Media downloaded correctly, but media scan doesn't detect new media

[kajdo]

Hi,

I use finamp to play music when I'm connected via wifi and have access to my jellyfin instance. But when I'm at work I don't want to constantly vpn into my network (battery drain because of vpn), so I download the media using the download feature in the beta release to download it to /storage/emulated/0/Music/Finamp/[[album]]/[[songs]].

This works fine with one little caveat - the downloaded media is not detected by android's own media provider (no idea why).

how do i know? -- I use RetroMusicPlayer to play offline music at work and in my car (android auto support)

when i rescan the media library using a third party app - the media is visible.

I want to suggest, that after downloading media using the download feature, finamp triggers a media scan by itself, so such usecases would have a flawless UX.

I did open a corresponding feature request on RetroMusicPlayer to suggest a "Pull to Refresh" feature for that usecase (RetroMusicPlayer/RetroMusicPlayer#1673) but I think it would be a better UX if finamp kicks off a media scan on system level after download, because the music being available as media would be the expectation from the user i guess.

thx for your software! like the new UI a lot

[Chaphasilor]

I guess we could add this at some point, it seems doable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3300137/how-can-i-refresh-mediastore-on-android

But it's honestly not a priority atm. If anyone wants to make a PR for this, I'd be happy to accept it!

Also, Finamp does support Android Auto in the beta version, if that helps ^^

[kajdo]

will try the android auto feature - thx for the headsup @Chaphasilor

for forcing a media refresh, I currently use https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/safmediascanner ... might be worth to check their implementation as well (GPLv3)

get your point that it's not on the prio list - but maybe I'm lucky somewhen

can't provide a PR myself, since I'm not really on mobile dev side