Hi There,
After adding a group of new music folders to my SSD Disc (USB attached to the Atom), I’m hesitating to choose the Naim-App option of Rebuild Music Database because I just dont know if that option is going to clear all my previous playlists stored.
Thanks in advance for any help.
No, it wont.
You shouldn’t need to use the rebuild database option. Insert the USB drive and the Atom will rescan it and find the added files.
@ChrisSU
Thanks for the info.
What’s the purpose of the Rebuild Database ?
If I change some metadata of older files does the Atom also automatically rescan those older files as well ?
In my experience, external USB drives are scanned “from scratch”. You will likely also notice, that it takes a while for the complete content of the stick/SSD to show under server view.
(The simple USB view is available immediately.)
I would guess, this may be helpful on a device with internal drives (it’s only the Core, currently?), maybe the Star with an attached drive it rips to, or maybe when using a UPnP server where the Atom does not recognize changes and/or gets our of sync with meta data or cached covers.
With USB-drive, I’d only use it, when you recognize something is missing or wrong.
On the Core you only use it when something has gone wrong. In beta testing I have used it a couple of times but I have never needed it in general use on production Core firmware. It’s just to be seen as a sort of reset I think. No more, no less.
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