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I several albums of ogg and flac files on both the internal sdcard and an external one, however both VLC 1.9 (from Fdroid) and 2.0 (from the google playstore) does not put them all in the media library. Some albums simply do not turn up in the media library, others have only a couple of tracks. I can access the files by navigating to the directory, and files play fine when accessed that way. Clearing the media database and refreshing has no effect. Uninstalling and reinstalling has no effect.

Version 0.9 from the google playstore does not have this problem, all media files are in the media library.

Details:
Phone: Lenovo p70-t
Android: 4.4.4
VLC: 2.0.0 and 1.9.0

Anybody else seeing this?

Are they in a special folder?

I'm facing a similar issue (maybe the same?). After some digging I figured all files that contain a dot (".") in the Title tag don't appear. If I remove the dot they appear (note that I need to clean the media database in vlc to make it detect that change). Also, those files play fine when playing from folder view, and also work fine on other playes (vlc on PC, Rockbox, etc.)

All files are ogg vorbis, haven't tried other file formats. I also haven't checked the behaviour if the Artist / Album tag contains a dot. I could imagine that the same issue is present there as well and that's the albums not showing up for the OP.

Tried the older 1.6.6 from F-droid which works fine, while 1.9.0 from F-droid doesn't (as well as 2.0.3 from Google Play).

Device:
Motorola Moto G 3rd gen
Android 6.0
System version 24.41.33.osprey_reteu_2gb.reteu.en.EU retde
Build MPI24.65-33
vlc 2.0.3 from Google Play

I've also checked on a Nexus 9, same issue.
Device:
Google Nexus 9
Android 6.0.1
Build MOB30M

I also see this problem, files (I'm only using Opus, don't know about other file formats) with dots in filename don't show in the library. Playing them through 'Directories' works flawlessly.

Tested on vlc 2.0.3, stable (from google play) pre 2.0.0 versions didn't exhibit this bug.

I also see this problem, files (I'm only using Opus, don't know about other file formats) with dots in filename don't show in the library.

This is slightly different to my issue: in my case files that have dots in the *tags* don't show up. Files with dots in the *filename* work fine (in fact the affected files have dots in their filenames, changing the filename doesn't help, changing the tag does.)

Also, you're sure this issue doesn't exist on 1.9? I can easily reproduce it with 1.9.

I've played with it for a bit and you're right, it's the tag, not the filename that causes the problem. I happen to have all my audio files named as "tracknumber - title", that's why I suspected the filename to be the culprit.

As far as 1.9 is concerned: I can't really comment on that as I don't have it installed anywhere. All I know is that I first (and quickly, as couple of my favorite tracks are affected) noticed the problem with 2.0.0.

Thanks a lot for this debugging. That seems easy enough to reproduce.

I filed a bug (#17169) with exactly this issue (sorry, I found this thread only afterwards). I can confirm this bug with my opus files. mp3 files seem to work though. So my guess is that all files with xiph comments are affected.

Seems weird, though.

Seems weird, though.

Indeed. Unfortunately, for me this is a showstopper bug, because in my title tags, a dot is very common.

Seems weird, though.

Indeed. Unfortunately, for me this is a showstopper bug, because in my title tags, a dot is very common.

Yep. I need a file with such a tag.

Yep. I need a file with such a tag.

I've posted some files here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pPs ... 0NhLU1Rb0U
The files are actually taken from http://download.rockbox.org/test_files in case you need the original ones (they don't have any tags).

Additinally, for the non working vorbis file invoking the "Information" dialog I get a spinning circle at the top (where the preview appears on movies). I don't get that on the working one or the mp3 file.

Edit: files have been created using

thx