[mythtv-users] MythMusic scanning without Mythfrontend

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, April 14, 2016 06:13:21 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
> 
> On 13/04/16 23:22, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 10:00:04 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
> >> On 13/04/16 20:39, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >>> [0.27.6, Fedora 22]
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if there's a way to initiate a MythMusic scan without using the frontend.
> >>>
> >>> I rip CDs (and collect covers and maintain my catalog) using my desktop machine, then rsync the rips over to my Myth (BE/FE) box and run the music scanner bound to a shortcut key, triggered by the old Frontend Control Socket.
> >>>
> >>> This works fine, but is there a way I could do a rescan without involving Mythfrontend at all?
> >>>
> >> Not in 0.27.
> >>
> >> In 0.28 you can just run mythutil --scanmusic
> > Thanks for the reminder that mythutil is another option. Even then it has to be run on the backend, not remotely. I guess I'd be looking for something the Services API could do eventually.
> >
> 
> 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? 

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