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Bug 722451 - Music can't handle symbolic links
Music can't handle symbolic links
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 726264
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
: 724492 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-17 20:15 UTC by Andrei
Modified: 2015-03-05 08:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.9/3.10


Description Andrei 2014-01-17 20:15:29 UTC 
I have music folders from other partitions symlinked in ~/Music but gnome-music can't find them, Rhythmbox does, I can't tell if it's related to report 706948 but that seems to be a different issue.

Thanks in advance.
Comment 1 Vadim Rutkovsky 2014-01-20 08:36:02 UTC 
Music uses Tracker which doesn't follow symlinks. Please contact Tracker developers in order to change this behavior

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/140017/comments/1
Comment 2 Vadim Rutkovsky 2014-02-17 09:31:51 UTC 
*** Bug 724492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 van.de.bugger 2015-03-04 21:21:41 UTC 
In our home we have more than one computer and more than one user: me, wife, kids, parents, etc. We have a large music collection and there is no reason to copy big music library into home directory for each user. Music library is mounted with autofs to /net/plywood/music directory, so everybody has a symlink in ~/Music/ to ../../../net/plywood/music/. But gnome-music ignores symlinks. Oops.

Your position "it was not me!" is not acceptable. I, as a gnome-music user, have no idea what is Tracker. What could I say to Tracker developers? I believe you should apply to Tracker developers, because you can explain the problem in more detail and your request would attract more respect.
Comment 4 van.de.bugger 2015-03-04 21:37:51 UTC 
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/140017/comments/1

BTW, There is no need to send us to external resource. Tracker is a Gnome component. There is a bug #726264 in this bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726264
Comment 5 Vadim Rutkovsky 2015-03-05 08:51:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 726264 ***