Re: [Banshee-List] Using banshee on two machines

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

On 09/14/2011 09:56 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 08:26 PM, Kevin Anthony wrote:
> > I currently use two machines synced with Dropbox. One of the things i
> > sync is my music folder, but the problem i run into is if i make a
> > change to a song, IE rating, it is not reflected on my other machine.
> > So i was think of implementing something to somehow load the
> > metadata(tag information). i was thinking of one of the following, and
> > wanted to ask the community which would be preferred before i started
> > hacking.
> >
> > Options:
> > 1) Modify the Library Watcher Extension so that when a file's
> > metadata changes, it reloads the track's info
> > 2) Modify Rescan Music Library option so that it also rechecks the
> > Metadata and reloads the track info when it's change
> > 3) A new Option, Rescan Metadata, which reloads the track information
> > 4) Something else, that i haven't thought of yet.
> >
> > I'm very interested in people's options, I personally like option #1.
>
> As the libraryWatcher extension is not yet enabled by default, I would
> be more inclined for option 2.
>
> After you have coded option 2, I'm sure it will be easy to hook your new
> code to the LibraryWatcher's modification event in a second patch. So
> then you end up with 1 and 2 easily done!
>
> Thanks for looking at this!

Oh, and after having 1 and 2, you could also have 4:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610800

Cheers