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    Default add Music under /Users/Shared/Music

    Hello,

    Is there a way to add music from the location:
    /Users/Shared/Music
    I tried to add a source but the Mac folders Users does not show. Users is probably an alias or something but I don't know the real location.

    Is there a way to add the music to boxee?

    Thanks

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    welcome to the forums, dobby!

    few questions to help narrow down the issue:
    what does show up?
    are you able to navigate to root / ?
    if so, do the other root folders show up (/Applications /Library /System)?

    in the meantime, you can manually edit your sources.xml file:
    http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php...it+add+sources
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    hi dobby

    welcome to boxee

    one way is to click on Settings in boxee's main menu, and there choose Media Sources :
    - Local Sources are for files stored on your computer or storage devices attached directly to it . select "add new sources " and then browse to the contents location

    - Network sources are all those directories on other computers and devices on your local area network.select "add new sources" and select the appropriate device/computer displayed or manually add the IP.

    another way of adding a media source is via the Videos/Music/Pictures screen, select the Sources > Add Source.

    enjoy

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    Hi,

    Thanks for the replies,

    agentlame I tried to find the sources.xml file but it a Boxee folder doesn't exist under ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/. Maybe this location changed in the latest alpha?

    Marcel:

    I know how to add sources but I can't see the following directories:

    /Applications
    /Library
    /System
    /Users

    Because of this I can't locate the folder /Users/Share/Music

    I like to keep my music there so that all users on my mac share the same music.

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    Yes, it looks like there is a bug in the directory code, in that it doesn't show any directories that begin with a capital letter. I had to go into the Settings -> Media Sources ->Manually Add Source and type in the directory path by hand. I didn't see my ~/Documents folder (where my Music folder lives). I only saw folders with lowercase letters. This is on Linux (openSUSE)

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    the location should be in the profile directory:
    ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/[BOXEE-USERNAME]/sources.xml
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    Default Problem solved

    Thank jdarnold, that fixes the problem. Would be nice if it scanned the itunes xml file for the locations.

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