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Mac => JRiver Media Center 32 for Mac => Topic started by: GeorgeBoles on March 28, 2025, 07:01:36 am

Title: Removing unwanted music from Library
Post by: GeorgeBoles on March 28, 2025, 07:01:36 am

Good Evening, All.

I know this has been covered ad nauseum.

I am having trouble deleting albums from specific folders on my MacJRiver 28.

I have moved the music files I don’t want to appear in my library into a folder called:

/Volumes/SPINNYDRV/Music/Archive-OriginalFiles    (copy and pasted from Mac Finder). All of my music is on a second fixed (internal) drive called SpinnyDrv and all of it is in the Music folder.

I have clicked on this folder as an “exclude” folder in Configure Auto-Import as in the screen grab.

I think I have then tried every permutation of:

• Ignore files previously removed from library
• Update for external changes
• Fix broken links: No, Yes, Yes (Protect files on missing drives)

… followed by running Run Autoimport Now.

And yet the unwanted albums/music are all still there after running AutoImport

What is the correct selection of those “tasks” please?
What am I doing wrong please? (I used to be able to do this.)

Best regards,
George.

Title: Re: Basic question on removing unwanted music from Library - Sorry.
Post by: JimH on March 28, 2025, 07:53:35 am

In MC (not in Finder), select files, then use DEL and read carefully.  Try a few before doing all.

Title: Re: Removing unwanted music from Library
Post by: GeorgeBoles on March 29, 2025, 12:30:01 am

Thanks for your assistance, Jim, and especially for your prompt assistance.

That worked as you said, which is the way of the universe when you give advice.

I guess I cannot work out why "Excluding" the unwanted folder does not work to do this. I think in the past I did use the "exclude" unwanted folders to do this, pretty sure - hence my Exclude: \Volumes\SPINNYDRV\Music\Out" folder - and then used those other check box options before running Auto-Import Now to get rid of the library references.

Is that another way of doing it for whole folders of unwanted music, or am I confabulating (again)?

Regards,
George.

Title: Re: Removing unwanted music from Library
Post by: EnglishTiger on March 29, 2025, 02:07:52 am

The simplest way of making sure any tracks/albums on /Volumes/SPINNYDRV/Music that you don't want Auto Import to load back into MC is to not put them in a folder under /Volumes/SPINNYDRV/Music; i.e. put them into /Volumes/SPINNYDRV/Archive-OriginalFiles so that Auto Import never sees them again until you tell it to import them.

Title: Re: Removing unwanted music from Library
Post by: JimH on March 29, 2025, 07:11:55 am

Exclude should work.  It's case sensitive.

Title: Re: Removing unwanted music from Library
Post by: GeorgeBoles on March 29, 2025, 06:33:15 pm

Thanks Jim and ET.

I know that the Exclude method it should work because I am using it now successfully.
At least I am not going mad.

So today I will listen to some music while cleaning the house and furniture (again) of mould after 2.5 feet of rain in the last 3 months.

Cheers,
George.