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In settings,service there's an option to keep running in the background. Is this to continue playing music whilst the user does something on another app, or for when the screen goes off, or for refresh of music sources? I'd like to be confident that I can set a source to refresh and forget about it ...

Ok, just in case this helps anyone....
My SMB share scan actually finished and the file numbers found look about right. Woo hoo!
I changed the app option to keep running in the background and gave app Android permission to run in the background. It seems to have worked.

Upvote, yes yes yes.

Just browse a share and play a file, nothing else.

Then I can die happy.

My small test directory share only has a few files but neutron can't even scan that. 0 files found (no errors either).
I have spent days on this often into the early hours, I just want to play a network file that other apps play just fine.
I could weep...

I should add, I don't want full scans by album, metatags etc, all I want is to browse my folder structure and click play. Unfortunately, I suspect I don't have that simpler option.., the scan has to work.
I put in a developer suggestion for a simple network browse/play option.

I deleted my main source - the big shared folder, I've given up on that for now. I'm left with my SD card source (which seems to scan just fine in neutron) and a small smb shared directory with 3 sub dirs, approx 700 mp3 files in total. (My VLC and Samba apps can browse and play big and small shares...

I wish neutron had a simple browse and play of network shares like VLC or the samba app do.
No scans that take days and don't work anyway, no metadata, tags or anything else just browse my folders and play.
Please please please

Ok, thanks for the reply. I've been experimenting and things just get weirder. Since my big shared directory wasn't scanning as expected, I made a small shared dir with just 3 artists and albums in sub directories, so not much. I added this as a source and it scans successfully but tells me there ar...

Hi All, Just purchased neutron for Android and I'm trying to set up my shared music dir of my wd my cloud (SMB) as a source. Neutron on my two phones have wildly different scan results for files and directories, both wrong. The source refresh confuses me, there's the top refresh on change which is s...

Yes, clear play cache fixed it.
Many thanks!