[mythtv-users] MythMusic scanning without Mythfrontend
Paul Harrison
mythtv at sky.com
Thu Apr 14 22:13:35 UTC 2016
On 14/04/16 18:32, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 06:13:21 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
>> 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.
Paul H.
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