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2017-11-24
2017-11-28
  • Jens Backhaus

    Jens Backhaus - 2017-11-24

    Hello,

    I'm using the latest version of miniDLNA and I'm wondering if it is possible to rescan the mediathek without restarting miniDLNA.
    Everytime miniDLNA is running and I use the minidlna command with "-r" I get a message in the logfile that miniDLNA is already running and I need to stop it.
    Do you have any suggestions?

    Regards,
    Jens

     
  • Jens Backhaus

    Jens Backhaus - 2017-11-25

    Maybe my last post was a little bit short.
    miniDLNA is going be started automatically after reboot of my raspi. If new music has been added on the NAS I would like to rescan the mounted music directory like this way:

    sudo <DirectoryToMinidlna>/minidlna -P <directoryToPidFILE>/minidlna.pid -f <DirectoryToConfFile>/minidlna.conf -r

    If miniDLNA is already running I get the following message in the logfile:

    error: MiniDLNA is already running. EXITING.

    I don't really know how to use the rescan paramater without stopping and starting miniDLNA. Did I misunderstand the meaning of this parameter?

    Regards,
    Jens

     

    Last edit: Jens Backhaus 2017-11-25
  • Shrimpkin

    Shrimpkin - 2017-11-28

    Both (-r, -R) work on startup and cannot be used while minidlna is running.

    This patch might be what you are looking for? https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/patches/172/ .

     

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