MrSinatra;577979 Wrote: > Andy, why do you need to be aware of specific fringe cases? > > i guess i'm confused... i don't understand why the rescan doesn't > simply check "last modified" date or something like that (if there is a > matching existing record of a filepath/filename). if the file has been > changed, scan it en toto as if it is a brand new record. then after > scanning everything in, do a second pass just to delete any totally > missing files, OR records of files of/with older modified file dates, > that obviously will no longer exist with those dates. > > why couldn't that work? don't all tag changes, change the files "last > modified" file date? > > (maybe the md5 checksum could be used instead if you and Erland get > that figured out?)
Yeah it's not a matter of finding the changed files, it's a matter of checking all dependent things based on the tags in that file, such as artwork, genres, albums, etc. I want to know of the fringe cases so they can try to be solved. -- andyg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82096 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
