I have noticed thousands of empty files named "noalbum" in my music directory, I believe they are created in folders that actually contain music albums.
Is it HiFiBerry OS that creates them and is there a way to stop this?
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HiFiBerry team Yes, HiFiBerryOS creates them
No, you can't stop this. It's needed to make sure it doesn't try to find album information again. -
Glorifyday Thanks for your reply, google doesn't know what they are, so I found them suspicious.
What happens if the mounted music directory is read-only?
Shouldn't you consider maintaining a OS-side DB with the visited folders instead?
I am a bit concerned about the fact how much space is taken up by this process - I've noticed thousands of these files. Another drawback is the mess. And, as mentioned above, possible wrong OS behavoiur on r/o shares. If two HiFiBerry OS-es use the same share, their behaviour could be erroneous, too. And the last one that I could think of - the resetting of folder statuses, if needed, is time consuming process.
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