Empty "All songs" list after adding music folders

[Ellimac]

Hi,

I recently made a big update of the music library on my SD card, and added maybe one or two hundreds of artist folders (and many more albums). Then I cleared app data to let VLC rebuild its database from scratch.
Since this day, VLC is correctly showing the artist and the album lists, but nothing in the All songs list in the third tab. I only see the "No Media Files Found" message.
Is there a problem with some of the music I added on my card? Some bad file names or tags?

I am running the latest build of VLC for Android on Samsung Galaxy A5, and my friend has similar problem with an Asus Zenfone and same music library.

[chouquette]

The easiest way for us to investigate would be for you to dump & send us your media database (there is an option for that in the advanced settings section), but we aware that it will contain all your songs & videos.

I'm a bit puzzled that everything goes well in the artist/album sections but not in the songs section though...

[Ellimac]

Okay! Here it is: https://framadrop.org/r/0VoB00uK9P#9PdL ... ZO8J3yi9A=

[Dekans]

It may only take a loooooong time to process all tracks media and display them.

We'll time this to verify

[Moldmaker]

I have the exact same problem. See
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=142030
It's not related to your songs, it's kind of a bug.

[Ellimac]

Ok... Let's try to find and nail the bug, then.

It's not about the load time. I tried to clear all data and scan the music folders one by one, and it works well and fast until I check one folder too many. Then the category "songs" doesn't load anymore at all.

There seems to be a limit of mp3 files or folders beyond which the list won't load. I have counted the folders until I reach this limit. Here is what I found.
From A to Z:
- 1750 folders: pass
- 1752 folders: fail

From Z to A:
- 1749 folders: pass
- 1759 folders: fail

I'll try to do the same with the music files this evening.

[ChiefEngr]

Good Day!

I've got v3.0.5 running on an LG LS665 under Android 5.1.1 and I seem to have a similar problem. A couple of months ago, it was working fine so it must be something that crept into the code recently.

Like others, I am displaying a variety of offerings in the "Artists" and "Albums" categories, but if I go to "Songs" it says that there are no media files on my device. This is not correct. I have around 11,500 mp3 files on my device in a 64GB uSD Card. To try to further trouble shoot the problem, I attempted to search of a song title that I *KNOW* is part of the collection. It does not find it. It does not show the artist's name in the artists listing nor the album's name in the album listing. Using the directory feature, I can step down to the directory where the track is located and see that it is there.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the VLC Software, then reinserting my uSD Card and letting it scan the whole card. No Joy - same behavior.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling again, inserting the uCD Card but not having it scan the whole card. Instead, I went into the settings and only selected the directory where the above song is located. This time, it scanned and properly displays the artists, albums, and songs.

Clearly, it is getting overwhelmed somewhere along the line so let me throw some ideas out there...

When it scans your library, where does it put that information? It has to keep it someplace or it would need to rescan the library every time. On my 64GB Card, I only have 4.8GB Available. If it is trying to put that library listing onto the SD Card, it may be running out of room and not realizing it.

Is there someplace in VLC where I can see how many tracks it has decided it has found? I wonder if it has the right numbers compared to what I know is there.

I suppose I could start with a blank slate and add directories one at a time and see where it goes wrong.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[jonesplus]

Me too, I have been having the exact same problem for a a few months - probably since Feb. (so using something else). I had thought it was to do with number of songs.... because often the database record number is a problem

I have a static music list because the old Windows Media Player could handle a max of 20,000 files in the old days so am always conscious of database limitations. Currently my music list is 12,928 mp3 files. I have had same list for years. VLC Android has worked perfectly with this list up until early this year....

Today a wet day in Melbourne so spent an hour installing and uninstalling... song list was visible during parsing right up to completion and once parsing complete song list disappeared with message "No media files found, please transfer some files to your device or adjust your preferences".

I store ALL my music on an SD drive - the card is currently 128gig, The music folder contains 21,490 files using 55.94 gig of data of which 12928 are mp3 balance are mostly jpeg for covers on Huawei Mate 9, same hardware for 12 months which was OK at beginning of the year. I have an additional 1250 mp3 files in audo books but are not being indexed by VLC Android. I don't store video on the card, if I load a video it's usually just short term. Mostly stream and cast video from a wireless storage device. Google Music and Huawei Music are both managing song list but of course neither have the full suite of information that VLC does, i.e. album, artist, song, genre, and playlist

Hope this helps in trying to find the bug. All other lists are OK, i.e. Artist, Albums, Genre, Playlists. (I haven't tried splitting music into separate music directories.... wonder if it would work"

[Moldmaker]

See here, read this :

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=142030&e=1&view=unread#unread