GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 664857
library rescan functionality should be extended with missing items scan
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:22:47 UTC
Originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882731 Ubuntu 11.04 (amd64) banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu2 Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64) banshee 2.2.0-1ubuntu2 If a song is deleted from disk, this has no effect on the library: Banshee will stay silent and simply not play that song listed in library, so I need to manually find and remove non-existing items from the library and re-import the music after some changes in my music collection. When I choose 'Rescan library' option from the menu, it has no effects on the missing items, they still stay in the library. Reaction on the missing items in the library should be neither silently absent as in Banshee, nor so aggressive as in Rhythmbox which automatically rescans the library for missing items on start-up. I think, the optimal solution is to not enable the "missing items scan on startup" by default, but to make a "Rescan library" button; after library rescanning, the missing items should be moved to "Missing items" section, where unneeded songs can be manually removed; on the next rescan, songs from "Missing items" that have become available, should be moved back to the library, the others should remain in "Missing items".
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.