Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] finding songs not assigned to playlists

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 13:22 +0200, Stefan Ihringer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to find out which songs in my library haven't been used
> in playlists yet? I'm usually sorting my music in playlists that reflect
> my mood (easy listening vs. heavy) but with 1000+ songs I've lost track
> of which songs haven't been assigned to a playlist yet. The fact that
> playlists can't be sorted by artist yet only makes it harder to track
> down those "orphaned" songs. 
> 
> Couldn't this be a feature for automatic playlists? (e.g. "all songs not
> contained in other playlists") or does someone have a quick shell script
> hack to grep rhythmbox's music library?

I've already filed one about that, and it'll be very hard to fix:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153286

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