Hi All, I wasn't thinking so much of a plugin for moving the library, or a way for RB to manage my files for me. I do a lot of file management of my music with other tools. Some files get deleted, some get moved, and some get renamed. I was thinking that it would be nice if RB was smart enough to realize when a newly found file was just an older missing file with a new name.
That would cover people who want to move their precious library to a different machine/filestructure/filesystem by hand. But, if a plugin is written to manage the files for the user, then it might be a good for RB to have some kind of checksum of each file, so it can verify that the move was completely successful before rm'ing the source file. There was a thread earlier talking about how valuable people's library is. It might slow the move process down a little, but I think it'd be worth it. My 0.2c -M On Feb 5, 2008 2:04 AM, Karsten Schmiedecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 February 2008, Matt Novenstern wrote: > > 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 > > > > 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 > > which is why i removed an equivalent question from my earlier email. however, > it may seem to make sense to ship a script that does this (maybe even better, > a UI) with RB. rhythmbox-move-library would read the current library location > from gconf, provide a destination chooser (which should test permissions > before allowing to continue) and then mv (or, if not on the same file system, > cp -r and rm -r) the files and sed the xml. i have no experience whatsoever > with GUI building, but would be willing to assist any way i can (test, > debug). > > 7<arsten > > -- > Wenn ich nicht selber einer w\"are, h\"atte ich keinen Bock mit Ingenieuren > abzuh\"angen. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
