Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Multiple libraries

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli ottarsson mscsoftware com>]

No doubt the effect is achievable with a bit of trickery, but 
should trickery be required?  Does the idea of multiple libraries
make sense?  I propose that it does.  In real life there is:  My
personal library.  The Public Library branch down the street.  
The library I inherited when my great aunt passed away.  These
seem like libraries which one might like to keep separate.

Why should Rhythmbox not allow the concept of multiple libraries?

  Gisli

PS:  I had some friends over tonight and I think Rhythmbox created
some F/OSS convertss.  You folks rule!  I still miss the jukebox
mode though.



On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 21:21, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Another possibility that I mentioned was using the --rhythmdb-file
> command line option to have several library, though that's pretty
> inconvenient.
> 
> Christophe
> 
> Le samedi 04 septembre 2004 à 21:02 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:40 +0000, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> > > Once in a while it has been suggested on this lists that it might be 
> > > useful to have multiple libraries in the Source List.  I would also find
> > > this to be a convenient feature.  Let me try to motivate.
> > > 
> > > In addition to my own ripped music, I have a collection of music (from 
> > > an undisclosed source) which I occasionally like to review, but don't 
> > > normally like to hear during random play.  I've tried everything to 
> > > handle this.  I've even gone as far as redefining all those songs 
> > > into some weird genre (Christian Gangsta Rap), but selecting 'all genres
> > > except' is slightly awkward.
> > > 
> > > If these two collections were in a separate library, handling this
> > > would be a breeze.
> > > 
> > > For what it's worth.
> > > 
> > >    Gisli
> > 
> > It is I who requested it and I talked to teuf about this on IRC.
> > 
> > He rather saw the merging of playlists and browser view (so you can use
> > the artist / genre / album selections in a playlist view), which would
> > enable the same thing, if you could create an automatic playlist based
> > on the location of the audio file (yes, i know we try to seperate the
> > audio collection from the filesystem, but i (and many other people)
> > seperate their collections by putting them in different folders).
> > 
> > So it's either the multiple libraries thing, or merging browser view in
> > playlists and adding an "automatic playlist by file location" thing, I
> > think.
> > 
> > Just my 2cents though
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ruben
> 
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