Thanks for your replies everyone. Further to Bananaheads suggestion, I started to “rename” the invisible folders last night, none of the names looked like they contained “odd” characters. What I did was, via windows explorer, double clicked the folder name, copied the folder name to the clipboard, renamed it so a single character, then double clicked the folder name again and pasted the folder name from the clipboard. So there was a rename from folder name to “a” for example but then that was immediately overwritten with the original name.
This had the desired affect ! and also allowed the album artwork to show up via the apps “browse folders” option, which I hadn’t seen before but was on my list of queries to get sorted.
As I’ve spent many evenings now over the past 3+ months ripping all of my CDs and didn’t want to manually trawl through the folders trying to identify all of the “invisible” folders to then manually do the above “rename” I got a vb script together to do the “rename” automatically but couldn’t be ars3d running it through late last night.
During the night, I know, sad b*stard, I thought why not try “renaming” the flac folder and see what affect that would have. The folder structure is as follows
Music
flac
Artist#1
Album#1
Track#1
Track#2
etc
Album#2
Track#1
Track#2
etc
Artist#2
Album#1
Track#1
Track#2
etc
So I tried that this morning, doh, this initially had the effect of only showing a small %’age of the actual folders. I then realised that my phone screen saver may have kicked in and “interfered” with the app resyncing, so I changed it so that the screen saver didn’t kick in at all and “renamed” the flac folder again and prodded the phone every now and then to keep everything alive, to be sure, to be sure.
This looked like the full list of folders is now available but didn’t unfortunately allow all of the album artwork to show as desired.
I am going to carry on and test out the vb script and see what effect that has.
Does any of this make sense to anyone and does anyone KNOW exactly how this all fits together and can explain that to me in layman’s terms
What I also don’t understand is the relationship between the app and the front panel as after the initial “flac rename” this morning and I could see only a small %’age of the actual folders via the app I didn’t expect to see exactly the same, incorrect, list of folders on the front panel via the remote. The reasoning behind that being that possibly some people are using a similar setup without any app ?
Also, Bruce, as you’ve likely detected I’m a complete noob, could you let me know exactly how and where you kick off your manual scan and I’ll try and relate that to my setup. It seems to me there’s some sort of syncing required but I haven’t a clue what/where I should be targeting
Many thanks once again everyone
