Hi, this seems due to "Dynamic collection" feature of Amarok that saves collection folders based on actual underlying media (such as HDD uuids). I recommend you try with Dynamic Collection disabled, see: https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Dynamic_Collection
WRT syncing: the next Amarok release will contain statistics syncing feature that may help you do the syncing differently, in more "correct" way, see http://konradzemek.com/ Regards, Matěj On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I use git-annex (https://git-annex.branchable.com) to sync my music > collection. Now I also want to sync my amarok configuration. > > On my home computer there is ~/Musik/Alben, ~/Musik/FLAC with music files, > and ~/Musik/Amarok which contains ~/.kde4/share/config/amarok* and > ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/. The files/dirs in ~/.kde4 are symlinked there. > > On my work computer ~/Musik itself is symlinked to a mount point. The files > in .kde4 are also symlinked to ~/Musik/Amarok, like on my home machine. > > I sync the entire content of ~/Musik (musik and configuration). > > When syncing from home to work (or the other way around) and launching > amarok afterwards it seems to have forgotten the entire collection including > the setting for collection folders. After setting collection folders again, > doing a complete rescan and restart amarok, everything is back in place, > including information that was added by the sync. > > Conclusion is that syncing this way works perfectly, but always involves a > reset of collection folders and a complete rescan. > > All path (like $HOME) are equal, so are amarok 2.8.0 versions on Arch. > > Why is that? Is there any way to omit that? > > I have diffed amarokrc, resulting in > > [Collection Folders] > 68=./florian/Musik/Alben,./florian/Musik/FLAC,./florian/Musik/Fun,./florian/Musik/Lieder,./florian/Musik/gekauft > 70=./home/florian/Musik/Alben,./home/florian/Musik/FLAC,./home/florian/Musik/Fun,./home/florian/Musik/Lieder,./home/florian/Musik/gekauft > > The line beginning 70 was added by my work computer. Why are they using > different base directories? (curiosity: what does this number means?) > > But after two syncs the amarokrc does not change anymore and the collection > folders do not need to be set again. But a rescan still needs to take place. > Maybe due to the different base dir? > > Thanks, > > Florian > > _______________________________________________ > Amarok mailing list > Amarok@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
