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Just began using MusicCab and have been loving it. Unfortunately I just began having some issues with artists not being included. I double checked the folders and everything is there must MusicCab refuses to pick them up and add them to the list. I've tried re-scanning and restarting but to no luck. When I look through the subsonic.log, it doesn't even mention scanning the folder(s), as if they don't exist!

Does this sound like a Cab issue or Subsonic?
What can I do? Cheers.

I'm running:
0.7.22 on a Mac

Make sure you've spelled the Media Folders directory correctly (uppercase/lowercase matters). Go to the file tree view to see what's been found in a directory. Check Settings -> Media folders to see if some of your files are missing required tags (artist, title), then they won't be included. subsonic.log does not contain a log of what's being scanned. You could check musiccabinet.log, location found from the About view. It's also relevant if a whole folder is not being added or if just a couple of files from a certain folder are not added.

hakko wrote:Make sure you've spelled the Media Folders directory correctly (uppercase/lowercase matters). Go to the file tree view to see what's been found in a directory. Check Settings -> Media folders to see if some of your files are missing required tags (artist, title), then they won't be included. subsonic.log does not contain a log of what's being scanned. You could check musiccabinet.log, location found from the About view. It's also relevant if a whole folder is not being added or if just a couple of files from a certain folder are not added.

My apologies for not investigating this further as I may be onto a solution. It appears all the missing artists have special characters (ie Esbjörn Svensson Trio). This realization brought me to this thread which offered this as a solution,

wowo wrote:First disable Subsonic.
Then you must add the following code to the subsonic.sh file almost at the beginning right after the line "SUBSONIC_DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_FOLDER=/var/playlists"
Mind the " !!!! they are essential otherwise it won't work.

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export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Finally you can see Björk and other artists, albums and tracks with international characters.

I had also to change the default music folder and then changed it back to the normal default music folder then it works for me.
Sorry for my bad English.

Here's to hoping it works smoothly. Thanks for the badass mod.

Edit: It worked. For some reason I could have sworn Subsonic read it all before, maybe I just never noticed.