Hi all,
When I worked with Windows I first Media Monkey and later MusicBee as a media organizer for my large music collection. Now that I'm on Linux OS I have been searching and testing more than 10 media organizers and came to the conclusion that gmb is absolutely the best of them all! The one thing I really do miss in all Linux media organizers, including gmb, is that you don't have the option of automatic add and organize new music files. In both Media Monkey and MusicBee you have the option to let the software at the start-up watch a given folder for newly added files. If files are found, they will be automatically organized into folders and file names according to your own rules. They will then be moved to your standard music folder and added to your database. As far as I know in all Linux organizers you have to do all the adding and organizing by hand, which is really a pain in the ass when you have to add files to a folder that contains thousands of sub-folders and files on a external hd (soooo....slow). I know you can check in gmb for added/delete titles, but that also takes up lot of time when you have a huge collection. It is much faster and more efficient when the software has to check only one folder for a few newly added files (instead checking of tens of thousands files for changes.)
Is it possible to implement some kind of tool or plugin that automatically watches one folder at start-up (where you add your new files) and automatically adds the files to your standard music folder and database, in the structure as laid down in the way you want to organize them in folders/sub-folders/files.
When I worked with Windows I first Media Monkey and later MusicBee as a media organizer for my large music collection. Now that I'm on Linux OS I have been searching and testing more than 10 media organizers and came to the conclusion that gmb is absolutely the best of them all! The one thing I really do miss in all Linux media organizers, including gmb, is that you don't have the option of automatic add and organize new music files. In both Media Monkey and MusicBee you have the option to let the software at the start-up watch a given folder for newly added files. If files are found, they will be automatically organized into folders and file names according to your own rules. They will then be moved to your standard music folder and added to your database. As far as I know in all Linux organizers you have to do all the adding and organizing by hand, which is really a pain in the ass when you have to add files to a folder that contains thousands of sub-folders and files on a external hd (soooo....slow). I know you can check in gmb for added/delete titles, but that also takes up lot of time when you have a huge collection. It is much faster and more efficient when the software has to check only one folder for a few newly added files (instead checking of tens of thousands files for changes.)
Is it possible to implement some kind of tool or plugin that automatically watches one folder at start-up (where you add your new files) and automatically adds the files to your standard music folder and database, in the structure as laid down in the way you want to organize them in folders/sub-folders/files.