Comment 10 for bug 788532

Copy on Import is a misfeature because I shouldn't have to have 2 copies of every song I import, and it causes the import to lose information about the file being imported; primarily, the piece of information about where it came from (which is why you end up with N+1 songs from the "Purchased from Ubuntu One" folder, every time you restart banshee. The issue is not unique to U1MS. It is simply the only thing exposing the problem right now. Banshee features are already crippled, which is why we have to rescan the Ubuntu One purchases at every startup in the first place. If Banshee supported multiple library folders as Rhythmbox does, this wouldn't be an issue. But rather than having music files in arbitrary locations on disk, it has a copy-on-import misfeature.

Why does it matter to you where the files are on disk or what directory names they are in or what the files are named? Are you importing lots of music which has broken/bad/missing tags? The only thing I see copy-on-import being useful for, is to import from external/removable media.