[Owncloud] option to turn off media scanning?

[Daniel]

I should have included that I'm not much of a developer - part time
tinkerer if anything... My area of contribution will have to remain in
testing.  ;)

On 10/11/2011 12:06 PM, Danial Bulloch wrote:
> 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.

Another good point...

> 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 :)

That would be awesome! Thanks again!

>> 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