[mythtv-users] "Scan for New Music" stopped working

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Roald <roalda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Roald <roalda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I have plenty of songs (>50000) in MythMusic and use it quite often.
>> >> Today I was gonna add some new cds that I had ripped. I added them to
>> >> /video/music where I have all my music. But when using "Scan for New
>> >> Music" nothing happens, not even an error message!
>> > I've had a similar problem when my library hit a certain size. What I
>> > found
>> > that solved it was to go into the Music Settings first, then select scan
>> > music. Apparently it needs to load the library before it can scan it
>> > properly. Don't know why, but it's worked for me every time since I
>> > encountered it.
>>
>> And when I did that it worked for me too!! Thanks a lot!!
>>
>
> no problem. it drove me nuts for a week. then I randomly matched that
> pattern just playing around and it worked. of course, it also took me an
> hour to figure out exactly what I had done =P

I will not have this problem anytime soon, but it may be a good idea
to fill out a bug report[1] so it can get fixed. I did a quick search
and didn't see any open tickets for this problem.

Richard

[1] http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Bug_Tracking_System