[mythtv-users] Strange MythMusic File Behavior

[Paul Harrison]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Martin Lynch <
martin.lynch.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Firstly, I'm sorry it was my question that prompted some ingrate to refer
> to the MythTV community (a community which has generously invested tens of
> thousands of hours into making a free product better!) as the "linux talaban
> (sic)" and then suggested MythTV ought to have some sort of "windows" UI
> (which at least gave me a rather good chuckle). I'm not sure what proportion
> of ignorance to arrogance the recipe calls for when making a prick like
> that, but it's clearly more than a dash of each.
>
> Secondly, thanks very much for your reply to my original question, Paul,
> and sorry for the delayed response - have been out of town on business. This
> explains what has happened and possibly sheds light on the real problem:
> when I added tracks to my music folder and then had MythMusic scan for new
> tracks, they were not available for selection in the "Select Music" section,
> so I thought perhaps I was required to import the tracks. So I pointed the
> import feature at my music directory and told it to add all new tracks. I
> gather at that point it copied everything there to a new folder called
> "music". Clearly my bad. I wonder why my scan didn't update the tracks
> available in "Select Music"...any ideas?
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martin
>
>
OK, glad to here you found what the problem was. The import is used when you
want to copy some tracks you ripped on another machine or bought online into
your music collection. It will use the filename format you have set to
create the correct directory and filenames and copy the tracks and cover
images to you music directory.

The problem with the missing tracks  sounds like a bug I fixed back in
September were the tracks list wasn't updated after a scan, rip or import.
It was a bug introduced while making some changes in preparation for the
port to MythUI  but I didn't think that bug went all the way back to
0.23-fixes but could be wrong. If it is that one restarting the frontend
should make any new tracks available. I'm sure 0.24 doesn't have that
problem though.

Paul H.
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