Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee-Banshee sync

[David Nielsen <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2009/9/3 Mike Urbanski <michael c urbanski gmail com>

Jud,

This has been kicked around before, it's a good idea, and you should feel good for having had it.  There are 100's of reasons not to do this, and, save for time pressure, none of them are good.

Even as an experimental plugin this would be great.

Know C#?

I never quite understood this idea from a practical point, a decent SSD based netbook has maybe 32gigs of storage. I don't want to pick and choose between my 80 gigs (and growing) collection of music and podcast, nor  the 380 gigs of videos, I really want all of it available to me but not with me. I don't really want to lug all that data around with me and I don't want to have to remember to update the metadata and indexing in several places or rely on correct syncing. Lugging it with me means large rotating storage which breaks, is unreliable, adds weight and consumes a lot of power, which doesn't sound "netbook'ish" to me at all.

However I have a perfectly decent internet connection and with things such as 3G wireless internet becoming both cheapish and fast, even when I am out of the house it is starting to make sense to access it from a centralized place and just have a banshee frontend. 

I have yet though to find a solution to do this where I can just buy a nice networked storage solution, hook it up and start migrating files then have all my machines use that storage to access the files, and have it done seamlessly (when I am on my home wifi use that, elsewhere use a secure means to connect to home). It always ends up with horrible  "this it your SAMBA share" type directories and symlinks all over to get it close to looking the part when it should just be an overlay on my existing filesystem when connection is available. Not that the centralized storage solution is free of problems.

Ah well one can dream, maybe the cloud people will fulfill my dream.

 

- David

~Mike

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com> wrote:

Pipe dream imminent.  I don't think that's too much of a burden for
the mailing list, but if it's off-topic I apologize.

I'm planning on getting a netbook soon, and I'm looking forward to
carrying around a convenient amount of data and media in a portable
form.

And I was thinking how mighty awesome it would be if it could function
as its own multimedia device, but without being a Giant Hub of All My
Media.  In essence, a portable media player.

So I had this crazy pipedream that maybe someday, I could sync the
Banshee on my netbook to the Banshee on my desktop.  It would sync my
libraries, ratings, podcast episodes, and then randomly fill up my
netbook with a new batch of music.

In essence, Banshee would treat a version of itself running on another
device as a portable-media-player, but fully capable of syncing the
Banshee database.

The possibilities of then wirelessly syncing a media netbook over Wifi
(using Telepathy or shared libraries, for example) with my Banshee
media on another computer were glorious.  In essence, an end-to-end
linux based portable media player.

Bottom line, you can already share your library.  But I think it would
be pretty awesome not only if Banshee could share media with other
computers, but if it could fully sync the database if that other
device was in fact running Banshee.

Coupled with that Cubano netbook interface, it almost sounds like a
win-win.  I'm certain this doesn't exist, but I just had to tell
someone.
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