miniDLNA works perfectly for me and lets me access all my media on Android devices, XBMC, internet radio, and a sony bluray player as well (as long as the device has the right decoders). But, for some reason, it doesn't seem to add new files which I add to its folders. Now if found this post In summary, the most reliable way to have MiniDLNA rescan all media files is by issuing the following set of commands: $ sudo minidlna -R $ sudo service minidlna restart However, every so often MiniDLNA will be running on a server. Here is a client-side script to request a rescan on such a server: #!/bin/bash ssh -t server.on.lan 'sudo minidlna -R && sudo service minidlna restart' and AzP already provided most of the information, but some of it is incorrect. First of all, there is no such option inotify_interval . The only option that exists is notify_interval and has nothing to do with inotify . So to clarify, notify_interval controls how frequently the (m