Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee manual? Or other answers to basic questions?

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2012/2/16 jamesqf <jamesqf charter net>:
> I have been searching the Banshee site & the web for a manual, or something
> else that will answer what I think are some pretty basic questions, but
> haven't been able to find answers.  Could someone direct me to a good
> source?
>
> First, what I'm looking for is not really a music player per se.  What I
> want is an ap that will let me copy my audio CDs to disk, store them in an
> accessible database of some sort (i.e. not just a lot of .WMA or whatever
> files), and transfer them to audio players.  I basically never want to use
> the computer itself to actually play audio.  (And in fact I don't even have
> speakers on any of mine.)

Banshee will do that (provided you are on Linux, the Windows and OS X
versions of Banshee are behind on hardware support such as media
players)

> Second, a lot of my audio is not music: it's plays and similar.  A
> performance might be on multiple disks, so it's kind of important to be able
> to easily munge say the three disks of "Hamlet" into one unit, and have Act
> I, Scene i be followed by Act I, Scene ii, and not (as with another ap I
> tried) Act II, Scene ii, which is track #1 on disk 2.

A feature request for this functionality has been filed, you can add
your email to the CC field to be updated when progress is made.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662887

> Third, is there an easy way to turn off Banshee's album art feature?  I
> don't want this, and don't want to waste bandwidth downloading it, or
> disk/player space storing it.

No idea, I don't remember being able to turn that off entirely. You
could disable the internet access in the preferences to prevent
Banshee from accessing the webservices that provide the artwork, that
should prevent acquisition of the artwork and thus the bandwidth and
disk space usage.

Regards,
David

> Thanks,
> James
>
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