[Owncloud] option to turn off media scanning?

[Danial Bulloch]

Apps can disobey the .nomedia, sure, but it isn't to prevent an app
from being able to see the contents, it's there to allow developers to
know what to ignore. On android there is nothing stopping an app from
scrapping my podcast folder for music if it feels like it, but the
.nomedia tells the app developer that I don't want it to, which is
important. .nomedia is nice, but it isn't granular. For example, my
music folder has album art. I don't want my photo applications to find
the album art and start throwing it in with my photos, so something
like .nopictures and .nomusic might be in order too.

Perhaps in the documentation it would be a good idea to specify, just
to make sure people know that it isn't protection, just organization.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Bartek Przybylski <bart.p.pl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel!
> This is a really good idea!
> But i hope you are aware of the fact that anyone can write app and
> disobey this restriction?
> Ill use your idea in gallery app if you don't mind :)
>
> Bartek
>
> 2011/10/11 Daniel <nix at tek12.com>:
>>
>> Is there a possibility of implementing an option to control which
>> folders are scanned for media types?
>>
>> Similar to Android's method of creating an empty file named ".nomedia"
>> that causes android to skip scanning that folder. This would be useful
>> in the sense that different types of media can be isolated. For
>> instance, the gallery would show my personal pictures instead of
>> including pictures from my expense reports.
>>
>> Thanks for the hard work on this project... it's really starting to shine!
>> Daniel
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