[steveatesh]

I have a N97 running firmware v.21.0.045 and about a week or so ago I was forced to do the hard reset because the phone became so unstable. I left my E: drive (the mass storage) intact including all of my songs, videos and pictures I had stored.

Everything seems to be okay apart from the Music Player which everytime I use it it starts to search for songs and podcasts continuously. I can stop that and it lists all of my music and can play them but the volume control does not work, either from the telephone or the earpiece supplied.

I have tried leaving it searching for hours but nothing changes - it just keeps on searching. Any suggestions as to how I can fix this please or does it mean I have to do another reset of the telephone? It all worked before.

I have tried taking the battery out but this makes no difference.

[carman58]

This is the solution

ok i found the solution here by deleting the corrupted library

http://portablevideo.blogspot.com/2008/12/music-player-database-problems.html 

now one of these below is for the music and one for the photos and i didnt have a problem with the photos but did it anyways and now the player can see my music:

these are the files that need deleting in order to get rid of the corrupted library.

Storage Drives: (Mass storage E, Memory Card F)

\private\101ffca9\harvesterdbvx_x.dat

\private\10281e17\[string]mpxvx_x.db

\private\10281e17\[string]pcvx_x.db 

• TIP: Connect the device in USB mass storage mode (File Transfer), to locate the private folder from the PC.
• TIP: STRING and x_x will change depending on your phone. (my files had slightly different names than above on the n97

Kudos to diginoise and Google, I've used it and it works, so have many others, as I've poted this a few times

[steveatesh]

Thanks carman, I did what you said but i guess my N97 was beyond it. I ended up formatting the mas storage and hard reset and that put it right. Thanks anyway.

[carman58]

I have had to format E acouple of times, but not since I learned to remove the files, in fact I don't even have to refresh normally , now when I add Music !

Glad you got it sorted anyway