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Scanning folders moves my audio files
I'm on an Ubuntu Linux/Windows XP dual boot. I don't know if that makes any difference. I use Songbird on my Ubuntu partition and all of my music is on the XP partition.
The problem is when I scan the My Music folder, or any other folder where it finds audio files, it cuts them from their original locations, and pastes them in c:/documents and settings/my folder. I much rather have my music files stay where they are.
That is the only issue stopping Songbird becoming a fantastic alternative to all the sub-standard music players on the Ubuntu linux repository. If there's a way to fix it, it WILL be the best music player I've found for Linux
The problem is when I scan the My Music folder, or any other folder where it finds audio files, it cuts them from their original locations, and pastes them in c:/documents and settings/my folder. I much rather have my music files stay where they are.
That is the only issue stopping Songbird becoming a fantastic alternative to all the sub-standard music players on the Ubuntu linux repository. If there's a way to fix it, it WILL be the best music player I've found for Linux
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Inappropriate?Please check whether you've enabled "manage files" feature by any chance. Go to Tools->Option->Manage Files. If it's enabled and the path points to something like "c:/documents and settings/my folder", that's the root cause. You can choose to disable that.
If you want to know the detail of this feature, please refer to the "Media Management" section of the doc: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Getting_...
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Inappropriate?Fantastic! That explains it. I must say though, it's quite confusing as a newcomer to Songbird to find that option and think of it as the only option of scanning for music when I all I want to do is play it.
Thanks for the response
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Inappropriate?I'd like to quickly add a major problem with the 'manage files' feature if someone's situation is anything like mine. In the absolute AGE it took to place all my music files back in the 'My Music' folder in my Windows partition (which I boot into quite regularly), I noticed a problem. This feature of Songbird's renames the album folder to the exact album name. Windows doesn't like certain characters in folder names, so any albums with : or ? in the album title will be inaccessible in Windows. It'll refuse to acknowledge that there's anything inside the folder and it won't move the folder.
I just wondered if there was any knowledge of this problem. Would there be any way of substituting any characters that windows dislikes (like ':' or '?') for a universally accepted '-' in the unfortunate event that someone mistakenly uses the feature by mistake -
Inappropriate?I can't reproduce this with local storage for Windows. All the ':', '?' will be truncated in the folder name that generated as I tried. So I'm curious whether you were managing the files in a remote storage.
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Inappropriate?I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'remote storage'
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Inappropriate?Noodle, I get your idea. So you were using Songbird on Linux to manage the files on Windows partition. In this case, the illegal characters ("/:*?\"<>|") on Windows won't be truncated. To run Songbird on Windows directly to manage the files, this won't happen.
I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not. The only way to go now is to avoid those illegal characters in the tag if you tend to stick with this use pattern.
BTW, I guess it's possible to manually create files/folder with name contains the above characters on Windows partition under Linux. And this won't be accessible if you switch to Windows. So you'll have to be careful anyway. -
Inappropriate?That's exactly what happened.
I no longer use the feature because I'd prefer my music to stay where it was originally before Manage Music moved them all.
I might be one of just a few people who uses Songbird in this way, but I thought it worth mentioning. I would consider it a bug, since it prevents you accessing some of your music if you were caught out by mistaking it for a 'watch folder' feature. Should I file some sort of bug report or will simply mentioning it here be enough? -
Inappropriate?Personally I don't think it's a bug, at least not a bug for Songbird. If users can create a files/folders with illegal characters on the Windows partition through other apps (Nautilus for example), I don't think we can consider it to be a bug for the app either. This sounds more like a file system driver problem I think. I search a little bit and found this one if you're interested :)
Well, if there is any improvement suggestion that you want to make, please feel free to comment or open a bug.
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Inappropriate?Interesting read. With that, I'll accept it's not a Songbird bug and apologise for saying it was. Is there anywhere in Songbird's documentation that mentions the problem or workaround?
As for an improvement suggestion, would there also be a way of writing a feature into Songbird that would truncate the 'illegal characters'? -
Inappropriate?Don't know of a place to have documented that. Maybe the first aid help could be a good place to go?
The illegal characters have been truncated if you use Songbird on Windows. I don't think to truncate the characters on Linux is a good idea as some people might want to have that available.
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