Home screen not showing all files? An issue with 'classical' music? [#21424]

[donmacn]

Hi folks,
I'm aware of the ask that we don't repeat stuff, but I have searched and gone back through several pages of topics before posting. If it's been done before, my apologies - my search skills will have let me down.

I've been using MM on Android quite happily for a long while (currently version 2.0.0.1173). I don't "sync" using MM on the desktop, preferring to manually add/delete files to/from the phone's music folder from my NAS using Windows Explorer. I don't change the stuff on the phone that much, so this has been OK.

Today I added some instrumental/classical music albums to the music folder. Great for noise cancelling headphones on long train journeys, while still allowing me to work. So, I know the music is in the phone folder, and I know the phone can 'see' it, and that MM also shows it when I drill down a bit, but it doesn't show up on the usual home/artists screen.

So -Screenshots - sorry these are so huge. I followed the instructions to post them, but can't see anything about resizing.

Number 1 - showing the list of artists on the 'home' screen which is my usual 'goto': No sign of Antonio Vivaldi...

Screenshot 2 - I go to 'folders'

Then I have two choices -

And if I choose the lower of these above, there's Antonio Vivaldi as hoped:

My question is why these files don't show up in the main 'artists' view? I've done a couple of rescans, but still not working.

In my searching I did find a reference to music tagged as 'classical' not showing up in the 'music' view... but this might be a red herring?

For example, I have 3 Ludovico Einaudi albums in the folder -one shows up OK in the home screen; two don't.

What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to do to fix this? Is it just a case of editing the tags to change the genre to something else?

Any help very gratefully received.

[Lowlander]

Yes, the first screenshot shows you're in Music section which excludes things like Classical Music, Podcasts, etc.

[donmacn]

Thanks Lowlander - that's a "Doh" moment from me. I had no idea that things were sorted/displayed like that.

Once you know, it's all there.

Ta.

[Yerushalmi]

Question: Is there any way to change this? I don't want classical music separated from the rest of my music, and it doesn't work that way in MMW.

[Lowlander]

No, MMA always had it separate.

[Yerushalmi]

Can I make that a feature request? It's a major drawback.

[Peke]

Hi,
Added as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=21424

[Yerushalmi]

Thanks!

[babydinosaur]

Hi all.
I hate the way MM segregates Classical music from the rest, because it breaks up albums which have a mix of classical and non-classical music (e.g. my perennial favourite Inspector Morse Vol 1).
I have managed to remove the 'Classical' collection on my Windows MM so everything appears int he 'Music' collection, but I can't find a way of doing that on Android. So on my phone there are two separate Inspector Morse Vol 1 albums, one in the 'Classical' collection, and one in the standard 'Albums' collection. This means I can't listen to the album in its entirety on my phone.
Any ideas how I can get around this?
Thanks

[Peke]

I have managed to remove the 'Classical' collection on my Windows MM so everything appears int he 'Music' collection, but I can't find a way of doing that on Android.

For MMW you do not need to do that as you can enable Entire Library collection and stop worry. As for MMA unfortunately https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=21424 needs to be implemented.