Rescanning Estimate

[paultaylor]

(07-12-2023 11:06)simoncn Wrote:  It is better for the user to complete a set of changes and manually initiate a rescan when the user has completed their changes and wants to see them in MinimServer.

Thanks for the summary, it will not be automatic, but important to make easily available from SongKong because it is still a common problem that after using SongKong the changes do not show in customers control point and they dont understand why.

Back to rescanning estimate, it is true that SongKong knows how many files have been modifed by SongKong, and also how many files have been renamed (I dont know if this is a new file or not by MinimServer but I think it maybe treated differently if running on unix system to windows system). It wouldn't know about any changes made by any other application but Ill ignore that complication for now.

However, even if we estimate time taken to rescan there is no way to check progress, all we can do is keep polling MinimSserver to see if it has finished. Users need to see a progress bar so they have confidence it is progressing, I could create a progress bar and increment based on my estimate but unless I get it just right the progress bar would reach 100% too late or too early.

Any estimate that can be done by SongKong could be better done by MinimServer, even if estimate progress time cannot be accurately calculated immediately it would be possible to make an estimate and revise that estimate as you go along. i.e once read cache know how may songs have been modified.

This would be a improvement to MinimServer, currently when using the Web UI you can select the Rescan button and status changes to Restarting. But it doesn't give any indication how long it would take and you don't know when it has completed without periodically selecting Refresh to check