Trouble Adding Music to Library from USB Stick

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#1

Hi, completely new here. I searched the forum for the answer to my question but didn’t find anything that helped me. So, running OSMC on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the official OSMC skin I find that whenever I select “Music” from the main menu it takes me to Playlists, Files, Music add-ons. From there I select “Files” which shows my USB drive and “Add music.” I can select the USB drive and find all my music on it, but I don’t see a way to add it to the library so that I don’t have to take several steps to get my music.

If I select “Add music…” and select “Browse” it takes me to a screen that doesn’t show my USB drive.

I’m stumped. I’m sure it’s something simple, but I didn’t find an answer in the Wiki or here on the forum.

Thanks,

Jeff

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#2

Music -> Files -> Add Music -> Browse -> Root Filesystem -> Media -> your usb drive -> Subfolder if music is not in the root of the drive
And then OK.

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#3

fzinken,

Wow, that was fast! When I got to Media it didn’t show my USB drive. Instead there was a folder named 56E4-E622_, which contained all my music. I would never have found it without your help, so thank you very much! I added it to my Library and now all is right with the world.

Is what you showed me documented in the Wiki or elsewhere?

Thanks again,

Jeff

#4

Well that is the label of your USB Stick that is using when automounting it. You can change that while formating or if you want manually via the command line.

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#5

Excellent! Thanks again.