Collection setup similar to digiKam.

[Dan Meltzer]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Pierre Dumuid <pmdumuid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>
> In what way do you mean "network shares"?  I'm currently mounting (via
> nfs / or samba) my entire music collection from a remote computer, and
> I didn't think I was having any troubles!
>
>
> Yes, but when they are mounted, they appear to Amarok just like any
> normal (local) filesystem. This works.
>
> But there is no need to distinguish between those, as mounted
> filesystems can be be just about anything (you can even mount GMail
> via FUSE, these days).
>
>
> Well I think it might be nice to distinguish between them. Consider the
> scenario:
> On laptop, have directories: /local/location/music/
> /network/mount/location/music/
>
> If I select both of these in the tree, then I assume (correct me if I'm
> wrong) that the following happens:
>
> 1. Mount /network/mount/location/music/  ; Start Amarok
>  --> Collection populated with track info.
> 2. Close amarok; Unmount /network/mount/location (i.e. music sub-directory
> no-longer visible) ;  Restarting amarok
> --> It seems all the tracks that were on network drive are removed. (I have
> "watch folder" set)
> 3. Close amarok  / Mount /network/mount/location/music/  ; Start Amarok
> --> None of the tracks from network mount point are visible and I have to
> wait a while whilst my collection is re-scanned to find that track again.

This will be fixed in 2.2.3.  It's what dynamic collections were
created to remedy, the issue was that the implementation was never
complete/perfect in amarok 2 until recetly.
>
> Unless, you are mean to say that taglibs doesn't work with access to
> files via the smb:// or nfs:// url's?
>
>
> Actually, you'll find digikam doesn't handle this either.
>
> PS: Please CC the mailing list too, not just myself.
>
>
> Sorry, I thought the auto-reply.. (didn't look at the "To:" bit when I
> clicked send).
>
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