On Jun 10, 2011 6:47 PM, "Andres G. Aragoneses" <
knocte gmail com> wrote:
>
> 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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