Rythmbox should scan for new music on start by default

[Gavin Graham]

For the sake of usability, Rhythmbox should have the preference option of "Watch my library for new files" enabled by default so people do not have to remember to re-import their collection.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That's a known request upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349924

[Gavin Graham (gavingraham)]

I have added an additional comment to the upstream bug you make reference to.

[heatblazer (heatblazer-gmail)]

It`s true. When I open Rythmbox, it does not find my new-added songs/tracks. I have to double-click or OpenWith RythmBox for adding the new track and it has to be in RythmBox scan folder.

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

Are we going to see a fix for this? The latest version of Ubuntu, 11.10, STILL doesn't have this feature turned on by default.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why this is not enabled by default?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Comment from the developer:

"Pretty sure it already does, at least when you have library monitoring enabled."

The issue here is that we don't enable it by default, which I think that we should.

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

My initial feeling is that Rhythmbox's library should mimic what the Unity lens show. Otherwise can be confusing.
If Unity autodiscovers music, Rhythmbox should do the same by default.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

I think the reason it wouldn't be enable by default is that having a scan like that at the startup could be harsh on low powered single core machines.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I think we should be designing for the majority use case here, and I
believe that is to have new music automatically show up in Rhythmbox. I
only have anecdotal evidence here, but I've never had any problems this
feature on my single core laptop. I also don't think that "well it should
run on netbooks" is a valid argument since I believe (anecdotal again) that
they're mostly used by geeks and average users are using larger and more
powerful computers.

[Anthony Harrington (linuxchemist)]

As it is, adding files to /Music (the default Music checking location) and then opening Rhythmbox DOES get them discovered by default now. I'm pretty sure this has been the case for a while now.
Having an option available to decide whether or not to do this scanning for new files added on rhythmbox startup is miles better than having no choice in the matter. I would strongly advise against removing customisability.

With the desired behaviour already implemented by default and suggesting removal the option of the ability to change this behaviour, i move that this bug is invalid.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream issue now being tracked at:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/219