So I've been running WMP 12 on my 64-bit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for a few
weeks now, and the most annoying thing I've come across is this: it seems
that at times, WMP will just decide to delete whole albums from the library
(but not from my hard drive, thank goodness) without asking me if I want to,
or without me instructing it to do so.

In fact, what prompted me to ask this question was, I was just listening to
an album I'd added within the past hour, and all of a sudden, it stops
playing in the middle of a song. I checked in WMP, and I found all but one
of the tracks from the album (incidentally, it wasn't the one song I'd been
listening to) just disappeared. Luckily, I've found the "restore" function
under "Tools > Advanced > Restore deleted library items," so that's a
definite improvement over WMP 11. But why does the player/library seem to
have a mind of its own all of a sudden?

Are you sure that WMP simply didn't update the album info of the
disappearing tracks, and that they got listed under a different album
title/artist?

Folder view (in the tree on the left) might be useful to verify this. If
you don't see an item called Folder in this tree, you need to enable
it by right-clicking a tree item, selecting Customize navigation pane,
and enabling Folder, under Music.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

madden101 wrote:
> So I've been running WMP 12 on my 64-bit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for a few
> weeks now, and the most annoying thing I've come across is this: it seems
> that at times, WMP will just decide to delete whole albums from the library
> (but not from my hard drive, thank goodness) without asking me if I want to,
> or without me instructing it to do so.
>
> In fact, what prompted me to ask this question was, I was just listening to
> an album I'd added within the past hour, and all of a sudden, it stops
> playing in the middle of a song. I checked in WMP, and I found all but one
> of the tracks from the album (incidentally, it wasn't the one song I'd been
> listening to) just disappeared. Luckily, I've found the "restore" function
> under "Tools > Advanced > Restore deleted library items," so that's a
> definite improvement over WMP 11. But why does the player/library seem to
> have a mind of its own all of a sudden?