When I do "add/rescan tracks to the library," the "Adding XXX of XXX" running total on the progress bar goes up to about 18000. But when I click on the Title node (or whatever, to show all tracks) it lists 10159 files in the library.
If anything I would expect the library to be bigger, since it has tracks from other folders that I don't include in the routine "add/rescan tracks" scan.
Why the difference?
# tracks scanned vs. # in library
Moderator: Gurus
There are a couple of possibilities...
1. Some of the files being scanned are not MM compatible files so they don't get added. For instance, I believe it shows all the files as being scanned even if they are not MM files (e.g. PDFs, JPGs, etc.) as I have a couple of those in my music directories (album covers, lyrics, etc.).
2. While I haven't really paid attention to this in MM, for my uPNP device and software, the scan counted files scanned from playlists. However, since the playlists were referring to files that were being scanned individually by the database, it was essentially scanning duplicates and only referenced one of them... i.e. if I had an album of 10 songs and a playlist for that album, the scanner would scan 20 tracks but only add 10 (since the other 10 are the same).
I'm not sure this is your case or not. If you want to be sure you aren't missing anyfiles, you can use Windows Explorer to search the folders your indexing in MM for the types of files you expect it to find (e.g. mp3's, flac's, wma's, etc.). It should tell you how many total files it finds and whether it matches up to what MM finds. It won't tell you what's missing as it is purely a search, but it is a start in seeing if anything is wrong.
Erik
1. Some of the files being scanned are not MM compatible files so they don't get added. For instance, I believe it shows all the files as being scanned even if they are not MM files (e.g. PDFs, JPGs, etc.) as I have a couple of those in my music directories (album covers, lyrics, etc.).
2. While I haven't really paid attention to this in MM, for my uPNP device and software, the scan counted files scanned from playlists. However, since the playlists were referring to files that were being scanned individually by the database, it was essentially scanning duplicates and only referenced one of them... i.e. if I had an album of 10 songs and a playlist for that album, the scanner would scan 20 tracks but only add 10 (since the other 10 are the same).
I'm not sure this is your case or not. If you want to be sure you aren't missing anyfiles, you can use Windows Explorer to search the folders your indexing in MM for the types of files you expect it to find (e.g. mp3's, flac's, wma's, etc.). It should tell you how many total files it finds and whether it matches up to what MM finds. It won't tell you what's missing as it is purely a search, but it is a start in seeing if anything is wrong.
Erik
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1. Thought of that, but that seems like a LOT of covers and text files.emalvick wrote:There are a couple of possibilities...
1. Some of the files being scanned are not MM compatible files so they don't get added. For instance, I believe it shows all the files as being scanned even if they are not MM files (e.g. PDFs, JPGs, etc.) as I have a couple of those in my music directories (album covers, lyrics, etc.).
2. While I haven't really paid attention to this in MM, for my uPNP device and software, the scan counted files scanned from playlists. However, since the playlists were referring to files that were being scanned individually by the database, it was essentially scanning duplicates and only referenced one of them... i.e. if I had an album of 10 songs and a playlist for that album, the scanner would scan 20 tracks but only add 10 (since the other 10 are the same).
I'm not sure this is your case or not. If you want to be sure you aren't missing anyfiles, you can use Windows Explorer to search the folders your indexing in MM for the types of files you expect it to find (e.g. mp3's, flac's, wma's, etc.). It should tell you how many total files it finds and whether it matches up to what MM finds. It won't tell you what's missing as it is purely a search, but it is a start in seeing if anything is wrong.
Erik
2. Don't use playlists at all
Running a search just lists the files found--it doesn't say how many it found. Let me know if there's a way to get that info (in XP).
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Well, I tried to have it scan just one folder, with 19 tracks and 5 images (actually it was a folder with one subfolder containing the above).
I had to do it a couple times to try to see because it goes so fast, but it looked like it said 32 or 35 on the progress bar. Odd, but at least based on that I know I can just ignore the numbers in the progress bar.
(BTW, apes aren't monkeys! It kills my soul a little bit every time I have to click on an ape as a "monkey" to verify a post)
I had to do it a couple times to try to see because it goes so fast, but it looked like it said 32 or 35 on the progress bar. Odd, but at least based on that I know I can just ignore the numbers in the progress bar.
(BTW, apes aren't monkeys! It kills my soul a little bit every time I have to click on an ape as a "monkey" to verify a post)
Again....apes aren't monkeys!
For a big part (e.g. at least most non-native-English speakers) of the world, they are.
Wikipedia wrote:Because of their similarity to monkeys, apes such as chimpanzees and gibbons are often called monkeys in informal usage, though biologists don't consider them to be monkeys.
So it's actually only a subset of the world's population that began to see apes as different kind of animals than apes. Originally, "apes" were part of the "monkey" family.Wikipedia wrote:Name
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "monkey" may originate in a German version of the Big Virgina fable, published circa 1580. In this version of the fable, a character named Moneke is the son of Martin the Ape. The word Moneke may have been derived from the Italian monna, which means "a female ape". The name Moneke likely persisted over time due to the popularity of Reynard the Fox.
Hmmm.... even humans can be considered to be apes. Confusing.Wikipedia wrote:However, it is not considered accurate by many biologists to think of apes in a biological sense without considering humans to be included.
How would we describe the monkey-clicking thing then? "Please select all monkeys and apes, except for humans"?
On topic: I haven't seen a clear explanation for the X / X numbers either. But does it matter?
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