Location view corrupt?
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:18 pm
I've recently re-arranged my media NAS, changing from a single Share (Media) containing three sub-folders (Music, Photos, Videos), to three individual Shares.
Previously, the Music folder was mapped as a network drive, M: as \\server\Media\Music, and MediaMonkey was pointed to M:
After the move, I changed the network drive mapping so that M: pointed to \\server\Music
Since the music was still on M:, I didn't expect MediaMonkey to even notice the change. But it did; none of the music could be found. So I ran the UpdateLocationOfFiles script, and the artwork and 'Now Playing' list recovered. All seemed good.
Then I noticed a discrepancy in the 'Location' tree view; Many album artists have only one album visible in that view, and that album contains only one track (usually the first, but not always).
Doing a re-scan makes the album titles appear under in the album artist folder, and the scan reports the correct number of files have been updated, but the 'All' view for the album artist does not change, and the newly-added albums show no tracks.
If I close up the album artist folder, and re-open it, I'm back to one album, and one track.
If I look at the 'All' view at the top of the list of album artist folders, everything is correct; all albums, and all tracks are visible for all album artists. If I view album covers, all albums are present, and viewing by tracks, all tracks are present.
The track count in the bottom left is correct; all tracks are in the library, it's just the Location view is corrupt.
I have run 'Maintain Library' (quick and complete); I have restarted MM multiple times. I have rebooted the PC. I have re-scanned the folders numerous times. Nothing fixes this problem; the Location view under individual Album Artists appears resolutely broken.
My music is filed in a number of source folders, under my M: network drive
M:\<source level 1>\<source level 2>\<album artist>\<album>\<track> <title>
This has worked fine for the last eight years. Well, for the last eight years, it has looed like:
M:\Music\<source level 1>\<source level 2>\<album artist>\<album>\<track> <title>
Any suggestions as to what this problem might be, and how to fix it (short of deleting the entire database and starting again, losing all play counts, etc)?
Previously, the Music folder was mapped as a network drive, M: as \\server\Media\Music, and MediaMonkey was pointed to M:
After the move, I changed the network drive mapping so that M: pointed to \\server\Music
Since the music was still on M:, I didn't expect MediaMonkey to even notice the change. But it did; none of the music could be found. So I ran the UpdateLocationOfFiles script, and the artwork and 'Now Playing' list recovered. All seemed good.
Then I noticed a discrepancy in the 'Location' tree view; Many album artists have only one album visible in that view, and that album contains only one track (usually the first, but not always).
Code: Select all
Location
net:Music (M:)
All
<source level 1>
All
<source level 2>
All
<album artist>
All
album artist1
album1 (album artist1)
<album1>
Code: Select all
Location
net:Music (M:)
All
<source level 1>
All
<source level 2>
All
<album artist1>
All
album artist1
album1 (album artist1)
<album1>
<album2>
<album3>
<album...>
If I look at the 'All' view at the top of the list of album artist folders, everything is correct; all albums, and all tracks are visible for all album artists. If I view album covers, all albums are present, and viewing by tracks, all tracks are present.
Code: Select all
Location
net:Music (M:)
All
<source level 1>
All
<source level 2>
All
album artist1
album1 (album artist1)
album2 (album artist1)
album3 (album artist1)
albumn (album artist1)
album artist2
...
<album artist1>
<album artist2>
<...>
<album artistn>
I have run 'Maintain Library' (quick and complete); I have restarted MM multiple times. I have rebooted the PC. I have re-scanned the folders numerous times. Nothing fixes this problem; the Location view under individual Album Artists appears resolutely broken.
My music is filed in a number of source folders, under my M: network drive
M:\<source level 1>\<source level 2>\<album artist>\<album>\<track> <title>
This has worked fine for the last eight years. Well, for the last eight years, it has looed like:
M:\Music\<source level 1>\<source level 2>\<album artist>\<album>\<track> <title>
Any suggestions as to what this problem might be, and how to fix it (short of deleting the entire database and starting again, losing all play counts, etc)?