Music Player does not find files that have been uploaded

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start SwiFTP and upload an mp3 file to my directory /sdcard/cpt
2. start Music and look for the newly uploaded file
3. not found under album, artist, song
4. starting a file manager, go to /sdcard/cpt
5. click on newly uploaded file - it will play

What is the expected behavior? What do you see instead?
I expect that the media player will see the uploaded file
and index it. If I connect my G1 via USB and upload the same file into the
same directory then the behavior is as expected

What version of the product are you using?
1.11

What operating system are you using?
windows 7 (but same behavior on XP)

What FTP client are you using?
filezilla

What do the server log and session monitor say around the time that the
error occurs?
??

Please provide any additional information below.
moving files with a file manager did not make a difference.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Merlin.Silk@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 9:31

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I've noticed this also. I've spent some time looking for a way around this 
problem
without luck. I need to spend more time on this before the 2.0 release.

Thanks for the report.

Original comment by Dave.Revell@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 4:44

• Changed state: Accepted

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i figured out that if you unmount/remount the sd card it reads it.

so if you made the ftp stop button do that as well im betting it would all work.

Original comment by aaronea...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2009 at 2:47

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This is an issue that needs to have some kind of workaround applied.

The workaround suggested by aaroneaton won't work since SwiFTP doesn't have
privileges to unmount the SD card.

In short, this is a valid problem that needs research.

Original comment by Dave.Revell@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2009 at 5:13

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I would not consider this to be a bug. At least no of this app.

The problem is that the music app you are using does not support
refreshing/rescanning the library manually. As such, it is a feature request 
that IMO
should be made towards the music player software.

It's not a ftp applications job to tell a media application that it should 
refresh
its library because new files have been added.

By all means: It would surely be a great addiotion for some(/many?) if it's 
easily
feasible, but people wanting this functionality should request it from their 
media
software devs. They should be able to do it easile. It is perfectlu do-able as 
many
apps can search trough the sd card for specific file types hen needed, t.ex.
ftp-readers do this.

Original comment by gert...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2009 at 12:36

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Fixed, there is an API that allows SwiFTP to notify other apps of changed media
files. Included in v2.0.

Original comment by Dave.Revell@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 1:24

• Changed state: Fixed

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GREAT!
when will it be on the market as an upgrade/update?

Original comment by Merlin.Silk@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 3:54