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

[Jensen Somers <jensen jsomers be>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net> wrote:
> 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!
>
>

The only quick fix I can think of is either selecting all files in
your library, right click and select Remove from Library (make sure
*not* to select Drive), or delete the database file itself which
should be located in ~/.config/banshee-1/.

- Jensen