[robweber]

What about after updating the library execute clean library.

Also nice, update the library when content is added to a specific folder and clean library when content is deleted in a specific folder.

Regarding the clean library functionality please see this page on the wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...library.3E You can add a setting to your advancedsettings.xml file so that the library always cleans when it updates. This is the easiest way to make sure this happens without having to separately click the "Clean Library" setting under Video Settings.

As far as monitoring specific folders; the problem implementing that type of functionality is exactly why this addon uses the built in update functionality of XBMC and runs on a timer. Since files can be connected with many different types of protocols (NFS, Samba, local hard disks, etc) it is very hard to develop a cross platform way to monitor for files (event driven updates). The most common way to do this is with some type of folder polling (watchdog services); but those are inefficient. Writing something like that in python would basically duplicate the actions already happening via the XBMC Update command (look through each folder for new files). There are a lot of forum posts on this but the one I find the most interesting is this one: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=66348 . Several XBMC developers explain the issue with having an event driven system very well.

Generally running the update processes every few hours works fairly well for most people. The scan process is usually pretty quick and most of the time happens when you aren't even using the system. I do agree though that a cross platform, event driven, system would be the best solution eventually.