Might sound like a stupid thing to suggest but bear with me...
 
Browse to your music folder on your hard-drive (e.g. c:\audio).  When you can 
see "c:\audio" in the address bar, copy this and paste it directly into the 
setting for "music folder".
 
I know it's got to be pretty much impossible to get it wrong while typing it, 
but just give it a try.  Click the "change" button to make the setting active, 
and then do a rescan.
 
If this fails, then maybe thereis some reason why the slimserver can't see the 
files - this could be because:
 
(a)  the user who runs slimserver service may not have permission to view the 
contents of the c:\audio location; or
(b) slimserver has been configured to look for only certain file-types, and 
none of those file types are listed. (e.g. "server settings>file types" from 
the SB web control panel.
 
Both options are a bit unlikely, but both are worth checking just to rule them 
out.
 
Dan.

________________________________

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jack Coates
Sent: Sun 03/04/2005 15:28
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: Re: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library



ceejay wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  I had intended to go for such a structure,
> though with only 3 albums hadn't got quite that far yet! Nevertheless,
> just in case it was important, I've moved a couple into the full
> directory structure but (no surprise) its made no difference.
>
> 
>
> And I don't think the "guess tag formats" is going to help either -
> slimserver just isn't seeing ANY music files.  I note that when I click
> "rescan" I get a message at the top saying "The server is now rescanning
> your Music Library", which doesn't seem to go away. Should it? How long
> ought it to take to scan 3 CDs??!  All I'm doing at the moment is
> waiting till I get bored (multiple minutes) then checking "home" only
> still to read ... "Your music library contains 0 albums with 0 songs by 0
> artists"
>
...

yes, that should go away. Are you able to look at task manager and see
what slimserver is doing? Better yet, run the exe from the command line.

--
Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture...
Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996!
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss


<<winmail.dat>>

_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Reply via email to