Are we talking about an iTunes-like music management system that rearranges tracks based on tags? Or just something to move the whole library somewhere? If it's just to move the library, having a whole plugin for it seems excessive, since people will probably use it once at most.
-Matt On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 00:12 +0100, Tino Meinen wrote: > This sounds like perfect material to develop a plugin for just this > problem (moving files and updating the database). > > Any aspiring plugin writers willing to tackle this? > > Tino Meinen > > Op maandag 04-02-2008 om 11:54 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Matt: > > Hi All, > > How difficult would it be to have file-id's with some kind of > > checksum and a current path stored in the RB database? You'd still > > have to have some way to tell it to look in a new place for new or > > missing files. But it might be able to compare the checksum of newly > > found files with the known checksum of missing files. That's how some > > other software packages do it. > > > > Heck - iTunes doesn't even do that. > > > > -M > > > > On Feb 4, 2008 11:48 AM, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 4, 2008 11:35 AM, Piotr Gaczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I know about that, but that's not really user friendly. Don't expect > > > > an avarge user of music player to be a command-line guru, right? > > > > > > > > I was overexaggerating the problem, true, but I wanted to focus on > > > > usability problems connected with it. > > > > > > > > Leaving the thing as is and saying: "you can always grep, sed and vi > > > > your database" probably won't attract many new users, you know ;) > > > > > > > > > > Does any music player persist through file changes initiated by an > > > external > > > application? It'd be nice to have some sort of benchmark here, especially > > > if > > > it's an open-source player that RB could glean something from. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
