update vs rescan?

Mark Kretschmann markey at web.de
Thu Dec 14 21:56:11 UTC 2006


On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:34, Simon Bühler wrote:
> i still don't get the difference:
> situation: collection directory /home/user/music containing subdirs with
> albums and a new dir  /home/user/music/newalbum is created.
>
> update: doesn't get the files in the newalbum directory?
> rescan:  does?

Both do. Update is much faster though.

Why do we need both? Because of technical deficiencies. Update does not work 
with all file systems.

-- 
Mark



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