On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 15:29 -0700, Renaissance Man wrote: > 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? >
It really shouldn't make a difference. Clementine for me (on Debian) finds any set-up music files (mp3/4, ogg or flac), mine too are sorted as you say, with the addition of individual genre directories above them. My hard drives and directories are not shared either. Clementine finds and remembers music whether it be on the same or seperate HD's, DVD's, removeable media (when plugged) etc, so I would say this is not the issue. So, what remains? possibly the use of an unrecognised symbol in the directory structure, the addition of a trailing space by accident on your (Music?) folder or something along these lines. So, try renaming the folder ensuring these aren't present and removing then re-adding the folder to Clementine. The only other thing I can think of is something being added to the folder structure or the files themselves, by the software you use to rip your cd's which is making them unrecognisable. If you still can't solve this, you may find better help on the github site which is far more active with developers than this old google site, just create an issue describing your problem and someone will be around to help as time permits. The Clementine website itself was last updated in 2016 but the github site has much newer versions of the software, though possibly the same or not much newer than your Mint OS as that is derived from Debian testing (which I use here). https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine Cheers and good luck. > 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. -- 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.
