Windows Media Player unable to handle large library?

[dominican2589]

I have a brand new Acer laptop, WIn 7 HP 64bit, core i3 2nd gen, 4GB ram, 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive. I have about 300GB of music/videos. When ever I open Windows Media Player, it hangs for sometime and then becomes responsive. As I change from photos, videos, music, it hangs as well and then becomes responsive. I can go through windows explorer and open a file and it opens up fine. The only time it hangs is when I try to view the library. Is it that WMP cannot handle so much data?

 

[Jupiter 2]

You might have too many music / video files on the drive. If you have other applications, you probably have less than 40gb of free space. Win 7 prefers about 25% of free space to run smoothly.

 

[dominican2589]

Everything else runs great. I looked up the issue more and found that other people had the same problem. For some reason, if u disable "keep star ratings globally" it speeds up significantly.

 

[remixedcat]

also use the 64 bit version of wmp or use another player such as media jukebox.

I've reviewed some aspects of it on my blog to give a general rundown on some things I like about it.