[mythtv-users] MythMusic scanning without Mythfrontend

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Sun Apr 17 09:14:53 UTC 2016


On 15/04/16 04:14, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>
> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:13:35 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
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> > On 14/04/16 18:32, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
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> > > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 06:13:21 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
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> > >> The shiny new 0.28 fully supports storage groups so depending on what
>
> > >> you are trying to do you may not need to rescan.
>
> > >>
>
> > >> For example you can now rip tracks from a CD on a remote frontend and
>
> > >> they will be magically moved to the backend where you have your 
> 'Music'
>
> > >> storage group setup. Or if you want to use a third party ripper 
> or you
>
> > >> have bought tracks from an online source and you want to move them to
>
> > >> the backend you can use the 'Import' option in the frontend to do 
> that.
>
> > >> In both cases there is no need to rescan since all frontends will
>
> > >> automatically update themselves.
>
> > > So if I rsync new tracks into the Music storage group directory 
> they'll just appear in MythMusic?
>
> > >
>
> >
>
> > No it wont if you just rsync the tracks but it will if you use the
>
> > import option in MythMusic which will move tracks for you and make sure
>
> > all frontends update themselves.
>
> Hmmm... that will leave me needing to touch the Backend machine 
> physically I think.
>
> Does that Import option have a hotkey or mythutil option or API call?
>
>

The Import option is in the frontend so no need to touch the backend.

No hotkey or mythutil option or API call. Patches are always welcome :)

Paul H.


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