I've found a way to easily kick off scans of just one directory of music
that you've just added to your collection. This is very handy for
immediate gratification playback of new rips.
Adding the following to your registry will place an item named
"SlimScan" in the Windows File Explorer context menu (right-click menu).
Selecting a directory and then this SlimScan item will cause the
selected directory's contents to be scanned into the SlimServer database.
Caveats -
It takes a few moments to initialize.
A command window will appear as long as scanner.exe is running.
You probably shouldn't run two or more of these simultaneously.
I haven't tested this strenuously at all.
Use at your own risk.
Dan probably has a few more of these.
This is Windows-only and maybe XP only. Though I'm sure something
similar could be done for Linux, Mac, etc. It is also 6.5b post
split-scanner merge only, as it works by calling scanner.exe.
The easiest way to punch this into the registry is to copy what's below,
without the lines of "=", paste it into a text editor, and save it to a
file with the ".reg" extension. You will need to edit the path to
scanner.exe to match your installation. Double-clicking this file will
cause these key to be added to your system registry. Once this is done
SlimScan will appear in your context menu right away.
====================================================================
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\SlimScan]
@="Slim Scan"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\SlimScan\Command]
@="d:\\server\\slim\\server\\scanner.exe --rescan \"%L\""
====================================================================
Cheers,
--rt
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