[darkgr33n]

Hi

I think I must be doing something wrong.

I've got an Acer Revo, and running XBMC Live from a USB stick and I'm trying to add my music to the library.

When I scan for content, it runs through and updates the library, but then, it seems to start from the beginning again, and start to add duplicate entries.

I have a fair few mp3's, so I set it scanning and go off and do something else. I happened to come back after an hour or so, and noticed it was only up to artists starting with B. So I stopped it, and sure enough, all the entries from A to B, were duplicated, the rest were fine.

Is there anything that would cause it to run through twice like this ?

I'm new to XBMC, so if there are any logs any place that can help, let me know.

Thanks

[jmarshall]

The only way you get duplicates in the music library is if you have 2 paths pointing to the same files. Check in your music database file itself using something like Sqlitespy.

Also, if it's taking forever, turn off the internet fetching stuff - it's much better to get things in to the library based purely on the tags first before looking for artist and album info online.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[darkgr33n]

The only way you get duplicates in the music library is if you have 2 paths pointing to the same files. Check in your music database file itself using something like Sqlitespy.

Also, if it's taking forever, turn off the internet fetching stuff - it's much better to get things in to the library based purely on the tags first before looking for artist and album info online.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan

Thanks for that - Sqlitespy was the key.

Before I ran the update to my ID3 tags, I used GoodSync to backup my data, and using sqlitespy, I could see it actually placed a hidden folder into my directory containing a copy of every file before the sync.

Deleted this hidden folder and now it's working as expected!

Thanks for your help again.

All the best.

Paul