Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee-Banshee sync

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Why not using a general-purpose sync tool, such as iFolder?

	Andres

Jud Craft 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.