Integrate Library Scanner into Main Window

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Reported by: asantoni
Date: 2010-11-02T20:02:33Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp670109
Tags: library, scanner

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The little library scanner dialog is obnoxious and should be integrated into the main window in a nicer way, or at least have an option to run it in the background. The little scanner dialog was meant as a stop-gap solution in 1.5 or 1.6, and was meant to get replaced with a better solution. Having it pop up every single time you run Mixxx is really annoying.

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Commented by: Pegasus-RPG
Date: 2010-11-02T20:23:25Z

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Can it be made to pop-under? Or not display at all if this isn't the first run or Rescan Library wasn't clicked?

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-04-12T14:41:33Z

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I was recently looking at this. It's not hard.

My proposed solution is to add a "pause" button and an "incremental" checkbox to the library-scan dialog. Incremental scans would commit changes to the track database periodically, and allow the Mixxx windows to be brought-to-front over the library-scan dialog. Pausing the scan would allow that too. Non-incremental scans would prevent the Mixxx window from being used, but the library-scan would go much faster because it wouldn't commit changes periodically.

I can probably do this quickly, but I'm working on a few other things first.

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2013-04-12T14:58:24Z

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The only way I can imagine the scan integrated into the main window is some
kind of status bar at the bottom straight out of Windows 95. Let's not do
that :).

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Steven Boswell wrote:

I was recently looking at this. It's not hard.

My proposed solution is to add a "pause" button and an "incremental"
checkbox to the library-scan dialog. Incremental scans would commit
changes to the track database periodically, and allow the Mixxx windows
to be brought-to-front over the library-scan dialog. Pausing the scan
would allow that too. Non-incremental scans would prevent the Mixxx
window from being used, but the library-scan would go much faster
because it wouldn't commit changes periodically.

I can probably do this quickly, but I'm working on a few other things
first.

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-04-12T17:10:17Z

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I wasn't suggesting integrating the library-scan dialog into the main window. I'd leave it as it is, just make it optionally modal.

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-04-22T15:54:37Z

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I posted a patch that makes the library-rescan dialog incremental and pausable. See bug #6631