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Bug 772594 - Music outside of home directory not indexed
Music outside of home directory not indexed
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-10-08 08:21 UTC by Johannes Rohr
Modified: 2016-10-08 09:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Johannes Rohr 2016-10-08 08:21:01 UTC 
Most of my music is outside of my home directory, which I have configured tracker to index. The tracker search GUI returns search results from that directory, yet gnome-music shows only the music contained in my home directory, which no option available to search in additional paths.
Comment 1 Marinus Schraal 2016-10-08 08:36:26 UTC 
This is by design, music only tracks ~/Music currently. See also #766676 .
Comment 2 Johannes Rohr 2016-10-08 09:27:59 UTC 
(In reply to Marinus Schraal from comment #1)
> This is by design, music only tracks ~/Music currently. See also #766676 .

Well, if I deliberately add a path to tracker, I can be assumed to know what I am doing. If gnome-music silently ignores my deliberate decision, my experience as a user is that the programme is broken. 

There is no need to fix this for me, as I keep using Rhythmbox anyway, but I would be glad if you would take note of the fact that as a user I experience this as a bug and I am unlikely to use this application in the future.