[Owncloud] option to turn off media scanning?

[Bartek Przybylski]

When it comes to gallery: cover is generated from pictures inside
directory (linke in iPhoto) ;)

2011/10/12 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <jan at unhosted.org>:
> And in this case - the gallery app should be intelligent enough to have an
> exception for single "albumart.jpg" (or whatever) inside of a folder that is
> otherwise full of music files.
>
> I'm not saying hardcoding exceptions but the program should be as
> intelligent as possible. Otherwise users have to add exceptions manually.
> The code in the program has only to be written once.
>
> Danial Bulloch <owncloud at dbeta.com> 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.
>>
>> 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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