Comments on: Windows Media Player 11 Library cache

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:31:53 +0000

Sorry mrnice,
I should have read everything more carefully! I skipped through things – disabling Windows Media Player Network Sharing Serivce meant that I could delete the CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb. Thank you very much!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:09:23 +0000

The last time I had a problem wth a 0byte file that I could not delete, I carried out the procedure above. This time I cannot delete the CurrentDatabase_360 file. While windows media player is working fine in all other respects to have a file of 0kb Unknown artist/unknown album etc really bugs me. I use another media player in preference (Jetaudio) but it still annoys me that it is something that I dn’t seem to be able to fix. It is a serious design flaw in the program if you cannot reset or uninstall/reinstall it.
Anybody got any further ideas?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:35:09 +0000

Works Perfectly!!!

Exact location for vista for those who are confused.

C:\Users\**ProfileName**\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player

By: tangerine

tangerine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:56:33 +0000

Thanks everyone!
Especially Chris who held the final piece of the jigsaw!

By: Dancedoctor

Dancedoctor — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:05:56 +0000

It took me ages to find this solution – Brandon you are a genius. Thanks for helping solve tis problem! Yeahhh!

By: sarah j

sarah j — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:03 +0000

thank you soooo much brandon i swear i will love you forever for helping solv a week long problem for me!!! love you millions thank you thank you!!!!!

By: kai

kai — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:11:22 +0000

thanks to kenny! worked fine! vista sp1

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:43:48 +0000

Thank you guys so much!

Like Mike, I had one of those “Unknown” phantom-albums floating around my library that I just couldn’t get rid of. The first time it didn’t work, but I tried it again it worked like a charm! I think it might have worked the second time because I disabled the wmpnetwk.exe both before and after deleting the AppData files.

Either way, you guys rock!

By: Ruben

Ruben — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:22:51 +0000

Thank you i have time look for a solution a this problem. very good you blog. XD

By: Helmer

Helmer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:13:53 +0000

Thanks! Very useful. Just one problem. When the library is rebuilt, my music files (mp3 and wma) come back with their correct genre. However, my video files (mostly avi) lose their genre. Is this a problem with the avi format? Which format should I convert to in order to keep the genre? Thanks!