[ukbootlegs]

I have my music all ripped as FLAC, then converted to MP3 and stored on my NAS

so a typical file path is Sorted\I-P\New Fast Automatic Daffodils\Pigeonhole for the FLAC and Sorted\I-P\New Fast Automatic Daffodils\Pigeonhole\MP3 for the MP3

i saw it is possible to exclude types;

<musicextensions>
<add>.ex1|.ex2</add>
<remove>.ex3|.ex4</remove>
</musicextensions>


i tried to do it like this to have only the mp3 files imported but it didn't work.  the library still showed both.

<musicextensions>
  <remove>.flac</remove>
</musicextensions>

can someone educate me what i did wrong and what i should be doing?

thank you, i appreciate it, and apologise if this question has been asked many times.  i did search through the threads but couldn't see an answer

stay safe folks

[Klojum]

Check your kodi log file, if you made any typos in the advancedsettings.xml file it will not load correctly.

[Sylfest]

Sorry but why add anything to the library that u don't want to see in the library?

Just add: Sorted\I-P\New Fast Automatic Daffodils\Pigeonhole\MP3

Maybe the files are in the same directory, as your example they are not.

[jjd-uk]

I don't think that Advanced Setting can remove anything that has been already added, I think they need to be prevented from being added when the Library is created. In which case it maybe the excludefromscan under the audio section, see https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#audio

There is a excludefromlisting setting there also, but from description that suggests it only hides files in the files view. However could be worth a try.