Re: [Banshee-List] Auto-updating music library

[David Nielsen <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2009/3/30 Andrew Conkling <andrew andrewski net>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 20:42, Flywaver <flywaver yahoo ca> wrote:

I noticed that Banshee never auto-updates the library and I have to do a
Rescan Music Library in order to listen to songs that are in the /music
folder.

I also noticed that through older posts on the list that this feature was
supposed to be added in Banshee v1.4...any news on this?

It was originally hoped that it could land by then, but it hasn't. I can't speak to the reasons, but you can keep up with progress on the feature request on Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385965. CC yourself and you'll be notified of any updates.

I never quite understood the obsession with this specific feature. Personally I would consider the right solution to have an indexer like Beagle and then using Xesam to populate the library. This application specific file monitoring sounds like power waster to me, especially if more applications start doing it for their own purpose.

Could someone enlighten me as to why this is so popular?

- David