collection always scanned if "writeAllTags" value exists

[marcaurel]

(27-03-2015 22:27)simoncn Wrote:  

(27-03-2015 22:14)marcaurel Wrote:  No, certainly not.
The value was just a leftover from working through the manual.
But nevertheless it should respect the "startupScan=false" setting.

To do this, MinimServer would need to produce an error if writeAllTags is specified together with startupScan=false or startupScan=true. This is because writeAllTags requires a full scan in order to produce a full list of tags.

I think the best solution is for me to amend the descriptions of writeAllTags and startupScan to clarify that writeAllTags forces a full rescan.

Thanks very much for pointing out that the documentation is unclear about this.

I understand that writeAllTags needs a full scan. But does this have to be at startup? This could also take place during the next manual rescan.


One more question:
Is it possible to create a folder with randomly chosen albums?

With BubbleUPnP I can retrieve randomly selected tracks. Which would suffice if it would be easy to get to the album from the tracks. But to get to a track's album you have to play the track and select "Show album" from the context menu on the NowPlaying screen. Only then the full album (of one of the randomly chosen tracks) can be played by click.

So maybe this question would rather be suited for the BubbleUPnP author... I don't know if it's feasible to show randomly selected album presented as a MinimServer folder. Just like the tag folders. Only with random albums.