this is an issue that has been pissing me off for quite a while.

let's say that i have a couple of artists in foobar's database(or w/e it uses to store all the songs). now lets say that i removed some music files from my harddrive to save space or for another reason. the info will still remain in there but if i use Rescan Media Library and Refresh the Album List panel, it will be fixed and the music that has gone is no more in the database. however, if i restart foobar2000 AFTER i do all of this, the artists will still be in the library. does anyone know what could be happening?

thats true and happens to me to!
even if:
1. I deleted the files using foobar
2. rescanned my music libary
3. i deleted the database file and rescanned my music libary!

is there a solution?

Are the files in any playlists?

I've had this problem aswell....

Likewise. And every time I see this thread someone asks if they're in a playlist In my case, they're not in a playlist, yet they always come back. And 'Remove dead entries' does nothing. Why isn't there an option to re-scan the library for new files, rather than doing it all from scratch?

only the Browser plugin. it writes all the entries to the "Default" playlist

edit: just tried rescanning the library, refreshing the album list, and refreshing the Browser plugin. after that, i restarted and it worked like a a charm.

What about right clicking on the artist or album you deleted and doing "remove dead entires (slow) " ?

I don't have this problem anymore since I installed 0.9.1

how about trying to use album list, right click on all music and remove dead entries(slow)