Amarok not detecting all my media

[brigzzy]

Hi there, I'm having some trouble with amarok. I ran it for the first time, and did the setup wizard thing, telling it where to look for my media (An NTFS drive; I don't know if that makes a diference in this case), and it started scanning. when it was done, most of my media was added to the collection, but some tracks, were excluded. when I open them, they play fine, but they won't add to the collection... Any help in this matter would be appreciated

[devils casper]

Which Linux Distribution are you using? How did you mount NTFS Partition?

[brigzzy]

I'm running Mandrivia 2008.1, and the drive is being mounted automatically through fstab.

[bigtomrodney]

This is only partly related, but I recommend against using NTFS if at all possible. It will work alright but the Amarok file scanner depends on filesystem level notification to tell it when files have been created/deleted/changed. Running Amarok on FAT or NTFS partitions turns this off so you need to run the updates manually.

[brigzzy]

This is only partly related, but I recommend against using NTFS if at all possible. It will work alright but the Amarok file scanner depends on filesystem level notification to tell it when files have been created/deleted/changed. Running Amarok on FAT or NTFS partitions turns this off so you need to run the updates manually.

Could that be what's causing my problems?

[bigtomrodney]

I'm not sure if it's directly causing the problem - it shouldn't - but it's certainly worth rescanning the collection manually from Tools > Rescan Collection or Tools > Rebuild Collection.

[imranka]

I scanned ntfs for audio with amarok, faced no problem. Infact, all the music I've in my windows partition I access from fedora and listen through amarok.