Thanks for replying Dominic. I found it improbable that Clementine could not or did not perform recursive searches as a matter of routine, and yet that has been my experience thus far. I'm at a loss to understand why this should be as I'm not making any terribly unusual demands. Now, my music files ARE located on a different hard drive than Clementine, however when I was setting up Clementine, I was able to select the hard drive on which the music directory (and sub directories) are located. Furthermore, the additional hard drive has always been configured to be mounted as Mint is booted. And I have ownership of the directory (and all sub-directories). Something that just crossed my mind is that I don't have sharing enabled for the parent directory as I am the only person using this system. Could that somehow cause this issue?
On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 1:01:13 PM UTC-5, Renaissance Man wrote: > > Greetings to All, > > I am still quite new to Clementine and I have never used Amarok (although > I have head many very good things about it). Please forgive me if this > question has already been asked and answered, but I was unable to find it. > > My question concerns the way in which Clementine goes about adding music > to the end user's Library, and specifically to the collection I have. My > collections consist of three types of files: mp3s, FLAC and Internet radio > playlists (in both .m3u and .xspf formats). Each of these file types are > kept in separate directories (folders) and in the case of the FLAC > directory, on a separate drive. The files I am primarily concerned with are > the .mp3 files and the radio station playlists. > > In the case of the radio station playlists, my question is simply is one > format superior to the other vis-à-vis Clementine? > > In the case of the mp3 files, I have them ordered in nested directories, > by artist and then by album. In Clementine (1.3.1), under General > Preferences, sub-heading Music Library, the user is informed that "The > following folders will be scanned for music to make up your library". > However, when I selected the absolute path to the directory (folder) > wherein the mp3 files are kept, Clementine opened that directory to reveal > the directories of the various artists present and in cases when there are > multiple albums by a given artist, those directories were subsequently > displayed. > > From this observation, shall I deduce that Clementine lacks the ability to > perform recursive searches (I believe that this is the most precise > explanation), or stated another way, does it lack the ability to open > sub-directories found within the primary directory it is pointed toward? > If it does INDEED have this ability (and intuitively I believe it should), > can someone please help me understand why Clementine might not be doing > this on my system (BTW, I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon desktop > (v.4.0.9))? > > If I have missed any relevant information, please let me know. > > Many thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
