GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 760622
Configurable music library location
Last modified: 2018-01-10 14:48:19 UTC
There have been a few requests to allow browsing and playing music that is on removable media (like USB hard drives) or remote locations (like home NAS boxes). I'd suggest that this should work in the same way as a lot of cloud-based mobile apps (and indeed, it would be great if the following logic could also be used for cloud-based music). The user would be able to select where their music library is stored: locally, in an online account, on a NAS, or on a removable device. When any of the options other than local are selected: * Music assumes that the library will only be transiently available, and shouldn't complain when it isn't connected. * It should be possible to tag music to be kept locally. When music is tagged in this way, it is copied over to ~/Music. * Music that exists locally and in the library should only be displayed once. * When not connected to the music library, only local music should be displayed. * If new music is added locally, it should be automatically copied over to the library when possible.
> * Music that exists locally and in the library should only be displayed once. And of course, when playing music that exists locally and remotely, the local one should actually be used, to avoid wasting bandwidth. :) > * When not connected to the music library, only local music should be displayed Should there be a message somewhere (an in-app notification maybe?) that not all music is available, because the remote source can't be reached, and so only the music that has been synced locally is here?
(In reply to Mathieu Bridon from comment #1) ... > > * When not connected to the music library, only local music should be displayed > > Should there be a message somewhere (an in-app notification maybe?) that not > all music is available, because the remote source can't be reached, and so > only the music that has been synced locally is here? I would imagine so. There will need to be various other bits of UI feedback, like indicating progress of downloads, showing which music has been copied locally, and so on.
*** Bug 766655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
gnome-music should allow for a different local music collection location as well (or tolerate ~/Music being a symlink). (I keep my collection outside of ~ for dual booting reasons. gnome-music is currently not usable for me)
(In reply to Thomas Stratmann from comment #4) > gnome-music should allow for a different local music collection location as > well (or tolerate ~/Music being a symlink). > > (I keep my collection outside of ~ for dual booting reasons. gnome-music is > currently not usable for me) You can actually update your XDG_MUSIC_DIR location to point to something else than ~/Music . Results may differ on where this location actually is. Keep in mind you also need tracker to index that location.
*** Bug 775979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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