start with a different collection?

[Angus Prune]

Is using Amarok for this your best solution?

Would you not be better to export the playlists you want from your
main system, then use a live CD to upload these playlists to your iPod
using simpler software.

I know I haven't included any detail here, but thats coz I don't know
any and am at work so can't look up any.  Hopefully my idea makes
enough sense to be understood.


Are there aspects to what you want to do which cannot be accomplished like this?


James

On 18/12/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK.  Or could I
>
> 1. mount / on the Live CD's file system.
> 2. chroot to it
> 3. run it from there?
>
> The problem I see with this is that the mount point of the music collection is
> going to be different.
>
> eg. now the music /dev/hde1 is mounted at /mnt/music
> If I mount / to /hd on the Live CD filesystem, chroot to /hd/ and
> mount -a, /dev/hde1 would be mounted at /hd/mnt/music, right?  Would amarok
> be able to find it there?
>
>
>
> On Monday 18 December 2006 11:41, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > I would suggest you also copy ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc as well, as
> > that contains important DB version information, as well as the rest of
> > your Amarok settings.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 18/12/06, Dan Meltzer <hydrogen at notyetimplemented.com> wrote:
> > > for sqlite you could just copy ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db to
> > > the livecd home each boot, with mysql it'd be a bit harder, you would
> > > need to start the mysql server on the hd.
> > >
> > > Art Alexion wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to get amarok to start with a different collection?
> > > >
> > > > This is what I want to do.  I want to boot from a live CD that has
> > > > amarok installed, but use the collection on my hd.  This is a temporary
> > > > measure because loading my ipod is difficult -- sometimes impossible --
> > > > with current hal problems that I am having.  Until I get the problems
> > > > straightened out, I want to load the ipod with the live CD.  I don't
> > > > want to rebuild my collection every time I boot with the CD.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to use the collection DB that I already have.  I recently
> > > > switched from SQLite to mySQL, so both DBs are reasonably up to date
> > > > and I could use either. Alternatively, building the collection once may
> > > > be ok, but not every time I boot.