Banshee - Link to purchased music folder sometimes duplicates songs to ~/Music
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu One for Rhythmbox |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Banshee music source is set to ~/Music. I created a link in ~/Music to my purchased music folder so my purchased songs will appear in my Banshee library. "Update file and folder names" is disabled.
When I initially did this, Banshee did not copy songs from the purchased music folder to ~/Music. Sometimes Banshee will copy my purchased songs to the ~/Music folder and make duplicates. Then U1 starts to sync those duplicates because sync is enabled for the ~/Music folder. I think it does this whenever I buy more music from the U1MS but can't tell.
A linked folder is probably not the solution b/c some Banshee users may have "Update file and folder names" enabled. If there are differences in song meta data and our Purchased Music folder structure, Banshee will make a copy of purchased songs in ~/Music. This happened a few times. This results in duplicate songs and is very annoying.
There needs to be a good solution to adding purchased songs to your Banshee library and a linked folder in ~/Music is probably not it.
| dobey (dobey) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Matt Griffin (mattgriffin) wrote | #2 |
| Matt Griffin (mattgriffin) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
I'm not sure why you created the symlink exactly, but this seems like it is an issue in Banshee itself, rather than in the music store extension for it? I just purchased a song in banshee, and the song showed up in my music library fine. It didn't copy it anywhere or anything.
Do you have the "[] Copy files to media folders when importing" option enabled in banshee preferences? It sounds like you might, and it seems like this is a broken "feature" to me.