>Observations : 7.5 launches a scan before the user has told it where >the music files are
I've always thought that was a bad idea too. I raised a bug, but it was rejected as this was a conscious design decision: https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15187 I haven't used the embedded branch all that much yet. I hope it doesn't kick off a rescan each time the server runs up. Hopefully this is only the first time the server is run and it finds that the library is empty. Personally, I think it's a bad idea (but I understand why they think it's good). They think users want to get to play music as quickly as possible after install (although the direction of the new players is that SBS isn't needed, and users will be able to play internet music quickly). So it does the scan making loads of assumptions. I don't think any other media player software does this (iTunes, WinAmp, MusicIP, FooBar, WMP, etc). The end effect is that the library content may not be correct (music path wrong, library settings not right for their tags), and they may try to play songs whilst it is scanning (library content not right, may cause choppy playback). Not sure what happens if settings are changed whilst scanning (think it's meant to kill the scan and restart it). Experience was worse for me though, because the scan was kicked off in background (SBS didn't indicate that a scan was in progress). So I can't see the scan/library in progress and play anything anyway. This happened in the past with the noweb-sqlite branch, and caused me to have two parallel scans in progress. It gets in quite a mess. I'm not fond of any auto-scan stuff. It's inefficient and I don't like to scan until I know the music is ready. i.e. I rip, correct tags, put the music in the right place, then analyse in MusicIP. I then find artwork, and then scan SBS. Auto scan will miss the MusicIP mixable status in this way, and rescan again when I add artwork. Auto-rescan: each time it detects a file system change, it scans the whole music folder to find changes. If MusicIP is running, that does the same, probably at the same time. So I turn auto-scan off, but I think off by default is a bit kinder. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
