xPLRioNet Scanner Changes - Comments Please

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Would like to get some feedback on the following suggestions for changes to
the scanner system please...

Have implemented John's suggestion of watchers for the file structures used
for music/movies/pictures

This currently detects if a file/folder has been deleted/created/renamed
and
raises an event where an action can be performed (nothing happens yet!)

However there are issues, e.g. if something is renamed you can't tell what
it was previously called - so you don't know what has changed.

Also, the coding required to action individual changes will be both complex
and in some cases not possible or unreliable. Also, if you were to copy in
a
load of new files (or move a load of files) the processing would be
overpowering.

So my suggestion is as follows:

Modify existing scanner to allow music/movies/pictures to be scanned as
seperate processes and add them to the web interface

Add items to the scanner.xml to allow you to activate automatic rescanning
against none/one/any of music/pictures/movies after the watchers have
detected a change?

Basically the watchers will flag a change has occurred, wait 30 seconds for
no further change to occur and automatically schedule a scan in the
appropriate area if enabled?

Shoutcast rescanning will simply be handled by a button on the web to
reload
shoutcasts.xml

Thoughts/comments please?

Thanks
Tony




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