Ignore partition for Music Library

[martin1]

Volumio Version: v2.917
Hardware: Raspberry Pi

Hi, I have an external SSD connected to the RPi via USB. This has two partitions: one of them contains my music library, but the other one just contains some backup files. Is there a way to instruction Volumio to ignore the second partition (but still mount it and serve it to the local network as a SMB share) when building the Music Library?

[ashthespy]

Have a look at .mpdignore. You would need to add one to the top level folder you want to ignore.

Edit:

how to exclude folders from Library update

Hi, I have Volumio running on a Pi 2 with a hard drive connected to it. There is my music stored and as well a folder for Transmission. Update Library does not work well for me and I think it could be because the transmission folder mess the daemon up. So how can I exclude this folder from the update process? Is the daemon called mpd? Where is the settings file stored? Symptoms I get: not all music is shown after updating music start and stops frequently It look like the updat…

[martin1]

Brilliant, thanks! Sorry for the duplicate, looks like I searched with the wrong keywords…