Re: [Banshee-List] Import Library

[Jensen Somers <jensen somers gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 22:42, Chris Howie <cdhowie gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Another solution - which I personally use and works as far as I can
tell - is to mount the folders. That way you won't be use a symbolic
link.

- Jensen