moOde 5.0 RC1 In-Place Update

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The file .mpdignore has to be manually created. Somehow they are in your music directories.

Also, the so called dot files are traeated as hidden files in Linux, Mac OS X etc. They typically don't so up in GUI File manager utilities unless there is an option in the utils to "Show hidden files"

Here is from the MPD help

"To exclude a file from the update, create a file called .mpdignore in its parent directory. Each line of that file may contain a list of shell wildcards. Matching files in the current directory and all subdirectories are excluded.
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I’d love to see an unfiltered recursive directory listing of one of those folders to see if they actually do exist, it’d be weird to have them just automatically appear.

The format of the .mpdignore file in this case would be just a text file with “@eaDir” on a line by itself (or maybe “@eaDir/” but probably not, both options should exclude the quotes) and you’d save it to the top level of the folder that holds your music. Make sure the editor you use doesn’t add a file extension like .txt to it. I’m not sure if you have to restart mpd or moode but if all goes well the next time mpd rescans it should read the contents of the file you created and not try to scan the contents of those directories.