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
