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Download Monitor
Its mainly intended to work with Bandcamp downloads, but can work with other types of downloads too. It currently works with:
- Zip archives
- RAR archives requires
unrar
- 7z archives requres
p7zip
(p7zip-full
on Ubuntu) - Folders
Flatpak Note: For RAR and 7z functionality, in addition to installing required programs on host, you will need to give permission to access external programs:
sudo flatpak override com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
Snap Note: RAR and 7z are already included with install.
Windows Note: Only folders and
.zip
archives are supported.
- Go to
MENU
>Settings
>Function
. - Check the box for
Monitor download folders
and its dependent functionExtract archives on import
.
-
Download an archive containing music to your home downloads folder
~/Downloads
. - In the top panel, next to the MENU button, the download indicator should appear after a moment. Click the indicator when a number appears next to it. (This number shows how many archives are ready to import. It may take another moment for it to detect that a download has completed.)
- The archive will be extracted and files imported to the current playlist.
Feature: If you have a playlist named
Downloads
, it will always be switched to and used instead.
Tip: If you want to dismiss the indicator, you can right click it and click
Dismiss
.
Note: Only items in the base download directory are monitored. Sub-folders are not monitored.
Note: Downloads older than an hour are ignored. Archives that do not mostly contain music are ignored.