I've been using WMCE for a couple years now and been running WMCE 2005 since
release. I've recently re-encoded all my MP3s from 128-bit to VBR and
cleaned up all my tagging issues.

I would love to erase all old music links in the MCE music folder and start
new. I've tried renaming directories and adding the new one, but instead of
deleting listings for files it can't find, it kept them and started to append
the new ones. The only way I could find to delete old entries was to
manually do so one at a time. No easy thing with a library of 600+ CD's.

Is there a way to reset the music/album cache to none? WMCE is good about
installing the new albums, but I'm having problems removing the old.

I am having exactly the same issue as you. Like you, I have not yet found an
answer.

"Status Kuo" wrote:

> I've been using WMCE for a couple years now and been running WMCE 2005 since
> release. I've recently re-encoded all my MP3s from 128-bit to VBR and
> cleaned up all my tagging issues.
>
> I would love to erase all old music links in the MCE music folder and start
> new. I've tried renaming directories and adding the new one, but instead of
> deleting listings for files it can't find, it kept them and started to append
> the new ones. The only way I could find to delete old entries was to
> manually do so one at a time. No easy thing with a library of 600+ CD's.
>
> Is there a way to reset the music/album cache to none? WMCE is good about
> installing the new albums, but I'm having problems removing the old.
>
>

Can you do this via WMP10 on the same machine? Once WMP10 has removed them,
this might be noticed by MCE - I'm guessing though...

"Status Kuo" <StatusKuo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1F9ADA9-8129-4363-A01D-514245792133@microsoft.com...
> I've been using WMCE for a couple years now and been running WMCE 2005
> since
> release. I've recently re-encoded all my MP3s from 128-bit to VBR and
> cleaned up all my tagging issues.
>
> I would love to erase all old music links in the MCE music folder and
> start
> new. I've tried renaming directories and adding the new one, but instead
> of
> deleting listings for files it can't find, it kept them and started to
> append
> the new ones. The only way I could find to delete old entries was to
> manually do so one at a time. No easy thing with a library of 600+ CD's.
>
> Is there a way to reset the music/album cache to none? WMCE is good about
> installing the new albums, but I'm having problems removing the old.
>
>

Media center uses the Windows Media player library file. So anything you do
in WMP will be detected by MC. However, since want you want to do is
basically start from scratch, what I do is just delete the library file.

The library file is located at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player. If you delete the
contents of this folder and then run a media discovery in WMP or MC, you
will have a clean database of only the current content.

Note that doing this will lose your play counts on the files and probably
also star-ratings. Small price to pay. You probably want to do a backup of
your licences before doing this as well, and may have to restore your
license file after.

--

Michel Bordeleau
MS-MVP Media Center

"Status Kuo" <StatusKuo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1F9ADA9-8129-4363-A01D-514245792133@microsoft.com...
> I've been using WMCE for a couple years now and been running WMCE 2005
> since
> release. I've recently re-encoded all my MP3s from 128-bit to VBR and
> cleaned up all my tagging issues.
>
> I would love to erase all old music links in the MCE music folder and
> start
> new. I've tried renaming directories and adding the new one, but instead
> of
> deleting listings for files it can't find, it kept them and started to
> append
> the new ones. The only way I could find to delete old entries was to
> manually do so one at a time. No easy thing with a library of 600+ CD's.
>
> Is there a way to reset the music/album cache to none? WMCE is good about
> installing the new albums, but I'm having problems removing the old.
>
>

Thanks greatly. I tried this approach and it worked.

"Michel Bordeleau [MVP-MediaCenter]" wrote:

> Media center uses the Windows Media player library file. So anything you do
> in WMP will be detected by MC. However, since want you want to do is
> basically start from scratch, what I do is just delete the library file.
>
> The library file is located at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local
> Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player. If you delete the
> contents of this folder and then run a media discovery in WMP or MC, you
> will have a clean database of only the current content.
>
> Note that doing this will lose your play counts on the files and probably
> also star-ratings. Small price to pay. You probably want to do a backup of
> your licences before doing this as well, and may have to restore your
> license file after.
>
> --
>
> Michel Bordeleau
> MS-MVP Media Center
>
> "Status Kuo" <StatusKuo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B1F9ADA9-8129-4363-A01D-514245792133@microsoft.com...
> > I've been using WMCE for a couple years now and been running WMCE 2005
> > since
> > release. I've recently re-encoded all my MP3s from 128-bit to VBR and
> > cleaned up all my tagging issues.
> >
> > I would love to erase all old music links in the MCE music folder and
> > start
> > new. I've tried renaming directories and adding the new one, but instead
> > of
> > deleting listings for files it can't find, it kept them and started to
> > append
> > the new ones. The only way I could find to delete old entries was to
> > manually do so one at a time. No easy thing with a library of 600+ CD's.
> >
> > Is there a way to reset the music/album cache to none? WMCE is good about
> > installing the new albums, but I'm having problems removing the old.
> >
> >
>
>
>