Hi - I am running Picard V2.13.3 in Windows. I am attempting to load a folder using -e LOAD on the command line. I have set the -d option so I can see what is reported in the logs. When Picard launches, I do not see my files showing in the center pane’s unclustered files (or anyplace else), but the log claims that the folder was successfully loaded. What am I missing?
I: 10:48:47,426 tagger.main:1566: Sending messages to main instance: [‘LOAD “F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’]
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:315: Starting Picard from ‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\picard\tagger.pyc’
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:316: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.22631-SP0 CPython 3.8.10
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:318: Versions: Picard 2.13.3, Python 3.8.10, PyQt 5.15.11, Qt 5.15.2, Mutagen 1.47.0, Discid discid 1.2.0, libdiscid 0.6.4, astrcmp Python, SSL OpenSSL 1.1.1b 26 Feb 2019
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:319: Configuration file path: ‘C:/Users/MikeC/AppData/Roaming/MusicBrainz/Picard.ini’
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:321: User directory: ‘C:\Users\MikeC\AppData\Local\MusicBrainz\Picard’
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:322: System long path support: True
D: 10:48:47,466 tagger.init:325: Qt Env.: QT_PLUGIN_PATH=‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\PyQt5\Qt5\plugins’
D: 10:48:47,466 i18n.setup_gettext:153: UI language: system
D: 10:48:47,466 i18n._log_lang_env_vars:138: Env vars:
D: 10:48:47,466 i18n.setup_gettext:161: Trying locales: [‘en_US’]
D: 10:48:47,504 i18n.setup_gettext:167: Set locale to: ‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,506 i18n.setup_gettext:178: Using locale: ‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,506 i18n._load_translation:125: Loading gettext translation for picard, localedir=‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\locale’, language=‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,506 i18n._load_translation:128: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: ‘picard’
D: 10:48:47,506 i18n._load_translation:125: Loading gettext translation for picard-attributes, localedir=‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\locale’, language=‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n._load_translation:128: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: ‘picard-attributes’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n._load_translation:125: Loading gettext translation for picard-constants, localedir=‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\locale’, language=‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n._load_translation:128: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: ‘picard-constants’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n._load_translation:125: Loading gettext translation for picard-countries, localedir=‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\locale’, language=‘en_US’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.load_translation:128: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: ‘picard-countries’
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:201: _ = <bound method NullTranslations.gettext of <gettext.NullTranslations object at 0x0000012ED7592940>>
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:202: N = <function at 0x0000012ED7E473A0>
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:203: ngettext = <bound method NullTranslations.ngettext of <gettext.NullTranslations object at 0x0000012ED7592940>>
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:204: gettext_countries = <bound method NullTranslations.gettext of <gettext.NullTranslations object at 0x0000012EDA839D00>>
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:205: gettext_attributes = <bound method NullTranslations.gettext of <gettext.NullTranslations object at 0x0000012EDA839C40>>
D: 10:48:47,516 i18n.setup_gettext:206: pgettext_attributes = <bound method NullTranslations.pgettext of <gettext.NullTranslations object at 0x0000012EDA839C40>>
D: 10:48:47,536 webservice._network_accessible_changed:388: Network accessible requested: 1, actual: 1
D: 10:48:47,556 webservice.set_cache:410: NetworkDiskCache dir: ‘C:/Users/MikeC/AppData/Local/MusicBrainz/Picard/cache/network/’ current size: 89.8 MB max size: 100 MB
D: 10:48:47,566 pluginmanager.load_plugins_from_directory:264: Looking for plugins in directory ‘C:\Users\MikeC\AppData\Local\MusicBrainz\Picard\plugins’, 0 names found
I: 10:48:47,566 pluginmanager.load_plugins_from_directory:252: Plugin directory ‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j\plugins’ doesn’t exist
D: 10:48:47,566 ui/playertoolbar.init:91: Internal player: QtMultimedia available, initializing QMediaPlayer
D: 10:48:47,641 ui/playertoolbar.init:98: Internal player: available, QMediaPlayer set up
D: 10:48:48,217 tagger.main:1596: Looking for Qt locale en_US in C:/Program Files/WindowsApps/MetaBrainzFoundationInc.org.musicbrainz.Picard_2.13.3000.0_x64__kef61k5a7g40j/PyQt5/Qt5/translations
I: 10:48:48,223 browser/browser.start:121: Starting the browser integration (127.0.0.1:8000)
D: 10:48:48,315 ui/mainwindow.auto_update_check:1785: Skipping startup check for program updates. Today: 2026-04-06, Last check: 2026-04-06 (Check interval: 7 days), Update level: 0 (stable)
D: 10:48:48,316 config.event:261: Config file update requested on thread 54676
D: 10:48:48,389 util/remotecommands.parse_commands_to_queue:245: Queueing command: LOAD ‘“F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’
I: 10:48:48,389 tagger.run_commands:411: Executing command: LOAD ‘“F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’
D: 10:48:48,860 tagger.init:189: Parsed: ParseResult(scheme=‘’, netloc=‘’, path=‘“F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’, params=‘’, query=‘’, fragment=‘’)
D: 10:48:48,860 tagger.handle_command_load:501: files: {‘“F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’} mbids: fset() urls: set()
I: 10:48:49,421 tagger.run_commands:447: Completed command: LOAD ‘“F:\Music\Picard Play\Lawn Boy”’
D: 10:48:49,503 tagger._run_commands_finished:463: command executor stopped