Question External Drive Question (WD Elements)

[Wolkie 72]

A while back I bought this external hd, and my IT tech told me to "save all your music on your G drive".

I think everyone already knows about the WMP Codec Problem. It's when you go to play a playlist or a cut off a cd and it won't play because of a "Codec Error".

How do : a) make sure I have music on drive G on this thing and
b) can you buy Codexes and upload them so that WMP will work.

My specs:
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8300 36 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 805MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-78LMT-USB3 R2 (Socket M2) 42 °C
Graphics
E321VL (1600x900@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (MSI) 47 °C
Storage
111GB TOSHIBA MKNSSDEC120GB ATA Device (SATA (SSD)) 43 °C
1863GB MB2000EBUCF ATA Device (SATA ) 43 °C
1862GB Western Digital WD Elements 2621 USB Device (USB (SATA) (SSD)) 43 °C
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS324 F ATA Device
Audio

 

[fzabkar]

Try to play the files with VLC (VideoLAN). It's free. Obviously your files exist and are accessible, but your player has a problem.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[Wolkie 72]

https://imgur.com/a/Agr4v7I

View: https://imgur.com/a/Agr4v7I


I downloaded VLC, but I could not get it to work last time. If it's not too m uch to ask, could someone take me from here, please?

Thanks

 

[fzabkar]

Select Media -> Open File and then drill down to your desired file.

 

[Wolkie 72]

done. Nothing transferring from wmp to vlc, drive G no items found. Uninstalling. Thanks very much anyway, everyone!

 

[fzabkar]

I don't get it. Disk Management reports that your used space is 3% of 1.8TiB. That's about 60GB. Now you appear to be telling us that you don't see any files? If that's the case, then why all the talk about codecs?

 

[Wolkie 72]

I don't get it. Disk Management reports that your used space is 3% of 1.8TiB. That's about 60GB. Now you appear to be telling us that you don't see any files? If that's the case, then why all the talk about codecs?

The codecs is how this whole thing began, One day I went to play a cd and got the message above about the codecs being wrong, and no song would play> "Okay", I said, "I have all my music files stored on drive G of the external drive and I can get them off that." Wrong. That doesn't work.

This is actually the second time I have posted about this problem, but the first time it got very little attention. I was given suggestions about various players including VLC.

I downloaded Klite's codec pac hoping that would solve the problem, but no it's something more wrong than that. All I know for sure at this point is that the G drive is or was full of music and now it isn't, but shows files in use.

But I don't see any music files or songs to play. Recently I bought a couple of Robert Klein cd's and they played fine and also added themselves to the library where they still are.

There's a message at the bottom right when I have WMP on and want to play something off a playlist (Those DO show, but don't play - codec prob) and that message says "media changing" and will say so ad infinitum.

Honestly, fzabkar, I don't know what else to tell you. If someone is available to go remote and have a look, I'd pay the fee. Otherwise, I guess I'll make nice with "She Who Must Be Obeyed" until I get a new rig.

Thanks for trying to help me. It is MOST appreciated.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I have music on drive G

your Disk Management screenshot shows BillMusic(G as 97% empty.
this means if that is where your audio files were located then they are now gone.

when converting files from CD to disk, use MP3 codec.
so audio files will be .mp3 files.

any decent player, which VLC is a very nice one, will play mp3 files with no problem.
Windows Media Player has never been known to have issues with mp3 files either, don't know where you found this info about codec problems.

 

[fzabkar]

your Disk Management screenshot shows BillMusic(G as 97% empty.
this means if that is where your audio files were located then they are now gone.

3% of 2TB is ~60GB. That's around 100 ripped CDs.

 

[Wolkie 72]

Screenshot of what I see on WMP. I chose "Roll Over Beethoven" and up popped the red x and what you see in the middle. When one clicks on the box , up comes the message about codecs. I think I wrote what it says in the thread above.

https://imgur.com/a/wu5MWas

View: https://imgur.com/a/wu5MWas

 

[USAFRet]

Run WinDirStat again, this time selecting ONLY the G drive, and actually running the thing.

It will result in a window with a bunch of colored blocks. Each of those blocks represent a file.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

60GB. That's around 100 ripped CDs

all of my digital albums are from 100-200MB.
and they take up ~300GB.

now if you actually knew how many albums and what exact quality of file they were, you may be correct.

 

[Wolkie 72]

And here's where it takes you if you click web help. Keep in mind I run Windows 10 not 7.

https://imgur.com/a/uAoD6hd

View: https://imgur.com/a/uAoD6hd

 

[Wolkie 72]

3% of 2TB is ~60GB. That's around 100 ripped CDs.

May be my playlist. There are 7 with 50 songs on each one.

 

[USAFRet]

This is what the output of WinDirStat looks like.
This is my photo drive. jpg/mov/avi/RAF/png.....
Each of those colored blocks represent a file.

Hover over one, and the filename and path will be shown at bottom left.

 

[USAFRet]

Ignore WMP and playlists. Put it out of your mind.
I'm just trying to determine the existence of actual mp3 files on the G drive.

 

[Wolkie 72]

https://imgur.com/a/PdUqzsQ

View: https://imgur.com/a/PdUqzsQ

 

[USAFRet]

Thats your C drive.
Now do it with the G drive.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, what OS is that from your last screencap?
That is not Win 10.

 

[fzabkar]

@Wolkie 72, you seem to have problems accessing File Explorer.

Try typing the following into your browser's address bar:

G:\

 

[Wolkie 72]

https://imgur.com/No2yYiU

View: https://imgur.com/No2yYiU

 

[USAFRet]

Well, I think I'm seeing about 33GB of .mp4. Possibly/probably a single .mp4.

Not seeing any mp3 music files.
But of course, we're not seeing the whole thing.

 

[Wolkie 72]

https://imgur.com/a/U4jntN3

View: https://imgur.com/a/U4jntN3

 

[Wolkie 72]

https://imgur.com/a/R2fL0tq

View: https://imgur.com/a/R2fL0tq

 

[USAFRet]

So drilling down into "BillMusic (G)"....what does THAT show you?
Drilling down into "Music"....what does THAT show you?

 

[Wolkie 72]

And none of the G drives in the index load music files, so I guess they aren't there anymore. Wife says "Eat it or wear it!" , so I guess it's dinner time. Thanks everyone, but I don't see much that can be helped. I feel like I wasted your time, and I am sorry about that.