Walkman App depth of scan directory

Hi,
I have a problem with the Walkman App. My music is located quite deep in the directory tree (9th level at /sdcard1/Android/data/com.ttxapps.onesync/files/OneDrive/Multimedia/Music). It seems that the automatic multimedia scan of the Walkman app cannot scan that deep and therefore does not find my music. With other players (like MortPlayer) it is no problem to point them to the actual music directory no matter how deep it is, but I did not find out how to do that in the Walkman app. Does anyone have an idea?
PS: my music has to be in that directory because I sync it with OneSync and due to the crappy Google-policy, on unrooted devices most apps (like onesync) cannot write to SD card anymore except to their very own directories, in this case com.ttxapps.onesync.

Thank you for the suggestion, but that is no option for me. My media files are on the OneSync cloud directory and they are synced to all my devices automatically. If I move them back and forth "by hand" everything gets in disorder. Plus, I do not use any of the Sony file transfer programs on the PC (I am a friend of the good old "I know exactly where my files are located on the harddisc" and therefore connect to my phone as a network device through the ordinary file explorer).
I made some tests and I believe that the Walkman app can find music just to a directory depth level of 4. Even if I use the feature "diectories" in "my library" in the walkman app, it will not allow to get deeper than 4 levels. This is a rather artificial convention I think. For the automatic scan I can understand that but I should still be able to point the app to any directory manually
Axel

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Android has a media scanner that scans all folders for media like music, pictures and videos and builds a database that is then using by music players like Walkman. If you have folders that you don't want to be scanned by the media scanner you can create a file in that folder called ".nomedia" using a file manager or a computer.
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alexdon wrote:
I do not own Z1,I just gave you a suggestion which I thought would help.How about if you tap the third button while you are over a song,select edit music info and select what art do you want?
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Dear Sirs,
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@harryw66
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