Re: [Banshee-List] Cleaning DB after moving music

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

Thanks!

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:04 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> 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!