<![CDATA[Strawberry is not scanning my collection]]>I have added my music folders to the collection in Strawberry but it's not showing up in the player. I can add the music folders to playlists and that works fine but the collection isn't picking up anything

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/80/strawberry-is-not-scanning-my-collectionRSS for NodeSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:14:41 GMTTue, 15 Sep 2020 07:20:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:19:40 GMT]]>Strawberry will scan every single file in the directory you add to the collection independent of filetype, so make sure you don't have other files than music in the directory.
But to get an idea of what it's doing it could be useful to run it from the terminal like already suggested.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/215https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/215Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:19:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:58:42 GMT]]>@paulbirch a .nomedia file is an android thing. It's a file used in android to skip folders while scanning for media files in the storage. You can ignore it because strawberry starts scanning your collection. Run strawberry from the terminal and see if there are any errors printed while strawberry gets stuck while scanning.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/214https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/214Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:58:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:14:56 GMT]]>I'm having the same thing as Strawberry going for 12hrs or so and it still not finished, and I'm sure it got up to 98% then next minute down to 95%. What is .nomedia file? I have looked & I can't find it. I'm on a mac

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/213https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/213Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:14:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:36:22 GMT]]>Oh jesus hecking christ. It was the .nomedia file. Thanks. It's scanning the folders now.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/200https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/200Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:36:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:34:24 GMT]]>Then it looks like it stops on a directory level before it parses any files. It will skip any directory that is hidden, or has files named ".nomedia" or ".nomusic". Other than that, it's hard to tell what could be wrong. It's working for everyone else, so it must be something to do with your directory. Try a different directory.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/199https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/199Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:34:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:35:29 GMT]]>@jonas I did that. It's the last 2 entries in the above output. It just saves the settings and doesn't scan my library. No output is printed on the terminal when I select the manual rescan option in the options menu.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/198https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/198Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:35:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:55:05 GMT]]>Remove the collection directory and readd it, then watch the terminal for errors.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/196https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/196Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:55:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:24:43 GMT]]>strawberry 11:51:50.448 INFO main:171 Strawberry 0.7.2 11:51:50.522 INFO main:172 "Manjaro Linux unknown - (linux 5.8.6-1-MANJARO) [x86_64]" 11:51:51.121 DEBUG Application:242 Database(0x5556c17bed30) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c17c7240) 11:51:51.165 DEBUG SCollection:62 CollectionBackend(0x5556c17bd9a0) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c17c7240) 11:51:51.340 DEBUG Application:242 AlbumCoverLoader(0x5556c181d790) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c1826790) 11:51:51.420 DEBUG SCollection:94 CollectionWatcher(0x5556c1830750) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c14e2350) 11:51:51.421 DEBUG Application:242 TagReaderClient(0x5556c183db80) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c182f590) 11:51:51.421 DEBUG NetworkProxyFactory:55 Detected system proxy URLs: ("", "", "", "") 11:51:51.421 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:282 Starting worker 0x7f88a57f94f0 "/usr/bin/strawberry-tagreader" "/tmp/strawberry_2054982081" 11:51:51.495 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:282 Starting worker 0x7f88a57f94f0 "/usr/bin/strawberry-tagreader" "/tmp/strawberry_-1987334175" 11:51:51.519 INFO main:56 TagReader worker connecting to "/tmp/strawberry_-1987334175" 11:51:51.519 INFO main:56 TagReader worker connecting to "/tmp/strawberry_2054982081" 11:51:51.519 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:300 Worker 0x7f88840080f0 connected to "/tmp/strawberry_-1987334175" 11:51:51.519 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:300 Worker 0x7f8884006b70 connected to "/tmp/strawberry_2054982081" 11:51:51.669 DEBUG logging:83(GLib) posix_spawn avoided (fd close requested) 11:51:51.785 DEBUG GlobalShortcutBackendGSD:53 Registering 11:51:51.786 WARN GlobalShortcutBackendGSD:65 Gnome settings daemon not registered 11:51:51.905 DEBUG logging:83(GLib-GIO) _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’ 11:51:52.595 INFO Player:799 Registered URL handler for "subsonic" 11:51:52.597 DEBUG InternetServices:49 Added internet service "Subsonic" 11:51:52.639 INFO Player:799 Registered URL handler for "tidal" 11:51:52.652 DEBUG InternetServices:49 Added internet service "Tidal" 11:51:54.524 DEBUG MainWindow:292 Starting 11:51:55.187 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Last.fm" 11:51:55.187 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "MusicBrainz" 11:51:55.188 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Discogs" 11:51:55.235 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Deezer" 11:51:55.235 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Qobuz" 11:51:55.235 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Musixmatch" 11:51:55.236 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Spotify" 11:51:55.237 DEBUG CoverProviders:105 Registered cover provider "Tidal" 11:51:55.249 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "AudD" 11:51:55.270 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "Genius" 11:51:55.270 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "Lyrics.ovh" 11:51:55.270 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "LoloLyrics" 11:51:55.270 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "Musixmatch" 11:51:55.270 DEBUG LyricsProviders:103 Registered lyrics provider "ChartLyrics" 11:51:55.299 DEBUG MainWindow:336 Initialising player 11:51:55.616 DEBUG MainWindow:346 Creating models 11:51:55.616 DEBUG MainWindow:353 Creating models finished 11:51:55.683 DEBUG DeviceLister:66 CddaLister(0x5556c22dcf40) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c22dec10) 11:51:55.683 DEBUG DeviceLister:66 Udisks2Lister(0x5556c22e14c0) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c2032180) 11:51:55.683 DEBUG DeviceLister:66 GioLister(0x5556c22e5d70) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c2031fc0) 11:51:55.684 DEBUG CddaLister:115 No CD devices found 11:51:55.737 DEBUG Application:242 PlaylistBackend(0x5556c230f3f0) moved to thread QThread(0x5556c17c7240) 11:51:55.741 DEBUG MainWindow:371 Creating UI 11:51:55.759 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:49 Registered scrobbler service "Last.fm" 11:51:55.759 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:49 Registered scrobbler service "Libre.fm" 11:51:55.760 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:49 Registered scrobbler service "ListenBrainz" 11:51:56.194 DEBUG MainWindow:779 Creating playing widget 11:51:56.262 DEBUG MainWindow:822 Loading settings 11:51:57.406 WARN unknown QColor::fromHsv: HSV parameters out of range 11:51:58.005 DEBUG MainWindow:938 Started QThread(0x5556c14b7b40) 11:52:52.076 DEBUG Database:487 Starting database integrity check 11:52:52.089 DEBUG Database:548 Starting database backup 11:52:56.523 DEBUG GlobalShortcutsSettingsPage:120 Gnome (GSD) D-Bus backend is unavailable. 11:52:56.523 DEBUG GlobalShortcutsSettingsPage:125 X11 backend is available. 11:53:06.809 INFO SettingsPage:132 Saving settings for "Collection" 11:53:42.712 INFO SettingsPage:132 Saving settings for "Collection"

This is the terminal output. I don't see any permission issues.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/195https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/195Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:24:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Strawberry is not scanning my collection on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:14:57 GMT]]>Might be a permission issue, if you are using Linux or macOS run strawberry from the terminal and see if there is any errors shown there.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/193https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/193Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:14:57 GMT