I have 60,000 music tracks (5,000 CDs) stored on a Windows 7 machine that I use as a home server. I have mapped the folder where these are all stored as Z:\ drive on my Windows 8.1 (32 bit) tablet.
I tried using WMP as my music library player, but after 3 days of scanning the collection, the computer crashed because WMP had filled the C: drive with album-cover artwork, and STILL wasn't done scanning everything.
I read that the Win 8.1 MUSIC (the app formerly known as Zune I guess) app 'handles large collections' so I told it to look at my mapped dive Z:\ for music but it's not looking, not finding anything. NOTHING is showing in the library. Opening Z:\ in Exlorer, I can see all the subfolders and the music therein, but the MUSIC app is not bothering to look.
I've read that using a network share to store tracks for MUSIC requires that the folder with the tracks be mapped as a drive and that it be included in the Windows Search indexing schema. As far as I can tell, only Windows 8.1 PRO allows indexing of network files, and I just have 8.1 standard.
Anyway- is there some command to tell the MUSIC app to RESCAN it's music storage locations?
I tried using WMP as my music library player, but after 3 days of scanning the collection, the computer crashed because WMP had filled the C: drive with album-cover artwork, and STILL wasn't done scanning everything.
I read that the Win 8.1 MUSIC (the app formerly known as Zune I guess) app 'handles large collections' so I told it to look at my mapped dive Z:\ for music but it's not looking, not finding anything. NOTHING is showing in the library. Opening Z:\ in Exlorer, I can see all the subfolders and the music therein, but the MUSIC app is not bothering to look.
I've read that using a network share to store tracks for MUSIC requires that the folder with the tracks be mapped as a drive and that it be included in the Windows Search indexing schema. As far as I can tell, only Windows 8.1 PRO allows indexing of network files, and I just have 8.1 standard.
Anyway- is there some command to tell the MUSIC app to RESCAN it's music storage locations?
My Computer
System One
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