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

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

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 was added very early in 1.0 though (almost a year ago), so it
should not have worked for 1.2:

See the very top section of the class:
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/banshee/trunk/banshee/src/Core/Banshee.Services/Banshee.Collection.Database/DatabaseImportManager.cs

--Aaron



On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 06:18 -0800, Jason0x21 wrote:
> So in trying to fix my last.fm audio scrobbling problem, I deleted the
> configuration directories...
> 
> ./.config/banshee*
> ./.cache/banshee*
> ./.gconf/apps/banshee
> 
> Now, data is kept somewhere else, because banshee came up with most of my
> settings intact (just not the database).  It also started scrobbling
> (hooray!).  So I tried to re-import all my music, and failed miserably
> (boo!).
> 
> I use my Rio Karma not only as a portable player, but as a USB drive that
> banshee reads from.  Now, apparently, banshee doesn't want to read the files
> off of the karma, possibly because of a lack of any suffix/extension on the
> filename.  I copied one of the files over to my local Music directory, and
> it still wouldn't import until I added a ".ogg" extension onto the filename. 
> That seems rather silly.
> 
> The 1.2 version of banshee read those files in just fine, did this go away
> for any particular reason?
> 
> Jason!