> Each time xmms2d starts, it thrashes my disk trying to add non-audio > files like .log, .txt, .jpg, .pdf etc in my music folder (and no, the > answer is not to delete those files). A comma separated list of > extensions to ignore would be great.
It sounds like the problem is that these files were added to the medialib, but since there is no xform that can recognise them, xmms2d sees there is no metadata for the files. So it regularly tries to update them all in case you have installed a new xform that can handle the filetypes. > I'm thinking of writing this myself, it sounds like a good exercise. > The problem is I don't know where to implement this. Should it be a > parameter in startup.d/xmms2-mlib-updater.sh or a server config > variable stored in xmms2.conf somewhere? I'm not sure you'd need it. If you removed all your .log, .jpg, etc. files from the medialib then they would still exist in the filesystem, but xmms2d wouldn't keep trying to read them. I'm guessing when you added the files you added them a whole folder at a time? Probably using 'find' to only pick out audio files would be a better option in this case. I suspect ignoring filename extensions will be difficult, because xmms2 seems to have been designed around magic - by which I mean identifying files by their signatures/headers rather than by filename. If you did start ignoring filename extensions, I guess one person would reasonably assume nobody would want to play .php scripts so that extension would be ignored, then another person would complain their streaming URL no longer works because the URL happens to end in .php. I think the way things work now - if you tell xmms2d you want to play a .log file, it will try to - is the most flexible. Maybe instead, you can come up with a script which you use instead of 'xmms2 add' which excludes the files you don't want at that stage, before they end up in the medialib. Cheers, Adam. -- _______________________________________________ Xmms2-devel mailing list Xmms2-devel@lists.xmms2.org http://lists.xmms2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmms2-devel
