reconstructing database

[Johan Helsingius]

Having imported more than 20.000 tracks into the beets collection, something
went wrong (possibly caused by computer crash), and now "beet stats" shows
only 58 tracks. I can import new music OK, and the collection is still
there, but somehow they are missing from musiclibrary.blb.

Is there a way to rebuild the database by scanning the existing collection,
instead of having to re-import everything?

Julf

[Adrian Sampson]

To reconstruct a database, your best bet is to use a "non-autotagging" import. This is provided by the -A flag to the "import" command:

$ rm ~/.beetsmusic.blb
$ beet imp -AC /path/to/music

Let me know if that works out for you.

Adrian

[Jonathan Fritz]

Have you tried doing an integrity check on the database file?

I've had to "recover" a Banshee library that was corrupted in the past -
all of the data was still there, but some of the indices were broken. I
solved the problem by backing up the database, creating a new database
with the same schema, and then restoring the data. This rebuilt the
indices without having to re-import all of the data.

Check out this article for more info:
http://thelinuxexperiment.com/guinea-pigs/jon-f/recovering-a-corrupted-banshee-database/

Best of luck!

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Jonathan Fritz
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[Johan Helsingius]

> To reconstruct a database, your best bet is to use a "non-autotagging" import.

That worked! Many thanks!

Julf

[Johan Helsingius]

Jonathan,

> Have you tried doing an integrity check on the database file?

Yes, and it passed without problems - but it was still good advice
and worth trying!

Thanks!

Julf