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Bug 171615 - Support for shared music databases
Support for shared music databases
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
0.8.8
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-25 17:22 UTC by Shish
Modified: 2018-05-24 10:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Shish 2005-03-25 17:22:37 UTC
Having a large music collection with frequent updates, multiple users, and the
"endless import" bug means that keeping everyone's personal libraries up to date
is a pain -- it'd be useful to be able to have a shared music database (eg
/home/shared/music/ in my setup) so that all users can add to it, and it only
needs one update per addition rather than every user updating for themselves.

Having a "File -> Add Database" dialog where I could load an external
rhythmdb.xml, and then have another "Library" option appear in the playlists
would be nice.
Comment 1 Andrew Conkling 2006-04-24 15:24:57 UTC
Any reason you couldn't use the DAAP support via Avahi currently?  This would do something quite similar: store your music in this shared folder and RB can import and share it with other computers (which may be using RB, iTunes, etc.).
Comment 2 Michael Wood 2007-04-27 00:16:53 UTC
Or symlink one database file to other users ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/ folder.
Comment 3 Ernst Sjöstrand 2007-12-27 02:26:44 UTC
How does the symlink or
  --rhythmdb-file                       Sökväg till databasfil att använda
  --playlists-file                      Sökväg till spellistefiler att använda
work with multiple concurrent users... ?
Comment 4 Lasse Bigum 2008-09-16 21:35:24 UTC
Seems like the suggestions in #1, #2, and #3 all try to cover this, and implementing a "Add Database" is out of scope for what Rhythmbox should do.

Unless the reporter comes up with a better detailed scenario, I would think this is not relevant.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 10:42:55 UTC
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