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The Black Hunter
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I have an intensely annoying issue in windows media player (my main player).
Whenever I delete something, it won't stay deleted.
Be it a playlist or a song.
Even if i go into the folder it resides and delete it, then delete it in the player, the fucking things always come back.
How do I fix this, or even better, A good media player that is minimum hassle.
By minimum I mean no hassle at all.
Whenever I delete something, it won't stay deleted.
Be it a playlist or a song.
Even if i go into the folder it resides and delete it, then delete it in the player, the fucking things always come back.
How do I fix this, or even better, A good media player that is minimum hassle.
By minimum I mean no hassle at all.
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Winamp, or Media Player Classic
backed. But honestly, i've never even heard of this problem, nor did I think it was possible in Windows. Since you're using Media player I'm going to guess that this isn't Mac or Linux. There's no error code or anything for this? They just reaapear in the folder?
(Haven't had a windows PC for the last year so my instructions are a bit hazy, sorry)
Also, thirded for winamp; it's just nice.
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It prompts you when you delete something and asks if you want the file delete or just removed from the library
Also it stays removed from the library either way, unless you drag it back in. Just tossing that out there, some people like a jukebox oriented program rather than an mp3 player oriented program. I like the way iTunes catalogues and organizes my music for me.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Props to Itunes for giving you so much control over your library, I've just never enjoyed an all inclusive program. That's just me, I'm a control freak haha.
The only other thing I can think of is if you've got a recovery tool loaded for your trash can that might be recovering the files.
It doesn't automatically name my files and manage my directories with the same finesse nor does it offer the ability to manage ID3 tags en masse. At least it doesn't out of the box, or it didn't at the time that I made the switch to iTunes. The integration iTunes offers for my iPod is just icing on the cake.
And iTunes didn't place that restriction, that was a condition of the DRM on the song you bought. You can now buy many songs without that, or you can be not a total sucker and buy physical copies that aren't encoded into a lossy format. Just a tip. Your problem with the restrictions placed by the ITMS DRM is irrelevant to the matter of the pros and cons of the iTunes software as a jukebox style music player.
The real problem with iTunes is that it can be sluggish to load up, and it's a bit of a resource hog given what it does. If I was going to use something on a gaming machine for playing music while in the process of gaming, I'd use Foobar and set it up with the extensions that allow it to manage libraries. But that's not what I do. I use iTunes to catalogue my music in a manner that lets me say "I want to listen to punk albums from the 70s" and in two clicks oh look there I am, now I'll just switch my TV over to the Wii's input and let's play some mario kart.
It's kind of really about finding the media player that fits with what you want to do. I would pose that most people will find Winamp to work, but that most people won't have the "this is what I was looking for!" experience. I think that a lot of people will find that with some playing around with extensions, Foobar can provide that, and that for certain types, iTunes fits really nicely.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
I delete them
Next time I go into media player they are back.
Another thing, playlists, even when I delete the file, stay there.
I click to open them and nothing happens, and I can't right-click them.
And in regard to your question, even artists stay after I delete them from the computer.
Everything stays when I delete it.
My artists list is 3x the size it should be.
I don't buy physical copies because, AFAIK, the artists get more money from online purchases than from cd purchases. That was true the last time I checked that sort of stuff out, so I try to do what I can to support the artist and not the label. If that's changed then do send me a link to something proving it so I can change my crazy ways.
And you're right, my DRM issues don't have a whole lot to do with Itunes as a media player, I just happened to be thinking about that when i was typing and, as usual, I typed it.
Also, your Itunes auto names everything? I've tried it a few times and most of the time it struggled with song names from stuff on my pc, including stuff that I'd used winamp to change the ID3 tags for. I dunno, maybe I was doing something wrong with Itunes.
WMP 9.1
Have you tried upgrading to the newer versions of WMP? It can't hurt.