Re: [Banshee-List] Importers 1.5 broken

[Ruud v A <banshee veniogames com>]

Alexander Kojevnikov wrote:
> 
> This is fixed in the patch from
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441093
> 
> Could you check if that patch works for your iTunes database? If your
> importer does something that the one from bgo#441093 doesn't do, I
> would be interested in consolidating them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 

This patch works :D
It works different than mine but it also solves some problems I hadn't dealt
with yet. Mine had one advantage though: it scanned your computer for
installed iTunes versions and then compares user names etc. to find an
iTunes library. If none is found, CanImport returned false. Also the
checkboxes wheter to import ratings etc. is unnecessary; why would you
uncheck this while importing? So I think the entire dialog could be left out
and the importer could be made more intelligent.

There is one remark: if the user completely switches to Banshee and
uninstalls iTunes but backups his library file, my importer won't find it.
This would only work if the user keeps his music in a separate folder.

The importer is great but it could be made a lot "smarter" so it requires
less input from the user and just imports.

I am currently working on implementing that for the patch, but do you think
it would be an improvement?

P.S is this included for 1.5?

P.P.S the Rythmbox importer still doesn't work, though I have used Rythmbox.
In 1.4 it did work.

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