Re: [Banshee-List] Where is the Music Stored?

[Revence Kalibwani <revence27 gmail com>]

Le Lundi 22 novembre 2010 à 20:54 -0500, Michael Martin-Smucker a
écrit :
> I'm not quite sure what's causing the problem, but 1.4 is quite old.
> Do you still get crashes if you try upgrading to something newer like
> 1.8 or 1.9?

I tried to compile the latest version, but even though I installed
taglib-sharp (from source), ./configure still complained that I had an
old taglib-sharp. I completely failed to get around this problem, so I
opted for just trying to rescue the files.
The older 1.4 was built out of the FreeBSD ports tree.

> If you were letting Banshee manage the file structure automatically,
> then the music files should be in your home folder, in a subdirectory
> called "Music" (or the localized equivalent).

Is this the case even when the music was just imported from a device?
I had a look at the files under the Music folder, and I do not seem to
see any there that are from the old set. You see, their file names are
the terrible kind that are imported from iPods, so I cannot tell what
the songs are from the name of the file.
> 
> If that's the case, then you can try renaming Banshee's config folder
> (which contains the database), which will force it to create a new,
> blank one.  You can do this by running the command: mv
> ~/.config/banshee-1 ~/.config/banshee-1-bak

I did that on your advice, and it worked, but while importing, Banshee
died from an error. I should not bother you with the report, because the
version is rather old. I am right now going to try importing the files
little by little, directory by directory. :o)


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