nicolas75;639032 Wrote:
>
> Autoscan is a nice feature if
> 1/ it is very reliable
> 2/ it is very fast
>
Exactly and my point is that if you can't accomplish that you shouldn't
do auto scan at all. There doesn't have to be an option because it
shouldn't even exist unless it's reliable and fast.
Manual scan is a work around because you can't make auto scan reliable
and/or fast enough.
My feeling is still that in the ideal world no one should have to do a
manual scan, all of us just want to access the music. But in the real
world it's hard to accomplish this and in that case it's better to not
do auto scan at all. An auto scan solution that only works in 80% of
all cases is pointless because then you have do do manual scans anyway
and then most users are going to do manual scans always because they
don't trust the auto scanning system.
For me, the obvious solution on the Touch, would be to just ask the
user a question when you plugin a new drive/stick, like "New media
detected, do you want to scan it for music files ?"
It doesn't have to have any option to turn it off, the above question
would be enough.
On the full SBS, don't include auto scan at all unless it's 100%
reliable.
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