GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 529006
Managing media on network folders
Last modified: 2009-03-07 01:40:52 UTC
Hy! I really like banshee, and using it right now! I have a small music library at my notebook, and I manage it with banshee :) But I have another bigger library at my home server... And I want to manage it too with banshee! So my suggestion is to: * Make banshee to access network folders (over ssh or samba) and manage them like my iPod... * or... Make banshee to insert non persistent folders into the library... so if it exists, use the songs in it, but if dont, mark the songs somehow to tell the user, they ar unavailable at the time Thank you!
Hello! I am a new user of Ubuntu v8.04 and really like Banshee. Unfortunately I too have all my music on a network drive and would like to use Banshee to manage that music. This is the only thing that is preventing me from actually using Banshee, as the current solution is to copy the music to my local machine, which is massive. Thanks!
I think a growing number of people have music on network storage nowadays. It would be really usefull to implement network folders.
I too am also interested in this. I use Fedora on my notebook and have my main music library on an NTFS drive on my Windows machine. Banshee being able to manage these files by using a network share would be great.
I wonder if GTK+ using GIO as of GNOME 2.22 has any difference on this. Has anyone tested in 2.22? You could just try importing from a network folder (and maybe save it to your sidebar in Nautilus before trying for convenience).
Andrew, I have tried this by 'mounting' my windows network share beforehand and then configuring the media library to be located there. It did not work unfortunately. That's on Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 with Banshee 1.0.
I've been successfully using gio/gvfs since Gnome 2.22. I'm not sure if there are bindings good enough for C# to support gio natively, but it's now possible to mount the smb:// share through nautilus and point Banshee to a _symlink_ to .gvfs/share on server dir. Banshee has problems with accessing fuse mounts directly but seems to work fine with symlinks to those. Another option is to use autofs which I'm quite happy with. Of course it would be best if Banshee would support all gio/gvfs communication natively. It should be possible to set a 'local' and 'remote' share. The local one could be integrated into the library itself and a remote share could be a separate source but still indexed in my banshee db.
*** Bug 561053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 383880 ***