Re: [Banshee-List] Import Library

[Chris Howie <cdhowie gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:15 PM, PureLoneWolf <wolfie wolflan com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am looking to move over to Banshee as I desperately need to get Album
> Artist support properly.
>
> I am having issues with the library.  I have a library that is split over
> multiple volumes.  Each volumes music folder is symbolic linked from the
> main Music folder.  For example
>
> \home\me\Music\(link)Volume1
> \home\me\Music\(link)Volume2
> \home\me\Music\(link)Volume3
> \home\me\Music\(link)Volume4
>
> The importer doesn't seem to want to follow the links though - Is there a
> way I can get this to happen?  I may add music to any of the volumes (I may
> even add new volumes regularly), so I would need Banshee to detect the new
> music/volumes (I don't mind refreshing manually as long as it doesn't rescan
> the whole library as I have 200gb of Music)
>
> Any help gratefully received.

This enhancement request looks like what you describe:
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545768>.

As a workaround, would it be feasible in your situation to use LVM
instead?  If you don't have to worry about Windows interop, LVM should
make it much simpler to manage your library.

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