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

[simoncn]

Synology has made changes to how packages work in DSM 7, so it is (very unfortunately) not possible to install any package written for DSM 6 and below on DSM 7.

The technical issues with implementing automatic rescan in MiminServer are described in this post.

I understand that rescanning the whole library every time a file is added is a problem for users with large libraries. If there were a simple fix for this, it would have been implemented long before now. The third-party auto rescan package for DSM 6 doesn't solve this problem because the full library still needs to be scanned when a change is detected by inotify.

You can listen to music while the rescan is happening because MinimServer continues streaming music files that have previously been added to the playing queue. You cannot browse the library or play newly added music until the rescan is complete.

Improving this situation is an important priority but I cannot give a time estimate for when this will happen.