Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Irritating bug

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

It's a known annoyance, and Christophe has been working on having
"hidden" playlist items at some point, which would kind of solve this
problem.

The other side of it is, you can't just compare mount points/URIs
anymore with removable media. For example, on my machine,
gnome-volume-manager and some HAL/udev callouts take care of creating
the mountpoint, so, depending on the order I plug in the devices, the
mountpoints are different, so the URIs are different, etc.

Not an easy problem to solve...

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 09:58 +1000, Derrick Ashby wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I've had this same issue in relation to missing network shares when I've 
> inadvertantly rebooted the desktop machine before the server after 
> shutting down my home network on a couple of occasions. I am now 
> contemplating moving my music files temporarily to another machine while 
> I rebuild the server. I am wondering how to do this without losing all 
> my rhythmbox data.
> 
> Derrick
> 
> >AFAIK, this can be solved easily, when importing songs, RB should check
> >if files are on a mount. If they are, only delete em when mount is
> >actually mounted, else just temporarily hide em.
> >
> >The mounting part is easy, the hiding involves a bit more work.
> >
> >Now if only my C skills were a bit better...
> >
> >Greetings, Ruben
> >
> >On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 16:39 +0100, A. S. Budden wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi there,
> >>
> >>I'm using Rhythmbox 0.8.4 on Mandrake 10 Official.  Since I use a laptop
> >>with a relatively small hard drive, I keep all of my music on an
> >>external firewire drive.  I don't carry this drive around with me and I
> >>have it set up to mount only when I tell it to.  Unfortunately, this
> >>causes major problems if I accidentally run Rhythmbox without mounting
> >>the drive.  The library is instantly cleared and all my static playlists
> >>are wiped.  I spent absolutely ages preparing the playlists and it's
> >>exceedingly frustrating seeing rhythmbox zap them without even telling
> >>me that it's doing so.
> >>
> >>I'm sending this email in order to beg someone to fix this bug as it is
> >>driving me up the wall.  Next time I can be bothered to spend the time
> >>making the playlists I'll try to remember to back up the playlists.xml
> >>file, but it's still irritating having to wait while Rhythmbox rescans
> >>25GB of mp3s for the ID3 tags -- a process which is far from instant
> >>over a firewire link.
> >>
> >>Many thanks,
> >>
> >>Al
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