GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 563380
Drag and Drop from nautilus only works inside the Sidebar and when PlayQueue item is not selected
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:18:18 UTC
I have many issues with drag&drop not working as expected: - Dragging a file from nautilus to a playlist/queue in banshee should add the file to this playlist/queue - Dragging from nautilus often does not work at all - Dragging from nautilus into the right pane(library, playlist, ...) shoul work as well
Thank you for opening this! I had been meaning to open a new bug report for this for some time, but I never got around to it. This bug seems identical to Bug 535128 (which is marked as closed even though it shouldn't be). Also, Bug 560022 may be the same bug as this one, just focusing on a different use case. If you want to drag things from Nautilus into the Music Library, just drag them into the Play Queue. Instead of adding the songs to the queue, it adds them to the library. That's the workaround that I've been using. I'd really like to see this bug get some attention as it is extremely annoying.
OK, here's what I can see is wrong : - Dragging from nautilus to the "Music Library" source item doesn't work - Dragging from nautilus to the "Music Library" track list doesn't work. I'm not really sure this one is supposed to work. Dragging from nautilus to a playlist and having the track(s) added to the playlist is bug #488350.
"I'm not really sure this one is supposed to work." I sure hope it is supposed to work. I'm pretty sure that every other music player I have used allows you to drag straight from the file manager into the library. Trying to drag to the correct item in a list on the left side is tedious.
I confirm this on 1.4.3 dragging from nautilus to somewhere in the music library creates a new playlist (and imports the files dragged into the library), but doesn't add the files dragged to the new playlist created
Actually, I tried this out with v1.5.0 from the Ubuntu Jaunty PPA and there this still doesn't work. I mean you can drop it to a playlist but though it is added to the Music Library, it isn't added to the correct playlist which is totally annoying. Furthermore as mentioned it is kinda "stupid" to not be able to drag and drop to the Music Library AND especially to not be able to drop to the current active playlist. What would also be nice, would be the possibility to not only drop to a playlist but to e.g. also drop to a specific point in the current playlist.
*** Bug 560022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The bug that I just marked as a duplicate of this one addresses the specific scenario of dragging and dropping to the File System Queue. I'm making the assumption that an eventual fix to this bug report will also fix that one.
This still happens in 1.5.1, by the way.
@Michael Martin-Smucker: Shouldn't this bug be worked at in some kind by now? I mean how can this bug still be marked as new - it should at least be assigned by now - though it is over a year old?
It would be nice, if there was a way to import multimedia files only with drag and drop on music library. The import engine, should ask whether to keep the source files, or permanently delete it. It would be more clear and efficient. What do you think about? piero
(In reply to comment #10) > It would be nice, if there was a way to import multimedia files only with drag > and drop on music library. > The import engine, should ask whether to keep the source files, or permanently > delete it. > It would be more clear and efficient. > What do you think about? > piero If implemented, this dialog should only pop up if "Copy files to media folders when importing" is turned on. Like all good dialogs that have the potential to be annoying, it should probably have a "Never ask me this again" option as well. Personally, though, I think this would be really handy. I usually import music from either my desktop or my downloads folder, and I always have to go back and manually delete the source files.
(In reply to comment #11) > (In reply to comment #10) > > It would be nice, if there was a way to import multimedia files only with drag > > and drop on music library. > > The import engine, should ask whether to keep the source files, or permanently > > delete it. > > It would be more clear and efficient. > > What do you think about? > > piero > > If implemented, this dialog should only pop up if "Copy files to media folders > when importing" is turned on. Like all good dialogs that have the potential to > be annoying, it should probably have a "Never ask me this again" option as > well. > > Personally, though, I think this would be really handy. I usually import music > from either my desktop or my downloads folder, and I always have to go back and > manually delete the source files. Is there a chance that this will be implemented in a next release?
Still not working as it should in 1.7.1
*** Bug 621925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 630701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 635803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 662884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's 2012 and dragging files from Nautilus to Banshee still doesn't work.
That's a misrepresentation of the issue. It works, just not as expected. If you drag it into "Play Queue" for example, it imports into the library (which is what I do every time).
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and just tried dragging FLAC files from Nautilus into the Banshee play queue panel and sidebar item: nothing happens. Using File → Import Media… worked, however.
Hmm, that's weird, it worked for me here on Ubuntu 11.10. I should probably try this on a pristine Ubuntu installation and see if the issue occurs.
I've just tried it on a pristine Ubuntu 11.10 virtual machine with the latest updates, and dragging files into the Banshee sidebar works there.
(In reply to comment #22) > I've just tried it on a pristine Ubuntu 11.10 virtual machine with the latest > updates, and dragging files into the Banshee sidebar works there. Can this bug be closed then?
(In reply to comment #23) > Can this bug be closed then? I've figured out why it worked in the VM and not on my host machine. Dragging files into the sidebar only works if the Play Queue sidebar item is not selected. Selecting Play Queue prevents files from being dragged into the sidebar. The drag behavior is also unintuitive since I would expect it to work outside of the sidebar as well. This bug shouldn't be closed.
(In reply to comment #24) > ... Thanks, updating summary.
Can confirm that on Mint 14 with Cinnamon/Nemo, the drag and drop problem still occurs. That is, I can only drag and drop a song from my desktop onto "Play Queue" which then imports the song into the Library, after which I must then 'search' for the song I just imported. Also, as Reinis Ivanovs stated, even this drag and drop functionality breaks when "Play Queue" is highlighted/selected. This is a really annoying bug, and since this hasn't been fixed since 2008, I'm seriously considering using a different audio player. The only thing holding me back is that Banshee is so nicely integrated into Mint 14. If push comes to shove, I'll likely just install Winamp using Wine, or even install a virtual machine so that I can once again use XP. And then there's still my issue with my printer.
Replicated in Banshee 2.6.3, dragging from Thunar 1.6.10, in June 2017. Proposed resolution: Since nine years is inadequate time to implement this repeatedly reported bug, stop pretending Banshee is a useful media player.
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.