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N95, Delete Empty Music Directories
njzk2 | 31 January, 2008 14:58
This is a not-so-clean trick to remove empty remanent Artist/Album folders on the N95_8GB.
In my last post, i pointed out the fact that using mass storage to transfer music to my N95, i was stuck with empty artists and albums. E.g., I had 'Live from Mars', by Ben Harper, I removed it and had no more songs from this guy, but the name kept being displayed as well as the album title. And i could not find any way to remove it. After a while, it gets pretty annoying.
So I made a few search, felt on this:
And the trick was to remove the Private folder.
Well, after a few searchs, here is my conclusion:
- Connect the N95 in mass storage mode
- Go to folder private101FFC31
- Remove the file mpxv1.mpd (This file is the phone music database)
- Start the music player, it will rebuild the database from scratch, so you won't have any ghost folder
NB: Be careful that music transfered in MTP mode being copied to Music folder, and not SoundDigital, if you follow this procedure, your phone may loose track of such files.
Simon
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Re: N95, Delete Empty Music Directories
fischerhuder | 13/02/2008, 09:38
i've done this and now my music player is stuck in the library-update-loop, not discovering any songs.
just a hint that this might break your music player, will try a reset after work. :-/
(n95-1, 20.0.0.015)
Re: N95, Delete Empty Music Directories
fischerhuder | 13/02/2008, 09:50
Found a solution without resetting the phone:
see msg #13 in the linked thread:
"private101FFC31 (mpxv1.mpd and pcv5.mpd)
private101f8857Cache
private101ffca9
In all the 3 folders delete all the files Not the FOLDER"
refreshing the music library takes a while, but now all songs (minus the "ghost" songs) are back. with album art and all.
thanks for the link, njzk2
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guven80 | 02/02/2008, 20:26
I used the original N95 that had 64MB of memory opposed to 128 MB of memory on the 8GB version and it was still not extremely slow. It was sometimes sluggish but for what I heard, with the double memory these problems were taken care of. I didn't experience any of the problems mentioned other than the shutter speed on the camera to lag quarter to half a second or so. If thats "sooooo" slow, than I guess your right about all the other functions to be extremely slow that they take forever.