Scanned library only shows 120 songs

[Anonymous]

Whenever I scan my library, it only shows up 120 random songs from my music directory.
I have about 6500 songs and I can’t figure out how to fix this problem, and I have no idea what search query to use. Can anyone help me??

[fizze]

Of course. But you need to help us help you. 😉

What computer do you run firefly on? What operating system does it run on?
What version of firefly do you use?

Are your music file stored on a local disk, or remote?

What types of music files do you use?

[Anonymous]

Oops sorry, i was in such a rush to get an answer I forgot about those.

Dell 1420 running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
I am running version 0.9 r1696
Music is stored on local harddrive
I have a variety from .mp3,.flac,.wav,and .ogg

[rsl360]

@MrSootentai wrote:

Whenever I scan my library, it only shows up 120 random songs from my music directory.
I have about 6500 songs and I can’t figure out how to fix this problem, and I have no idea what search query to use. Can anyone help me??

When this happens to me, (and it seems to happen a lot), it’s always a permission and/or ownership problem. Compare the ownership/permissions of the 120 songs you can read with the rest, my guess is you will find something amiss.

Robbie

[Anonymous]

Ok, let me try that again.
I had done it before and never found a problem with the permissions.
But let me try once more.

EDIT:OK I found that some songs have different permissions, but what should I tick off in these permissions box (to be safe)? This is an example of a song that permissions are incorrect. I’m guessing I tick the group read?

[fizze]

that’s it. You should allow read permissions for everyone. meaning owner, group and others.

Firefly normally runs as nobody/nobody, and it simply does not see the files owned by greg/greg otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Ohhh….well thank you very much.
It actually makes a lot more sense now.
Thank you so much.

[Author]

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