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I've been having some problems on importing music to a music player. I have to import them manually every time I restart my computer. When I add music from Ubuntu's default music folder (/home/music), I don't have that problem. But when I try to add it from another partition (/dev/sda3), it keeps forgetting folder location. I have tried Rhythmbox and Lollypop so far; same issue in both of them.

Orkhan Rutherford
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Players such as Rhythmbox often "forget" additional media sources when they are no longer detected. Your additional media sources are in sda3 ("D:" in Windows. This partition is not automatically mounted.

In order to work around this behavior it is recommended to mount the partition on boot.

There are many ways to achieve that and - typically - advanced users would edit the fstab. But you can also do it entirely in a GUI by using the included Disks tool:

  • Follow the instructions in this answer Is there a program to mount all of my drives automatically? but I suggest also enabling "Show in user interface" and in "Identify as" select the option Label in order to have a more "user friendly" name. Reboot. You may need to add the sources again because now it will have a different mount point and the programs may not recognize it as the same location. But once done is "set and forget".