start with a different collection?

[Andrew Turner]

Ooops, forgot to send this to the list.

I would merely make a symbolic link to the HD versions of
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok and ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc , assuming
the version of Amarok you have on the live CD is as recent as that you
were using before.

Andrew

On 18/12/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK.  Thanks.
>
> HAL is working when I boot from the live CD.
> I think the live cd version of KDE is 3.5.3 or 3.5.4. (3.5.5 on the HD)
>
> Should I do the chroot stuff as I suggested?  Or is there a simpler way?
>
>
>
> On Monday 18 December 2006 13:08, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > 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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