Scan folder other than iTunes for music.

[volb]

This would be really useful for plenty of people. Thanks.

[hillyu]

Indeed this is the only reason holding me back from using sonora.

[jwilling]

This is an open-source project; if y'all really want it, add it! 😉

[volb]

I thought it was okay to ask for feature requests on Github. Unfortunately I don't really know Objective-C.

[medoix]

It would be nice if it at least scanned its own Sonora music folder... I am using Google Music manager to download/upload my tracks and if i add music or buy music through google and it download into the Sonora folder then it should just import it itself or at least show up in the program.

[rex]

I'm in the same place as @hillyu. I live and breathe on my MacBook Pro which is limited to 128gb of hard drive space. Because I'm a music hoarder I moved all my music to an external drive, which sadly Sonora doesn't recognize. I don't want to add all the music to iTunes because of the many ways that the database could become corrupt and cause me to relocate all that music.

I also have never written a letter of Objective-C, but like most of us I am a developer (web, specifically). I'll give the source code a look but I imagine that if everything is hard-coded to look for the iTunes folder then this is actually a pretty huge refactor. My hope was that there would be an application configuration property along the lines of watched_folders = [], into which the /Users/{username}/Music/iTunes/blah/wherever folder would be loaded by default. This would allow Sonora users to dynamically and easily add/remove "watched" folders. I don't know how you have it set up, @jwilling, but I'll definitely give it a look :)

I would be remiss if I didn't say that regardless of watched_folder support you have created an absolutely beautiful piece of software and I speak for a lot of people when I tell you that I appreciate it a hell of a lot.