Media scan not picking up & displaying all items on external SSD

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Hi there

I have an external SSD drive connected via USB to my Pi 3B+ running Volumio. I use it to store music files/albums, etc., that I would like to play via Volumio.

When I access the music via either ‘Albums’, ‘Artists’, etc., not all of what I know if on the SSD is displayed. However, if I go in through ‘Media’, select ‘USB’ I can see all of the files/albums, etc.

Neither ‘Update’ nor ‘Recan’ seems to change this…so my question is…how do I get what is on the SSD to be reflected fully via ‘Albums’, ‘Artists’, etc.

Many thanks in anticipation.

Regards,

The Charbits

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This sounds like files on your disc are damaged, so the scan process skips them.
please perform a rescan and send a log (copying the url here) when the scan has completed.

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Had this last week, found the answer was the album artist metadata wasn’t correctly set.

Edited the file with tagit I think and they then correctly appeared within the artist when viewed through artist option.

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Thanks Wheaten

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Hi rwilts

Thanks, but what exactly did you change in the meta data to make the album appear?

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It was exactly as you described. Some of the files had an artist and an album title but they didn’t have a Album Artist value. I loaded the file into a MP3 metadata editor and added the artist name into the Album Artist field . Saved and updated source and they now appear under Artist when browsing.

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Thanks…very interesting. Which MP3 Meta Data Editor did you use/would you recommend…I am interested to take a look and see if I have the same issue.?

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Not currently home. Will check later. Something like Tagit , or tagmp3…

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Ok so I use TagEditor2 - and I have highlighted the field in an example… If its an album of tracks you would need to add the detail for each track …

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To be clear there is other data missing in this image. I am only highlighting the field that would effect your issue

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Hi rwilts

Many thanks for going to the trouble of providing the info. I shall investigate along those lines over the weekend and hopefully sort it out based on you info.

Have a great weekend.

TheCharbits

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Hi rwilts

Just a quick update to say that I have settled on Tagscan as my tool given that I could not find a Windows version of TagEditor 2. That seems to have done the job nicely and easily in showing where metadata was missing and then allowing me to either enter it manually or import it from the web.

I am therefore now going to clear out what I have stored on the attached SSD and reimport the complete collection of albums including those fixed, to see if I can now see everything in Volumio.

So fingers crossed.

Cheers,

TheCharbits

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Great that it’s sorted

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Indeed. Thanks for help. :+1::grin: