Music player stays at Refresh: Added 0 files forev...

Question

I'm running the latest firmware for the phone, thought it probably isn't a firmware problem, since I was able to refresh music a while ago, on the same firmware.
Anyway, just as the title says, the music player is stuck when trying to add new files. I've left it overnight, and there was no progress. I removed the private directory completely, but the problem still persists.
Anyway to fix this?

Answer 1

Just wanted to say thanks for the bits and pieces in this thread. They put me on the right track.
I was under the mistaken impression that the reason my N95 8gb spent all night refreshing without getting anywhere was because I had too many songs on there. It turns out that this is incorrect.
What I did have were a lot of songs that it refused to play. I had attempted to encode them all to AAC low-complexity profile, but something was amiss.
I went through my 1200 songs and found all the ones that didn't play, and made an interesting discovery: there were 3 encoders that had been used to create my library - (various versions of) itunes/quicktime, FAAC 0.24, and LAVF. All of the itunes and FAAC tracks played just fine. All of the LAVF tracks would not play.
I used itunes to re-encode all of the tracks originally encoded by LAVF, then deleted everything on my N95. I then copied everything back across in 5-6 stages (just to narrow down the scope of any badness that might happen). When the phone did refresh after each copy, it took 2-3 minutes and then finished.
I now have 1300 songs (all encoded using itunes or FAAC) on my N95 and it's happy and I'm happy.
Incidentally I had similar issues with my Sony Ericsson K610i with FAAC 0.25. I haven't bothered to check whether or not that version breaks my N95.
I also took the opportunity to update all my album art (since the N95 player doesn't give you an album name?!?). That took a bit of fiddling, since manually entered album art would appear but itunes-auto-aquired art would not. I discovered that this is because itunes now keeps its own separate art library. To get it into individual files for the N95, itunes_insert_albumart at http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/index.html works a treat.
Joe.