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Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
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Mixxx should try to repeatedly find missing tracks in the background #13310

Open spotlesscoder opened 4 weeks ago

spotlesscoder commented 4 weeks ago

Feature Description

I have all my music on an external USB SSD Sometimes it is not attached yet during startup of mixxx

Then I attach the disk and can successfully open songs from my playlists

However, when I then want to add a new track to the playlist, the tracks in my library still show up as missing

Mixxx should check every few minutes or so whether the missing tracks are there yet

ronso0 commented 3 weeks ago

However, when I then want to add a new track to the playlist, the tracks in my library still show up as missing

This only happens if you ran a library scan while the SSD has not been attached, yet. Do you have that enabled in the Library preferences? If yes, just run another scan after attaching the SSD.

FYI the rescan blocks the 'rest' of the GUI to avoid minimize the chance of creating inconsistencies, so not sure how that should happen in the background.

Mixxx might offer a rescan if it detects new devices being mounted.

spotlesscoder commented 3 weeks ago

The offer to re-scan on new device mount would be nice :)