MM 3.0.2 Not Monitoring Folders Properly

Jason Dunn · Post by **Jason Dunn** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:08 am

2.x worked great for this, but 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 both have the same problem: they don't monitor folders properly. I moved some music out of my "New Music" folder (using Explorer) located on C:\Users\Public\Music and when Media Monkey starts up and does its scan, it still shows entries for the music that's no longer there. It did this in 3.0.1, so I updated to 3.0.2 today and it has the same problem. I should note that it finds new music properly, but it does not remove music entries for MP3s and folders that are no longer there.

I've verified under TOOLS > OPTIONS that FILE MONITOR is set to YES and YES.

I even forced a re-scan of my whole Music folder, which made it then complain about missing music. That was solved when I pointed it back to the root Music folder - yet the phantom music still remained after that process.

MM 2.x worked flawlessly regarding folder monitoring - why is 3.x having so much trouble monitoring my music? I ended up having to clean out my entire database and add it all back in from scratch, which took a while with 13,000+ songs.

Is this a known issue, and better yet, is there a forthcoming fix? I love this program and bought a gold license - but this is the ugliest problem I've seen with it in a while.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:24 am

Wow...ok, scratch that, my removal of all tracks, shutting down of MediaMonkey, and re-scan of the monitor folder upon start-up didn't work. Not only are old, non-there tracks picked up, but the new music that IS inside that folder isn't being picked up.

This is seriously busted for me!

Jason Dunn · Post by **Jason Dunn** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:38 am

Really? No one else is seeing the same problem?

Post by **Peke** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:01 am

I just retest on My PC with and have no Problems. Do you have Remove unavailable tracks enabled?

Jason Dunn · Post by **Jason Dunn** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:08 am

Peke wrote:Do you have Remove unavailable tracks enabled?

Ah, no, I did not - I didn't understand how/why that feature would be useful because monitoring means looking for what's changed - it never occurred to me that anyone would want to leave entries for songs behind that were moved. I checked it, and the tracks that were moved are no longer showing up. Thanks!

What's strange though is that the album I added this morning wasn't showing up after a scan until I checked off the "Remove Unavailable Tracks", which makes no sense - it was a new folder, with new songs, so it should have been picked up on the first scan. I still think there's something fishy going on there...