Music files opened from file manager trigger import rather than playing directly

[Costa davide]

When I open a file located on the sd or on a usb pen drive the music app copy the music to a local folder(in the internal nand) while the app should read it directly where is located

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

Thanks for filing this issue, Costa. I believe this bug needs to be filed by the team that handles scanning the device for media. They need to determine if scanning these usb devices should be done, or what the issue is if they should already be scanned.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

I tried to summarize the title--please correct if this is not correct.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Can you explain exactly how you were attempting to open the file?

If everything is working correctly, the media scanner should automatically catalogue the music on the removable media and have it show up directly in music-app with no extra steps needed.

[Costa davide (davide-cst00)]

This happens when I try to open the file from filemanager only
Thank all

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

This doesn't sound like it has anything to do with mediascanner from the sound of it.

Presumably the file manager is using content hub to open the file, which triggers music-app's import code. If it asked music-app to play it directly (by launching a music:// URL?) the song could be played directly.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

This is probably actually a duplicate of bug 1413821?

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1413821, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.