Clearing inaccessible tracks MMA

[ssawyer]

I installed a new SD card (the old one was incredibly slow) and simply copied the music folder and MediaMonkey folder from the root of the Old SD card to the new one. Everything is fine other than the fact that every file is now duplicated in MMA, with one greyed out and reported as "Inaccessible".

Is there any way to purge the inaccessible tracks from the MM database? Doing it manually is a no-go as I have like 7500 tracks! Do I need to do something like wipe out the entire collection and re-sync?

Running MMA 1.41.0937 and MMW 4.1.29

Thanks!

[Lowlander]

Removing the old locations from library folder and then telling MMA to rescan in the Options should do the trick.

[ssawyer]

Thanks, but the files are in the same location - in the root folder on the SD card. I did re-establish the library folder and re-scan, but the "ghost" entries are still there. I'm wondering if I delete the mmstore.db file in the MediaMonkey/Files folder and re-scan if that is the trick to solving this, or if that will just hose things up worse!

[BobZ1]

Have you found a solution to the problem of duplicate inaccessible files? I've just synched a new sd card in my phone by usb. That worked but with some missing meta data and artwork. Read that scan from MMA would recover missing info. It did but I now have inaccessible duplicate of every track. Too many to remove one by one. Any solution?

[ssawyer]

Yeah. But it ain't pretty. Delete the MMSTORE.DB file, and uninstall the app from the device. Re-install and point it to the location where you store your music files. Just removing the MMSTORE.DB and re-scanning left me with the same situation you have. It won't "forget" a file that was there at one time until you remove and re-install the application.

That I had to do this to fix the problem is bad enough. That I had to figure this out on my own is ridiculous. There may be an easier way, and I'm sure the MM developers will read this and have themselves a good laugh, but when we're left to deal with this stuff on our own...

[zobocop]

I had this issue in the past, and went through all the 'inaccessible files' and deleted them manually within MMA to update it....

[ssawyer]

I had this issue in the past, and went through all the 'inaccessible files' and deleted them manually within MMA to update it....

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. As you can see, there is an easier, if kludge-y way to do it.

[jhdeano]

Hi All - for various reasons I had to delete and then reconfigure my MMA on my mobile phone. I too ended up with duplicate/greyed out tracks on my MMA. I finally found the solution as mentioed above.

1. On Mobile, use a file manager to delete the file MMSTORE.DB
2. On Mobile, uninstall MMA
3. I then powered down my mobile waited 5 minutes and then powered it up and reinstalled MMA via the Google Play Shop
4. As the install was progressing I had to 'point' MMA towards my SD card where my music is stored.
5. MMA then rebuilt the database on my mobile it took about 2 hrs for the 20,000 tracks .
6. On doing a brief survey of the albums on my mobile i found that all the greyed out duplicates had been removed - hurrah!
7. I then completed a wireless synch with my Windows PC and all looks good!

[ssawyer]

20,000 tracks!! Wow. Makes my ~8,000 look like an amateur's collection!

[meadowmeal]

Two years later, is there no better option for removing missing files from MMA?

[tmac]

Hi, I also have a similar problem and see greyed out copies of my Tracks in MMA.
I don't want to rebuild a new database as the collection is large and my old playlists are in the database (as I understand it).
The cause was a need to change my SD card in my Android phone - the old one got 'corrupted'.
I copied my Windows PC 'Tunes Media' folders & files to the new SD card (same way the old SD card had been built).
MMA had to have permissions re-instated and scanned the media, taking about 2 hours, now there are dual entries (half greyed out) and no content in the playlists (most of which are now grey).
Accessing a playlist using MMA it says no media and allows 'choose library folders' so have done that several times, each time it does a quick scan but nothing has changed (greyed out tracks, greyed out playlists asking for library folders access)

1. Is it possible to 'fix' the problem so i don't have to re-build the database (requiring delete/re-install of MMA)?
2. Can the old playlists be exported as i have no way to rebuild them (I add tracks to them over time so they build up)?
3. Is there a reason why the 'choose library folders' option doesn't seem to work for the playlists?

Thanks for any help
Phone is Moto G8 Power with Android 11 (running MMA v2.0.01173 w MMA Pro licence installed).