"dual booting" Amarok 2.0 (Windows / Linux)

[Shane King]

Shane King wrote:
> Ian Monroe wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2008 9:13 AM, Holger <myth at finch.de> wrote:
>>> I already use shared data/configuration for at least half a dozen other
>>> programs and it usually works fine :-)
>>>
>>> What does everybody else think?
>> Those other programs aren't keeping track of files then I suppose.
>> Since Amarok stores path information of music in the colleciton, and
>> paths are going to differ between Windows and Linux, sharing an Amarok
>> database between two computers or two operating systems doesn't happen
>> for "free." Someone will have to work at it to make it function
>> correctly.
> 
> I think it could be made to work if we treated collection folders the 
> same way we do media devices, and stored relative paths against the 
> collection folder (since the paths of the collection folders are stored 
> in the config file, not the db).
> 
> Then again, I don't really get the need for it: the collection db is 
> just a cache of info in the file tags. Scanning twice isn't that much of 
> a pain, is it?

To answer my own question ... I guess some people care about the stats. 
Last.fm is the solution to that IMO. They even do backups for you. ;)

Shane.