Continuous Monitoring

[adrianmarsh]

Hi all, anyone can help explain how continuous monitoring of a folder works ?

Until v5 has Discogs support, I rip my CDs using v5 (FLAC), then I fire up v4 MM (separate install & DB). V4 autoscans that folder, finds the new files, and then Iuse v4 to query Discogs. That plugin writes the metadata to the files.

I was expecting v5 to notice the file changes and rescan, as v4 writes to the files but it doesn't seem to until I run a manual rescan. So I have to remember to do it.

I have the folder set for At Startup and Continuously.
MM5 will rip into a sub-folder, but I presume selecting the parent folder should work.
Manually re-running does pickup the changes.

It's not a major issue, just an annoyance

v5.0.3.2619 on Windows 10

[Lowlander]

Does MM5 pickup any changes if you manually change Properties of files in MM4?

[adrianmarsh]

After restarting both instances I've not been able to repeat quite exactly what I was seeing earlier.

I made a short recording here https://youtu.be/v68UokSCfCs

The direct test: Anytime I used Discogs, it would update this time.

But if you watch the recording.. some updates didn't take:

- Moving Rating from >1 to empty.. this appeared repeatable
- Removing Album Artist
- Removing Artist (although it did update in MM5, but not actually MM4)

MM4 build is 4.1.31.1919

[Lowlander]

Removing tags in MM4 doesn't update the files.