Music library and radio station data should be stored separately

[Colan Schwartz]

Currently, the file "/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml" stores information for both the music library and any user-added radio stations. These should be separated into two (2) separate files for the following reasons:

1) Users may wish to drop all of their music data and rescan their libraries. As there is no means by which to do this from the UI (unlike Banshee), users must delete this file. However, this action forces them to delete radio station data as well, when they probably would not wish to do so.
2) Users may wish to back up their radio station data as it is personal configuration information. This is quite different from music library data which can be regenerated automatically; it generally does not need to be backed up.

The point here is that these two data sets are essentially different types of data. As such, they should not be stored in the same file. One is dynamically generated; the other is not.

References:
* How does one clear the Rhythmbox music library database? (http://askubuntu.com/questions/56328/wipe-rhythmbox-database)
* How can I backup RhythmBox internet radio stations? (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/102634)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 10 21:27:08 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 PATH=(custom, user)
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-02 (160 days ago)

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160095

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

This has been implemented in more recent versions of Rhythmbox.

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

Walter: No, it has not been implemented. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/-/issues/51 is still open.