[Rhythmbox-devel] Ratings.

[Ismael Juma <ijuma82 f2s com>]

Hi,

I think Rhythmbox is a great music player and that one of its great 
features is the ratings system. I use the ratings to create automatic 
playlists of songs that I like, and they're also useful when using the 
weighted shuffle mode (which I use very often). So, after spending a 
great amount of time tweaking the ratings, it's obvious that losing them 
would be undesirable.

I ran into a problem recently though. I had a problem in the partition 
where my music collection was stored (e2fsck was reporting some errors 
and was unable to fix them). I copied the data to another partition, ran 
mkf2.ext3 -cc on it (which solved the problem), and copied the data 
back. The directory structure was the same, but when I opened Rhythmbox, 
it thought the files were different and all the information about the 
songs that Rhythmbox stores (play count, ratings, last played) were gone.

I would like to know if there is a way to preserve the information that 
Rhythmbox creates for each song, when moving files and such. If not, how 
hard would it be to implement something like that?

Thanks for creating such a great music player. :)

Regards,
Ismael