Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] sharing RBs-databse on Gutsy

[nyall <nyall zombiepigs net>]

My setup, and how I'd recommend you go about this, is to install a DAAP
server like Firefly (http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/) on your server
(or the desktop which is physically storing the mp3s). Then, all the
client PCs can access the stored music using daap.

This works really well because:
- Rhythmbox lets you copy files from a daap share, so you can drag
tracks for the share directly to a connected ipod, or even to the local
Music folder, and RB will automatically copy/transcode them.
- If, for any reason, the daap share isn't available, RB will still work
fine on the client PCs. This is most important if any of them are
laptops. EG, on my own laptop, I can launch RB when connected to my LAN,
and play any files from my collection. The ones I want to store on my
laptop I can drag and drop to "Music", and then when I'm at work, launch
RB and play any of these files without hassle.

I've been using this setup for a few months now and I'm really happy
with it :)


On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:37 +0100, R.Holdmann wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Q: is there a way to share RB-database on a local system?
> 
> The 'watchdog' (adding new files automatically to RB-database) isn't
> working for me, because it freezes every time I trying to use. My
> Music-Libary contains ~40k mp3 files, more or less pretty good tagged. 
> The manual scan is performing very well. OK, some Gstreamer errors, but
> that's that OK, char-set problem I guess.
> 
> All files are hosted with most current Samba on a separate Gutsy-desktop
> in my LAN. All PCs having Gigabit-Network, the speed over all is about
> to 14MB/sec. 
> 
> I am adding new music to RB-database now manually, means I am starting
> to scan Music-Storage manually once I putting new stuff in there. It's
> sometimes a bit irritating, but I can live with it. Using DDAP is
> helpful here, it hinders me to feed our iPods.
> 
> However, now I am ready to move rest of family to Linux. Because of
> above mentioned freeze I want to share RBs database to all users on
> Main-PC, like I did with iTunes (changing MyMusic-Folder for all users
> to an shared folder). And that's why I am asking here for some hints.
> 
> My Linux skills are 'advanced' basic rather than pretty good. But I am
> willing to learn. I'd appreciate if anyone who is going to answer could
> keep this in mind. ;)
> 
> Thank you for your work and keep going on. I've been using RB since I
> moved myself to Linux about 4 months ago. I am missing nothing, actually
> iTMS sometimes.