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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