Only one album visible in library?

[DougM]

Hello,

New user here...  I have a shared windows directory containing dozens of directories, each of which contains the .flac files of an album.  
I believe I have successfully connected Moode to that shared directory, because I have a green check mark (not the red x) at the shared drive's entry.
I have updated the library and waited for plenty of time (overnight), but I have only one album apparently showing up in the library. 

Any pointers on how to debug this? 

cheers
Doug

[Tim Curtis]

How many tracks in your collection?

When the Library is regenerated or updated, a record of each file discovered by MPD and subsequently updated/added to its database is recorded in the MPD log.

Code:

cat /var/log/mpd/log

Overall Library regen/update stats are recorded in the moode startup log

Code:

cat /var/log/moode.log

Try Library Config > REGENERATE Music database
Examine the MPD and moode logs

[DougM]

Thanks Tim,
So far, I've ripped about 300 tracks into about 35 directories. (Doesn't seem like too much). 

I'm operating headless, right now. Is there a way I can look at the logs over the web interface, or should I hook up a display, keyboard, mouse?

cheers
Doug

[Tim Curtis]

Menu > System Config

Turn on then OPEN the Web SSH terminal

[Nutul]

So far, I've ripped about 300 tracks into about 35 directories.

It's not about how many directories you put them into, but the tagging (artist / album / track title / year / etc.)
The symptom is more likely you have not set any artist / album name in the metadata, hence moOde classified all your music under ONE artist + ONE album (and most likely, both "unknown"...)

[DougM]

So far, I've ripped about 300 tracks into about 35 directories.

It's not about how many directories you put them into, but the tagging (artist / album / track title / year / etc.)
The symptom is more likely you have not set any artist / album name in the metadata, hence moOde classified all your music under ONE artist + ONE album (and most likely, both "unknown"...)

Hmm, I *think* the metadata is there.  Windows explorer knows about artist, album name etc when I look at the files.

[Nutul]

Hmm, I *think* the metadata is there.  Windows explorer knows about artist, album name etc when I look at the files.

It's always a hit-and-miss when it comes to Windows tagging software... (well, not always, but...)
1. sometimes FALC files are being tagged using Id3v2 tags (typical of MP3s, so...)
2. if everything is right, regarding the metadata, then the only things I can think of are
2.1. access permissions issue
2.2. unrecognized files (for some reason that escapes my mind)

But, TBH, I'd focus on (1.)

[Tim Curtis]

It's important to see what the moode log shows for regen/update library process stats.

[DougM]

It's important to see what the moode log shows for regen/update library process stats.

I feel I must be quite close to getting this to work. The error messages are complaining about being unable to open files, presumably a permissions problem, though I don't know what I'm missing....  
I'd appreciate any pointers from this excerpt of the log. 
Thx, Doug

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20250528 185357 thumb-gen: Done: 57 folders scanned, 57 thumbs created, 0 already in cache.                                                    
20250528 185357 worker: Job regen_library done                                                                                                 
20250528 215951 worker: Job regen_library                                                                                                      
20250528 215951 worker: Clear Library tag cache                                                                                                
20250528 215951 worker: Start MPD database regen                                                                                               
20250528 215951 worker: Clear thumbnail cache                                                                                                  
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Start                                                                                                               
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Scan opt: Default                                                                                                   
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Priority: Embedded cover                                                                                            
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Res,Qual: 600px,60                                                                                                  
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Px ratio: 1                                                                                                         
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Th width: 600                                                                                                       
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Thm qual: 60                                                                                                        
20250528 215951 thumb-gen: Scanning: NAS, NVME, SATA, SDCARD                                                                                   
20250528 215955 thumb-gen: Error: Unable to open file for reading: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Baaba Maal/Missing You/11 Allah Addu Ja
m - Baaba Maal (Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)).flac: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Baaba Maal/Missing You/11 Allah Addu Jam - Baaba Maal (Missing You (Mi Yeewni
i)).flac                                                                                                                                       
20250528 220025 thumb-gen: Error: Unable to open file for reading: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon/09 Ecl
ipse - Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Moon).flac: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon/09 Eclipse - Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Mo
on).flac                                                                                                                                       
20250528 220026 thumb-gen: Error: Unable to open file for reading: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Rickie Lee Jones/Pop Pop/12 Comin' Back
 To Me - Rickie Lee Jones (Pop Pop).flac: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Rickie Lee Jones/Pop Pop/12 Comin' Back To Me - Rickie Lee Jones (Pop Pop).flac    
20250528 220026 thumb-gen: Error: imagecreatefromstring() failed: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/Rickie Lee Jones/Pop Pop/12 Comin' Back To Me - Rickie Lee 
Jones (Pop Pop).flac                                                                                                                           
20250528 220031 thumb-gen: Error: Unable to open file for reading: /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/The Beatles/Let It Be/03 Across The Uni
verse - The Beatles (Let It Be).flac: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/The Beatles/Let It Be/03 Across The Universe - The Beatles (Let It Be).flac            
20250528 220032 thumb-gen: Error: imagecreatefromstring() failed: NAS/Homeseer-FLAC/The Beatles/Let It Be/03 Across The Universe - The Beatles 
(Let It Be).flac                                                                                                                               
20250528 220038 thumb-gen: Done: 60 folders scanned, 60 thumbs created, 0 already in cache.                                                    
20250528 220039 worker: Job regen_library done

[DougM]

Ok, It's got to be permissions-related or some other networking problem. I just copied everything onto a USB stick, mounted that, and the library populates with lots of entries, as expected.
There's some weirdness about duplicate icons, etc, but the main problem of no content is fixed. And, I can play tunes!

I detest windows networking....