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buttari
September 25th, 2008, 08:07 AM
Hello,
how are albums imported from a local source?
It took boxee quite some time to populate my "albums" index but now it stopped and there is still a lot of stuff missing. For example, I can see "Comfort of Strangers" from "Beth Orton" in Music/My Sources/Local Music but there's no trace of "Beth Orton" in Music (I guess that's a list of artists) nor of "Comfort of Strangers" in Music/Albums

Can you help me with this?
Thanks in advance

alfredo

marcel
September 25th, 2008, 03:05 PM
hi buttari

It usually starts to index the music in the background ,can you try and recognize it manually..

buttari
September 26th, 2008, 05:12 AM
hi buttari

It usually starts to index the music in the background ,can you try and recognize it manually..

Hi Marcel,
so I went to Settings/Media Sources and hit "Manually Add Source". Here I added /home/abuttari/Music/Beth Orton although /home/abuttari/Music is already in Settings/Media Sources/Local/Local Music. However, still no trace of Beth's album. All the mp3 files in that directory are correctly tagged (amd recognized by other players on my system).
Thanks

Alfredo

buttari
September 26th, 2008, 08:11 AM
hi buttari

It usually starts to index the music in the background ,can you try and recognize it manually..

Marcel,
I figured out how to correctly (manually) add albums to my collection.
Thanks again

Alfredo

steveo
October 4th, 2008, 11:32 AM
I can see media on an an attached USB HDD but still cannot see media on the local built in HDD? Says it's disconnected? Should I have to manually add this source? Is the path /Users/frontrow/Music correct?

steveo
October 4th, 2008, 11:38 AM
I should note that the above question is in regards to my apple tv...

agentlame
October 4th, 2008, 03:13 PM
I'm not sure about the location of your media on the ATV, but re-adding the source would be the best place to start.

I would delete the source, restart the ATV, and re-add it.