erland;638939 Wrote: > 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) > > > > 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.
When you are developping softwares (I do), and when two strategies are possible, the wise option is to assume that some users will happy with one, and some others will be happy with the other one. Since those two options can very easily co-exist, any sensible people responsible for this software development should immediatly, and with no hesitation, make the choice to make both available. I would have not even thought about not being able to disable automatic scan at startup, and about not giving an option to rescan on demand. Testing TinySBS for only a few hours make this absolutely obvious. I like squeezeboxes a lot, but they seriously lacks non geek approach in their user interface. I has improved with 7.6, but in my opinion, it is still far from being good. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86894 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
