Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / January 2008

Every time I restart my box (with Vista Media Center on it), it appears to me
when accessing my Music Libary, VMC is sort of reinitializing my complete
library. This results in the following:

1. the first time I select my Music Library after a reboot, it appears to be
empty.

2. after pressing the 'back button' and selecting my Music Library again, it
displays some albums, most of them still without artwork (that is loading),
but only a couple of dozens and not nearly all of them.

3. when pressing a letter on the remote (to jump to the first artist who's
name starts with that letter) the library becomes unresponsive for a very
long time (minute(s)?) and eventually jumps to that artist. Most of the time
it still is collecting artwork at that time...

4. after pressing 'back' and selecting my Music Library for the third time
it appears to have all artists and albums, but is still loading artwork. Just
like in the previous step, pressing a letter will make the Music Libary
unresponsive for quite some time.

5. when all is loaded, in many cases selecting an album to play, will not
play it (it will display the play screen, with the clock at 0:00). Only after
a couple of minutes it will start playing.

6. Navigating the library is VERY slow at this point and a real pain.

This happens every time my box is restarted (which I have to do regularly to
refresh my FloppyDTV-S sat tuner cards to work perfectly).

Yesterday it really pissed me of, so I tried some more extreme measures: I
killed the mplayer processes in my Task Manager. When switching back to Media
Center, Media Center gave me the error that it had lost its remote connection
to Media Player (which made sense of course), and needed to be restarted.
After Media Center was restarted, what do you know: the Music Library
appeared to work perfectly! I need to test this more to find out if this was
a just luck (maybe the Musci Library finally was loaded completely after 10
minutes?), or maybe killing the mplayer process and restarting VMC really
makes a difference.

My question to all of you: please help me out on this - I really need to
regularly restart the computer; How will my Music Library work correctly
immediately after starting it up?