nicolas75;638930 Wrote:
> I my opinion, we need more a bug report than a new thread.
> There is http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9687 with 5 votes,
> but nobody cares.
> This one should be closed or not ?
> Should we open another ? but it will start with 0 votes ...
>
The above bug is about another problem focused at SBS on a computer,
but I think the following two are fairly good matches:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5507 (Make it possible to
request manual rescan)
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16564 (Make it possible to
disable auto scan)
nicolas75;638930 Wrote:
>
> I use TinySBS with a USB stick 8 GB
> I would not say it is "plugin the USB drive with music and start
> playing"
> When you develop a user interface, waiting more than 3 seconds is
> considered "long" and the user should have information about how much
> time he is going to wait.
> When I plug my USB stick, I wait much more than 3 seconds before being
> able to play music.
> So even in this case (there are 16, 32, even 64 GB usb stick ...) this
> is not plug and play.
> Actually my (powerful, I know that) laptop takes less time to boot
> Windows Seven x64, than my Touch to allow me using my 8 GB USB stick.
> An option to disable startup scan, and an option to manually scan the
> usb stick, are mandatory.
> And it would allow people to use bigger external HDD without too much
> trouble.
>
I know it doesn't work good as it is now.
I was just trying to say that the reason it performs a rescan is
because it does assumes you have changed the USB drive every time
TinySBS is started or the drive re-connected.
However, if you disable startup scan you need to add an option to make
it possible for the user to do a manual rescan, that's the above
mentioned bug #5507 I linked to.
Also, if it doesn't do the rescan at startup, when should it scan the
changed files on your drive/stick which has been changed while the
drive/stick was connected to another computer ?
There are basically two main strategies:
1. Assume something has changed and perform a rescan immediately after
SBS is started or drive is re-connected.
or
2. Assume nothing has changed and force the user to manually perform a
rescan to detect changes.
TinySBS has currently selected strategy 1, probably because Logitech
wanted to simplify the user interface and assume you often change files
on the USB stick/drive while it isn't connected to the Touch.
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