rhythmbox
So, Rhythmbox completely broke my ipod and corrupted the music libraries. While I was trying to fix it, I made the mistake of (accidentally) removing all the music via right-click->remove from my library. Now, I didn't send the music to the trash, which I guess means that it's still on my computer somewhere. Where's it at?
EDIT: Absolutely no chance of recovering music from the ipod itself. The songs are either missing or cut in half due to rhythmbox conveniently crashing on sync.
Rhythmbox is a music player that allows easy browsing and searching of your music. Audio files (.ogg, .mp3 etc.) have a feature called tags. Tags are small pieces of text that describe the audio file they are in. Examples of tag types are: 'album', 'artist' and 'genre'.
When you import files into your library, Rhythmbox extracts these tags, as well as the location of the file, into its database. It then uses the database to provide the interface that you can use to browse, search and play music. It also allows you to edit the tags in files. Tags replace the semantics of the underlying file hierarchy.
Your default music location is there for when you rip CDs. CDs don't contain tag information so Rhythmbox looks them up online and then uses your preferences to create the music files on your disk with your preferred naming scheme.
If you don't like the way Rhythmbox works, you can install other music players from Ubuntu Software Centre:
As you can see, there is plenty of choice.
I had a similar problem with Rhythmbox. I don't have nearly the number of files you have, but it was not seeing new files or changed files. I did the following:
~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xmlIt seems that my problem was an issue with the configuration file. I had reinstalled Rhythmbox, but had not done a complete uninstall. This left a corrupted configuration file in my Rhythmbox sub-directory. You may want to try this if it's possible that you have a corrupted configuration file.
Best Answer
Unfortunately Rhythmbox does not display the source for imported files on the GUI. In case we selected more than a single location "Multiple locations set" will be displayed only:
We can view and change the directories Rhythmbox should monitor for creating the database by running dconf-editor (from dconf-tools
) where we can browse to org/ gnome/ rhythmbox/ rhythmdb/ locations):
If this does not reveal the location of our mp3 files we can also perform a search on our file system which can be done with the default file browser Nautilus.
We open the location from where we want to find our files. In case we want to scan the whole filesystem including mounted additional drives we open the location "File System". In the "Search" line on top we give in an expression to be found in a filename, in this case when we search for mp3-files we may enter "mp3". Note that wildcards are not supported:
Of course we can also perform searches for files from the command line, e.g with the following commands:
The option
-Htells find to not follow symbolic links, the option-nameis case sensitive. If you have mp3 and MP3 files choose option-inameinstead.