auto-update of media

[surtarso]

Hi there again, still having a blast with O!MPD! tyvm

Is there a way I can automate my library update? An option, watchdog, cronjob w/e it takes, without breaking anything hehe
I have Lidarr constantly updating my library, so every now and then some files are replaced or new albums arrive. I dont think a real time watchdog would be nice on my pi, but some late night cron or auto-update feature would be awesome.

Not sure if its already there, the way I do it it just to manually update the library on settings when I feel enough has changed in the music directory (bout every week or so...)

thanks!

[ArturSierzant]

Update DB from command line is on TODO list, but I can't tell you when it will be done...

[tomchiverton]

Where in the code does o!mpd do it's updates ? It seems like it'd be simple to write a command line PHP script to call it ?

[ArturSierzant]

Update is in update.php file, function update().

[tomchiverton]

Cool.

So we'd have to move everything after require('include/footer.inc.php'); from update() to some other function (updateImpl() ?)

Then call that from a new updateCli() what has some basic command line parsing to fill in dir_to_update ?

[ArturSierzant]

I would add a new function to update.php - actually there is a leftover called cliUpdate() in that file. This function would contain more or less the same functions as update() but without HTML parts.

[tomchiverton]

Right, but if I do that, and some of the SQL in update() changes, it'd have to be changed in two places.

It's a little more work for me to make update() output just the HTML and then call updateImpl(), but then I can make cliUpdate() just call updateImpl().

It's propbably a clearer separation that way anyway, even without a command line method to update ?

[tomchiverton]

!170 so far has the above approach in, but not changes to the output of HTML by the update function php update.php >/dev/null overcomes this.

If you think this is the right idea, I can work on cutting down the output when the (preexisting) cfg['cli_update'] is true ?