Back-up Windows Media Player Library in Vista

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billby - 26 Jun 2007 11:06 GMT

I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?

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Rock - 26 Jun 2007 11:17 GMT

>I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
> information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?

If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

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billby - 26 Jun 2007 11:53 GMT

Thanks Rock, my ISP doesn't support Usenet groups and I can't navigate to
that group on Google Groups. Is there another way of reading it?

> >I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
> > information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?
>
> If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

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mikeyhsd - 26 Jun 2007 13:13 GMT

its very easy.
just set up another account using microsoft news server.

msnews.microsoft.com

no logon needed.

mikeyhsd@comcast.net

Thanks Rock, my ISP doesn't support Usenet groups and I can't navigate to
that group on Google Groups. Is there another way of reading it?

"Rock" wrote:

> "billby" <billby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
> > information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?
>
> If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>

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Ken Blake, MVP - 26 Jun 2007 16:52 GMT

> Thanks Rock, my ISP doesn't support Usenet groups and I can't navigate to
> that group on Google Groups. Is there another way of reading it?

All ISPs support Usenet groups. What I think you mean is that your ISP
doesn't provide a news server.

But that doesn't matter. There are lots of other news servers (some
free; some fee-based) available to you. For these Microsoft groups
(including this one and the one Rock recommends below), the best
server is to use is Microsoft's own news server, msnews.microsoft.com.
It's free and will provide a much better experience than the awful web
interface you're using, which is the slowest, clunkiest, most
error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

I personally use four different news servers, only one of which is
provided by my ISP.

> > >I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
> > > information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?
> >
> > If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
> > microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

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billby - 26 Jun 2007 23:00 GMT

You're right. I should have said my ISP no longer has a news server.

I'm more than familiar with Usenet -- I was using it in the 1980s!

> > Thanks Rock, my ISP doesn't support Usenet groups and I can't navigate to
> > that group on Google Groups. Is there another way of reading it?
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> > > If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
> > > microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

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R. C. White - 27 Jun 2007 18:31 GMT

Hi, Billby.

Just click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management

That one click should start OE/WM/WLM - depending on which Windows version
and news reader you have installed; connect you to the MS public news
server; connect you to THIS NG; and download the 300 latest messages. At
your convenience, you can click Tools | Options and customize it to suit
yourself. You can Reset the List of Newsgroups to find 2,000 groups in
several languages. Type into the "Display newsgroups that contain" to find
the ones that interest you.

Or click:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video

That should take you directly to the NG that Rock suggested several messages
ago.

It's just like Usenet, except that the news server is hosted by Microsoft.
It's free and does not require you to log on. ;<) Other news servers
simply "slurp" messages from this host and relay them and any responses to
and from their own subscribers - risking delays, out-of-sequence threads,
and even lost messages in both directions.

RC

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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

> You're right. I should have said my ISP no longer has a news server.
>
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>> > > If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
>> > > microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

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Rock - 27 Jun 2007 01:09 GMT

> Thanks Rock, my ISP doesn't support Usenet groups and I can't navigate to
> that group on Google Groups. Is there another way of reading it?
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>> If you don't get a reply here you might want to post to the
>> microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video newsgroup.

Use a newsreader and access the newsgroups through the MS news server. Or
access it through the (awful) web interface.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx

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Neil Harley - 26 Jun 2007 14:46 GMT

> I used to save my library files -- not the music files, the library
> information -- when I used XP. How can I back-up these files in Vista?

I backup the whole directory in my profile:

C:\Users\<username>\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Media Player

and there is an app to backup the library's metadata from

http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/03/windows-media-player-metadata-backup.html

hth

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