Matěj Laitl wrote: > 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
Thanks, disabling Dynamic Collection seems to make it work fine. > 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/ Yeah, I tried last.fm sync with bad to mixed results some time. There seem to be a direct syncing also possible but my entire collections never get in touch with each other, due to nature of syncing with git-annex. Best regards, Florian > > 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 _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
