[imhotepp]

Hello, new member here

I have tried to search for this but I haven't found any post with a similar issue, so apologies if it has been asked before.

I have a shared drive (through SMB) that has music organised in a structure of /Artist/Album/Audio files.mp3, I have added this location through the user interface in XBMC but it doesn't scan the directory recursively and populate the library.

I am assuming the problem is the directory structure, or is it that XBMC would not add network files to the library? (having said that it did add TV shows video files, which were also organised in a structure of /Show Name/Season/Episode.avi)

Help please?


Many thanks....

[rudeboyx]

theres no reason why it should not work with the directory structure you have. also network files should work perfectly fine.

Post a a debug log and maybe we will see whats causing the issue.

[imhotepp]

Here is the relevant "I think" section of the log file during startup

05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935116800 NOTICE: UpdateLibraries - Starting video library startup scan
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935116800 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogVideoScan.xml) ------
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935116800 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogVideoScan.xml
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935116800 DEBUG: Load DialogVideoScan.xml: 4.31ms
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935116800 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 4.62ms (4.57 ms skin load)
05:48:00 T:3044830064 M:935161856 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935161856 NOTICE: UpdateLibraries - Starting music library startup scan
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935161856 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogMusicScan.xml) ------
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935161856 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogMusicScan.xml
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935227392 DEBUG: Load DialogMusicScan.xml: 4.25ms
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935227392 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 4.58ms (4.54 ms skin load)
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935227392 INFO: Music scan has started... Enabling tag reading, and remote thumbs
05:48:00 T:3044830064 M:935227392 DEBUG: Process - Starting scan
05:48:00 T:3034340208 M:935227392 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
05:48:00 T:3034340208 M:935227392 DEBUG: Thread 3034340208 terminating
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:935161856 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:935161856 DEBUG: DBus: Creating message to org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit on /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager with interface org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager and method CanStop
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:935051264 DEBUG: Process - Starting scan
05:48:00 T:3011505008 M:935051264 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
05:48:00 T:3011505008 M:935051264 DEBUG: Thread 3011505008 terminating
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:935051264 DEBUG: Process - Finished scan
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:935051264 NOTICE: My Music: Scanning for music info using worker thread, operation took 00:00
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:935051264 INFO: Music scan was stopped or finished ... restoring FindRemoteThumbs
05:48:00 T:3021994864 M:934662144 DEBUG: Thread 3021994864 terminating
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 DEBUG: DBus: Creating message to org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks on /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks with interface org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks and method EnumerateDevices
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 DEBUG: DeviceKit.Power: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks was not provided by any .service files
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 DEBUG: DBus: Creating message to org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit on /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager with interface org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager and method CanStop
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 DEBUG: DBus: Creating message to org.freedesktop.UDisks on /org/freedesktop/UDisks with interface org.freedesktop.UDisks and method EnumerateDevices
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 DEBUG: UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 NOTICE: initialize done
05:48:00 T:3078625152 M:934694912 NOTICE: Running the application...

[rudeboyx]

well, i can see that the scan isnt really doing any thing. it atttempts to start then stops straight away. my personal skills reading logs arn't great, so lets wait and see what someone else makes of it.

RBX

[jmarshall]

Music scans recursively by default. If it's not scanning anything then there's nothing setup to be scanned.