Is adding to Library from Watched Folders Automatic?

[mike (Mike Fass)]

@xxx

Believe me, it kills me to say this, but JShiver has no problem automagically updating its libraries.

The last time we did research on this we found otherwise, but it’s possible they’ve changed something.

As Brian mentioned at the time:

@brian

Roon knows that it can’t trust NAS’s to report on filesystem events in all cases–and there’s no way for us to detect whether events are coming or not. NAS’s just silently report a subset of events, or none at all. So “real time watching” isn’t real time all the time.

We did some research and found that just about every piece of software that attempts to do “real time watching” on NAS’s eventually runs into this limitation, and supplements it with a periodic scan of the storage folder. Plex does it, JRiver does it, so do others, and so does Roon.

Which platforms and NAS’s have you tested with @xxx?