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Bug 766655 - Select directory
Select directory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 760622
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-19 10:58 UTC by Berend De Schouwer
Modified: 2016-05-19 17:21 UTC
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Description Berend De Schouwer 2016-05-19 10:58:47 UTC
It should be possible to select the Music directory.

Gnome-music defaults to ~/Music, and doesn't appear to let you configure that.

My music isn't in ~/Music, because ~ is too small.  There's a second disk.  ~/Music is a symbolic link there.

Tracker doesn't follow symbolic links, so I'm indexing the other directory in tracker-preferences, and 'tracker search --music' finds these files, albums and artists.

gnome-music doesn't find those files.  There's a helpful message:
WARNING ~/Music is a symlink, this folder will be omitted

query.py has "Glib.UserDirectory.DIRECTORY_MUSIC", but I can't find a setting for that in gnome-settings nor gnome-tweak-tool nor gnome-music itself.

I've been able to set it using xdg-user-dirs-update, but that doesn't seem discoverable.
Comment 1 Marinus Schraal 2016-05-19 17:21:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 760622 ***