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

["Bob Copeland" <bcopeland gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Bob Copeland <bcopeland gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jason0x21 <jason0x21 gmail com> wrote:
>> Aaron Bockover wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> The Rio Karma doesn't have any extensions on files stored on it.
> Instead, the database holds the file type and metadata (the file name
> is something meaningless, like a hash value).
>
>> Maybe I'll just give the Karma plugin stuff another try.  It didn't seem to
>> work out of the box for 1.4.  Was it ever able to play directly off of the
>> Karma, or does one just have to import everything?
>
> It was possible to play directly off the Karma with earlier versions.  I'm
> working on a new Banshee-Karma howto, unfortunately I've been off doing
> kernel stuff and things seem to have regressed in the Karma arena recently,
> so I'll let you know as soon as it's available.

Just to add, one thing you _can_ do today if all you want to do is play
stuff from the karma, is to remount the drive with lkarmafs (requires
libkarma) then point Banshee at that.  The command line options to lkarmafs
are a bit byzantine IMO but it does offer an easy way to go back to real
filenames.

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