Missing Tracks

[The Gent]

As I am going through my music, I am finding missing tracks in the library. The tracks are on the computer and can be located in MusicBee when you specifically look for them, but in just clicking on the library and playing from it, I notice in the Artist alphabetical listing that where there should be 10 songs from an artist, there are only 8 listed or there should be 20 but there are only 11 showing.

How do I correct this so all songs that are on the computer will be registered in the library and be available to play?

[psychoadept]

I would start by checking the Inbox for your missing files. If you can find them with a search, they are there somewhere. Another possibility is that they are tagged with featured artists and so the artist tag doesn't match exactly. You can probably solve this with the multiple artist splitter.

If those two ideas don't help, a screenshot would give us more information to go on: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=29488.0

[frankz]

Whatever you did to solve it the last time you had this exact issue probably still works.

[The Gent]

Ok, obviously I have not solved this problem, so reviewing my earlier post will not help. Also I cannot locate the Inbox. I know it's there somewhere because on the rare occasion I do find a duplicate (remember I use an outside program to manage duplicates), it asks me if I want to delete or move to the Inbox.

How does MusicBee handle dups? Would being in the inbox prevent a duplicate manager from finding them?

Thanks,
Will

[psychoadept]

This might help you find the inbox: https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/Navigator

[The Gent]

Ok, thanks. I found the Inbox but none of the missing tracks are in it and everything that is, is marked as a dup. Now what?

Will

[psychoadept]

Do a search for the files and display the Category column in the main panel when they show up in your search. What does it say?

[The Gent]

Ok, did that. They all say MUSIC.

[psychoadept]

That means they ARE in your library.  See what happens if you select all the tracks from an artist, then look at the artist values with the tag inspector. Do they all have the same value? (Posting a screenshot could really help here)

[The Gent]

Ok let me look and I'll get a screenshot and upload it

[The Gent]

I am trying to upload the caps so you can look but they are not working. I have them in a file on my F drive in a folder with three different file names. When I try to upload a picture, it puts in the HDML code line but when I hit preview, all I see if the code line, not the image.

like this:

[The Gent]

ok, that message is not go in to allow the upload code line.

So, let's try it this way.

F:\Pictures\09-2019\Music Bee caps/captureAJ.jpg

[phred]

F:\Pictures\09-2019\Music Bee caps/captureAJ.jpg

You've posted a path on your local machine. Obviously we're not going to be able to see that. But you -can- see my sig for help with screenshots.

[The Gent]

OK, lets try this...

https://chunder.weebly.com/private-access.html

All three images are there.

Will

[psychoadept]

So the first picture is your main library (sorted by artist, I guess?), and the other two are what you get on a search. The searches confirm that all tracks ARE there, both the Music icon and the Category show they're in your library.  Can you show us the full window with the main library? I can't tell from this what might be causing the tracks to be filtered.