Hello,

Amarok doesn't list all the files in my collection. In the collection there are something like 36000 files while the index in amarok states a number that is noticeably lower by 10-12 files. I can't be more precise because amarok doesn’t' differentiate among multimedia files and so video files are put in the index increasing the counter of the files in the collection DB (totally build up by flac files and a bunch of videos).
I was able to discover this difference by counting the flac files using kfind and discovering that this number is greater than that in amarok.
My first difficulty is that I don't know which files are missing. Is there any way to discover them? Is amarok skipping by default files that have long names or that are in folders with strange characters?
My system is Debian Sid, Amarok 2.4.0 with a MySQL DB.

P.S.: it would be nice to configure amarok in a way that it can differentiate among file formats, for example putting video formats in a video virtual folder, and eventually it can skip unwanted file types.

I think it doesn't list the video files, did you check the number?

Thank you for replying, I was losing my hope.

Mamarok wrote:I think it doesn't list the video files...

I swear that some time ago amarok was able to play and list movie files, but now all my movie files (.mpg, .mkv, .mov, .mp4) have disappeared from the index. BTW this is not so bad for me.

Mamarok wrote:...did you check the number?

Given the above, amarok now lists only my .flac files. According to amarok there are 36.815 tracks while according to kfind they are 36.824 and I don't know a way to discover the 9 missing files. Do you have any suggestion?

Maybe there are duplicates with the same hash so Amarok would not display those.

Also, Amarok did never integrate video files in the collection, you can see those in the File Browser only.

Also, extremely long file names might not appear, check it you have some file names bigger than 256 characters.

Mamarok wrote:Maybe there are duplicates with the same hash so Amarok would not display those.

Also, Amarok did never integrate video files in the collection, you can see those in the File Browser only.

Also, extremely long file names might not appear, check it you have some file names bigger than 256 characters.

Thank you, you give me many hints. Do you know if programs like fslint and komparator4 are able to find duplicates through the same criterion in amarok (hash sum)?
I will look for filenames bigger than 256 character (I supposed that this limitation only affected Windows), even if I considered this option before. Do you know if characters encoding can limit the amount of items in the list? I used to work my collection through Windows programs and I noticed that sometime characters are detected wrongly.
Thank you.

You should avoid using different character encodings, UTF-8 should be default and all operating systems can handle that quite well. ISO is outdated and obsolete, so unless you use a very old media player that needs ISO encoding there is no reason to use it.
Anyway, that should not cause problems in the track count.

As for applications that can search for identical hashes I don't know if that exists, somebody else than me should answer that.

The 256 characters length for file names is a deliberate limit for the database, it's independent of the OS in use.

Excellent help. I have found a folder with duplicated items inside using fslint. Now the counter in the indexed multimedia files in Amarok matches exactly the number of .flac files found by kfind. Thank you for your help