JackOfAll wrote: > My first thought...... I'm going to keep it to myself so as not to > offend you or your friend. Thank you, appreciate that :-)
Anyway, this might seem stupid to us technical people but for the regular user this isn't. Paying attention to such scenarios is key to come to a user friendly system. This is in my view one of the areas where Logitech has failed miserably and it is one of the most common remarks from non technical people. Hope you don't me laying out how I see these issues (don't want to be smart but I just want to get the discussion going since I believe it is rather important): JackOfAll wrote: > > LMS shouldn't be checking for network connections, IMHO. It is a server > process. If it is pre-configured to scan at a specific time, far better > that you make sure that an external drive is powered and available, or > that the network is connected and the external share is available. This is one of these areas where one makes a difference when designing user friendly systems. You can't ask the user to make sure for his network to be available when LMS decides to scan. A regular user will have no idea of the impact of a "network not to be available" to the system at critical times. It is LMS who should check if the "network resource" is available. Even I got fooled in this particular situation. I'm pretty comfortable with computers and networks, yet I missed that this event could occur in my friend's system (not aware that the switch could be turned off by the user). JackOfAll wrote: > > I need to think about this some more. Maybe an enhancement to LMS could > be that, it checks for the presence of a "DO_NOT_SCAN" file, in the root > of any folders it is configured to scan, if present, abort the scan. > Then you create that file on the underlying file system, that your > external drive/share is going to be mounted to. If the drive/share is > mounted LMS won't see the file, if it isn't, LMS will. I don't quite understand what you are trying to say here but I hope you don't suggest for the user to create such files. How LMS figures it out is not so important. The importance in my opinion is not to involve the user in the process. I guess that in most LMS systems, LMS is aware of the path to the music library. This is either located under the "Basic Settings" tab in "Media Folders" or under the "iTunes" tab in iTunes Media Folder. I pretty confident there must be an easy way in the code to check if that particular resource is available. It uses tcp/ip, so why not just "ping" the server or do I approach it a bit too simplistic? 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard Dual behind the bedroom ceiling 1 x Wandboard Dual for 'msqueeze' (http://www.msqueeze.co.nf/index.html) project ReadyNAS NVX running LMS 7.7.3. w iTunes plugin iPeng 7 on iPhone. SqueezePad & iPeng 7 on iPad. http://www.last.fm/user/phibon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
