Music files not being added to the library

Server Version#: 1.25.3.5409
Player Version#: 4.77.3

I’m a new user, having setup my server a couple of months ago. As far as I can tell, all music I added at that point is available to play, but when I’m adding new music it’s hit or miss whether it will be made available via the web or Android app.

All files are stored in a folder per album and artist, and then all in a the same folder on my Raspberry Pi, and are all .flac files. Looking at the logs, it appears that scanner sees the files, but I can’t figure out why it’s not adding them to the library.

Any ideas?

With linux, the first thing I check is the file permissions.

Thank you, I will investigate.

When setting up the server, I ran into various issues and I think I gave the whole music folder the same permissions. Is it possible that some new files being added to it would have different permissions to other new files?

Very much learning as I go here, so any info is greatly appreciated!

You might want to look at Linux Tips - #10 by ChuckPa

@beckfield the guide worked perfectly. I’ve changed permissions on my music folder and everything has appeared in the library. Thank you for your help.

@OttoKerner I’ll look into automating this next. Cheers!

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