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That's a very good idea, which I will follow.

However MyMusic will add ALL files within a subfolder to the database that aren't already present in the db as soon as you play one of them. That means that download folders or other temporary folders get unneccessarily added to the database if you visit them, filling it up. This occurs in 'Shares' view (obviously) that I anticipated would act merely as a fast simple file explorer bypassing the database using whatever names it found on the disk. As these get added to the db (possibly wth unchecked incorrect, incorrect tag info), so the album table fills up with album entries that may only have one or a few of the tracks so the album view becomes untrue and cluttered.

My current workaround is to temporarily move unrequired folders out while doing a full music scan and backup this requested music scan. Then before running mp run a batch file to overrwrite the current music db with my original scanned backup, to undo all the unrequested additions mp may have added the last time it was run.

I have tried various options such as disable 'load id3 tags from file' to prevent MP from auto-adding to the db but have been unable to stop it. Admittedly this auto-add doesn't seem to auto-gen thumbs for newly added items, good for me, but it gets a bit inconsistent.

<blockquote data-quote="HappyTalk" data-source="post: 102545" data-attributes="member: 22671">That's a very good idea, which I will follow. However MyMusic will add ALL files within a subfolder to the database that aren't already present in the db as soon as you play one of them. That means that download folders or other temporary folders get unneccessarily added to the database if you visit them, filling it up. This occurs in 'Shares' view (obviously) that I anticipated would act merely as a fast simple file explorer bypassing the database using whatever names it found on the disk. As these get added to the db (possibly wth unchecked incorrect, incorrect tag info), so the album table fills up with album entries that may only have one or a few of the tracks so the album view becomes untrue and cluttered.My current workaround is to temporarily move unrequired folders out while doing a full music scan and backup this requested music scan. Then before running mp run a batch file to overrwrite the current music db with my original scanned backup, to undo all the unrequested additions mp may have added the last time it was run. I have tried various options such as disable 'load id3 tags from file' to prevent MP from auto-adding to the db but have been unable to stop it. Admittedly this auto-add doesn't seem to auto-gen thumbs for newly added items, good for me, but it gets a bit inconsistent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HappyTalk, post: 102545, member: 22671"] That's a very good idea, which I will follow. However MyMusic will add ALL files within a subfolder to the database that aren't already present in the db as soon as you play one of them. That means that download folders or other temporary folders get unneccessarily added to the database if you visit them, filling it up. This occurs in 'Shares' view (obviously) that I anticipated would act merely as a fast simple file explorer bypassing the database using whatever names it found on the disk. As these get added to the db (possibly wth unchecked incorrect, incorrect tag info), so the album table fills up with album entries that may only have one or a few of the tracks so the album view becomes untrue and cluttered. My current workaround is to temporarily move unrequired folders out while doing a full music scan and backup this requested music scan. Then before running mp run a batch file to overrwrite the current music db with my original scanned backup, to undo all the unrequested additions mp may have added the last time it was run. I have tried various options such as disable 'load id3 tags from file' to prevent MP from auto-adding to the db but have been unable to stop it. Admittedly this auto-add doesn't seem to auto-gen thumbs for newly added items, good for me, but it gets a bit inconsistent. [/QUOTE]