Integrate Library Scanner into Main Window

[Albert Santoni]

The little library scanner dialog is obnoxious and should be integrated into the main window in a nicer way, or at least have an option to run it in the background. The little scanner dialog was meant as a stop-gap solution in 1.5 or 1.6, and was meant to get replaced with a better solution. Having it pop up every single time you run Mixxx is really annoying.

[Sean M. Pappalardo (pegasus-renegadetech)]

Can it be made to pop-under? Or not display at all if this isn't the first run or Rescan Library wasn't clicked?

[Steven Boswell (ulatekh)]

I was recently looking at this. It's not hard.

My proposed solution is to add a "pause" button and an "incremental" checkbox to the library-scan dialog. Incremental scans would commit changes to the track database periodically, and allow the Mixxx windows to be brought-to-front over the library-scan dialog. Pausing the scan would allow that too. Non-incremental scans would prevent the Mixxx window from being used, but the library-scan would go much faster because it wouldn't commit changes periodically.

I can probably do this quickly, but I'm working on a few other things first.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

The only way I can imagine the scan integrated into the main window is some
kind of status bar at the bottom straight out of Windows 95. Let's not do
that :).

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Steven Boswell <email address hidden> wrote:

> I was recently looking at this. It's not hard.
>
> My proposed solution is to add a "pause" button and an "incremental"
> checkbox to the library-scan dialog. Incremental scans would commit
> changes to the track database periodically, and allow the Mixxx windows
> to be brought-to-front over the library-scan dialog. Pausing the scan
> would allow that too. Non-incremental scans would prevent the Mixxx
> window from being used, but the library-scan would go much faster
> because it wouldn't commit changes periodically.
>
> I can probably do this quickly, but I'm working on a few other things
> first.
>
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[Steven Boswell (ulatekh)]

I wasn't suggesting integrating the library-scan dialog into the main window. I'd leave it as it is, just make it optionally modal.

[Steven Boswell (ulatekh)]

I posted a patch that makes the library-rescan dialog incremental and pausable. See bug #1051106.

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/5630