On 22/07/2011 20:51, Rodney Dawes wrote: > Copy on Import is a misfeature because I shouldn't have to have 2 copies > of every song I import, and it causes the import to lose information > about the file being imported; primarily, the piece of information about > where it came from (which is why you end up with N+1 songs from the > "Purchased from Ubuntu One" folder, every time you restart banshee. The > issue is not unique to U1MS. It is simply the only thing exposing the > problem right now. Banshee features are already crippled, which is why > we have to rescan the Ubuntu One purchases at every startup in the first > place. If Banshee supported multiple library folders as Rhythmbox does, > this wouldn't be an issue. But rather than having music files in > arbitrary locations on disk, it has a copy-on-import misfeature. > > Why does it matter to you where the files are on disk or what directory > names they are in or what the files are named? Are you importing lots of > music which has broken/bad/missing tags? The only thing I see copy-on- > import being useful for, is to import from external/removable media. >
Actually it does. I like all my files in ~/Music, and Banshee creates the folder structure and renames the files accordingly using tag information for me. All I do is import them from wherever I got them, whether I downloaded them into ~/Desktop or got them from some external media. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788532 Title: U1 music store plugin severely delays banshee startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libubuntuone/+bug/788532/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs