Thanks Garthhh for all the ideas Will be trying out in detail Playlist>Shuffle Mode>Shuffle Albums, may fulfill your needs your preferences are interesting you got a few ideas I will try with the playlists
back to the missing songs and one last thing tried the tags edit in Clem before going ape in Easytag Clementine > behavior > when sorting songs > ignore > a, the -- I added > A, The those two little words seems to find the 1000+ songs missing after re-intalling the music library not Clementine just the library maybe it was those two words or re-installing the Musicdb anyway if it fixes it is good doesn't really matter which one or both did , it's the result that matters Now I have only two yes 2 songs missing hahaha, 2 songs why 2 songs haha Thank You Garthhh On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 4:27:38 AM UTC+10, Garthhh wrote: > > "There has to be a way to get Clementine to recognize and add those > missing songs, > I'm sure I'm just missing seeing an obvious simple way to do this," > > There is no way inside Clementine, beyond finding & fixing the > incompatible tags > > The missing files probably have incompatible file names, sometimes there > is a number someone added, which for whatever reason clementine is confused > by more than some other players... > Finding few files that are "missing" & run the easytag scanner, which > repairs the file names, I use %n - %t, as my file system is the normal > artist folders , containing albums folders, containing song files > You can run the easytag scanner function on big chunks of your library, > which can take some time for 100's or 1000's files > > Playlist>Shuffle Mode>Shuffle Albums, may fulfill your needs > My preference below > > My attention span is too short most of the time to want to hear an entire > album :D > The clementine tag editor is good changing the comment field for large > numbers of files > I use this field to set tags for duplicate, live, alternate versions, > longer than 6 minutes which lets me use them as filters for building smart > playlists > I have an all- PL[playlist], which contains 2/3rds of my library > I shuffle that list & copy a 1000 at a time on to sd/tz cards, removing > from the PL afterwards. I just keep using the same PL, until I want an > updated version, you could keep a current copy as a saved PL > Most cheap mp3 players will play in that same random order, without > relying on that devices "Random" function > > > On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 4:17:20 PM UTC-7, noel dennis wrote: >> >> Hello >> I've got a strange problem that I cannot workout >> My music player I am using is Clementine(has nice features) after loading >> some more music to collection I use gMusicbrowser( the other player I use >> also has Very nice features) to run replaygain to the added mp3's before >> opening Clementine, I've notice that the amount of songs in GMU is correct >> (used catfish to verify amount of mp3s in collection) but Clem is not >> correct >> >> When Clem is opened and refreshed or updated call it what you want to the >> amount of songs differs less a lot less to what is in the collection >> >> Has anyone else had this happen(ing) ? >> >> Does anyone know what causes this ? >> >> Using the Clementine Version 1.3.1-702 >> Thanks for reading >> any help very appreciated >> >> -- 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 clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/dc2c17f4-5d4a-42a2-9999-83de6bcaa32b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
