My Media Player is randomly deleting songs in the library and playlists

The first thing that happens is that the track number disappears in front of the name of the song.  If I click on the song, a red circle with an x appears before the title of the song, and he plays one listed under it.  Some of these songs have been stolen from my own CD and some were purchased as downloads on Amazon MP3.

Hi Redragon40,

 

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This problem occurs because the Windows Media Player library database is corrupted

Click Start, click run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player, and then click OK.

1. Select all files in the folder, and then click delete on the file menu.

Note You don't have to remove the folders that are in this folder.

2. restart Windows Media Player.

Note Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

If this does not resolve the problem, disable the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:

If this does not resolve the problem, disable the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:

1. If you are running Windows Vista, click Start, click run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, and then click OK.

2. Select the Media Player folder, and then click delete on the file menu.

3. restart Windows Media Player.
Note Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

Check out the link for more information below.

You cannot view, add, or delete items in the library of Windows Media Player 11

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925718

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