I'm experiencing that bug as well. Using symbolic links for that purpose doesn't work either.
My phone currently runs utopic r38.
This is the output I get when I run mediascanner-service ~/Music with a symbolic link set up in ~/Music pointing to ~/testmusic where I've put some music files (in subdirectories):
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for MPEG-TS (video/mpegts)
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for A/52, AC3 (Dolby Digital) Audio (audio/x-ac3; audio/ac3)
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for DTS Audio (audio/x-dts)
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 Video (video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)2)
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for VC-1 (Windows Media) Video (video/x-wmv)
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-scanner: Starting to monitor "/home/phablet/Music" mounted at "/"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/main: Starting the file system scanner
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning "/home/phablet/Music" using media index at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening media index index at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner"".
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/phablet/Downloads"" at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/Black Ice (2008)"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/phablet/Music"" at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/phablet/Pictures"" at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: WARNING warning/index: Ignoring media root "/home/phablet/Pictures" since no index could be created (Cannot open index writer: Read past EOF).
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/phablet/Videos"" at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/phablet/Music"" at ""/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner""
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/dbus: Published to D-Bus connection at <unix:path=/tmp/dbus-zMeBMEOH8I,type=3>
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/dbus: D-Bus name lost
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/Ozzy Osbourne"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/Ozzy Osbourne/Blizzard Of Ozz"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/SLASH Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/SLASH Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators/Apocalyptic Love"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Music/Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits"
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Finished scanning directories below "/home/phablet/Music".
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/metadata: Waiting for pending metadata resolvers.
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/metadata: Metadata resolving finished.
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/mediaartdownloader: Waiting for pending album art downloads.
mediascanner-service[3032]: INFO info/mediaartdownloader: Album art downloads complete.
I'm experiencing that bug as well. Using symbolic links for that purpose doesn't work either.
My phone currently runs utopic r38.
This is the output I get when I run mediascanner- service ~/Music with a symbolic link set up in ~/Music pointing to ~/testmusic where I've put some music files (in subdirectories):
mediascanner- service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for MPEG-TS (video/mpegts) service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for A/52, AC3 (Dolby Digital) Audio (audio/x-ac3; audio/ac3) service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for DTS Audio (audio/x-dts) service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 Video (video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)2) service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/main: No GStreamer support found for VC-1 (Windows Media) Video (video/x-wmv) service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-scanner: Starting to monitor "/home/ phablet/ Music" mounted at "/" service[ 3032]: INFO info/main: Starting the file system scanner service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning "/home/ phablet/ Music" using media index at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening media index index at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" ". service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/ phablet/ Downloads" " at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/Black Ice (2008)" service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/ phablet/ Music"" at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/ phablet/ Pictures" " at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: WARNING warning/index: Ignoring media root "/home/ phablet/ Pictures" since no index could be created (Cannot open index writer: Read past EOF). service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/ phablet/ Videos" " at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: INFO info/index: Opening child index for ""/home/ phablet/ Music"" at ""/home/ phablet/ .cache/ mediascanner" " service[ 3032]: INFO info/dbus: Published to D-Bus connection at <unix:path= /tmp/dbus- zMeBMEOH8I, type=3> service[ 3032]: INFO info/dbus: D-Bus name lost service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/Ozzy Osbourne" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/Ozzy Osbourne/Blizzard Of Ozz" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/SLASH Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/SLASH Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators/ Apocalyptic Love" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/ phablet/ Music/Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits" service[ 3032]: INFO info/fs-walker: Finished scanning directories below "/home/ phablet/ Music". service[ 3032]: INFO info/metadata: Waiting for pending metadata resolvers. service[ 3032]: INFO info/metadata: Metadata resolving finished. service[ 3032]: INFO info/mediaartdo wnloader: Waiting for pending album art downloads. service[ 3032]: INFO info/mediaartdo wnloader: Album art downloads complete.
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Rebooting did not help.
Remember, this is for symbolic links. ;)