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psam:
It has been repeatedly posted that Auto import in the background does not work as it should on Synology Servers.

I ' ve taken up the issue with their technical staff for some time now,  and this is their last reply :

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Dear Panagiotis,

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately we do not support filesystemwatcher components so that
wouldn't work for JRiver as using the way to detects file changed on
DiskStation.
However, we will forward your inquiry to our Product Management team for
further consideration of inclusion, and they will do more research about
this feature.

BR,
Antoine Yang
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The guy even logged in on my 413j and performed some teste, but as you can see he reported back that currently they don't support the "file system events" functionality of Microsoft.

So, if any other JRiver users out there are having the same problem , or are thinking of buying a Synology NAS to use with their HTPC, I guess you should start sending them emails requesting them to include this functionality in the next DS version.

I don't know if the JRiver people could spare some time and communicate with Synology (I know you have don it for other products in the past) and explain what they need to do.

Until then, manual Auto Import every now and then is the only solution I'm afraid.

Matt:
If a watched folder fails to support watch events, we will manually scan it every two hours.  It's not perfect, but better than nothing.

You'll see 'Failed to watch folder' in the log file if there are folders like this (Help > Logging).

rayooo:
I guess I must be confused, as I have a Synology 1812+ and MC auto-import works fine.
I never have to do any manual importing.

I'd like to understand what problem I have that I don't think I have?  ::) ;D

psam:

--- Quote from: rayooo on March 12, 2013, 01:46:07 pm ---I guess I must be confused, as I have a Synology 1812+ and MC auto-import works fine.
I never have to do any manual importing.

I'd like to understand what problem I have that I don't think I have?  ::) ;D

--- End quote ---
Do you mean that as soon as you FTP a new album somewhere in your watched folder subfolders, it gets imported to your JRiver library?

rayooo:
yea...

so just to be sure..  I've got a dedicated MC computer that is used exclusively for audio playback. Theater view, no mouse, no KB.
This dedicated MC computer is pointed to and watching a specific folder on a Synology NAS where music media is stored.

The dedicated MC computer is set to run auto import in the background. The watched folder is of course the music folder on the NAS.

Just yesterday, I downloaded 3 new albums from HD Tracks ( on a separate desktop computer )
Once dowloaded, the 3 Albums files, were copied from the desktop computer over to the Synology NAS music folder.

Once copied, I can go into the other room and begin to play the new albums, as typically within a minute or less, they are "auto-imported" to the dedicated MC computer.

I've done it like this now for over a year, so that's why I always "think" that auto-import works just fine, I do however expect that what I'm describing and thinking is in fact NOT what others are speaking of when stating that Synology NAS does not support background import.  

Let me know what I'm missing/overlooking!  Thanks!

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