Autoscan

[fm-maniac]

Is there any progress on implementing the autoscan functionality to MinimServer?

I regularly forget that I've to initiate a rescan whenever I add music to my library. So an autoscan would be highly appreciated.

Cheers,

Michael

[simoncn]

(19-10-2015 07:36)fm-maniac Wrote:  Is there any progress on implementing the autoscan functionality to MinimServer?

I regularly forget that I've to initiate a rescan whenever I add music to my library. So an autoscan would be highly appreciated.

Cheers,

Michael

I understand that many users would like this. It is a very major piece of work and I can't give any time estimate for when it might be available.

[audio_elf]

Simon, would it be possible as an interim to offer a scheduled scan - say every 60 minutes (or a user defined period)? Not sure if that would be easy to implement or not.

[fm-maniac]

(19-10-2015 23:12)audio_elf Wrote:  Simon, would it be possible as an interim to offer a scheduled scan - say every 60 minutes (or a user defined period)? Not sure if that would be easy to implement or not.

This would be a huge improvement!

[simoncn]

(19-10-2015 23:12)audio_elf Wrote:  Simon, would it be possible as an interim to offer a scheduled scan - say every 60 minutes (or a user defined period)? Not sure if that would be easy to implement or not.

The main technical issue is enabling MinimServer to add new files without a restart. A restart is somewhat disruptive and making the rescan a manual operation ensures that it won't occur at an unexpected and difficult time for the user.

[SoundAdikt]

You could create a schedule to do a re-scan at say 3am every morning. On Linux, Simon posted this recently:

For any Linux platform, if you have installed MinimServer in the directory {installdir}, you can do:

echo "rescan" > {installdir}/minimserver/data/minimserver.pipe

SoundAdikt.