Comment 25 for bug 559658

I experienced the same problem with gvfs!
For quite some time I had been using automount for my samba shares and importing all my music from my samba server into rhythmbox was working fine.
Since I decided to get rid of automount and use gvfs to mount my shares instead, I started having this import problem as well (I'm currently using rhythmbox version 2.97 provided with Ubuntu 12.04).
Just to play, I decided to use my old automount mountpoints and actually change them to symbolic links to my gvfs entries.
In such a case, having chosen the symbolic link as the import folder, rhythmbox is now re-importing the files properly back again (and yes, I scratched the old database beforehand).
I hope this could be of some help for both troubleshooting and as a temporary dirty workaround for users.