[Owncloud] Possible improvements on oC scanner (media)

[Jörn Friedrich Dreyer]

Just to give my opinion on the Media app. I think it works quite well for local storage. Indexing files on remote storage is a brand new feature which I suppose still needs some polishing (the filesystem cache has been completely refactored for OC5). I personally would like to be able to share a folder of audio files to a friend and enable playback in the browser with the folder as playlist. This does not really need a collection, which is why Jan might think that I want to get rid of the Media app. Actually, the opposite is the case. I'd prefer a media app where I can share albums to other oc users that can then add the shared songs to a playlist that is stored on the server. But there is a resource problem ...

I was discussing the media and gallery app with Jan and assumed that he wanted to move away from files and focus on content. Thus providing special apps like Pictures and Media to exploit the available meta informatin available for these files and provide a better user experience.

That being said I still agree with Frank that the media app provides a decent functionality for audio files.

Another reason for files not showing up is that they lack ID3 data. Untagged files will not show up, which I personally consider a feature and not a bug.



Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> schrieb:

>Yes, Jörn brought up removing the media player from the releases before
>and
>it’s a good point. It’s not maintained and doesn’t have some essential
>media player features like multiple playlists among other things.
>
>If anyone has time to work on it let me know, I’ll help with interface
>design.
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Stefan Nagtegaal <
>development at standoutdesign.nl> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps, the most annoying question ever but: If it's not maintained,
>why
>> is it included inside the releases so far?
>> What apps are currently not maintained, and which are?
>>
>> I thought that all the apps that do not wear the "3rd
>party"-predicate,
>> where part of core and maintained as such? Am I wrong?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> Op 5 mrt. 2013, om 10:33 heeft Bernhard Posselt
><nukeawhale at gmail.com>
>> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> > Just mentioning  that the media player app is not maintained so no
>one
>> is likely to fix this ;)
>> >
>> > We're looking for maintainers.
>> >
>> > On 03/05/2013 09:47 AM, Martin Mattel wrote:
>> >> Hello icewind1991,
>> >>
>> >> it seems that not only me but many people have some challenges
>with the
>> media app not showing all possible music files when (re)scanned. I
>> regularily update respectively completely reinstall oC from scratch
>> directly using the master files from github and do my testing,
>helping to
>> improve oC. But the issue still remains. Only a subset, and I really
>mean a
>> close to nothing compared to the complete list, of music files are
>shown in
>> the music app.
>> >> All music files are in one root folder mounted by ubuntu and added
>via
>> the external storage app. They are shown in files and accessing from
>there
>> is no problem.
>> >>
>> >> I thought about what the root cause could be and two issues came
>to my
>> mind.
>> >> 1.) not all files can be identified to be scanned
>> >> 2.) not all files found are identified by the mimetype as music
>> >>
>> >> In both cases, we need to find out what the cause could be that so
>many
>> files are not properly identified.
>> >>
>> >> What about the idea creating a kind of logfile, where oC writes
>the
>> files identified and their mimetype found? The file could be put in
>the
>> data directory and be named by the user who ran the scan plus a
>identifyer.
>> eg: "martin_musicscan.log". Rewritten on each scan (not appended).
>> >>  This would help identifying where the cause of missed files would
>be.
>> >>
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my iPad
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