Bug#746549: "No music found"

[Florian Will]

Hi,

This could also be a bug in tracker, because gnome-music just queries
tracker for a list of music files instead of looking them up directly.
Tracker seems to break occasionally, for example it forgot about some
music files that I've added shortly before shutting down my computer.

You can use the "tracker-control" command line tool to completely drop
the current tracker database and start a new scan through all of your
files. I'm not sure what kind of data tracker stores, maybe some of it
is important to you, so please do some research / create a backup
(tracker-control --backup=FILE) first.

This stops tracker and removes everything but the journal(?) and backup(?):
tracker-control -e

This stops tracker and removes *everything* tracker has stored, you
could try this if -e does not work:
tracker-control -r

Then you need to restart tracker:
tracker-control -s

A few seconds after restarting tracker, gnome-music listed all of my
music albums. This may depend on the size of your file system, I tested
this in a VM with a very basic gnome setup, so maybe it takes much
longer in your case. I've also seen reports of tracker not doing
anything for various reasons (for example, when a laptop is running on
battery, tracker just idles AFAIK). Check the tracker worker status if
there are issues (tracker-control -S and -i).

Hope this helps,
Florian