On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:40 -0800, fortec wrote: > Is there a trick to getting Banshee to follow nested directories when > scanning your music library? > > I have my music collection split between two drives:one external drive for > recent music and another external drive for archived, older music that I > have had for a while. I created two symbolic links to the Music folders on > the external drives and named one 'Recent_Music' and the other 'Music'. > Banshee will not scan those symbolic links. Yet if I point the library > DIRECTLY to the symbolic linked directory (like to Recent_Music) it scans > fine. > > So I don't think it is an issue with the symbolic links directly but the > fact that the directories are "nested": > ~/Music/ > song1.mp3 > /Recent_Music (linked to external drive 1) > /Artist1 > /Artist1 - Album1 > /Artist1 - Album2 > /Artist2 > /Artist2 - Album1 > /Music (linked to external drive 2) > /Artist3 > /Artist3 - Album1 > /Artist3 - Album2 > /Artist4 > /Artist4 - Album1 > > If I point Banshee to ~/Music it does not go through and scan the two linked > folders. But it will see song1.mp3.... > If I point Banshee to ~/Music/Recent_Music it works fine. But then I can't > manage my entire collection. Banshee does not follow symlinks when importing or scanning a directory. There's a bug about this : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545768 > So - without buying another drive and combining the two (outside my budget > thanks to being laid off from my IT job) - is there a way to get Banshee to > work properly with nested and/or linked directories? Is there a special > formula for the directory format in gconf-editor banshee library settings? You could point the Library to Recent_Music and then manually import the ~/Music/Music folder. It should import everythin under it. With this setup, rescanning your collection would only add new files if they are under Recent_Music, but I guess you're adding files in Recent_Music. -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > http://flickr.com/photos/bl8/ <
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