O.K. I knew some of these questions would be asked 🙂
Automatic scanning for new plugis is not a problem – that’s what everybody’s doing manually now and I’m convinced that should be solved.
The other part is trickier:
@druid wrote:
Automatic plugin scanning at the start is trickier than it sounds, too, in my opinion. How does Podium know whether a plugin has been updated or not, whether it exists or not, and so on? .
It knows whether it exists or not because it’s in the VST folder or not 
But, as The Telenator has already mentioned, Podium will not know If some plugin is the updated version of the old one, sometimes. On the other hand, that’s already the problem, ain’t it? If you want to use a new version of your favorite plugin you’re gonna do it, don’t matter what, aye?
@druid wrote:
One problem I have with automatic removal of plugins and so on is in cases where older songs are loaded, and the VST has since been deleted. I have had this occur.
Why would you delete the plugin that you use (have used) in projects unless you have the newer version?
What’s possible, for sure, is that if you load the old plugins back, Podium will put them right where they were before, with all your settings, of coarse (I know that works in other software). The other thing I’ve noticed (accidentally) is that if you have two .dll files in your folder(s) that represent the same plugin (that was the same version in my case), Podium will load both of them (maybe it should stay that way(?)). I remember that I’ve read somewhere that the x software, while scanning (when building plugin database for the first time) will, if you have two versions of the same plugin, load the first one and skip the other don’t matter if it’s the newer or the older one (that means it recognizes it’s the same plugin, but doesn’t care).
I would like that Podium lists only what’s in the VST folder (what kingtubby described), but I am aware of the problems. On the other hand, some of them already exist. Finally, I have to say that I know absolutely nothing about programming, so I can only talk about things I’ve seen in other apps.
Maybe, Frits has the solution.
P.S. Another thing that should (and can) be solved – new plugins should be usable in all old projects as soon as they’re loaded.
Cheers, Alex
