Comment 11 for bug 788532

On 22/07/2011 20:51, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 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.
>

Actually it does. I like all my files in ~/Music, and Banshee creates the folder
structure and renames the files accordingly using tag information for me. All I
do is import them from wherever I got them, whether I downloaded them into
~/Desktop or got them from some external media.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin