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
    2015-08-03T01:41:12+00:00

    I never removed and re-added my music folder in Groove but unchecked the folders read only properties, it did its thing, and remarked read only; but restarted the Groove program and started to add the music seemingly fine. 

    So I am guessing I will have to do the same thing for my Amazon and general PC music folders if the albums that I haven't moved from there are not listed

    So starting to look like one issue down from this migration down.

    Thanks for the folder properties suggestion.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-03T00:54:10+00:00

    **** solution?*****

    I got groove music to identify the music by sharing it with myself, and generally messing with the sharing settings on the files. Sorry I cant be more specific. good luck all.

    however Cortana still can play any songs.

    me: hey Cortana... play a song (or play music, ect)

    her: ok cueing up your music .... somethings not right (or something went wrong, ect)

    ive seen the little player pop up on occasion but it immediately shuts down.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T06:27:16+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-02T06:12:17+00:00

    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.

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