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JimH:
Search for the files in MC.  They may have been imported.  What type of files?

HPBEME:
The file type for the problem files is MP3. But as I mentioned in my 1st post, I did do a text search on artist and album name, and it came up empty.  I also deleted an existing FLAC album, and it would not re-import either.

Now for a total segue: I believe Jim, you and I are of a similar... umm... vintage shall we say, and the import problem songs are by a classic local Minnesota band...  The Daisy Dillman Band (I am originally from Minnesota).  Now if I can just find Gypsy, Mary Jane Alm Band, The Flaming 'Ohs, The Suburbs, etc., nostalgic memories of my misspent youth will be complete.  Of course if your musical tastes are not rock, none of those bands will mean anything to you.

David Sydney:
Not completely across your issue HPBEME, but not sure if you realise that there is a setting in the Auto Import to "ignore files previously removed from library" which sounds like your is ticked as on. It will never re import them. Go into settings, Library then the 'configure auto import' and about another dialog box there is a list of settings per profile (music, video) that has been set up. Perhaps that is preventing your reimport?

Mistaj:

--- Quote from: David Sydney on May 08, 2021, 05:29:29 pm ---Not completely across your issue HPBEME, but not sure if you realise that there is a setting in the Auto Import to "ignore files previously removed from library" which sounds like your is ticked as on. It will never re import them. Go into settings, Library then the 'configure auto import' and about another dialog box there is a list of settings per profile (music, video) that has been set up. Perhaps that is preventing your reimport?

--- End quote ---

Would this setting also affect if you completely changed drives, specifically drive letters? 

HPBEME:
I solved this a few weeks back and should have posted what was causing the issue... better late than never.

I had changed what files are displayed for all my Audio views via Customize View/Set rules for file display... .  I wanted to exclude the downloaded JR Radio cloud files from getting mixed in and displayed along with my own local files, so I made a rule to exclude files where Album Artist is <empty>, since I noticed this field was not used by the JR Radio files.

But this field is not pre-populated by brand new files being imported either. This is why MC would show them as being imported, even display the details of the import after completion, but none of the files would show up in any view or even when I searched for them, as I had applied this rule to all my Audio views!  Pretty obvious in retrospect, but since the rule worked to exclude the JR Radio files, and I did not import anything for several months after creating that rule, I did not connect that the new rule was the causal factor of the import issue. I have since changed all my Audio views to only show files using the hard drive letter where I store all my media files, which also excludes all the JR Radio cloud files.

FYI... all my previously existing files continued to display despite the new rule, because after I import files, I always manually populate that field to create a last-name-first sort order.  For example, if I import a Van Morrison CD, it auto-populates Artist as Van Morrison. I then manually fill in Album Artist with Morrison, Van.  I much prefer to view detail lists via last-name-first. I even change band names with "The" in front - e.g., The Whites Stripes is modified to White Stripes, The in the Album Artist field.  I know I can make MC ignore articles (the, an, a, etc.) when sorting via the Tree & View/Sorting/Ignore Articles in the options dialog, but to my eyes it looks much cleaner to have the very first letter be exactly the same in a long list (as opposed to mostly the same, but broken up here and there with band names beginning with "The" or "A" or whatever, and then the first letter of the next word is the actual sort character).

The downside is I have to manually enter the info into Album Artist this way.  If anyone has an automatic technique for putting the last name first, or just a better way of accomplishing the same goal, I would love to hear your approach.

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