External drive issue

[mark.potter at academy.com]

Sorry for changing the name of the thread but the damn spam filter has 
rejected me 3 times already. Someone needs to look at that thing because 
it is set way too strict at the moment. I have tried to send 3 messages 
total to the list and 66% correct rate, if you don't add in the other two 
tries which bring it to 2 correct and 3 false, is usually not acceptable 
by most admins. Anyway here is what I have been trying to send.

Jeff, 

Thank you for looking into this. I can even wait until 2.0 to be perfectly 
honest. 

I should know better than to pop onto a list and give, what is obviously, 
not enough information to even start looking into something and then jump 
on something. I would like to take time to apologize for that. It's a pot, 
kettle, black thing as I am in the position of being the one answering 
things on a couple of other lists. Please accept my sincere apologies for 
being a jerk. I was having the opposite of a damn fine day and I took it 
out on you and I shouldn't have. 

I do use Gnome by default but I have tried this in kde (3.x and 4.0) to 
see if it was a Gnome issue and I had the same issues. I actually did that 
first because Gnome is not kde and Amarok is a kde project. I really wish 
that Gnome and kde would get along better because my choice of desktop 
should preclude me from cool features in great software. Before I go off 
on a cooperation in open source rant I'll stop this train of thought and 
move on. 

What I would honestly like to see, and it's not the same as the dynamic 
collection feature, is external devices handled in a similar manner to 
media players. I control two ipods, 1 sansa, and one other (the name 
escapes me at the moment) via Amarok, on Gnome honestly, and have no 
issue. I select the device through a drop down and transfer files and so 
on. I manage the families music collection nicely this way. If an 
"External Drive" option were added to the same area and it saved the 
database of files based on that then I could plug in any drive, scan it, 
and be good to go anytime I plugged it in and selected the drive. It could 
even be done by mountpoint on Ubuntu but I realize that won't work 
everywhere which is why I suggested volume name. I understand the dynamic 
collection is supposed to work in this manner but it really doesn't. Why 
not just have the database for each external device saved separately and 
the devices either grouped with media players or in another drop down/tab 
somewhere? It would seem to solve the problem and even work on Gnome 
without any extra code or cooperation from Gnome. 

I have tested other media players and even though I am using a stock 
Ubuntu install (most of the time) Amarok is still the best out there even 
with this damn annoyance. 

Best Regards, 

Mark


Best Regards,

Mark L. Potter
Systems Engineer
Academy Sports & Outdoors
1800 N. Mason Rd
Katy, Texas 77449
Office: 281-646-5857
Cell: 281-734-6965
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