Songs in Media Player with 0 bytes data?

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and have recently noticed a small quirk in my Windows Media Player 12. About a quarter of my song list have titles that appear as size of 0 bytes, and yet they continue to play very well. Is this a bug? I can't find one any correlation between songs, it seems completely random, some songs, I ripped out other CD I bought and downloaded. Tried to run the update that says I'm up-to-date, tried restarting my PC, etc., but the affected songs are always displayed as 0 bytes.

I had a look and found the thread you mentioned... .This is a great and simple solution, so I'll requote it here;

Credited to the original contributor - Music_Fan

I was just struck with that as well.  In my case, it happens when I RIP with EAC while WMP is open.  I guess that WMP is trying to read the information on the file while EAC always creates the WMA file.

My MIRACLE solution that avoids to rebuild the entire library and lose the game relies on other files, along with files FLAC and other data not stored in the actual music files:

Short version:

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With WMP open, send files to the Recycle Bin, wait a bit and undo the deletion.

Detailed instructions:

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(1) in WMP, go to an album folder which includes 0-byte files

2) right click on the file and select "open file location".

(3) in the opened Windows Explorer window, select the files that are rated as a size 0 in WMP

(4) select "Delete" (recycling).  Do not select NO 'delete permanently '.

(5) in WMP, wait for the file to disappear

(6) in Windows Explorer, make a 'Cancel' (type Ctrl-Z)

The file will reappear in WMP with the appropriate size.

I hope this helps some out there!

Let me emphasize that by opening the location of the file... If you remove WMP or Explorer library - you will screw up your wmp library! -All this thanks Music_Fan - R

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