Media Library problems and crash

[ScottVickery]

I am running WinAmp v5.552 on a Windows Home XP SP3 laptop. I have a shared network folder that I use to hold my music. Winamp has its media library filled from that drive. I have a smart view set up to show 3 filters (genre, artist, album).

Everything seems to work fine for a few days, then after rebooting, nothing shows up when clicking on Local Media / Audio (or any of the other Local media nodes). If I try to Edit the smart view, or add a smart view, Winamp crashes.

Let me know if I can provide more detail or help debug in any way.

Thanks for any help.

Scott

[xafier]

I am suffering from the same problem, it was working fine until today but now Winamp just keeps crashing, I downloaded the latest version but it still crashes.

I also have my music on a network share, maybe its related to a Windows update or something as it was working fine last week?

I'm running Windows Vista x64

[ScottVickery]

This first started happening last week for me. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixes the problem. But, I have to re-import my library, which takes about 30 minutes or so. Not the end of the world, but irritating, particularly if I have to do it more than once a week.

Another clue: I tried rescanning the local watch folder. This crashed as well. I sent the error report this time.

This _might_ have to do with shutting down windows while WinAmp is open. When I simply hibernate, things are good. It feels like the library is corrupt and WinAmp chokes as a result.

The rest of Winamp works fine. I can load a playlist for example and play from it, or open a folder on the network and play it. I just can't use the library to find things by tag.

Scott

[ScottVickery]

One more clue lending credence to this being a problem with a corrupt library. I cleared the Media Library (Winamp Preferences / Media Library / Local Media - Clear Media Library button), then rescanned (Winamp Preferences / Media Library / Local Media / Watch Folders tab - Rescan now button), and, I can again view my Local Media Audio node in the tree.

So, a work around, but, a timely one (about 1/2 hour for me).

Scott

[xafier]

I uninstalled and reinstalled as you did and its fixed the problem, now its rescanning my media collection... which is going to take a while!

[ScottVickery]

Any comments on this from the Winamp team? Let me know if I can help isolate the problem.

Thanks,
Scott

[markorchard]

Recently I loaded up winamp to listen to some music and found that whilst the Media Library window was visible the area where all the media is normally displayed was empty. I could view the media on my portable device, as well as bookmarks, history and online services.

I tried to edit one of my smart views, but this crashed winamp, I also tried rescanning my watched directories, but this also crashed winamp. Upgrading to the latest version of winamp did nothing to solve the issue.

Eventually I tried clearing the media directory and re-scanning as suggested here. This did seem to fix the problem.

[mjcl]

This fix worked for me as well.

[herrtiger]

Works! Perfectly.