Re: [Banshee-List] Cleanup plugin now available

["Trey Ethridge" <tethridge gmail com>]

Ok, I'll update the plugin after I finish the playlist import/export
stuff to have the confirmation dialog that lists the files that it
will delete.

-- Trey

On 10/11/06, Alan <alan ufies org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:55:47PM -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > On 10/10/06, Trey Ethridge <tethridge gmail com> wrote:
> > > Is it really that common to have shares that aren't available all the
> > > time as music shares in banshee?  I'm surprised if that is the case.
> > > I assumed that most people had local shares that they use for their
> > > library.  Then for remote shares they would connect using daap.
>
> Probably not hugely common, but I do remember a while back in some other
> media player being bitten when the 'auto file scan' feature decided that
> since my /mp3 NFS share wasn't mounted it would helpfully delete my
> entire library :(
>
> > +1.  I have my music mounted from my desktop on my laptop via NFS
> > because (in some great irony) GStreamer can't share FLAC files via
> > DAAP, making DAAP pretty useless to me at this point.
> >
> > I think your suggestion of running it manually with a dialog sounds just fine.
>
> Agreed.  Personally I think that it will become more and more common for
> people to have their media available from a central location so that it
> is OS/computer/environment independant.  Obviously a fileserver sitting
> and sharing by SMB/NFS to your desktop/laptop/mythbox/osx/windows/etc
> makes it much more available for the home entertainment / wired house.
>
> </ramble>
>
> Running it manually and having it display a dialog asking for changes
> works well though too :)
>
> Oh, and as an aside about the playlist for deleted files I was actually
> wrong, it wasn't RB that does it but banshee's 'error report' or
> whatever it's called.  In the .11 series if you add files that are
> already in the library you get a list of the errors in the same tree as
> your playlists, that's what I was thinking of.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
>
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