Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 190.19.23.63]
on February 07, 2008 01:36 PM
>On Windows, my mother had been using Winamp. I was keen to get her onto something oriented around a music >database, such as Rhythmbox, rather than force her to rely on manual file management.
Winamp 5.x has a music database (if you are using classic skins however, you must import the files from the library).
>One problem with Rhythmbox is that its import music feature doesn't copy files to a new location. Instead, it remembers >where they are. I consider this to be an example of inconsistent functionality, as all of the default GNOME applications >should work in the same way, if at all possible. As a result of this issue and the fact that the old FAT32 Windows >partitions are password-protected by default, after a reboot, music began to gradually disappear from the database. When >I manually copied the files across to the Linux partition and then imported them into Rhythmbox, things worked as >expected.
The only music program I've used that copies/moves files around is Amarok, but only if you ask it nicely.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 190.19.23.63] on February 07, 2008 01:36 PMWinamp 5.x has a music database (if you are using classic skins however, you must import the files from the library).
>One problem with Rhythmbox is that its import music feature doesn't copy files to a new location. Instead, it remembers >where they are. I consider this to be an example of inconsistent functionality, as all of the default GNOME applications >should work in the same way, if at all possible. As a result of this issue and the fact that the old FAT32 Windows >partitions are password-protected by default, after a reboot, music began to gradually disappear from the database. When >I manually copied the files across to the Linux partition and then imported them into Rhythmbox, things worked as >expected.
The only music program I've used that copies/moves files around is Amarok, but only if you ask it nicely.
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