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MTP is for synching with Windows Media Player (and for using files with digital rights management, like library audiobooks). MSC just makes your computer treat the Sansa like a plain old disc drive. Best to choose one and stick with it instead of Auto Detect.

I recently did a clean reinstall of OS Catalina (10.15.7) and am using Apple Music (1.0.6.10). I reinstalled close to 9,000 music files that I was able to synch to my iPhone, iPad, and an old classic iPod. Suddenly I noticed that my song sound on my Mac is just over 5,700 while the other devices all have the correct number of files. I looked in the media folder and it appears that I still have the files (cross fingers) but do not know why they are not showing up on my Mac. The files are not Apple Music/iTunes purchases but are songs that I ripped from CD's and other sources. I am almost tempted to delete all of the media files on my Mac and restore from the iPod, but am hoping there's a better way . . . ?

Thank you so much for your reply. I think the problem occurred when I got tired of seeing the "iCloud Storage Almost Full" notice and deleted the iCloud music files to get rid of the annoying warning. What I didn't realize that by deleting these songs (which, by the way, were not Apple-purchased files) they seems to have also been deleted from my local hard drive--and since I deleted these files from iCloud it looks like they may be gone for good. That said, I will follow your instruction to see if I can find the files, but I think my best option may be to reinstall my files back to my Mac from an old iPod I have connected to my stereo. Unfortunately Apples does not make this process easy.

As far as moving tracks from an iPod to your computers library, Apple does not support that process at all! (Except for tracks purchased from the iTunes Store). You can try to make it work with a 3rd party tool.

I am using a Intel Nuc. to run my Roon Core. Previously I used a PC which made file transfers easy. How do I transfer music files on a hard drive (attached to the NUC) to a USB drive (thumb drive) now that I am not running on a laptop?

ROCK makes it easy to import new music, no matter where you store your collection. There are two different ways to import new music and both are described below. Either method will work whether you're using internal storage, external storage, or ...

It is a USB external. I am going on a long car trip and wanted to copy some music files from the NUC external hard (which contains around 4K+ albums) onto the thumb drive to plug into my vehicle for listening.

Alternatively, leave the USB on the NUC, connect the PC to the NUC over the network (with Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder as in the above link). Attach the thumb drive to the PC as well. Copy the files.

Took a look and I can't see anything specifically the same about all the files that is different from the files it does see. But we are talking about over 10,000 files missing, to large a number for me to be able to draw any accurate conclusions in any timely fashion.

Not getting any error messages. All I did was set my music library folder to be the folder in Preferences and ticked the box to watch the library for new files. It works fine with every other media player I have tried, but every time I try Rhythmbox (several times now over the last couple of years) it fails to get a the majority of my tracks.

My files are all on one external drive in one folder which than has subfolders for each artists and sub folders in those for each album. But that's as far as it goes for multiple locations, ie its not really multiple locations and no symbolic links.

It seems that my problem was an issue with the configuration file. I had reinstalled Rhythmbox, but had not done a complete uninstall. This left a corrupted configuration file in my Rhythmbox sub-directory. You may want to try this if it's possible that you have a corrupted configuration file.

There are two elements to Rhythmbox noticing files: the inotify watches on all the subdirectories (which may have hit a maximum, check /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches, but it should be very high, higher than the number of directories you probably have), and the other is the file type detection that GStreamer is seeing.

It is possible that using a symbolic link or using multiple locations could be "confusing" Rhythmbox. I've got around 10.000 songs and they are all present and accounted for. But they weren't all there until I used the absolute paths to the files. That's the worst thing about Rhythmbox - no file browser.

To see if the files are the problem rather than Rhythmbox being the issue check out the File Browser plugin. It won't let you browser your entire file system, but it will let you browser your configured music directory by file rather than relying on Rhythmbox to read the tags. You can find it here (w/instructions): -rhythmbox-plugin-to-browse.html

If your looking for a good alternative with file browsing capability and so on, I've been using Clementine a lot. It's easily my favorite Linux player (but I still use Rhythmbox too!). You can check it out here: -player/

i run into this every time! i reinstall or upgrade linux on several computers quite a bit over a decades time.in the default preferences,the audio format is OOG. click 3 horizontal bars at top right.click preferences.click music tab. change the music format preference to mp3. the other 2/3 of my music is now included.they are ALL mp3's.go figure!28GB's >2700 songs.adjust all the tabs/ settings as needed for the rest of you.nothing even close to your size library.there may be a limit to the software.do you have at least 8GB ram memory.is it maxed out? linux is pretty frugal.the browser is pretty ram intensive though. this should work for most people.success to everyone.

I have found this, but it doesn't seem to work, or explain how to do what I need. If indeed it does provide the facility to scan a directory and move all the files about based on the tags, which is what I need.

Your tags must be written well if you want it to be in the way you want your folders to look. This app isn't an all-in-one music organizing app thing. It reads metadata and sorts accordingly. As the developer said so himself "garbage in, garbage out"

Apparently there is a problem with the albumartist tag for a few people while using it. It could be due to the version of tags used. All my tags were in ID3v2.3 format, and I found no such issues. Just informing before you take the leap.

I've been having an issue lately (since June) with playing MP3 files from Dropbox where the audio cuts out while playing. It cuts out at the same time stamp each time, so its not randomly cutting off the audio. When I play the MP3 files back on my computer from the hard drive, there is no audio cut off. This is only happening after the file is uploaded to Dropbox and when playing the file from Dropbox. This happens on the Dropbox app on my iPhone, iPad, and when playing the file from the Dropbox website on a computer. I have deleted the file from Dropbox and re-uploaded it but that does not resolve the issue. I have been using Dropbox to store and play MP3 files for many years and never had this problem until recently. It seems that something has changed or there is some kind of bug causing this audio drop out of the file when playing.

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I just want to create a printed list (for when my ext hd dies) I will have an alphabetically list of every artist by name with every album by name listed under that artist with every song name listed under every album.

I am guessing you would only get UltraSearch to produce lists like you want by producing multiple lists and using advanced syntax. For example, I see UltraSearch has a regular expression to specify folder depth. This should let you make a list of the files that are in the the artist folders (irrespective what a folder is called) and another list of the files that are in the album folders.

I am sorry, but this is not possible without postprocessing of the exported results.
You could export the path and the name of each folder of your music disk and then use some copy and replace functionality from e.g. excel or write a vb script in order to split the desired information from the exported folder paths.

It is possible someone on Stack Overflow might be willing to write some script for your to post-process the DIR output. You would have to be very clear to them exactly what output you wanted.

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