poweramp514 Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 There needs to be a quicker way to initiate a folder re-scan. Looking at the 2.0 beta, it would make sense to allow a long-press on the library button to make a pop-up that can do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Thanks for the request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I suggested a while back that 'Rescan' could be included in the Menu-button function from the Player screen.There are 11 items in the full-view menu at the moment, so Rescan would be a nice one to fill up that currently-empty slot in the 3x4 grid. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgbrown54 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I use Poweramp on my Android Media Player. It is connected to a USB drive with thousands of songs on it. When I add a new album it seems to take days, if ever, for it to show up in the folders. I would recommend a method to tell it to scan a single folder for changes. So when I'm in the folder view I could tell it to scan the selected folder only.Just like I can currently tell it to queue or shuffle the selected folder I could tell it to scan the selected folder for changes. That way if I add an album to the Grateful Dead folder I could have it rescan only the Grateful Dead folder looking for changes. Currently I have to do a full rescan to get new albums to show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 You can specify what locations to scan vis Settings > Folders and Library > Music Folders. Just untick anywhere that you don't want Poweramp to scan, which might be slowing down your system. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgbrown54 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Thanks Andre but........... Choosing rescan on the menu or just waiting it never seems to find the new folder. I have to do a full rescan in order for it to show up. My music is on a USB drive and everything is under the folder /Music. That folder is selected to be scanned. There are around 11,000 songs arranged in about 500 folders stacked as many as 5 folders deep. Only a full rescan finds the new folders and it takes a couple of hours for that to run. It would be nice if I could add a folder, let's say add the Europe '72 album under the Grateful Dead folder and had a way to tell it to scan only the Greatful Dead folder for changes. To make it even worse, I have NAS drive with over 800,000 songs in 40,000 folders on it. If I add that to be scanned it can take up to 6 hours for Poweramp to scan it. I learned the hard way not to add that into Poweramp. But even then, if I had a way to add a folder without doing a full rescan then it would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgbrown54 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 After adding a new folder on my USB drive I have to do a Full Rescan followed by 2 Rescans to get all the files to show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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