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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?
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I keep all my music on a NAS drive and groove music couldn't find it.
I keep a backup of my music on a portable USB drive. Groove could only find a small portion of the music on the External HD until I shared the music folder with myself and restarted Groove. Now I can see all of my music, but I have to leave my external HD plugged into.
Anyone had luck getting Groove to recognize a NAS drive?
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OK figured it out, you have to right click your music folder and change uncheck the box "read only". This should make it work!
yea I've tried this but its not working. I unchecked the box, and it'll apply the changes to all the subfolders as well, but the moment I click okay and reopen the same folder properties, its checked again. I've tried moving the music elsewhere and unchecked the box, same thing happens, it checks the box itself again.
You know it's funny the same thing happened to me. I changed the settings, added the folder to grove, changed the settings again, then changed iTunes to run as an administrator (completely unrelated task) and then wala - it found the files. I have no idea why. Checked again and it shows that the file is read-only now, but it is still finding the files. Go figure, makes no sense whatsoever.
