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Hiya

I need a little bit of help from somebody on the forum or from VLC as my Samsung S7 Android 8 VLC version 94bc8e707 (2019-5-2) my issue is that VLC doesn't complete the full Media scan from my micro SD card I have formatted the card and started again and added all my music back onto the card however. When I've installed VLC Player onto my phone from Google Play store and I go through all the settings to up to the part where it says would you like to scan from micro SD card I supply yes it picks up about 9 albums maybe when does 144 albums on the card also I have to keep pressing the refresh button to ask it to do the media scan again and I can do this up to 15 to 16 times it does not pick up all of the music tracks that I have on or albums I was wondering if you have had the same faults with anybody else's and is there a fix for this can you get back to me please Paul

I have forgot to mention that I have uninstalled vlc it and reinstalled it a number of times and I have also done a factory reset on my phone and reset my phone up for see if it's the same as you again

Hello -- new forums user, decade+ long happy VLC user & open source community member.

I also am suffering from this exact same problem -- media scans not completing correctly. VLC will pick up a handful of albums but I have over 500 (I've lost count).

Related to this, I'm also scouring the forums for a bit of a different issue -- 95% of my library keeps dropping and I'm left with quite an odd assortment of remaining tracks and then I have to drop my library and try again.
edit: Just found out what is happening -- the FLAC files are all dropping but it still shows the cover.jpg for where-ever that's downloaded? Quite weird.

How stable is the media scanning feature supposed to be?

Hi, it's being investigated, but you might have better feedback and maybe help a little by creating a ticket on the project : https://code.videolan.org/videolan/medialibrary/issues?state=opened

The media library has just been rewritten but has a lot of automated testing cases, and is just being integrated to the different VLC variants.

Cool, good to know -- thanks!

Any update on the fix for VLC not doing a media scan correctly.
I am running VLC3.1.7 for Android from 2019-06-26 and I still have the problem, it is also the latest version on Google Play.

Same issue here,the album art is still not showing in the library though