Autoscanning removable drives

[SilverEagle]

Hi Team,

I am developing a small utility to have Silverjuke automatically detect insertion/removal of USB sticks, SD cards, drives, etc. and add/remove ttracks on them to/from the library.

Some questions about that:

1) Is there anything like that in development on your side?

2) Is there a cleaner interface to library management besides editing the silverjuke/folderscanner/* settings?

3) If I am playing a track from a drive while the drive is physicaly removed, Silverjuke 'hangs' as in 'audio pauses while the GUI looks like the song is still playing' but the program never hangs in the programmers sense of the word. Is this stable behaviour or was Murphy asleep during my tests?

Regards,
SilverEagle

[Service-Team]

Hi SilverEagle,

to your questions:

1) No.

2) No.

3) At a first glance, this sounds for us as a "normal" behaviour if the played file is removed. Hitting "Stop" (not: "Pause") and then "Play" again, should reset the program to the normal state.

Best regards,
Your Silverjuke-Team

PS: Interesting project, BTW.

[SilverEagle]

Hi Team,

Turns out changing the folderscanner settings from script does not work without a restart, as you already warned in viewtopic.php?t=2853 . And leaving them in when the drive is removed yields an ugly "cannot enumerate files in directory" error to the user.

Could I persuade you that "...die Einstellung unbedingt auf diesem Wege änderbar sein sollte..." and before a Database.update() (or F5) all /folderscanner settings should be read again?

SilverEagle

[Service-Team]

Hi SilverEagle,

as you already found our yourself, if you change the settings manually, Silverjuke only reloads the settings from the INI or the registry after a restart.

We agree, that there could be a smarter way for this, however, this won't have a 100% priority (never thought that scripting Silverjuke could get so popular - and that the offered APIs could get too small ).

Best regards,
Your Silverjuke-Team

[SilverEagle]

Hi All,

You can find the plugin at http://forum.silverjuke.net/viewtopic.php?p=11585#p11585

SilverEagle