4.7 not recognizing music

[pfaffman]

I've been using subsonic for several years and love it.

I recently noticed that some music was not showing up in Subsonic with one of the 4.7 betas. After a hard drive upgrade and upgrade to 4.7 final, most of my music is not getting recognized. I have my music folder organized by source (e.g., iTunes, flac, joe, sally, downloads). The first few (alphabetically) worked fine, but most (but not all) the the rest show up, but when you click on them they appear to be empty.

I downgraded to 4.6 and everything is there again. I cannot find the screen that tells me how many songs there are (it's easier to find in 4.7), but when I click into those directories, all of the music is there.

I don't see anyone else complaining of such, is it just me?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I installed the .deb file.

Ah. I'm running

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.4) (6b24-1.11.4-1ubuntu0.12.04.1)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode, sharing)

Perhaps I need to install Sun Java?

[pfaffman]

Nope.

I upgraded to Java 7 --jetty-6.1.x, java 1.7.0_07, Linux (60.0 MB / 88.2 MB)

Still no joy.

[hakko]

Some people had issues with certain folders not being recognized in the 4.7 betas. If I remember correctly, there was for example a bug about folders containing the character "-", and I think this was only reported on *ix platforms. Do you see a pattern like that?

I never dug into it though as I'm using a different media scanner that's not affected.

[hakko]

reference: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9904&p=43573

[bbr4d3r]

I was running into the same issue and just for shits and giggles I decided to keep using the "Scan media folders now" button over and over again and after the fourth or fifth time it had finally detected all of my music folders. I just kept clicking that, letting it finish and then hitting the refresh button on the left hand pane where the artists/folders are located. I might suggest giving this a shot and seeing if that resolves the issue. I was immediately disappointed that this issue showed up again because it happened when I first tested the beta versions awhile back and was expecting this to be corrected when I installed the final version. At least this worked for me hope this helps someone else!

[noleech]

I had issue with 4.7 where my folder for my artist ".38 Special" was not recognized. I had to get rid of the "." to have it recognized. I have about 30,000 songs with hundreds of folders. So not sure if what folders or songs i need to correct. So I need the special characters be recognized. I also did not like the playlists feature on 4.7. the 4.6 version, I had made playlists and placed in a folder call playlists. Now the new version 4.7 I have it to import them back. Anyway, that was my 2 cents

[ChiMatt]

I had this same issue. I just changed the title of the folder from "music" to "audio" and rescanned and subsonic picked up the "new" folder. It is a terrible work around, but a small price for having your folder back. I would try to change the name if nothing else works.

[BKKKPewsey]

I had to get rid of the "." to have it recognized.

That has been mentioned before and was present in older versions of SS
SS treats files/folders, starting with "." as hidden folders (aka Unix)
This can be used to advantage within SS to hide certain folders
eg I hide my artwork folders by calling them .artwork