Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] MythTV

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

Typical concurrency/locking issues. If two processes are reading/writing
the same file, who wins? How do you keep data like "Rating" synchronized
between the instances and from being corrupted?

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 09:37 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I don't see why you need a shared database to do this, when all you need
> is a shared filesystem.  You'd need a shared filesystem anyway, since
> rhythmdb just hands out URLs to songs.  The URLs would have to be valid
> and accessible for all users on all machines.
> 
> In 0.9.3, rhythmbox will scan the library directory on startup and add
> any new files, and monitor it to update the database as files are added
> and removed.  Maybe I haven't thought this through as much as you have,
> but I don't see what else you'd need.
> 
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