Evolutions of file indexing

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello,

On Friday, December 13, 2019 9:00:15 PM CET Nate Graham wrote:
> I think it definitely makes sense to support both, as well as offer an
> option to force the use of old fashioned slow indexing if the user has a
> need for it. However I think we shouldn't be too eager about this,
> because we want the indexing case to work and we don't want people to
> just abandon it and always use the slow indexing. I think that it should
> be somewhat hidden away in the config window, with a warning attached to
> it that it will make indexing slow, and maybe even a request to file
> bugs explaining the reason for wanting to use it.
Indeed, Elisa should handle most cases automatically and prefer use of fast 
index cache like Baloo.

The configuration dialog could include a "troubleshooting" section that would 
have the switch to force slow file system indexing with an explanation and a 
report bug button.
That would be a neat idea. Users would be able to workaround problems and we 
would get bug report to fix the issues.

> Nate
> 
> On 12/11/19 5:56 PM, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Before more changes land related to file indexing, I would like to discuss
> > where we want to go.
> > 
> > To me, we need to support two different ways to get music files depending
> > on the platform support and local machine configuration:
> > 
> > * all music is already indexed by a supported platform specific indexer
> > (Baloo, Tracker, Windows Search, Android media content, ...). We should
> > allow the user to select that method that will be the fastest ;
> > 
> > * not all music is necessary indexed (removable device, network path, ...)
> > or there is not yet support for the platform indexer (Windows, ...). In
> > this case, we should automatically fallback to plain old file system
> > indexing.
> > 
> > We could a configuration option to force use of plain old file system
> > indexing if the user chooses so with a wording like that (to improve):
> > 
> > [Yes|No] Prefer use of fast search to discover your music (requires that
> > all your music is already searchable)
> > 
> > In all cases, we would try first to get the metadata from the platform
> > specific file indexer (like the dolphin metadata widget works).
> > 
> > What do you think ?
> > 
> > --
> > Matthieu
> > 
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