[Ripperfreak]

In EMC 9 or 10 Under "Audio" > Audio CD component. I have been trying to find out how to turn this thing off or stop from loading my audio files. I have huge MP3 collection stored on my drives and it takes hours for it to load them. I just wonder how much PC resources its tying up as I need not load my audio files here as i always search it from the explorer window.

Anyone knows how? Much appreciated.

[jeanrosenfeld]

Quick find loads the music items stored in Media Manager's data base. At the bottom of the Quick Find box, Click settings, click the stop button at the top. That will stop media manager from adding any new items to its data base. To delete the items it already has, Open Media manager and remove the music items from its data base. Then Quickfind will have nothing in its data base and will 'load' quickly. But of course then you have to use theadd music button instead of quick find.
In settings, you can also deselect your music folder(s) from being watched, in case you do want Media manager to watch, say your pictures or movie folders.
Or if you don't want to use media manager at all, remove Roxwatch tray from the startup items (use msconfig or similar) set Media manager to stop watching folders, clear its data base from items it already has.

This post has been edited by jeanrosenfeld: 04 November 2007 - 01:19 PM

[Ripperfreak]

Quick find loads the music items stored in Media Manager's data base. At the bottom of the Quick Find box, Click settings, click the stop button at the top. That will stop media manager from adding any new items to its data base. To delete the items it already has, Open Media manager and remove the music items from its data base. Then Quickfind will have nothing in its data base and will 'load' quickly. But of course then you have to use theadd music button instead of quick find.
In settings, you can also deselect your music folder(s) from being watched, in case you do want Media manager to watch, say your pictures or movie folders.
Or if you don't want to use media manager at all, remove Roxwatch tray from the startup items (use msconfig or similar) set Media manager to stop watching folders, clear its data base from items it already has.

Thanks for the quick reply Jean. I have deleted the Roxy Tray entry already though i turned that off originally. It's 10 pm now here in London bed time. I will try tomorrow your guide to turn it off and empty the database. It just take too long to load. I got 350 gig of music in my Seagate external. Will make comment in due course.

[Ripperfreak]

The STOP button only for the "watch folder" it seems. So I turned this off to stop watching my folders.

I have followed your directions:
Here how I arrived to the Media Manager window for the benefit of people who are rookie like me who found the same dilemma.

EMC10 SUITE APPLICATION WINDOW
> MEDIA AND DEVICES
> MANAGE MEDIA
> ROXIO MEDIA MANAGER
> MY MEDIA
> ALL MUSIC FOLDER
>ARTIST FOLDER

From "All Music Folder" expanded it, I selected an artists album "Akon" from the tree and opened on the view window on the right. Highlighted the tracks contained in the album, right click and "Remove" Okayed and went back to the Audio page reload "quick find and the folder Akon" was gone. So it certainly works jean Thank you!

I experimented it on my lap top where only 200 albums stored. Now, I certainly have a torrid time removing thousands of albums stored in My Media in my Desk Top.

Cheers!

ps. "Quick find" is helpful if you have only a handful of audio stored if you have thousands it slowed your process while it loads. There should be a way to stop loading it. A future improvement feature might be for the next version!

[jeanrosenfeld]

You might also consider using Music disc creator instaed of the CD Audio. It does not load quick find and you have more choices, such as controlling track separators, adding CD text, etc.

[Ripperfreak]

You might also consider using Music disc creator instead of the CD Audio. It does not load quick find and you have more choices, such as controlling track separators, adding CD text, etc.

Well, it took me a while to delete everything contained on my media in my desk Top. 28,600 plus audio items not mentioning the 2.5 gig pictures. But i remove it all.

I will try your recommendation later.

This post has been edited by Ripperfreak: 06 November 2007 - 01:14 AM

[junior]

yeah this is a feature that i wish could be disabled i have 250 gb hard drive with music and it loads in quick find. i have all folders not to be watched. all services in administartive tools set to disabled except for roxmediadb10 that one is set to manual.
i played around with it some if you set the roxiomedia to disable it actually will remove the quick find it doesn't even show on the screen but when you do that i have found you get runtime errors and none of your photo software will work.
it doesn't matter what audio feature you use sound editor...easy cd..music disc creator it loads to the quick search and i hate that.
the easiest work around i have came up with is to go to c/doc/username/application data/roxio/mediamanager 10 folder and create a short cut to desktop,and when i do music and it adds it to the quick search i close the app open up the short cut and delete what was in it.
then it has no music in the quick search.
i have emailed back and forth to roxio tech support but i doubt anything will be done about it.
if anybody knows of a way to fix the quick search from launching i would love to hear about it.
thanks,
james

[tony2362]

To delete the items it already has, Open Media manager and remove the music items from its data base. Then Quickfind will have nothing in its data base and will 'load' quickly.

I have the same problem but I am using

Roxio Creator DE
Version: 9.0.116
Build: 901B16M, DL2

It came with my new comp and I can't seem to find any media manager or anything to delete the files it already has. This is one of the worst features I have ever seen. You should be able to just right click the files and select delete. Can any one plz help me find away to delete the files that are already in quick find? I have found away but I don't like to do it since I have thousands of songs and like all my folders organized how I am used to. But if i take the files in quick find (which is only like 1/5 of my songs) and move them to a different folder so quick find can't find the actual files.

I've searched through the program files and can't seem to find anything except a folder called Media Manager 9 that doesn't have much except pics and .xml files. I have also found another folder thats not in the Roxio folder but in the common files called Roxio Shared. I thought I had found the answer for a few seconds when searching through and found some .exe files called RoxMediaDB9.exe and a few others that I think have to do with the folder watcher. But when I click on them nothing happends and nothing is solved :-( The path to those files is
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM

This post has been edited by tony2362: 23 February 2008 - 02:57 PM

[grandpabruce]

I have the same problem but I am using

Roxio Creator DE
Version: 9.0.116
Build: 901B16M, DL2

It came with my new comp and I can't seem to find any media manager or anything to delete the files it already has. This is one of the worst features I have ever seen. You should be able to just right click the files and select delete. Can any one plz help me find away to delete the files that are already in quick find? I have found away but I don't like to do it since I have thousands of songs and like all my folders organized how I am used to. But if i take the files in quick find (which is only like 1/5 of my songs) and move them to a different folder so quick find can't find the actual files.

I've searched through the program files and can't seem to find anything except a folder called Media Manager 9 that doesn't have much except pics and .xml files. I have also found another folder thats not in the Roxio folder but in the common files called Roxio Shared. I thought I had found the answer for a few seconds when searching through and found some .exe files called RoxMediaDB9.exe and a few others that I think have to do with the folder watcher. But when I click on them nothing happends and nothing is solved :-( The path to those files is
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM

See Post #2 of this thread.

[tony2362]

See Post #2 of this thread.

lol I've did everything in that post except the part I quoted in my earlier post. That was my whole question. Here it is again.

"To delete the items it already has, Open Media manager and remove the music items from its data base. Then Quickfind will have nothing in its data base and will 'load' quickly."

All I want is to make it so quick find doesn't load my songs everytime I use the program. So I need to delete them from the Media Manager database according to post 2. But the problem is I don't have a media manager or can't seem to open it if i do like it says in post #2. I've stoped it from adding more songs and from watching any folder or files and also disabled them from startup and everything else it says in post #2. So I am still lost. Thx for trying though.

P.S. I think I have a weird version most ppl don't have since it came pre-installed on the computer thats why I posted it on my first post. It doesn't seem to have as many funcions as alot of people's like if I try to use the photo stuff it says to upgrade to Easy Media Creator 10 and that could possibly be why I either don't have media manager or can't seem to find it or use it.

[ogdens]

lol I've did everything in that post except the part I quoted in my earlier post. That was my whole question. Here it is again.

"To delete the items it already has, Open Media manager and remove the music items from its data base. Then Quickfind will have nothing in its data base and will 'load' quickly."

All I want is to make it so quick find doesn't load my songs everytime I use the program. So I need to delete them from the Media Manager database according to post 2. But the problem is I don't have a media manager or can't seem to open it if i do like it says in post #2. I've stoped it from adding more songs and from watching any folder or files and also disabled them from startup and everything else it says in post #2. So I am still lost. Thx for trying though.

P.S. I think I have a weird version most ppl don't have since it came pre-installed on the computer thats why I posted it on my first post. It doesn't seem to have as many funcions as alot of people's like if I try to use the photo stuff it says to upgrade to Easy Media Creator 10 and that could possibly be why I either don't have media manager or can't seem to find it or use it.

You have Dell's OEM version of Roxio. Oem's are slimmed down versions (does not contain ALL the features that are available in the full retail version).

[tony2362]

You have Dell's OEM version of Roxio. Oem's are slimmed down versions (does not contain ALL the features that are available in the full retail version).

Yeah I hate that. They should just put the full version on or else not have it at all. I don't know why they have to make a special version just for this kind of thing. So anyone have any ideas on how I can delete my songs from the database?

[jeanrosenfeld]

Yeah I hate that. They should just put the full version on or else not have it at all. I don't know why they have to make a special version just for this kind of thing. So anyone have any ideas on how I can delete my songs from the database?

It's called a teaser: a freebie that does enough so that you'd like to use it, but not quite enough to do all you want, so you'll buy the full version.

[ml]

So anyone have any ideas on how I can delete my songs from the database?

Have you checked the Dell website support? Surely you're not the only one with this problem.