[mythtv-users] MythMusic scanning without Mythfrontend

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Fri Apr 15 03:14:23 UTC 2016


On Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:13:35 PM Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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.


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?

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A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca
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