Re: [Banshee-List] Can't import files without filename extensions?

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Aaron Bockover wrote:
> No, Banshee will not import files without an extension. This was done
> for performance reasons. We have a large white list of extensions that
> "might" be supported. If the extension test passes, then we pass off the
> media to TagLib, and then finally import it if the TagLib parse
> succeeds.
>
> I am not sure why it would really be a good idea to (attempt) to handle
> files without an extension. Is it something that needs to be special
> cased because of the Rio Karma? We could add some API that allows
> consumers of DatabaseImportManager to either add more extensions to the
> white list, turn off that check altogether, or just always try to import
> files without an extension.
This whitelist approach is ambigous because there is no forced 
relationship between extension and content.
For the sake of performance I'd say keep the implemenation but:
- make the whitelist accessible through DatabaseImportManager (for add, 
delete,  disable)
- display a summary of all the files that were not imported so the user 
at least has a chance to see when something went wrong.
- add a blacklist for all the files nobody cares about (e.g. "System 
Volume Information", "thumbs.db")