When opening Media Bay my audio loops are not appearing. The Directories/File Folders are all checked as well as the Sub-Folders but none of the actual files inside the folders appear?
A search for this issue has revealed nothing.
Rescan did not solve issue… yes the folders contain audio loops. All media is selected.
Signature contains system info…
???
Thanks in advance!
i had a similar issue recently when i re-installed windows on my OS drive. afterwards, i could not access my purchased samples on a seperate drive in the same PC, i could see them, but could not access them with Cubase or any other media player.
My only solution was to approach 3 different sample libary suppliers and ask if i could re-download my purchases again which was about 2.5 years from the original purchase date. props to the following who all allowed me to re-download
Samplephonics
Sample Magic
Sounds to Sample
Hi hitwriter,
have you reset all your filters?
Regards
As you can see a folder directory is selected and no items are listed.
More “Cowbell” of course.
This is the same regardless of the folder/directory that contains any files… .wav rex .mid etc…
Hi hitwriter,
I see on your screenshot that the filter Drum&Perc is enabled. Please de-select that as well and see what happens.
Regards
Thank you… too many filters! Problem solved!
I’m running into a similar issue - my MIDI files are not appearing. I don’t think that it is related to the filters. I’ve attached a screenshot …
You can see the Finder folder where there is a MIDI file, but then it does not appear in Media Bay. Is there something else I may not have adjusted correctly?
I believe you are on a Mac.
I am on Windows 7, but the solution I found was the directory might be hidden.
I could not see my C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound in Media Bay,
until I made that directory visible (or not “Hidden”) in it’s properties.
Hope that helps.
Hi Pagliacci,
Thank you for the response. I am on a mac. Is there somewhere in Cubase I’d need to adjust for properties settings?
I’ve messed with the Media Bay properties settings to no avail. I went to the Finder (the Windows Explorer analog) and see that Read/Write properties are correctly set to allow all privileges.
Thanks.
(Great user name, btw)
I wish I could be of more assistance, but alas a Mac is not my milieu… Would there be that some aliases are confusing the issue of which folder Media Bay is really scanning?
That’s a possibility - I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I had the same problem in Cubase 8 pro. Loop browser showed nothing. I checked for an update and the had one …They`re all back!
I had this problem…right click on the folder and click on Rescan Disk.
I know this is from a year ago but thanks!! I did a search and your comment solved my issue.
Some audio files with a .wav extension are actually not .wav files, .wav may be used as a container for some other audio file type.
Try this: if a file is not appearing in MediaBay it may also not play in VLC Media Player.
I took one of these VLC unplayable .wav files that was also not appearing in MediaBay and tried to re-encode it to .wav using ffmpeg. FFmpeg reported that it could not find the input audio stream in the file. I then tried renaming it to .ogg, unfortunately with the same result. A VLC playable file converted without any problem and was also visible in MediaBay. So… at this point the actual file type remains unknown, and it remains an unrecognisable file type for MediaBay even though it has the .wav extension. Will research further.
Also of interest is that some .mp4 files will not import into Cubase as a video file, often when it’s been downloaded from online. Again .mp4 is a container type. However this can be fixed by using ffmpeg to re-encode, just use
ffmpeg -i “yourvideo.mp4” -qscale 0 output.mp4
and then it’s likely possible to import it into Cubase.
I’ve had some success
Download and install VU Player from the vuplayer website
Run it and browse to the .wav files that do not appear in MediaBay.
Right click on one of the files and choose the option Convert Files, click the All Files tick box if necessary.
Choose an output folder
Choose an output file type: Waveform Audio File (PCM)
Click OK
A new folder is created in the output folder: Unknown Artist|Unknown Album
These converted files are now showing up in Media Bay, and are also playable in VLC
