Automatic scanning of removable drives/sticks/cards

[SilverEagle]

Hi All,

Another gizmo for your Silverjuke...

This DLL detects insertion/removal of removables (USB sticks, SD cards, MP3 players etc). It will update the music library, and optionally delete any tracks not available anymore from the playlist.

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Set up the plugin using [i]settings->advanced->further-options->Autodetect-removables.

The drives to monitor must be set up in the plugin, and the root of the removable drive must be present in your Silverjuke music library (if not the plugin will ask to do that for you).

And make sure you deactivate the Silverjuke music library option 'include in update process' for all your normal library paths, if not they will be scanned for updates every time you insert a USB stick

Known issues:
- Skipping a removed/inserted drive when for instance inserting multiple USB sticks while SJ is busy scanning
- The normal update gives an error when trying to scan unconnected drives. This is unavoidable for the current Silverjuke version, a big part of this the plugin deals with avoiding these errors when rescanning
- The plugin uses a temporary directory in the Silverjuke workdirectory. No idea how Vista handles this, please post any issues you run into.

Enjoy,
SilverEagle

[jaag17hon]

Do you have a manual(documentation) so i Can see how to set it up?
Please, don't forget to reply me

[SilverEagle]

jaag17hon wrote:
> Do you have a manual(documentation) so i Can see how to set it up?
> Please, don't forget to reply me

Should be all explained in the opening post, I quote:

Download Removables_v10.dll, put this next to your silverjuke.exe

Set up the plugin using settings->advanced->further-options->Autodetect-removables.

The options with their comments should be sufficiently self-explaining, but just in case:

- Enabled: obviously on...

- Drives to monitor: find out (in Windows, not SJ) as what drive the sticks/drives/MP3-player/whatevers you want to monitor show up, and put those in this field.

- Delete tracks from playlist when drive is removed: if a stick is removed and songs are queued from this stick you can have the plugin remove those songs from the playlist. If you don't SJ will give an error (I think) when it tries to play them.

- Scan on program start: if enabled the plugin will always rescan on every program start. This is what you want if you first want to insert a stick and then fire up SJ. If you disable this then SJ will boot faster but will not detect any sticks you inserted/removed while SJ was not running.

Like I said: everything should have been clear, what you see is what you get. If it doesn't work for you you are either doing something different from the instructions in the opening post, or you found a genuine bug.

SilverEagle

[Guest]

Is there a way to access iPod as remote device??

[SilverEagle]

Guest wrote:
> Is there a way to access iPod as remote device??

The plugin only sees removable drives mounted by the OS, this can be any USB (or SCSI, firewire, etc) device as long as Windows can mount it, which means it has to offer the Mass Storage Devices class.

As far as I know iPod's are not accessible as such, but only in their own Apple-centric way using iTunes. Which is incidentally why I would never buy one - but if you send me one for free I promise to look deeper into the matter ...

SilverEagle

[Guest]

Every time I add a removable device, even the existing folders are rescanned. That takes a long time. Is there a way that just the removable device is scanned?
Thanks

7ba

[SilverEagle]

Guest wrote:
> Every time I add a removable device, even the
> existing folders are rescanned. That takes a long
> time. Is there a way that just the removable
> device is scanned?

Yes, see instructions in the opening post

SilverEagle

[Guest]

Thanks, was a bit to obvious

7ba

[pur_berger]

Hello,

tried it with Windows 10 and last version of SilverJuke but can't see it in the config - is there a known issue with windows10?

Also would it be possible to add the option to import the files to the Music drive too?

Rgards

Markus