Rescan SBS from Touch Interface

[Paul_B]

Okay I give up is it possible and if so how do you use the Touch interface to rescan the music on a Squeezebox server?

[spile]

I think you can only rescan from the server itself.

[crimscrem]

I think you can do this one of a few ways.

1. Factor reset through the Touch menu. First, properly eject the USB. Then, go Settings ---> Advance ---> Restore Factory Settings. Once it boots up again, then attached the drive.

2. Do the same as above, but after ejecting the USB, then hit the factory reset button above the power plug in.

3. And option, this is what I think you're going for: Settings ---> Advance ---> Squeezebox Server ---> Stop Squeezebox Server. then go back through the same way and start the Squeezebox Server. It'll give you a Wipe and Rescan option.

[Mnyb]

But that's only the internal server ! the classic players had an menu option to trigger a scan on an external server.

This is not replicated on to the Touch, yet another SB3 function that did not migrate to the Touch (it's replacement).

But, this was raised as an enhancement request for the duet or more precise the controller , but was then turned down as "wontfix" in bugzilla .
No real motivation to why.

And why deliberately keep UI inconsistencies between players ?

Transporter SB3/2 and Boom can trigger a scan on the server but not radio,controller and Touch.

So either remove it from the old players or add it to the new players.

But this will be less off a problem when the autoscan is working properly for 7.6 then you just drop in new files and a moment later they are scanned.

[Paul_B]

Thanks for that at least I can stop looking. Does seem very silly to leave out such a core function

[aubuti]

And why deliberately keep UI inconsistencies between players ?

Transporter SB3/2 and Boom can trigger a scan on the server but not radio,controller and Touch.

So either remove it from the old players or add it to the new players.

I agree with the idea that rescanning from the SBC/Radio/Touch would be nice (although to be honest, I can't remember the last time I wanted to trigger a rescan from a player). But I completely disagree with your lowest-common-denominator of that last statement. Why take out functionality that is useful? What if a user doesn't have any SqueezeOS device -- they should suddenly lose a feature? That makes no sense. The systems are different and they will never appear exactly the same, so forcing a near-consistency seems backwards to me, especially when it means removing features.

Also, isn't rescan implemented as a plugin? If so, then users who are really bothered by having a featuer on an ip3k player that isn't on a SqueezeOS player can remove it from the old players at their discretion, rather than Logitech eliminating the feature wholesale.

[toby10]

.....and to further confuse things....

I think people who use the SBS rescan from older players to their full SBS running on their computer will assume that Touch's "start/stop SBS" will perform this same function.
Those using Touch's inbuilt server will know this, but I'll bet those using full SBS will assume otherwise.

This is why I've suggested that Touch's inbuilt server should be renamed.
As it stands now, when using a Touch in the network, SBS stands for both the Touch's limited inbuilt server (TinySC?) and the full SBS 7.5 computer server.

[Mnyb]

What I really was thinking:

If it's an bad idea to have rescan on a squeeplay player ?
Hence the wontfix status.

It must also be an bad idea to have it on an SB3 ?

No wait it's an good idea for the SB3 that's why it was implemented in the first place ?

Then it is also an good idea to have it on Squeezeplay.

Therefore "Wontfix" for this request is wrong