Local Filesystem Provider

[derek4602]

1: Can I just add the playlist folder?
The music files are in the root folder while the playlists are in a subfolder.
/music/80's/(has the album folders)
/music/M3U/(contains the playlists)
The playlists have relative paths and work just fine.

Assuming the above is not possible.
2: How do you stop it from scanning specific file extensions?
3: How do you stop it from scanning specific folders, but still use those folders in playlists?

Tried adding _ in front of unwanted scanned folders ( like this /music/80s/Artist [Album] year/_FLAC ), but this has proven to be a nightmare. The root folder is used for iTunes and recreating that would be cumbersome at best.

Would be preferable to just add playlist files and have it scan only the files listed in those playlists.

In case:
Have a "large" ( it is all relative ) music collection and keep the original FLAC files in a subfolder inside the album folder. The FLAC files are not tagged correctly and add unwanted data into the database. Only listen to playlists; The entire album is in a single folder, and I will (probably) never listen to all the songs in that directory. Again, this adds unwanted data into the database.

Thanks for any viable suggestions.

[OzGav]

Have you tried using the sync/import options for the provider?

[derek4602]

Used settings as shown in the screenshot, reset the database (settings -> system -> music -> advanced -> reset library database ), and synchronized. It's still scanning everything and adding files not listed in the m3u files.

[OzGav]

You need to REMOVE FROM LIBRARY for each item. If there are too many then do a database reset and start again.

[OzGav]

Interesting. Attach the log here.

[derek4602]

musicassistant.log

It is still taking upwards of 3 minutes to play a playlist.

[OzGav]

There are heaps of tagging errors so you need to tag you music correctly for start. Once that is done post another log after restarting the MA server and then doing the minimum to get the problem to occur.

[derek4602]

You are 100% correct. This is why I asked to just add only the songs listed in the playlist. In that menagerie of songs, there are plenty that I do not want in Music Assistant. They include the FLAC files, the Podcasts, and all other media files that iTunes likes to hang onto.

Again, how do I simply add the playlist, or how do I let MA know to ignore directory depth, or directories, or file extensions? Any of these would help to ferret out the unwanted "not tagged correctly" songs. I've gone through the documentation and was unable to find a documented solution to keep MA from importing songs that I will never want to be scanned, and unfortunately, must be in the scanned directory (assuming I'm forced to scan all directories and not just the M3U folder).

I've tried just adding the M3U folder, and nothing gets imported into MA.

Thank you for any helpful suggestions.

[OzGav]

The only way MA will ignore files is if they are in a folder which starts with an underscore. Otherwise if the file is in the path it will be scanned.

[derek4602]

So, if the settings are as shown in the screenshot, MA will import files that are not listed in the M3U files?

[OzGav]

Normally, f you uncheck that then no items encountered during the scan will be imported. However, having the next item checked I think still requires a full scan as MA needs to at least look though to find the playlists. Also I think at least all of the items IN the playlists need to get added because you have to be able to click through the various parts of the UI when you start from the playlist (e.g. you can click pn a track in the playlist to see its info then from there you can click through to the album or artist)