MediaMonkey keeps adding a directory back into my library

[feline1]

I'm on 4.1.10.1778 on Windows 10 Pro 64bit.

Every time I start up MediaMonkey, it keeps coming up with my iTunes library added to its library, and merrily starts scanning the 16,500 tracks in there.

I've right-clicked on that in the tree and selected 'Remove' loads of times.

I've done File > Clear Database.

It still keeps coming back! What am I missing out?

[Lowlander]

Perhaps you enabled Folder Monitoring undet File > Add/Rescan Files?

[feline1]

I don't remember doing that... I looked at it and it was enabled, but not for that rogue iTunes library folder! So that mustn't be it?

[Lowlander]

Folder Monitoring is the only way MediaMonkey can rescan folders on startup.

Note that My Computer will always show all media content on your PC as it isn't your Library.

[feline1]

Well it's still doing it! :-O

I can't get it to stop.
It's showing up in the "Entire Library" node, not My Computer (well, it's in there too...)

Did I perhaps tell MediaMonkey to eat my iTunes library when I first installed it? Could it be in an .ini file or something?

[MMFrLife]

I don't remember doing that... I looked at it and it was enabled, but not for that rogue iTunes library folder!

Try temporarily disabling Folder Monitoring everywhere > remove undesired folder again at Entire Library --> Location > close down MM > restart > recreate any extra actions, if needed > see if it still adds it.

[Lowlander]

One you remove files/folders from the Library only Folder Monitoring can add it back automatically.

[feline1]

It's still doing it, despite trying all your suggestions!

[MMFrLife]

Is your iTunes library/folder a subfolder or a root/parent folder?
Is it on a removable drive or device?

[feline1]

Is your iTunes library/folder a subfolder or a root/parent folder?
Is it on a removable drive or device?

my itunes library is on in somethink like D:/iTunesMusicLibrary/...
(i.e. it's in the top level of a 2nd hard drive in my desktop PC, as opposed to being on my Windows system C: drive in the default location)

[MMFrLife]

my itunes library is on in somethink like D:/iTunesMusicLibrary/...
(i.e. it's in the top level of a 2nd hard drive in my desktop PC, as opposed to being on my Windows system C: drive in the default location)

Try this:
Temporarily disable Folder Monitoring again > remove Location again > shutdown MM > Create a new folder to put iTunesMusicLibrary into, something
like D:/Music 2/iTunesMusicLibrary/... > restart MM > see if it adds it.

Are you using iTunes anymore or are you just maintaining an iTunes library in a folder?
If you are still using iTunes and you need the original path to make it work properly without messing things up,
then don't do that.

[Guest]

Every time I start up MediaMonkey, it keeps coming up with my iTunes library added to its library, and merrily starts scanning the 16,500 tracks in there.

Check the device profile for the D: drive in Options > Portable Device Sync by selecting it in the list and clicking on Configure. Uncheck 'Scan as soon as the device is connected' and especially any Auto-Sync options that have been set (if enabled).

[feline1]

Are you using iTunes anymore or are you just maintaining an iTunes library in a folder?

I actually am still using iTunes, simply for ripping CDs in the first place, because of two meta-data things MediaMonkey does not yet support, but iTunes does:
- custom sort orders (for Albums, Artists, Composers...), which are supported by my Walkman (e.g. so David Bowie comes up under B, not under D)
- Track X of Y, Disc M of N

If MediaMonkey supported those, I'd have no use for iTunes other than to play a few DRM-protected tunes I bought from the iTunes store years ago.

[MMFrLife]

Do you typically have iTunes running while MM is running?
If so, shut MM and iTunes down first > re-open MM > do the location removal/Folder Monitoring disabled/shutdown MM/restart MM steps again,
just to see if there is some sort of interference going on.