Adding New Music to Clementine

[Scott Hart]

I've spent half an hour trying to find out why new music I just added to my Mac doesn't show up in my library on Clementine. Seems like this should be Clementine 101 incredibly easy to find an answer for. Can anyone give me a nice easy answer how I can get my new music to play? If it's not easy, I see it as a flawed program. I might have to abandon Clementine so I can easily listen to my music.

Thank you,

[Dan Freedman]

I presume you have added the path to the music files in Tools/ Preferences/Music Library in Clementine?

[Scott Hart]

I'm sorry to say you have presumed incorrectly. What you wrote is exactly what I was looking for. I have seen nothing to indicate to do that until you answered and I thank you very much! I'll do that now.

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[Sheemon Lists]

I have seen a MaC once, but it was a big truck.  But I am trying to use Clementine, on Linux on a PC Laptop.  And I can testify that it is list challenged.

The way I understand it is this:

You tell Clementine where your music is

It scans the directory and builds a list of all the tracks (mp3, ogg, shmog files). Then you click on a listing of s file, and bliss (or excitement, etc.) comes your way.

But sometimes it does not.  Sometime you see a track but no music.  Sometime you do not see the track. Re-scanning is very, very slow - I do not know why.  I talked to my resident Expert in Chief (one of my daughters) and was told "... This should never happen".  Yes, right...

So, tell us, which way your Clementine is dry.  Maybe we can try something.

Simon

On Thu, May 7, 2020, 14:36 Scott Hart <hart...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've spent half an hour trying to find out why new music I just added to my Mac doesn't show up in my library on Clementine. Seems like this should be Clementine 101 incredibly easy to find an answer for. Can anyone give me a nice easy answer how I can get my new music to play? If it's not easy, I see it as a flawed program. I might have to abandon Clementine so I can easily listen to my music.

Thank you,

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[Jeffery Small]

I see you found the answer.  I was once having a problem with some new music files I manually installed not showing up in clementine.  I finally realized that I left the ".mp3" extension off of the filenames!  I only mention it here in case it helps someone else.  :-)

[Garthhh]

Invoking a rescan has always been painfully slow,

It's quicker to close & reopen the entire program

If I manually move or modify files with an outside program like a file browser or tag editor, I sometimes see the changes go into effect when I click back over to clementine, the library pane will revert to the last state

The meta data being slightly different across an album, can make you play where did my file go :O
If the file name doesn't match the meta data or a myriad of other things
My library is sorted artist>year>album, so if one song has a different year, it appears as 2 albums

I import files outside my library & use exaile & eztag to check the integrity, before putting the files into my library manually 
Exaile doesn't have the same playlist capabilities, but isn't as finicky as to library path, easily jumping from folder to folder

Clementine does a bunch of fun stuff in terms of smart playlist filters using the group or comment tag [meta data], that I haven't found in other players, the price is fussing around with a tagger, the clementine tagger will do most, but stuff involving the filename & some of the other bits not so much

On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 9:56:37 PM UTC-7, Sheemon Lists wrote:

I have seen a MaC once, but it was a big truck.  But I am trying to use Clementine, on Linux on a PC Laptop.  And I can testify that it is list challenged.

The way I understand it is this:

You tell Clementine where your music is

It scans the directory and builds a list of all the tracks (mp3, ogg, shmog files). Then you click on a listing of s file, and bliss (or excitement, etc.) comes your way.

But sometimes it does not.  Sometime you see a track but no music.  Sometime you do not see the track. Re-scanning is very, very slow - I do not know why.  I talked to my resident Expert in Chief (one of my daughters) and was told "... This should never happen".  Yes, right...

So, tell us, which way your Clementine is dry.  Maybe we can try something.

Simon

On Thu, May 7, 2020, 14:36 Scott Hart <hart...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've spent half an hour trying to find out why new music I just added to my Mac doesn't show up in my library on Clementine. Seems like this should be Clementine 101 incredibly easy to find an answer for. Can anyone give me a nice easy answer how I can get my new music to play? If it's not easy, I see it as a flawed program. I might have to abandon Clementine so I can easily listen to my music.

Thank you,

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