Home screen not showing all files? An issue with 'classical' music?

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donmacn
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Home screen not showing all files? An issue with 'classical' music?

Post by donmacn »

Hi folks,
I'm aware of the ask that we don't repeat stuff, but I have searched and gone back through several pages of topics before posting. If it's been done before, my apologies - my search skills will have let me down.

I've been using MM on Android quite happily for a long while (currently version 2.0.0.1173). I don't "sync" using MM on the desktop, preferring to manually add/delete files to/from the phone's music folder from my NAS using Windows Explorer. I don't change the stuff on the phone that much, so this has been OK.

Today I added some instrumental/classical music albums to the music folder. Great for noise cancelling headphones on long train journeys, while still allowing me to work. So, I know the music is in the phone folder, and I know the phone can 'see' it, and that MM also shows it when I drill down a bit, but it doesn't show up on the usual home/artists screen.

So -Screenshots - sorry these are so huge. I followed the instructions to post them, but can't see anything about resizing.

Number 1 - showing the list of artists on the 'home' screen which is my usual 'goto': Image No sign of Antonio Vivaldi...

Screenshot 2 - I go to 'folders' Image

Then I have two choices - Image

And if I choose the lower of these above, there's Antonio Vivaldi as hoped: Image

My question is why these files don't show up in the main 'artists' view? I've done a couple of rescans, but still not working.

In my searching I did find a reference to music tagged as 'classical' not showing up in the 'music' view... but this might be a red herring?

For example, I have 3 Ludovico Einaudi albums in the folder -one shows up OK in the home screen; two don't.

What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to do to fix this? Is it just a case of editing the tags to change the genre to something else?

Any help very gratefully received.
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Re: Home screen not showing all files? An issue with 'classical' music?

Post by Lowlander »

Yes, the first screenshot shows you're in Music section which excludes things like Classical Music, Podcasts, etc.
donmacn
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Re: Home screen not showing all files? An issue with 'classical' music?

Post by donmacn »

Thanks Lowlander - that's a "Doh" moment from me. I had no idea that things were sorted/displayed like that.

Once you know, it's all there.

Ta.
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