GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620725
Banshee doesn't detect files on the root of a filesystem
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:55:21 UTC
Originally from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/505363, by ndrw: I'm running Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) on Karmic and I've just encountered this bug for the first time today. I hit Rescan Music Library, and all of my music is gone from my library, every single one. The more annoying result of this is that all of my playlists, ratings, and play counts from years past are gone. Importing my Music folder (which is on the root level of an NTFS partition) finds nothing even though I have MP3 files at 1 to 4 levels down. Importing individual folders inside the Music folder DOES work. The logical workaround then is to put an additional level between the Music folder and the actual music files. I've done that as such: NTFS Partition > Music > All Music > *Actual music files and folders* And now Banshee can happily detect all of my music. A related issue is that Banshee (without GIO) cannot scan gvfs mounts that are in ~/.gvfs, where ~/.gvfs is the FUSE mount-point, and ~/.gvfs/blah-blah-blah is the folder that I'm attempting to make Banshee scan. This may just be a FUSE issue, considering ntfs-3g is also a FUSE filesystem, as I haven't tested this issue with other filesystems.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.