[mythtv-users] "Scan for New Music" stopped working

[Paul Harrison]

On 07/05/11 03:11, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mike Holden <mythtv at mikeholden.org> wrote:
>> Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> MythMusic is slated for a rewrite anyway, so I figured not worth
>>> wasting the
>>> developers time with such a minor bug that may be a PITA to actually
>>> figure
>>> out. Plus, I don't know that many people with music libraries this
>>> large (I
>>> live with 5 other people, so our combined libraries account for why
>>> my
>>> system has so many)
>> I currently have a much smaller music archive (currently less than
>> 200 ripped CDs), so I don't think it is size-related. For me,
>> playing some music, even for a fraction of a second, seems to
>> "initialise" something in MythMusic, and then scan for music works
>> correctly every time in that frontend session. Without playing
>> first, scan simply does nothing.
> yea, as far as I can tell, the current session of mythfrontend running
> needs to "load" the music library, once it's done that scanning works.
>
> going into the settings causes this, as does trying to play music.
>
> you'll also notice that in order to "see" any newly scanned music you
> have to kill mythfrontend and rerun and reload the music. at least on
> my machine...
>
>

Thanks for the info, I've made a note to look into this. I thought I
fixed this or something very similar ages ago maybe I only fixed it in
master or my own personal tree.

Paul H.