JJZolx;548731 Wrote: 
> Isn't it supposed to catch changes to files within a directory?  If not,
> how does the Touch work?  Do you have to do these renaming tricks or a
> 'wipe and rescan' every time you modify a file?

It seems to be watching directories, so it would get files
added/deleted events (since those are actually changes to the directory
as well), and renames (again a change to the directory).

It doesn't seem to be getting file changes themselves (ie, updating
tags within a file) since that isn't a change to the directory, but a
change to the file, which doesn't alter the directory at all.

Most of the time you can add/delete/modify tags in a file and not have
to rewrite the whole file (which is a create/delete/rename sort of
operation) since id3 and vorbis tags try to avoid forcing a full
rewrite if they can.

Renaming a file does generate an event on the directory.

I am back to doing a full rescan nightly for the moment because SBS
doesn't "re-merge" albums correctly, but that's another bug.  It also
does not seem to pick up added album art via inotify updates, and since
I'm on a "lets track down obscure art" binge, that gets annoying.

(Ie, create an album with two tracks, each with a different album
name... let the scanner pick up the two albums... correct the album
name to be consistent on both tracks, and they won't get merged back
together but will stay as two distinct albums even though they have the
same name and are in the same directory.  Only a full scan fixes that.)


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