Collections on External HDD

[Dr. Diesel]

> Porting MountPointManager and the device plugins in devices/ to use
> Solid. Ideally they should be moved into SqlCollection, because that's
> where the code logically belongs, but loading plugins from a plugin
> might be tricky. The database schema is already
> DynamicCollectio-enabled. After porting to Solid, emitting a
> collectionUpdated signal whenever MPM detects a device change is
> probably the only thing left to do.
>
> Max
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Any idea how/where we should start on this?
> >
> > Casey
> >
> > On Sunday 08 February 2009 13:31:40 Casey Link wrote:
> >> > Basically, I have all my music on an external hard drive. While this
> is
> >> > normally connected to my laptop, it is sometimes not mounted. The
> issue
> >> > is that every time I start Amarok and then mount my hard drive a full
> >> > collection rescan takes place. This means of course, that all my
> >> > modifications to my collection are lost etc... If I start Amarok
> without
> >> > mounting my hard drive, then close Amarok, mount my hard drive and
> >> > restart Amarok the same thing happens.
> >> >
> >> > I assume this is to do with the incomplete implementation of non-local
> >> > collections? I was wondering if someone could point me in the
> direction
> >> > of where this should be fixed / implemented so that I might have a go.
> >>
> >> I too have this problem.. and it is very annoying. Amarok should
> >> definitely not freak out when collection folders are missing. Perhaps
> >> Mark will know something as he's spent a lot of time fixing the
> >> collection scanner.
> >
> >
> > This is the whole dynamic collection feature that we had in Amarok 1.
> Sadly
> > this has not yet been ported to 2.0. However, i'm not sure where to start
> > looking---sending an email to maxx_k is probably the best bet for
> pointers.
> >
>


This would be especially useful for me as well.  Until somebody makes 2TB
internal laptop hard drives I'm forced to mount my collection via NFS
share.  Then 1/2 the time when the wife reves up the microwave my wireless
connection to the share drops and I'm donzo!



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