Bug 263640

[Bart Cerneels]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 20:17, Ralf Engels <ralf-engels at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Lydia,
> it's still open and as far as I know nobody is working on it.
>
> I would say that Amarok should inform the user (at startup or later)
> when tracks are in the playlist that are not physically available.
>
> So I would say a new function "checkForStaleFiles" in the Amarok class
> maybe (or playlist class) would be needed.
> The it should be called some time after startup (maybe five or ten
> seconds. Not directly after startup when so many things are going on).
>
> There is a getUrl function in the Meta::Track class that can be used to
> check the location of the file.
> Also sometimes the track can be deleted from the collection but the
> playlist not updated (e.g. if you remove the database but not the other
> amarok settings files)
> In this case you might get some null pointers which also indicate
> removed tracks.
> (don't forget testing with audio streams and maybe some other
> collections like when playing from a audio cd)
>
> If stale tracks are found then a dialog box could be displayed asking
> the user:
> "The current playlist contains tracks that are not longer available.
> Should those tracks be deleted? yes/no"
>
> If you have no idea how Amarok is working I would propose to do it step
> by step:
>
> 1. output a debug message after amarok is started up
> 2. display a yes/no dialog after amarok is started up
> 3. display the current tracks after amarok is started up
> 4. display the current tracks and their status after amarok is started
> up
> 5. the rest.
>
> Look for the PlaylistController.cpp Amarok.cpp and Meta.h
>
> I am also on the Amarok channel, but it might take some time for me to
> answer.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
> On Do, 2011-06-16 at 14:02 +0200, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> Ralf could you answer this? I think it is your area.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lydia
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:28, sandeep <sandy.8925 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I was wondering if this is still open and is anyone working on it right now?
>> > Also, could someone please explain what exactly needs to be done here.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sandeep

I would urge you to implement Meta::Track::isPlayable() instead. In
addition to MetaProxy loading in XSPFPlaylist and other playlist
classes.