Groove Music not finding local files

Anonymous
2015-07-30T00:06:50+00:00

On my desktop, Groove music is not finding any of my local music files that I have in the folders I have added (mostly my existing iTunes folders).  I've tried resetting the app but still no luck.  Grabbing my OneDrive files with no problem.

Any thoughts?

Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-09T13:39:19+00:00

    Wow! Worked great.

    Definitely silly that you have to share the folders with YOURSELF before it will do anything

    Windows fail.

    Based on this, I wonder if I can turn off sharing to particular folders to exclude them from the photos app... hmmm

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-08T06:04:26+00:00

    HI,

    I'm also facing this problem on an Clean installed Windows 10.

    I think the problem is direct on the Groove Music App, with this application I'm facing multiple problems....

    Since I installed my Windows 10 and synced all file, I could see the problem with local file since minute one.

    Today I looked in Groove music and missed some Tracks...

    So i looked a bit deeper on my local storage, then into the ondrive recycle bin and found out, that in the last two nights about 400 Tracks (mp3 and m4a) randomly where deleted.

    From Bon Jovi till some Podcast, just where deleted without any reason. (just the files, not the folder)

    I think there is no problem on ondrive but a problem with the music App.

    The problem is may in the synchronization process.

    Background information and what I've done:

    - I've tried several official workarounds from MS, including deleting local library's, internet explorer settings, etc....

    • Local Music folder is linked to my Onedrive music folder (180 GB 28.000 Files) 
    • Groove is using my default music folder, that is pointing on the ondrive
    • I can see that the App is sporadically syncing (short sync popup comes)
    • I can't see no music when i click on local device or sometime the are a few about 10 maybe
    • When I compare my Ondrive Music in Groove Music APP with the online Player, I can see that the Music App is showing completely ****

    So I think someone should look deeper on the Music Player side I will keep an eye on my files.

    I can't understand, why there nobody looked deeper into the Microsoft Ondrive/Music thing, cause this is for me an really an core feature since MS killed Zune?

    ....please Microsoft, take a little care of your Music application :( since Windows8 the Music application is worse than ever

    Zune is and was the best and stable player from MS.

    ID Tag scanning with an little xml database, lightweight, fast an clean.... 

    So there is  no official option to  kill Grove Music, but if you need an stable player... user Zune, it still works ;)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-07T21:53:40+00:00

    I figured it out. The entire thing is a problem with the User Account file permissions. To fix this create a new user and assign it administrator access. Then login with this new user and set up your machine using this account.

    You will notice that everything will start working smoothly. iTunes cloud sync, OneDrive, Grove etc. etc. Make sure you copy over all your old user data (folder etc.) under this account. Then you can delete your old account. This will solve all your problems!!!

    Stephen

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-07T21:33:37+00:00

    It's a waste of time and clearly M$ don't want to waste time supporting it.

    I gave up on it and started to use the Amazon music app instead. I was up and running in minutes, it's far better and it actually works. Got all my music scanned with albums, artists and cover art - so much better.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-08-07T13:59:03+00:00

    What I can't believe is that we gave up Zune for this. The quality has been dropping like a stone and is now so low it can no longer be measured. MS should be embarrassed they've released this.

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