Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] MythTV

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Not necessarily, the split is really about allowing other programs
to read the database.  The database is defined as an xml file in
your ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox file.

What you really want is to have everyone be able to point to that
xml file. 

There are two issues at this point, because we now have to worry about
multiple people possibly writing to that file because they might want
to add new music, delete stuff whatever.  I'm not sure how robust the
rhythmdb is at that point.

The second issue is change notification when a write occurs.  dbus can
do that but I'm not familiar enough with dbus to know how I could alert
everyone but I'm sure a little research can shed light on that.

sri




On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:02:55PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 09:45 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > The idea I had
> > when I came up with splitting it was similar to what you're wanting
> > which is a single database that contains music files for a desktop.
> 
> :-(  This falls just short of what I want, which is a rhythmbox database
> for a group of users.  One database of music to which multiple users can
> add to or play from.  The idea that I have 15 copies of the same song on
> a machine just because there are 15 users of that machine (or machines)
> is just silly.
> 
> b.
> 
> -- 
> My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.
> 
> Brian J. Murrell



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