Filesystem provider auto-detection of new files

[tavva]

Right now the filesystem provider only sees new files after a manual refresh (via 'Synchronize now' in the provider settings dropdown) or, I believe, when the provider automatically refreshes after a set interval (from this discussion).

We can improve this by adding a watcher to the given path and synchronising when files change.

Thoughts:

• Not sure if file metadata is updated on play, etc. if so we need to determine if a change should trigger a refresh
• Different operating systems will have different watching mechanisms

[OzGav]

Why is this needed though? How could the tags be changing without you knowing (and therefore by able to do a sync now)?

edit: Same with if you add files. Just manually do a sync.

[tavva]

Sure you can manually sync. But better if automatically picked up, no?

[OzGav]

I would say not necessarily as that is overhead for marginal gain. Just my opinion