all the sounds including the duplicates. Has anyone seen this and
> have any ideas on a solution. I know I could delete them but that would
> take
> a very long with so many songs.
>
>
> Thank,
>
> Joel
>