Feature Request: Re-Scan/inotify

[simoncn]

(26-03-2012 11:30)KoS Wrote:  Hi

finally somebody who makes a upnp server for big music collections "the right away". great project! thank you very much!

are you planing to release the source code under an open source license? so that i could make changes or add features on my own? or that others could help fixing bugs etc ?

Thanks for the kind words!

No, I'm not planning to release open source code for MinimServer.

MinimServer uses a Java component framework named jMinim, and I intend to release this part as open source code at some stage. This won't happen in the near future, because at the moment I'm putting all my time into working on MinimServer.

Quote:one thing that i am missing at the moment is a re-scan feature. when i add new files to my library, i have to delete the cache file of minimserver and restart it, otherwise the new files don't get added to the catalog. or am i missing some configuration option? a great thing would be to use the inotify to make it possible to add new files in real-time to the library without having to continously re-scan all the files.

greets
KoS

You should be able to add new files by selecting Restart from the tray icon. You don't need to stop MinimServer first, and you don't need to delete the cache files. Deleting the cache files is a bad idea because it makes MinimServer start much more slowly. You can also continue to play music while the MinimServer restart is in progress. So the recommended sequence is:
1) Add the new files
2) Start some music playing (but not the new music just added)
3) Press Restart
4) When the icon changes from yellow to green, refresh the display in the control point by browsing the top-level container, or restart the control point
5) Your new music should now appear in the control point display

If the above isn't working for you, please provide more details of what happens when you go through this sequence. It would also be useful to look at the minimserver.log file to see if there are any error or warnng messages there.

It would be possible to support inotify in MinimServer, but this would require adding a dependency on Java 7, and I'm very reluctant to do this. It would also need quite a major change to the MinimServer design. I don't see much benefit from doing this, as the user has to know that an inotify update has happened so that they can refresh or restart the control point to update the information displayed there.