Re: [Banshee-List] Full vs Quick Library Rescans

["David Nielsen" <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2009/1/3 nzmm <matthew joseph mcgowan gmail com>

The user should never need to do a full rescan, any button in the GUI to
rescan is an admission of failure on the part of the app to maintain a
database, IMHO.  New audio/video content should be detected automatically on
application launch and in real-time.  This would do away with the need for
manually invoked rescans.  Only the source folders for the music library
should have to be configured by the user, and once that is done no more user
input should be needed wrt files.

Personally, i think everyone should check out Picasa3 with regard to its
ability to scan/watch folders and maintain a database, and that should be
exemplar Banshee aspires to.

One problem I had when I tested the rescan option was that it would include the Podcast directory. You would then have all your podcasts added to the music collection. Removing them from the collection would then also get them removed from the podcast index. Brilliant in it's simplicity.

I agree the rescan item is poor design as compared to say relying on an indexer like Beagle to inform us that we have new music files, it also seem to have some inherit danger built in.

- David