Re: [Banshee-List] chaching music library contents for removable devices/players?

[Samuel Gyger <samuel gyger at>]

It would be also interesting to have an extended Music Collection on
the external hard drive, or a collection of movies. Everything is
cached and if you plug in the medium you instantly get the files on
it, and if you need a file on the drive and you haven't plugged in the
hard drive, it tells you where the file is and what you need to use
the file.

Samuel

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 17:02, Fernan Aguero <fernan aguero gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I love Banshee, but I have a problem with it. I have a large
> collection of music on an external USB disk, that I carry around with
> me. And I use Banshee at home/work/laptop in all cases reading the
> music from this external source (using the .is_audio_player
> file/mechanism). The problem? It always takes a looooooong time for
> Banshee to scan the music folder in this disk before I can listen to
> my music.
>
> I recently realized (after deleting the local 'music' folder in my
> home box) that banshee 'caches' the information on available songs in
> the library. Even after deleting the music folder, Banshee would still
> list all the songs, albums, etc. And I had to force a rescan of the
> library to update this information -- now it correctly shows 0/nada :)
>
> Would it make sense to extend this feature to removable devices, be it
> external hard disks or audio players? It makes sense to me ... it
> would make all music instantly available whenever you plug your
> device. And if your library changed and you want to see the updates,
> you only have to manually opt for a rescan.
>
> Maybe this only happens with external hard disks? What would happen if
> I bought a 160Gb ipod classic and wanted to play it through banshee?
> Would I suffer the same lengthy scan of the library each and every
> time?
>
> It may also be a good idea to perhaps do some checks on the external
> library (# of files, # of folders) to warn the user about changes and
> suggest a rescan?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> fernan
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