My Music won't work, also Version Query

Hmm_Messiah

Hi I got a Dell Deminsion 5150 with Media Center 2005.
two problems

1. have a remote etc and its fun but My Music will not recognise any songs !! , its now saying its got 147 unknown albums but will not play them. I had partitions one hard drive and called it M (multimedia) and the music is there.
I've also set up Windows media Player to create Music Library from there and that works. I also moved one album to my documentts to see would it play that - no luck, I've removed folders and added etc, shut down, restarted, but no luck.

the thing is if I go into artists it lists all the artists but not their alumbs or songs !! Help !

(lol was near tears last night becuase up to then was quite enjoying the novelty of a new pc )


2. I went on microsoft.com to download update and it would not run said " was not appropriate to the OS installed"
clicked my computer, says I've Windows XP, Media Centre 2002

On all my Dell notification it says MCE 2005. ?? Should I get onto Dell ??


3. Lastly, no disks were included, how hard is it to get them to forward the XP disks ? Can I insist ? and If I do get them can I just re-install Meadia Center rather than having to start from scratch again ??
Is there a way I can burn a copy /resource version of XP off the machine (which won't really help if there is a problem with this install I guess )


I really appreciate the help, Ok can I ask a 4th probably silly question ?
If I got an analogue tuner can i watch rte/tvs on the pc and get the portable out of the room (don't have digital tv) and if so are the USB tuners OK, or is a card better ?

subway

1- im having a similar issue at the minute.
will the songs play in windows media player?

2- i think mce 2003 is right. ill check when i get home, but im fairly sure thats what windows mce 2005 calls itself internally

3- you can buy the disc from dell for 5euro i think. you would have had the option when buying. ring up and ask, the tech guys can usually send them out easliy enough

Hmm_Messiah

Yea Windows Media Player had no problem adding them to the Library and playing them.


Its just bizarre : shows 149 "unknown Albums" ; I thought that it might not be accessign the internet for the artwork and details, but when you go into artists lists the artists ; but nothing when you select album or song

Hmm_Messiah

for any one interested the solution is

click OPEN, RUN and type : regsvr32.exe wmp.dll