JJZolx;484334 Wrote: 
> Any chance of seeing the return of fully incremental scanning?  You'd
> have to do some kind of wrapup at the end of scanning each folder
> (operating on the assumption that folders are roughly equivalent to
> albums).  After each folder, do an album wrapup, including finding
> artwork and compilation determination.  It would make the library much
> more usable as each album is scanned.  With a minimal amount of logic,
> this could also be optimized.  For instance, if you've just found and
> cataloged a new album, there's no need to run the cleanups of stale
> data.
> 
> Overall, scanning would take a little longer because you're executing
> some extra queries at the end of each folder (or even track, if you want
> to get that incremental), so maybe it would need to be a scanning
> option.

You just described basically how the new scanner operates. :)  In fact,
each *track* is handled individually, under the assumption that you can
change just a single track and everything should just work, i.e. the
album-level attributes can be updated, artwork changed, etc.


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