Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Rhythmbox library stuff

["James 'Doc' Livingston" <jrl ids org au>]

Martin Jeppesen said:
>> All the patch does is automatically create some auto playlists as child
>> sources of the library. Actually having two (or more) separate libraries
>> is very different from what it does.
>
> Yes okay, what I ment was, that adding Auto Playlists could be adding
> using the Sources context menu. =)

That's one other thing that someone brought up a while ago: should
playlists be under the Library or not?


>> I don't think that having "real" multiple libraries is a good idea,
>> because it will make other things a *lot* more complicated. In
>> particular,
>> much of the design of Rhythmbox is based on the assumption that there is
>> one library. Trying to change that assumption would mean that things
>> like
>> the import dialogs, playlists et cetera, would need to have options to
>> specify which library there are acting on.
>
> For what purphase was the patch made? I mean, was it ment to solve the
> multi library request, or does Auto Playlists have other benefits?

It was me trying out some ideas, to see if there was a way to get
something like multiple libraries for people that wanted them, without
making things more complicated for those that don't.


Cheers,

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James "Doc" Livingston <jrl ids org au>