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Hi,
I have set up MachineCodex to play MP3 files I have stored on my iMac's drive. These files are stored in Doug/Music/MP3s. The latter is also MachineCodex's
'Watched Folder'. The problem is this :I now have 26,474 MP3s on my Mac's MP3s folder, yet MachineCodex is showing only 26,411 of them. So, in a nutshell, the MachineCodex 'Watched Folder' is not keeping a particularly watchful eye on my MP3s folder.
One more thing............. even when I add a new Playlist to MachineCodex and 'ask' that to show all my MP3s, it also displays the 26.411 files instead of the 26,474 I have available.

Doug.

Hi Doug,

AudioCodex only lists files it 'knows' it should be able to play, and it makes the initial determination based on the filename extension. So the missing files could be either lacking a filename extension, or they may be of a type that AC doesn't support.

I realise you said it was an MP3 folder, but in case other file formats are involved, for the fullest range of file types to be supported we recommended that you install Flip4Mac (for WMV playback) and Perian, which allows the playback of a bunch of other formats including AVI, FLV, DIVX, MKV & more; both are free packages made available by third-party developers.

Please let me know if this helps.

Cheers,

Mark Hill
MachineCodex Software

Hi Mark,
Thanks for your quick reply.
Time for me to eat humble pie here. I have now thoroughly checked through my 'MP3s' folder, and well, I didn't realise I had so many files in there that were not actually MP3s, hence the real reason AC can't 'see' them. My apologies.
Thanks for the Flip4Mac and Perian links, both of which I already have installed on my iMac.
One final thing...............please do not ever get rid of AC's 'scan new files for metadata when first selected' preference option. I, as you may have gathered, do not want my files scanned in this way!

Best wishes,
Doug.