Windows 8.1 Media Player Problems

[FluffHarding]

Hello all 

 

This is my first Post but been looking on this forum for a long time.

 

Anyway to my Problem.

 

Im Running Windows 8.1 Pro on a i5 4670k 8GB Ram, 500gb SSD with a AMD Raedon HD7970

 

I done a clean install when i acquired my SSD at Christmas and all was going fine etc until this week with Media Player. I added 3 albums to my Library and now since my Windows Media Player keeps Crashing.

 

 

No i have Run Trouble shooter

 

and acording to windows it has done the fixes 

 

 

But when i open Media Player and it recreates the libary it crashes again and says the libary is corrupt etc as above.

 

Now my Music\Pictures & Vids are on a separate 500GB Seatgate drive in my PC and never had a problem until today, but if i remove the folder of music on the Seagate drive i have no crashing?? ive scanned the drive and there is no bad sectors and have defragged the Library Drive. and still a prob.

 

Any Ideas??

 

Many Thanks in advance

 

 

[FluffHarding]

Also i have Uninstalled Media Player and reinstalled it and no fix

[JoshB2084]

Try VLC Player, check if your music playable on VLC.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

[Yongtjunkit]

Hello all

This is my first Post but been looking on this forum for a long time.

Anyway to my Problem.

Im Running Windows 8.1 Pro on a i5 4670k 8GB Ram, 500gb SSD with a AMD Raedon HD7970

I done a clean install when i acquired my SSD at Christmas and all was going fine etc until this week with Media Player. I added 3 albums to my Library and now since my Windows Media Player keeps Crashing.

No i have Run Trouble shooter

and acording to windows it has done the fixes

But when i open Media Player and it recreates the libary it crashes again and says the libary is corrupt etc as above.

Now my Music\Pictures & Vids are on a separate 500GB Seatgate drive in my PC and never had a problem until today, but if i remove the folder of music on the Seagate drive i have no crashing?? ive scanned the drive and there is no bad sectors and have defragged the Library Drive. and still a prob.

Any Ideas??

Many Thanks in advance

Try switching to vlc or reinstall windows. I had a similar issue with Windows Media Player and it did not happen to vlc only windows media player. When I play a video file on window media player the video looks yellowish. So I switched to vlc and it resolved the issue. But the next day I've broke my own copy of Windows 10 so I had to reinstall windows 10 (luckily most my data was on a separate partition). After reinstall and Windows Media Player works like normal again but I've decided to switch to vlc, windows media player is for audio only

[ShiftHitTheFan]

vlc player is a lot better than windows media player. Lots more options, and quicker playback. Just make sure you download the 64 bit version if you have 64 bit windows. Its a bit faster than the 32bit one.

[FluffHarding]

Well i Fixed the issue it was the Photos in the Library that was causing the issue, But i will give VLC a try.

 

Thanks for the Help  

[FluffHarding]

vlc player is a lot better than windows media player. Lots more options, and quicker playback. Just make sure you download the 64 bit version if you have 64 bit windows. Its a bit faster than the 32bit one.

I cant seem to find a 64bit on a 32 bit?

[ShiftHitTheFan]

I cant seem to find a 64bit on a 32 bit?

http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.1/win64/vlc-2.2.1-win64.exe

 

If that does not work, hit the down arrow beside the download and pick the 64 bit installer.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

[IreMinMon]

Ofc it's crashing, that's what Microsoft's media center software does, you're supposed to install VLC before you even get to play any video or music files...