New directories are not added
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Re: Can not add folder to strawberry collection
Found this old issue to which i relate my findings. The collection folder is based on an
iTunes structure (/iTunes/Music/Artist/Album) and defined as /media/d/Data/iTunes/Music
I have found multiple times that adding a new artist under the Music Folder that it is not picked up by
the 'Update Changed Collection Folder' or even 'Full Collection Scan' ... if however I put the new 7
songs under an already existing artist it IS picked up.
Tried restarting after adding new songs or even putting media files directly under the Music folder,
nothing makes a differenceAdding a directory from the Playlist menu only adds it to the playlist (no ratings possible)
I wonder how anyone out there adds new songs?
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@Timpie
How many folders do you have in your music collection?
If this is on Linux, you could have run out of watch descriptors. The default is 65536.cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches -
I've encountered this same issue and while I don't have a good solution, I do have a solution that will work. Adding "albums" to an existing "artist" folder works great but when I need to add a new "artist" folder at the top level of my library, it does not get picked up.
The solution I've found is to close the application, delete the strawberry profile data, relaunch, and reconfigure the application. Historically I've deleted ~/.var/app/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry completely but you can probably cut a few steps out and only delete the "data' subdirectory.
This isn't a great solution but it does work. One of these days I may try to figure out if I can find logs of the scanning process (if they even exist) but for now this gets the job done.
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@PunkRockJW
I tested this on both Linux, macOS and Windows, unable to reproduce the issue.
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I'm currently on Linux Mint 21.1 but I've had it happen on several earlier version of Mint as well.
Interestingly enough, I had this same issue when I was using Clementine earlier in the year before switching over to Strawberry.
My library is held on an external disk and originally I thought it had something to do with that or some sort of weird file system permissions but no matter what I did, the issue persisted. The only thing I could figure out was to blow away the library database and start fresh.
I have a few ideas of reorganizing the library structure so I don't have over 1,400 directories in the top level but that will take time I don't feel like spending.
Is there any way to log the directory scanning process so I can try to chase this down?
