[Banshee-List] Cleaning DB after moving music

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

Hi all.  I'm working on setting up online backups for my home systems,
and in order to do that cleanly I need to sanitize the various music
archives for various family members.  I'm relocating them into one place
on a shared partition.

After I move them and then run Tools -> Rescan Music Library, I now have
duplicates of most of my songs.  Looking at the dups I see that one of
them is the old location, and one of them is the new location.

If I try to play the one in the old location, which no longer exists,
Banshee puts a little box with an X next to the song plays some other
random song from my catalog instead (bizarre!!)


The "random song" thing seems like a straight-up bug, but how can I get
Banshee to drop songs that no longer exist on the disk, instead of
remembering them?  I understand where the "remembering" might be useful
in some situations (maybe they exist on removable media which has been
removed) but I can't go through 1000's of songs either trying to play
each one (and getting some other random song) to find the "broken" one,
or else popping up the Properties to see which is in the wrong path
(which has its own problems because the properties window is too small
to show the full path, and after I resize it that size is not remembered
so I have to resize it again the next time I pop it up).

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with Banshee 1.8.0.

Thanks!