Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

[PSH]

I understand there is a setting to enable this but I can't find it anywhere through the Raspbi interface.
Am I missing something or being thick?........you can be quite candid!
Thanks.

[timster67]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

I understand there is a setting to enable this but I can't find it anywhere through the Raspbi interface.
Am I missing something or being thick?........you can be quite candid!
Thanks.

In configuration uncheck "Detect & Catalog New Tracks"

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Perfect - thank you!

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

...........except on reboot the library is cleared to zero. This was really the bit I had been hoping to avoid.

[PeterP]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Are your other settings also reset on reboot?
Sounds like your $home is in a location that does not survive reboots - such as a ramdisk.
You can override Asset's data location with _APPDATA_OVERRIDE environment variable:

_APPDATA_OVERRIDE=/some/path /path/to/Asset/bin/AssetUPnP

A more elaborate way to do this:

export AssetPath=/path/to/Asset
export _APPDATA_OVERRIDE="$AssetPath/data"
mkdir -p "$_APPDATA_OVERRIDE"
"$AssetPath/bin/AssetUPnP"

edited: forum won't let me use hash character

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Thanks Peter.
In answer to your initial question, no, all the other settings (which I take to be those on the configuration page) survive a reboot.
Regarding your suggestions, I'm afraid these go over my head somewhat.
I was running a previous version of Asset before my big Raspberry Pi crash and didn't have this problem so it is all a bit curious.
Where should the hash character(s) be?........and where does the code need to go?

[PeterP]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

You can disregard most of the previous post if your settings survive and just the library disappears.

Can you please enable debug logging in Asset configuration, apply settings, reproduce the library-disappears issue and email library logs to peter@dbpoweramp.com for analysis?

Thanks.

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Have sent through the debug log.

Is there anything that is immediately obvious?

Thanks

[PeterP]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Thanks for the log. It is most interesting.

From the Asset log, it looks like the net share mount points (the filesystem path where Asset looks for the network shares) already exist on Asset startup, but they are empty - as if they have not yet finished mounting.

Asset already checks for network-share-offline scenario (missing indexed folder), but that does not help here, because the shares appear to exist but show no content. We'll keep this in mind for the next time we redesign Asset library scanning.

Anyway. Unchecking "Detect & Catalog New Tracks" was supposed to have helped with such. It seems to not prevent the startup scan correctly due to a bug. It will be fixed in the next update.

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Thank you very much Peter for looking into it.
Although there is a setting in the Raspberry Pi to wait until the network is up and running, it maybe that additional time is required for shares to mount properly..........but this is an amateur speaking!
I'll recheck the "Detect & Catalog New Tracks" for the moment so that it can get on with business in the background in the event of a reboot.

[PeterP]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

New beta version posted-

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?41234-Asset-R6-2-for-Mac-Linux

The behavior of "Detect & Catalog New Tracks" has been corrected.

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Thanks for the quick work.
I'm having a bit of trouble installing the new version. When I try to start AssetUPnP in the new directory it claims the old version is still running, which it is.
I had thought the new version installed on top of the old but seemingly not.
How do I get out of this?

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Peter - can you get me out of this hole please.
It seems the extraction / unzipping creates an additional instance of Asset rather than replacing the previous version.
Many thanks in advance.

[PeterP]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Terminal:
killall AssetUPnP

Then you should be able to start the new version.

Alternatively:
AssetUPnP --shutdown
... will cause Asset to try to talk any running instance of itself into shutting down gracefully.

[PSH]

Re: Disabling automatic rescan on Raspberry Pi

Many thanks Peter - all working now - scanning away.
I couldn't get the shutdown option to work but killall did the trick.