SUMMARY Elisa is not finding new songs added to my ~/Music folder. Today I added two mp3 songs in my ~/Music folder, then opened the Elisa to play it, but they were not found, so I refreshed the Music Collection. Even after that, the Songs were not found. First I thought I might be using the wrong file type but Cantata found the music immediately. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add the Song to ~/Music folder 2. Open Elisa 3. Refresh Music Collection OBSERVED RESULT New songs were not shown in Tracks EXPECTED RESULT Songs should be present in tracks and playable SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kernel (5.4.48-1-lts) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It seems I was a bit hasty, those songs are now added to Elisa, but it does not start playing them automatically like it does for other songs.
Can you clarify what you mean by "it does not start playing them automatically"? In what way would you expect newly-added songs to get played automatically?
I have set the preference in the Elisa setting that resume playback from last session. Previously the songs which I had in the Music folder before installing Elisa were playing automatically. But after adding two new songs, only those songs are not resuming when restarting Elisa
I was thinking this might be the issue with the songs itself, so I tried using Cantata and Audacious (as I only want QT or KDE apps for as many task as possible) and they were flawlessly
Elisa uses a playlist to determine what to play. If you add new songs to your music folder but don't somehow manually add them to the played , they won't be played. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 417284 ***
Sorry to bother you but I have added them to the playlist, but when I exit Elisa and restart it, they don't play even though they are present in the playlist. Even if I click on play it doesnot respond. Afterwards if I delete them from playlist and re-add them they start playing again. If you need more information, please feel free to ask
I'm having trouble following. Could you attach a screen recording that shows the problem? If a picture is worth a thousand words, a stream of pictures must be worth millions of words. :)
Created attachment 129873 [details] It describes the first time I opened Elisa This is the initial state
Created attachment 129874 [details] Added the song in playlist After adding the song in playlist and listening
Created attachment 129875 [details] Restarting Elisa with song in playlist After listening to I quit Elisa and restarted it, the song was still in the playlist but not working
Created attachment 129876 [details] Cleared playlist So I cleared the playlist again
Created attachment 129877 [details] add the song again So I added the song again and now it works. But if I quit Elisa it will show the same behavior as described
It is showing this particular behavior only with these two new songs. I checked if the file type or Bitrate or Sample rate is different from other songs, but it appears everything is the same. I am also attaching the screenshot of non-working and working song information
Created attachment 129878 [details] My Music folder I am sorry if it sounds confusing, but I just noticed that if the songs are not in the separate folder in Music directory are showing this weird behavior but if I put them into a folder inside the Music directory they are behaving normally. For example, in the image, you can see on the right all the songs not in another folder are misbehaving
Is there any chance you could attach those two song files so we can inspect them and try to reproduce the issue with them?
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Created attachment 133668 [details] Problem song I am sorry for the late reply. Here is the song requested. I have made a copy and sending one to you. I have changed some metadata (Name, Title, Genre, Artist) of the other copy and that is working fine.
I have provided the song file