{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/690","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/690/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/690/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/690/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ampache/ampache/issues/690","id":55606588,"number":690,"title":"Question re: catalog updates?","user":{"login":"rvonder","id":10723453,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10723453?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder","html_url":"https://github.com/rvonder","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rvonder/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-01-27T11:32:16Z","updated_at":"2015-01-27T12:20:21Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi -\r\nI'm a former Subsonic user with a reasonably large library (87k tracks), and recently discovered Ampache. Am running the latest 'develop' branch code under WAMP and it looks great so far. I do have some basic questions about catalogs - have searched all over and can't find answers:\r\n1. Often I'm just adding a new album, or have updated the ID3 tags for a specific album. Is there any way to limit a catalog operation like Add or Update to only a specific subdirectory, vs. having to wait 7 hours to reprocess the entire library needlessly?\r\n2. The 'Show Catalog' dialog has two fields that appear to allow entering directories for Add and Update, respectively, with an 'Update' button beneath them. These are not mentioned anywhere in the documentation: What are they for? I tried entering a lower-level subdirectory in these boxes (e.g., my catalog is `e:\\music`, and I entered `e:\\music\\downloads\\b`) - when I clicked 'Update' the screen cleared and just said 'Done'. I then ran a Catalog Add, but Ampache still processed the entire library structure, so I must not be understanding how these fields are used.\r\n3. My library already has fairly complete basic tags and album art. Is there anything I can try that might reduce these seven hour nightly catalog runs?\r\n\r\nAny suggestions welcome, and many thanks!"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/comments/71639435","html_url":"https://github.com/ampache/ampache/issues/690#issuecomment-71639435","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ampache/ampache/issues/690","id":71639435,"user":{"login":"Afterster","id":2251352,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2251352?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster","html_url":"https://github.com/Afterster","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Afterster/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-27T12:20:21Z","updated_at":"2015-01-27T12:20:21Z","body":"Hi @rvonder. As you have some experience with Subsonic, don't hesitate to compare both solution, feedbacks / recommendation are always appreciated ;)\r\n\r\nAbout your questions:\r\n 1. *Add* should be faster than *Update* as it just look for new files instead of all files metadata changes. But it could still takes time. 3.8.0 release is on his way and the documentation will also be reviewed for the release ; I will create a topic later on how to automatically update the catalog for changed files only (inotify, ...).\r\n 2. That's it. Normally it should work as your describe. Maybe your php configuration makes something to fail, you can try to enter e:/music/downloads/b instead. I just committed few changes to have more accurate messages on this process result.\r\n 3. Album art search is time consuming, if your tags already embed the album art, you can disable external album art and metadata search with `art_order` (recommended to keep at least db,tags) and `metadata_order` / `metadata_order_video` (recommended to keep at least filename,getID3)"}}