Set MPD directory to scan (not whole disk)

[xenixesa]

I am absolutely loving the RuneAudio. Tried every Kodi-based distribution and Volumio with my RaspberryPi+Schiit Modi without success. RuneAudio works out of the box.

One thing and then it is perfect and you can stop development: I don't want the whole USB hard disk scanned for files, but just a subdirectory.

There is not an option for this and alot of my music is not ready to be in the library yet.

Anybody know of a workaround? I looked at the mpd.conf file but it is obvious that cannot be edited for this purpose.

Cheers and again great work!

[hondagx35]

Hi

One thing and then it is perfect and you can stop development: I don't want the whole USB hard disk scanned for files, but just a subdirectory.

You can drop a file named ".mpdignore" in every folder you want to exclude from indexing.

From http://www.musicpd.org/doc/user/music_d ... abase.html

To exclude a file from the update, create a file called .mpdignore in its parent directory. Each line of that file may contain a list of shell wildcards.

for example:

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 echo "*" > </path/to/directory/to/be/ignored/>.mpdignore

Frank

[ACX]

Or, after the first indexing, you can disable the automatic database update and then manually update the single folders via UI when needed.

[xenixesa]

Brilliant, both of your solutions. You can stop developing now, Runeaudio is perfect!