On Tuesday, 5 February 2008, Matt Novenstern wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 00:12 +0100, Tino Meinen wrote: > > This sounds like perfect material to develop a plugin for just this > > problem (moving files and updating the database). > > > > Any aspiring plugin writers willing to tackle this? > > > > Tino Meinen > > Are we talking about an iTunes-like music management system that > rearranges tracks based on tags? Or just something to move the whole > library somewhere? If it's just to move the library, having a whole > plugin for it seems excessive, since people will probably use it once at > most. > > -Matt which is why i removed an equivalent question from my earlier email. however, it may seem to make sense to ship a script that does this (maybe even better, a UI) with RB. rhythmbox-move-library would read the current library location from gconf, provide a destination chooser (which should test permissions before allowing to continue) and then mv (or, if not on the same file system, cp -r and rm -r) the files and sed the xml. i have no experience whatsoever with GUI building, but would be willing to assist any way i can (test, debug). 7<arsten -- Wenn ich nicht selber einer w\"are, h\"atte ich keinen Bock mit Ingenieuren abzuh\"angen.
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