Allow some users to scan (inotify integration)

[kdx2a]

Hello! Is there a it way to allow some users other than the admin to "scan now" manually? Or even all of them if there is no simple option. Thank you!

[epoupon]

Hi! For now no it is not possible if you are not the admin user.
What is your use case? Maybe the scan every hour option is an acceptable solution?

[kdx2a]

Thank you for answering!
We are two users adding music on our instance, and we both occasionally need to scan.
The scan every hour option is the solution we are currently using, however it can be a bit frustrating to wait for so long. Would it be possible to have a shorter update window, for example every 5 minutes?

[epoupon]

Maybe it is also time to consider watching directories for changes...

[parisni]

@epoupon what is the status of inotify integration ? such feature would have benefits:

• real time track addition
• scanner optimization (no need to scan the whole)

[epoupon]

Hello!
Currently diff scans are not that long (on my test base, something like 10s for 50k tracks).
I think the benefits would be more on the realtime additions.
I once started to write the code for it, in a dedicated branch. The most problematic point was to raise the default limits to be able to watch each directory (inotify.max_user_watches iirc), not checked how this would behave in a docker container.
There were other problems I don't remember exactly, as I changed a lot the scanner code since my last try. I would need to redig into this to tell you.

[parisni]

Sounds like docker should work well with inotify, except on windows