Not a developer, but the easiest solution to me seems to be to symlink your music folder into a common directory ie /home/user/music under each operating system. This way it will always be able to follow the database to where the files really are. You could also do this with your banshee config directory.
I have installed Manjaro, Antergos and Sabayon on different partitions. My
music collection is located in a different hard drive (sdb). I symlinked
banshee's directory in order to share banshee.db between the distros I
previously mentioned. The idea was to access my collection from any of the
OSs. I can use Banshee without trouble in Manjaro, (banshee.db "knows" that
my music is mounted under run/th-manjaro/sdb...) but when I open it in
Sabayon or Antergos, Banshee won't play any files, right-clicking on
properties of a song, shows that for banshee.db, sdb is still mounted under
manjaro and not under Sabayon. Here is a screenshot showing a Sabayon
session, running banshee, and the properties window of a random song, which
banshee cannot find since it is mounted as you will see in other place. Is
it possible to let Banshee "know" that my music is now under /run/th-sabayon
within sabayon, or /run/th-antergos within antergos in case I boot antergos?
Of course I could have different banshee directories for each distro to
avoid this kind of issues, but I want to share metadata such as the number
of times a song was played. Thanks a lot. Banshee rocks!!
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