[HD2 General] me:
My totally wild guess was totally wrong. I figured out how to fix the double song thing. It's the registry, stupid. (Talking to myself.) (And, mad at HTC that I have had to waste so many hours just trying to get their damn audio player to work decently, and I'm still having problems. I understand why people buy Iphones, that work out of the box. These problems with the HTC Audio Player seem to have existed for years, with different models, yet HTC seems to have no interest in fixing it, and cannot help its customers. (I wrote to HTC Support, and asked about the double songs. The reply--"check that you don't have the songs twice on the SD card". Duhhh. No dodo, I did not put most of my songs on the SD card twice!)

Well, here is what I found. The following thread on PPC Geeks from 2007-http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-titan/7473-htc-audio-manager-library.html look at the second post. The author writes: "Edit the registry as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\AudioManager\Config

device_scan_path_type_0

set to 0

device_scan_path_path_0

set to whatever location you want it to search for music "\Storage Card\Music"

device_scan_path_path

delete this

Now do a soft reset "

About the soft reset--when trying to get a new audio database, before the reset, I always do the following--Go with a file manager to the folder \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng (may vary with language). In it is the audio database file AudioManager_Eng.vol. Delete that file. If you can't delete it, rename it. That will force the app to totally rebuild the database next time.

About the registry entries from the poster in 2007: My path_path entry and path-path_0 entry were both set to my music folder: \Storage Card\Music. I have no idea how it got that way, but I think it was the root of the doubled entries. The database looked in the same place twice, and listed most songs twice. (How dumb can a database get??)

I did as the poster suggested, and deleted the path_path entry, , and set type_0 to 0. (I have no idea what these entries mean, by the way.) I should mention though, that with the HD2, it does not remain that way. When Audio Manager restarts, it recreates path_path. But this time path_path was set to \My Documents, not to ny music folder.

It worked though--after deleting the old database, rebooting, starting the music player, let it rebuild a new database, the songs were not listed twice. The problem must have been path_path and path_path_0 both pointing to my music folder.

Before editing the registry, suggest you back it up first, and export the original audiomanager key, before changing it. Then, since path_path does not seem to allow itself to be deleted permanently, just set it to something other than your music folder. (I wish I knew what those keys and values did. Alll I know now is, not to have those two values both pointing to your music folder.)

And I sure wish that HTC would fix their damn program, so I didn't have to spend hours trying to get things to work, which they should have thoroughly tested and made to work well, before releasing. (I am still struggling with trying to get all my cover art to show in HTCMP. Much art that shows in WMP, does not show in HTCMP.)