Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [BUG] Rhythmbox empties my database all the time

[Thomas Sibley <tom+rb zulutango org>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> If I start Rhythmbox when the server is not available, all the songs get
> removed from rhythmdb, forcing me to re-add them next time I start Rhythmbox
> (and that takes a while since it requires accessing many big fixes over
> NFS).

This is a feature.  Normally it is desired that Rhythmbox will keep the 
database clean of any non-existent songs.  I'm not sure if Rhythmbox has 
the ability to discriminate on filesystem type, or if it even should. 
Except for special cases, it seems to me changing the behavior would 
break more functionality than it adds.

My suggestion is to create a wrapper script which automatically mounts 
the NFS share before starting Rhythmbox.

Tom