bravo! Playlist keeps playing even when I rename/move the tracks.

[jd1008]

On 11/20/2014 11:05 PM, Alan Ezust wrote:
> I was just playing a track from an album I just bought, and I was able 
> to rename each track in the album and then move the folder somewhere 
> else in my hierarchy while the thing was in the amarok playlist and 
> playing the thing.  I don't think I've ever seen a program that can do 
> that (and I imagine it won't work on windows).
>
> I saw the tracks grey out briefly in the playlist and then 
> un-grey-out, as if it was detecting the move!
>
> Nice.
>
>
Renaming a file does not change it's inode number.
A file that is opened by the application will still be accessible
to that application even if it's name changes while the application
still has the file opened, provided that the folder stays within
the same partition.
Moving the directory where the file lives to a different location
within the same partition, still leaves the directory's inode and the
file's inode unchanged.

Hope this helps.