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

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
MythMusic is slated for a rewrite anyway, so I figured not worth wasting the
developers time with such a minor bug that may be a PITA to actually figure
out. Plus, I don't know that many people with music libraries this large (I
live with 5 other people, so our combined libraries account for why my
system has so many)

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Steve
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