Re: [Banshee-List] is there something like a "portable" banshee?

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

Hi,

A portable Banshee should be possible by creating a launch script that
sets up the right environment:
- The path to the .cache/ folder can be changed through the standard
XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable
- Same for the path to the .config folder, with the standard
XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable
- You can also set the path to the database with the --db command line parameter
- If you want settings to be also portable, you need to make sure the
GConf backend is not enabled in the build.

I hope this helps, even if it's a bit late.

--
Bertrand

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:35 PM, donniezazen <sudhir sudhirkhanger com> wrote:
> Or may be Banshee and the database can be contained in Music folder which
> can then be synced using Dropbox.
>
> On Apr 4, 2013 1:31 PM, "fernan [via Banshee Media Player]" <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use Ubuntu on all my computers (my laptop, my desktop at home, my
> > desktop at work), and have all my music on a removable USB disk.
> >
> > At home I have set up banshee to use a folder inside this disk as the main
> > music source (e.g. it is not seen/used as a media player device, but as a
> > regular folder full of music).
> >
> > However, the configuration files, logs, cover art, etc are all local files
> > that are stored in
> > "~/.config/banshee-1" and "~/.cache/media-art" on each computer.
> >
> > I know I can have my way of experiencing the same banshee across my
> > computers by moving these folders around to other computers, but this is
> > dangerous. If I make changes in one banshee instance, I have to remember to
> > sync them back to the other computers.
> >
> > My question is thus: is there something like a "portable" banshee?
> >
> > I mean, is it possible to have a banshee instance completely installed on
> > a portable drive, complete with all essential dependencies (mono-runtime,
> > lame, flac), plugins, db, and of course my own music, and cover art, etc?
> >
> > So that, for example, if I plug my USB drive on a freshly installed
> > ubuntu, and launch banshee, it will all work as expected?
> >
> > I guess that I'm looking for something similar to
> > http://portablelinuxapps.org/
> >
> > There is no 'portable' banshee listed in that repository ... but I'm
> > curious to know if anyone has tried something along these lines, or is
> > working on making banshee portable.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > fernan
> >
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