start with a different collection?

[Andrew Turner]

Assuming you have HAL and a not-too-old version of KDE, Amarok's
Dynamic Collection feature (automatically enabled) should manage to
cope with varying mount points.

Andrew

> 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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