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      adityasubathu
      last edited by

      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

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      • jonasJ
        jonas
        last edited by jonas

        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.

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          adityasubathu
          last edited by

          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.

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          • jonasJ
            jonas
            last edited by

            Remove the collection directory and readd it, then watch the terminal for errors.

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              adityasubathu @jonas
              last edited by

              @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.

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              • jonasJ
                jonas
                last edited by

                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.

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                  adityasubathu
                  last edited by

                  Oh jesus hecking christ. It was the .nomedia file. Thanks. It's scanning the folders now.

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                    paulbirch
                    last edited by

                    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

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                      adityasubathu @paulbirch
                      last edited by

                      @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.

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                      • jonasJ
                        jonas
                        last edited by

                        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.

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