[Rhythmbox-devel] A bug-filing suggestion and a workaround to grant read-only access to Rhythmbox

["J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn forestfield org>]

Colin Caulkins wrote:
> What is going on?  I cannot continue using Rhythmbox if it's going to
> keep shitting the bed like this.

Unfortunately I can only offer a couple of suggestions for this:

- I'm guessing it will help the developers if you could give them the 
version of Rhythmbox you're using and the OS you're using. Perhaps this 
was an old issue already fixed in the latest version?

- consider setting up your music directory so Rhythmbox has read-only 
access to those files. Use another program (Ex Falso, EasyTAG, etc.) to 
edit the metadata of your audio files and then relaunch Rhythmbox to let 
Rhythmbox re-scan the music directory and see the changes. I do this by 
hosting my folder of music on a remotely-mounted file share mounted on 
one login that has read-only access and mounted to another login with 
read-write access. Thus I can mount the music share with read-write 
access when I need to edit something and I can point Rhythmbox to the 
directory mounted by the read-only user when I play audio with Rhythmbox 
(or any other audio player). I can also mount both concurrently if I 
want to edit metadata while Rhythmbox plays.