Re: [Banshee-List] file management plugin

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Mike,

There was, some time ago, a filesystem monitor plugin.  It didn't  
provide the functionality that you're looking for but it (in a broken  
way) did automatic scanning and importing of new songs in the music  
library.  Not to be confused with what you're doing (although  
distantly related).

Quite a few changes are lined up for the 0.11.x release series;  
organizing the filesystem heirarchy is definitely on the roadmap.  You  
can probably easily write this as a plugin, but be forewarned that it  
will (most likely) be written into the core.  If you wanted to write a  
killer patch for Banshee, this would definitely be it!

Some thoughts on it, from discussing the issue in the past with other  
developers:
* Structure should be controllable by a gconf regex key (we already  
have this!).  Shouldn't be in the preferences
* Should have another gconf key to disable it.  Some people are picky  
about their libraries.  Maybe or maybe not be in prefs.
* Should handle blank tags efficiently.
* Should not use a move - use copy.  Copy->update library  
TrackInfo->Make sure there's no errors->Delete original
* You can use the Banshee.Kernel scheduler to make this a background  
task and should be transparent to the user (other than their hard  
drive flashing away, of course)

Be sure to write it against CVS/HEAD.  I'll say it again, this would  
be a killer patch :)

If you do write one, post it to bugzilla!

Cheers,

Patrick

--
Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
http://trick.vanstaveren.us


----- Message from mikeq wam umd edu ---------
    Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:21:03 -0400
    From: Michael Quinn <mikeq wam umd edu>
Reply-To: banshee-list gnome org
 Subject: [Banshee-List] file management plugin
      To: banshee-list gnome org


> I was just wondering if anybody has been working on a plugin to
> automatically arrange the music files in your library directory.  It
> would rename files and arrange them on your filesystem by genre, artist,
> etc.  Similar to how iTunes can, but with more flexibility.  I'd like to
> write one but I don't want to duplicate effort.
>
> -Mike Quinn
>
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