I’m on Tumbleweed using the latest gnome-music from the Tumbleweed repo (3.16.1-1.1), though I doubt this makes any difference because older versions seem to have the same problem for me…
My problem is that whenever I open the music application I am greeted with an empty screen (though there are still the tabs etc.). It appears as if though it does not find any of my music. It does not display the “no music found” screen though. I intially thought this was due to the fact that my ~/Music folder was merely a symlink to my cloud synced ~/OneDrive/Music folder and that Tracker was having trouble with the symlink. I then changed the search folder to the full (non symlink) one and even cleared Tracker’s cache a few times letting it rebuild. After an initial clear I get the “no music found” screen but then after a while I get the blank one again. This is strange because after the while of searching, my music starts to show up in the normal Gnome search window. Any ideas?
Sorry for reviving this old post, but I arrived here searching through the forums.
Gnome-music isn’t displaying any music, but I’m pretty sure it is being indexed by Tracker since it shows up in tracker-needle.
I should add that my ~/Music folder only has a symlink to the music location in another partition, but I’m also indexing that other location with Tracker and, as I said, it shows up in tracker-needle.
Things I tried: Enabling/disabling content indexing, and rebuilding the index.
Sorry for not mentioning it here but I have found that tracker gets stuck on symlinks without errors or crashes, it simply never finishes. The only solution I found was to make it scan directly in the destination folder and prevent it from scanning the symlinks.
In my case Tracker indexed my music anyway because I also made it scan directly in the destination folder.
I solved my problem in another way. It seems gnome-music will only display music files that are located within the XDG Music directory. So I changed the relevant entry in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and then it detected my music with no issues.
Did you succeed in making gnome-music detect music not in your XDG Music directory?
I also would like to add my 2 cents:
After an upgrade from openSUSE 13.2 to Leap 42.1 Gnome Music also didn’t show me any music anymore.
I could solve this by launching tracker-preferences, go to Locations tab then click twice (disable and enable again) on every icon displayed there: Desktop, Documents Music, etc…
Finally clicking apply.
Then
tracker daemon list - showed me it was (re-)indexing everything, this time my music was also found… and gnome music was starting to show all music…
It would probably also have worked to reset the tracker database and restart you session…