Re: [Banshee-List] Change Path to Music Files

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

On 19/01/14 15:36, Roderich Schupp wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Louis W. Adams, Jr.
> <LouisWAdamsJr charter net
> <mailto:LouisWAdamsJr charter net>> wrote:
>
>     How do I tell Banshee the new location of the tracks?  I saw a posting
>     somewhere suggesting that sqlite3 can be used to change all the
>     paths for
>     all the tracks, but I don't know how to use that database. 
>
>
> - make sure you have the SQLite3 CLI /usr/bin/sqlite3 installed (it's in
> Debian package sqlite3)
> - make sure Banshee is NOT running.
> - Banshee's database is ~/.config/banshee/banshee.db, make a backup of
> this file
> - change the paths with the command (one line)
>
> sqlite3 ~/.config/banshee/banshee.db \
>     'update coretracks set uri = replace(uri, "OLD_PREFIX",
> "NEW_PREFIX") where uri is not NULL;'
>
> where OLD_PREFIX and NEW_PREFIX are file URIs, e.g.
> "file:///home/jdoe/Music/"  -
> note the three slashes after "file:", also note the trailing slash.
>
> Cheers, Roderich

Also, if anyone is interested in a long-term solution to this, watch (or
contribute) to this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594751