Noise can't find music folder on a separate partition

[Colin Shirran]

Ok so this is how what is happening,

When I open Noise all of my music is visible. When I go to click on a track all of the tracks suddenly have the red circle with a line through it. This means it is inaccessible I presume? When I click to rescan music folders it says it can't find the music folder please make sure it is mounted. When I view my music through the file browser and launch noise that way it plays the music fine but won't go on to play anything else through the Noise gui.

Now, my music folder is on a separate partition. It has been working until today. Something that I changed yesterday, but hadn't listened to music since, was that I now have the partition auto-mounted on boot up. This is the only reason I can think of for the change.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Fri Nov 2 23:57:55 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20121024-02:22
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[sanjiwatsuki (sanjiwatsuki)]

Here are the logs on what happens when I attempt to load my music database.

Noise caps to 100% CPU usage during the entire thing. At 17:14:08, the GUI loads, but it is unresponsive. I have attached the log in the attachment.

I began to suspect it was my database pointing to my external drive for music. I deleted my Noise database at .local/share/Noise, and I could get the GUI to load and be responsive. I still cannot import any music from an external drive, however. A log from this run is also attached.

I have also attached the log from when I moved my music folder to my system drive. The music loaded and played correctly.

All logs are in the same .txt file and are designated by the preface ## CASE: before each one.

[sanjiwatsuki (sanjiwatsuki)]

I successfully got Noise to add my external drive's music to its database.

After deleting my old database, I placed some music files into my user account's Music folder (Noise's default music folder location). After it generated this database and I restarted Noise, I could then successfully change my Music folder to my external drive.

[Colin Shirran (colinshirran90)]

This problem still affects me?

[sanjiwatsuki (sanjiwatsuki)]

I think it was changed because this is a Noise problem, rather than an elementaryOS issue.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

I don't know if it relates to this issue, but when I tried to set the collection folder to a folder in another partition (i.e. not "home"), Noise would hang up there, until I forced it to quit.
When pointing the collection folder to a symlink (to the music folder in the other partition) located in "/home/myuser/Music", it scanned and recognized the music as it should.
I hope this helps.

[Corentin Noël (tintou)]

It works at me, If It don't at someone else, please open a new bug and describe your situation:
 * what kind of drive (external, internal, sdcard…)
 * what kind of file system (ext3, ntfs, fat32…)
 * Is it a symlink ?

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

Now it works for me!
My situation (for reference):
 * Internal HDD
 * NTFS
 * Not a symlink

[Mattia Guidi (matguidi)]

I managed to import music, but it took almost 6 hours to import around 10000 songs. I had to limit Noise's CPU usage because it was using 100% of CPU constantly. There is clearly a bug in how Noise imports music.

[Paul (chmykh-pv)]

Music is crashing every time i'm trying to scan library from internal HDD with NTFS without symlinks.
gdb output is in attachment