Rescanning Estimate

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The time taken to rescan has three components:

1) Reading the cache file
2) Checking the attributes of each previously scanned file in the library to find out if it has been modified and needs to be read again
3) Reading all modified files (identified in step 2) and all files added since the last rescan to obtain their audio data and tag information

In theory, MinimServer should be able to estimate 1 and 2. It cannot estimate 3 because it doesn't know how many existing files have been modified and how many new files have been added since the last scan. As this is the main component of rescan time, any estimate by MinimServer is likely to be very inaccurate.

However, SongKong presumably does have this information and should therefore be well placed to estimate the rescan time. This could be based on how long the last rescan took with a suitable adjustment for the number of modified and added files.