Hello all,

The music player on my N900 isn't recognizing the new songs that I am putting on the memory card.. How can I "refresh" the main songs list so it would detect the new ones.. Do I need to delete or clear cache using xterminal and it will rebuild it by itself when opening music player again?

Or is there any easier way that I didn't pay attention to?

Thanks in advance,

BaNdOrA

You probably need to give it some more time - tracker (the indexer) can be slow to pickup new media.

I had a problem with this. I took the micro SD card from my Nokia N82 and put it into the N900. The read performance was terrible. I discovered that the file explorer tooks ages to list the directories (or run 'ls /media/mmc1' in an xterm), and the tracker effectively got stuck indexing the card. I took the card out and the indexer found all the internal songs again no problem.

I suspect either the card wasn't formatted "correctly", or the N82 did something non-standard with it. May occur with cards used in other devices. There is a standards compliant formatter available here

BZ

The media player 'pretends' to know what is on device, while tracker is stil indexing.

The whole tracker concept is problematic

It would be possible to modify N900 kernel to report newly created files individually, and add them to tracker database as they are created; this would solve this BRAINDAMAGED tracker design which is one of the bigger problems with N900 as-shipped.

Unless someone with real kernel chops explains to me why I'm wrong, this is the solution.

I thought that was what the tracker was doing - getting notifications from the kernel of new files, adding them to an internal list to process, then working through them.

Well I don't think giving it time will solve the issue as it's been almost a week I believe and it's still the same thing... The funny thing is that it shows a small chunk of the songs that I have on the memory card.. not all of them though..

In the beginning it used to show every song.. but I removed the card put it back on my old N95-1 and did something there.. and then I put it back onto the N900 and then I got 23 songs (including the ones that comes with the N900) instead of having 125 songs (excluding the ones that comes with the N900)..

So they're not new.. but should be considered as new since I am putting the memory card in the phone again..

There should be a refresh button just like in symbian..

Anyways, I am going to reformat the memory card and reinstall it on the N900 and see if it will recognize the songs.

EDIT: My N900 recognizes every other thing (photos, videos).. but not the songs..

See this thread and use the tracker-processes command in the terminal to rebuild the cache

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...hlight=tracker

That did the trick. Meh but this is not a good way to "refresh" the music library.. As it removes a lot of indexes and not just for the music player.. Nokia needs to refine this on the media player.

I'm sure its being worked on