Scan folder other than iTunes for music.
volb opened this issue · comments
This would be really useful for plenty of people. Thanks.
Indeed this is the only reason holding me back from using sonora.
This is an open-source project; if y'all really want it, add it! 😉
I thought it was okay to ask for feature requests on Github. Unfortunately I don't really know Objective-C.
It would be nice if it at least scanned its own Sonora music folder... I am using Google Music manager to download/upload my tracks and if i add music or buy music through google and it download into the Sonora folder then it should just import it itself or at least show up in the program.
I'm in the same place as @hillyu. I live and breathe on my MacBook Pro which is limited to 128gb of hard drive space. Because I'm a music hoarder I moved all my music to an external drive, which sadly Sonora doesn't recognize. I don't want to add all the music to iTunes because of the many ways that the database could become corrupt and cause me to relocate all that music.
I also have never written a letter of Objective-C, but like most of us I am a developer (web, specifically). I'll give the source code a look but I imagine that if everything is hard-coded to look for the iTunes folder then this is actually a pretty huge refactor. My hope was that there would be an application configuration property along the lines of watched_folders = [], into which the /Users/{username}/Music/iTunes/blah/wherever folder would be loaded by default. This would allow Sonora users to dynamically and easily add/remove "watched" folders. I don't know how you have it set up, @jwilling, but I'll definitely give it a look :)
I would be remiss if I didn't say that regardless of watched_folder support you have created an absolutely beautiful piece of software and I speak for a lot of people when I tell you that I appreciate it a hell of a lot.