Re: [Banshee-List] library auto-update?

["Trey Ethridge" <tethridge gmail com>]

I just finished writing a plugin to remove stale tracks.  If you guys
want to try it out, let me know.  It needs to be tested.  I sent a
message to Aaron asking for a place to put it, but I haven't heard
back yet.  I don't expect to hear anything for a little while, I know
he's busy.

The way it works right now is simple.  It adds a menu option named
"Clean Library".  Select that option and it goes through all tracks
verifying that they exist.  If they don't, it removes them from the
library and playlists.  When it's finished it notifies you via a
message box of the status and what was removed.

I'm open to suggestions, this is my first plugin so I just wanted
something to get my feet wet.

-- Trey




Matt Arnold escribió:
> When I move a folder or files of music that is in my Banshee library,
> the program doesn't know where to find them. It just gives me an error
> message when I try to play them.
>
> It doesn't handle this gracefully by automatically trying to play
> something else. It just stops playing any music at all, until I come
> back into the room and attend to it.
>
> It doesn't seem to have any function to go looking through the library
> for out-of-date locations and report them all to me, so they're
> waiting in hiding. When I do find them, Banshee makes me re-import the
> file or folder that I moved, which causes the songs to be duplicated
> in my library, and I don't know which one is real until I try to play
> them.
>
> Does Banshee already have functionality that will ease the laborious
> process after I change the file structure in my Music folder? If not,
> can there be a feature added to the program to scan the Music folder
> looking for files with the same embedded metadata as the files it has
> lost, and replace them in the Banshee listing?

Hello, I am a novice user (and hopefully developer) and I was wondering
the same about something like a "synced source" that could be able to
resync by demand, removing deleted songs and adding new songs.

I wonder, isn't there any way or workaround for doing this? I will see
if I can develop it, but I don't know how much time it will take for me.
I would like to hear any comments that could anyone have regarding this
feature, for example, should it be made as a plugin or an option in the
core?

Regards,

      Andrés  [ knocte ]