Re: [Banshee-List] Sharing Metadata across several computers

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

A few comments below in the text.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Uaebuntu <jcrmassey eim ae> wrote:
> Thanks Roderich,
>
> just waiting for the moderator to release my reply to the thread with a
> solution that seems to be working.
>
> I already have a dropbox account which I use and is available on all the
> PCs.
>
> I moved the banshee.db and the ossifer-browser-cookies.sqllite files to drop
> box. (I wasn't sure what the second file did so just copied it "in case"

ossifer-browser-cookies.sqllite is used to store cookies from websites
visited using the embedded browser in banshee, which is used when you
you go to the Amazon MP3 store or the Miro Guide. So you probably
don't need need to sync that file, espcially if you don't want to
share your Amazon account info between your computers.

> I then created symlinks to the new file locations. So now all machines have
> an identical but local copy of these files, dropbox manages all the
> synchronisation.
>
> So far so good...

I'm guessing you might run into issues when you use Banshee on two
machines at the same time : Dropbox will probably complain about
conflict between two version of the banshee.db file. But you'll see
how it goes ! :)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roderich Schupp [via Banshee Media Player]"
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Uaebuntu <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I have a large (114GB) music collection, collected over the years and
>> stored
>> on NAS.
>> ...
>> Is there a way to sync (and merge) the metadata from each of the machines
>> so
>> I'm not rewriting it on every machine, depending on the size of the files
>
> Banshee keeps its view of the metadata (tarck info, scoring etc) in an
> Sqlite
> database. It's initially filled when importing your music collection into
> Banshee from the NAS. By default this Sqlite database is located below
> your home directory, but you can change it via a command line option.
>
> In theory, you could place the database also on the NAS (modulo the
> usual warning that the network file system must properly support
> fcntl() locking). No need to synchronize anything.
>
> I'm not sure however, if Banshee is able to cope with this - even on the
> same machine it won't allow multiple instances of itself. Perhaps
> it can't cope with database changes from another instance.
>
> However you could still synchronize per client Sqlite database instances
> to and from a master copy on the NAS by simple copy or
> using rsync (the database consists of a single file in a portable format).
>
> If this doesn't work you could use the option "write metadata to files".
> Then some (all?) metadata changes will be written to ID3 tags
> into the actual music tracks on the NAS (in addition to be being commited
> to the Sqlite database). If you then re-import the NAS collection into
> Banshee running on another machine it should just pick up the
> changes. This periodic rescan might take a long time though.
>
>
> Cheers, Roderich
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