Auto Rescan package for Synology users (formerly known as Auto Restart package)

[DLNABubble]

(16-01-2015 21:31)DLNABubble Wrote:  Why in my opinion the restart may be quite annoying from time to time I will elaborate in another post.

(17-01-2015 17:13)simoncn Wrote:  In a future version of MinimServer, I am hoping to incorporate automatic detection of changes to the library without requiring a server restart. This capability would be built in to MinimServer and wouldn't require the Auto Restart package. It wouldn't rescan the whole library, just the files that have changed.

(18-11-2019 12:00)SoundAdikt Wrote:  To be honest, I'm not sure why this is seen by some as an issue.

Different users, different use cases, different workflows.
It's not an issue for some, it's just a valid use case for some and for others it isn't.

I myself do record radio broadcasts via streamripper almost on a daily basis, tagging the recordings automatically right afterwards.
Some of the tagging is done via scraping the broadcaster's program listings.

Over the past years, the collection did grow on a steady rate. Increasing MinimServer's startup time from initially two to about four minutes nowadays.

Imagine someone just being in the middle of browsing the content, searching for a show to listen to, and being kicked out all of the sudden, since the server restart was suddenly been triggered after a recording was automatically added to the library. Not only this, but minimserver is now not been listed on the DLNA-client any longer for the next few minutes.

If I was able to ask MimimServer to rescan only a certain subfolder e.g. via some REST-API, [minimserver] wouldn't disappear and the rescan would be done with within seconds.

Without restarting / rescanning, we currently would have to wait until the next day for the new recordings to appear in the DLNA-clients list (since our disk station is being shut down over night).

Either not an ideal experience.

For all, still depending on the restart package: I had another go on packaging the inotify-tools, the restart package depends on.
However, at the moment this needs to be build on your own: For details have a look at this post.