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

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

It may be useful for you to know that there's a bug open somewhere in 
bugzilla.gnome.org to have banshee present a more meaningful message to 
the user (instead of just crashing, which is what happens now) in case 
the database file is locked.

Any help from you is appreciated on that bug. Can you look for it and 
provide a hand?

On 06/08/2011 08:59 PM, Uaebuntu wrote:
> Hi Bertrand,
>
> I understand your concerns, however the way I am using it at present
> means that as I close the database on one machine it replicates over
> Dropbox so everyone get a workable copy. (quicker that they would over
> rsync) only issue would be if more than one person had the database open
> at the same time trying to do simultaneous updates.
>
> During my tests so far I have not forced this issue, but will do so. On
> a "mature" system, as opposed to one like mine at the moment where major
> repairs to the metadata are being done this would be a minor issue, I'll
> try it out with a couple of systems.
>
> Putting the .db file on the NAS would not improve the situation as there
> would only be one copy of banshee,db being accessed by several systems,
> this way at least leaves individual computers with local copies.
>
> Do you see a better way?
>
>
>
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> -----*Original Message * -----
> *From*: "Bertrand Lorentz [via Banshee Media Player]"
>
>     Just a warning in case someone comes across this suggestion, see in
>     the text below.
>
>     On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Roderich Schupp
>     <[hidden email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3583044&i=0>>
>     wrote:
>
>      > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Uaebuntu <[hidden email]
>     </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3583044&i=1>> 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.
>     Because of the way Banshee uses its sqlite database, you should not
>     access the same database from two instances of the application. In
>     fact, it probably wouldn't work, I hope the second instance would
>     complain about the database being locked.
>
>     --
>     Bertrand Lorentz
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