Syncing of amarok config directory

[Florian Lindner]

Matěj Laitl wrote:

> Hi,
> this seems due to "Dynamic collection" feature of Amarok that saves
> collection folders based on actual underlying media (such as HDD
> uuids). I recommend you try with Dynamic Collection disabled, see:
> https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Dynamic_Collection

Thanks, disabling Dynamic Collection seems to make it work fine.
 
> WRT syncing: the next Amarok release will contain statistics syncing
> feature that may help you do the syncing differently, in more
> "correct" way, see http://konradzemek.com/

Yeah, I tried last.fm sync with bad to mixed results some time. There seem 
to be a direct syncing also possible but my entire collections never get in 
touch with each other, due to nature of syncing with git-annex.

Best regards,
Florian

> 
> Regards,
>       Matěj
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use git-annex (https://git-annex.branchable.com) to sync my music
>> collection. Now I also want to sync my amarok configuration.
>>
>> On my home computer there is ~/Musik/Alben, ~/Musik/FLAC with music
>> files, and ~/Musik/Amarok which contains ~/.kde4/share/config/amarok* and
>> ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/. The files/dirs in ~/.kde4 are symlinked
>> there.
>>
>> On my work computer ~/Musik itself is symlinked to a mount point. The
>> files in .kde4 are also symlinked to ~/Musik/Amarok, like on my home
>> machine.
>>
>> I sync the entire content of ~/Musik (musik and configuration).
>>
>> When syncing from home to work (or the other way around) and launching
>> amarok afterwards it seems to have forgotten the entire collection
>> including the setting for collection folders. After setting collection
>> folders again, doing a complete rescan and restart amarok, everything is
>> back in place, including information that was added by the sync.
>>
>> Conclusion is that syncing this way works perfectly, but always involves
>> a reset of collection folders and a complete rescan.
>>
>> All path (like $HOME) are equal, so are amarok 2.8.0 versions on Arch.
>>
>> Why is that? Is there any way to omit that?
>>
>> I have diffed amarokrc, resulting in
>>
>> [Collection Folders]
>> 
68=./florian/Musik/Alben,./florian/Musik/FLAC,./florian/Musik/Fun,./florian/Musik/Lieder,./florian/Musik/gekauft
>> 
70=./home/florian/Musik/Alben,./home/florian/Musik/FLAC,./home/florian/Musik/Fun,./home/florian/Musik/Lieder,./home/florian/Musik/gekauft
>>
>> The line beginning 70 was added by my work computer. Why are they using
>> different base directories? (curiosity: what does this number means?)
>>
>> But after two syncs the amarokrc does not change anymore and the
>> collection folders do not need to be set again. But a rescan still needs
>> to take place. Maybe due to the different base dir?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Florian
>>
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