Mycenius wrote: > Just FWIW oddly enough I am having this issue myself with my new > HS-453DX NAS running QLMS - it sometimes won't pick up new music copied > locally to the NAS, but it then appears 1 or 2 days later (I run a > scheduled scan for new & changed 4am every morning). I'm trying to > eliminate a timing issue (as I have a TS-421 RAID 5 NAS as a file server > holding my master library and that replicates any changes in the library > down to the new HS-453DX Music NAS using QNAP's sync application about > 11pm each evening), however I've verified the files are on the Music NAS > well before the scheduled scan, and if I leave it it discovers them 1 or > 2 scans later as noted. I also have my older Vortexbox build and older > copy of library on it - and it had similar issues, except ones it didn't > find it would never find unless you cleared and rescanned everything > from scratch... > > > Yes, files play ok and paths are ok as well. Only issue was increased > scan times (>5 min more) per scan. I do not have any issue with > discovery of new files except for 1 time when I did a custom scan > (custom scan plugin) before doing a nor > > > > > > Again FWIW I have had a similar type of issue before with changing > folder names (or even file names) - although have not had the specific > deleting files repetition issue @Blackfiction refers to. In cases where > I renamed folders or moved files to a newly created folder I would get > the opposite - I'd have 2 entries in library as the orphaned entry would > not get deleted - it seemed LMS didn't like it if the 'path' to the file > for that entry vanished... if I straight out deleted files it would > purge them from the library okay, but if I renamed the containing folder > or otherwise 'broke' the path to the original file location it didn't > always purge it from the library db. It also sometimes would then not > pick up all the files in the new folder (or renamed folder) similar to > the above. However a 'clear the db and rescan everything' would normally > fix this (except for on a couple of occasions) - but this was on my > Vortexbox a few years ago (2015?) so was when I was running the 7.6 or > 7.7 official version and then the very first of the 7.9.x community > enhanced versions - all on the latest version of Vortexbox at the time. > > However in these cases where they don't delete you can still see the > entry in the GUI which isn't what @Blackfiction is experiencing as I > understand (@Blackfiction - after the scan you could play the files form > library and their paths were showing as the correct paths- correct?). It > does seem there is some unusual situation that can occur that involves > changes to network or drive paths that confuses LMS... > > Another test for @Blackfiction FWIW might be to rename the folder or > such for a single album, then also rename a single file for that album > (e.g. add 'test' to start of the file name) after the folder change and > rescan - and see whether there are then 2 entries in the database for > the artist/track - one in the old folder location with original name and > one in the new folder location with the new file name? > > (FWIW I notice similar in MediaMonkey - if you delete files and rescan a > drive or folder it only sometimes detects they are gone - often you have > to manually delete them from the library). > > The other question for @Blackfiction is are you renaming a 'root' > folder, or a subfolder of your root? i.e. the ones in red circle below > (or upstream from them) - or just subfolders inside them. If you are > doing the former are you adding it into the list below and removing the > old one? > > 28960 > > Alternatively when you renamed the folder in the options screen above - > did you leave an old entry and put the new entry into the above screen > for the first scan after doing it (assuming you changed a 'root' folder > name)?
Files play ok and paths are ok as well. I renamed the root folder and deleted the old one, just by typing/selecting the new one over the old entry. Living: EtherRegen -> Ultrarendu -> Benchmark DAC2 HGC -> Benchmark AHB2 -> ATC SCM19 v2 & Sennheiser HD650 Kitchen: SB Touch -> Audio Pro Addon T10 gen2 Kids rooms: SB Booms Bedroom: SB Boom & SB Radio Controls: iPeng, Material Skin & LMS via internet Server: Windows 10 Pro with LMS 7.9.2 Spare: 2 SB Touch, 1 SB3, 2 SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blackfiction's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20587 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111385 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
