GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171615
Support for shared music databases
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:42:55 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.
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.).
Or symlink one database file to other users ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/ folder.
How does the symlink or --rhythmdb-file Sökväg till databasfil att använda --playlists-file Sökväg till spellistefiler att använda work with multiple concurrent users... ?
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.
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