No Music Folders Found. Please Change The Settings

[briarrabbitt]

I just installed Subsonic on my XP machine. The install went fine and the server is running. I cannot get it to work on my local machine.

I connect through the http://localhost address and log in as admin. I tried to set the music folder to the directory where my music is stored (F:\Alt.Documents\Alt.Music\Music) but It tells me No Music Folders Found.

I am the sole user of this machine and I have full admin rights. What am I doing wrong? Can someone please help? I'd really like to get it working.

Thanks!

[jigsaw]

Hi briarrabbitt
Here is a couple of things you could check

1. Verify that the path to the music dir is entered correctly and that it is enabled
2. Check the "Music mask" in Settings -> General. Verify that the file types listed coincide with the type of media you are trying to stream
3. Re-build the index: Settings -> Search -> "Update search index now"
4. Check the logs and see if there are any error-messages which might identify the problem

Hope this helps.

-jigsaw

[briarrabbitt]

Haa!! I got it! Thanks for the help Jiggsaw! I checked everything you said and it all looked right. That is until I checked the log. It was not able to list the "Alt.Documents" folder. I've experienced this problem before using FTP and it was usually related to permissions. However I did notice that when I backed all the way up to my F:\ drive it WOULD list and certain folders where accessible.

I compared the security permissions of those folders with my music folders. The working folders had the Administrator account and the System account with full control. My music folders only had me listed. I added the admin account name and the system account name, gave them full control and BAM!!! It worked!

AWESOME!!!!! Hope this helps someone else!

Thanks!

[mudsharkymon]

Same deal here, Cannot get rid of the "No music folders found. Please change the settings" error message.

In settings I set my folder to M:\ then under SEARCH I started the index update but that error mssg remains.

[jonathanroz]

I assume since the drive is M: that it is a mapped drive. You need to add it by doing the share name instead \\computername\shareName

[mudsharkymon]

I assume since the drive is M: that it is a mapped drive. You need to add it by doing the share name instead \\computername\shareName

I changed the FOLDERS setting to the UNC path: \\Server\Music then went to the SEARCH tab in SETTINGS and initiated an index (and again saved settings) but at the top of the screen it still says "No music folders found. Please change the settings."
That network resource is not something I have to log into from my PC. Does SubSonic try to access network resources as a different user or something? I'd much prefer NOT to install SubSonic directly on that PC, though I assume I'd see better results.

[mixmaster]

The subsonic service runs in a SYSTEM context, not your users context.
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[mudsharkymon]

The subsonic service runs in a SYSTEM context, not your users context.

I do not understand what that tells me to do about fixing this!

[mixmaster]

The subsonic service runs in a SYSTEM context, not your users context.

I do not understand what that tells me to do about fixing this!

Shrug, it's a thread on the first page of this forum:
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1781

Search is your friend.
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[mudsharkymon]

The subsonic service runs in a SYSTEM context, not your users context.

I do not understand what that tells me to do about fixing this!

Shrug, it's a thread on the first page of this forum:
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1781

Ah! So the service needs login creds to the music share specified. Edit in the subsonic service properties. Will do. Thx.