[grandin]

Hi,

I'm trying (and trying, and trying) to get Ovi Player to work properly. I might be really fu''''ng dumb, but why does my library contain more and more duplicates and non-working songs?

Ok, i get that it's because i've moved around _alot_ of music files, renamed, retagged, and so on and so forth - but why dosn't Ovi Player get it? Is there a big red "UPDATE LIBRARY NOW AND REMOVE OUTDATED STUFF *BEEP BEEP*"-button somewhere that i'm just... not... seeing?

My last not-so-genious move was to manually try to delete all 15000 songs from the library. Which - of course - made the program freeze, steadily chunking away at 40-60% of my cpu (the other 40-50% is ocupated by that nice little useless NokiaMserver.exe thingie)

NokiaMserver.exe. W-T-F-?! If i'm using a good app like, say, Songbird, my laptop goes to it's knees immediately - especially if i'm retagging stuff, or something similar. Seriously, 30-40% cpu? without me running a Nokia app and having no intention of hooking up my phone for the moment?

And... my laptop isn't allt bad, P8400 cpu, 4 gig ram..

I would appreciate a bit of help. :-)

Thanks!

(and don't get me started on the battery life of my N86, or how often it freezes with the only solution being removing the battery, or the non-working GPS, or one of a kazillion more little annoyances. Yeh, it did indeed have a shutter for the 8mp-camera, but man... why didn't i get that SE w995 anyway.)

EDIT:

And the Album Art fetcher/reader... is pretty damn arbitrary.

"Oh, you've got a cover for that album! Hey, do you want me to send that yo the phone along with the album? Hm, i dunno... maybe!   .... mkay?"

"Hey, i can fetch a cover for those albums/songs/whatever... wantmetowantmetowantmeto? Ok! Here's a picture for you! Do you like it? Whaddyamean 'its the wrong picture'? Yeh, yeh, i know, it's the same picture all over the place, for dozens of different albums, and not one right, but you know... It IS a picture after all, take what you can get."

[grandin]

BUMP!

WHY doesn't Ovi Player keep my library updated??

[5800XFrustrated]

yep - I'm having the same problem - apparently you can scan the pc to update your music library if using pc suite, but I can't see any way of doing this with ovi player - seems like a really rubbish bit of software. I tried changing my file location to another folder, but it just added what was in this folder to what was already in ovi & gave me even more duplicates

[5800XFrustrated]

depends how knackered your file system is & how much music you have, as to whether it'll be quick/easy, but one thing that does seem to work is if you make sure that your 'music folder location' in ovi player is correct & then delete the albums etc with duplicates in them from inside ovi player, choosing delete from 'my music collection only'. the album will then disappear from ovi player, but when you close & restart ovi player it will rebuild its lists based on whatever is actually in your music folder location - if there's only one album, it will now only reimport that album with no duplicates etc

wouldn't advise deleting too many at one time though, since ovi will have to reimport a lot of tracks when you restart it - & ovi doesn't seem to be the most stable application at the best of times . . .