Bashee does not follow symbolic links in library folder

Confirmed, my distro and banshee version are the same.

It is very disappointing, especially because usually there's not much to do to support symlinks, they should just be transparent. So why doesn't Banshee follow them?

And I must add that organizing music this way is SO handy, it allows one to assemble media collection from a bunch of shards scattered around the hard drive(s), and then this collection can be easily imported into any jukebox (well, now except Banshee). Not to mention easier backup, but I guess it depends on your procedure.

Please, fix it.

I confirm the problem. Interestingly if the files are directly under the sym link folder, banshee imports these files okay (including flac). But sym links are not working if they are one level down.

sym-link-to-folder > music-file.flac ----------> banshee imports these files
regular-folder > sym-link-to-folder > music-file.flac -----------> banshee doesn't import anything

This means banshee understands symbolic links. But there seems to be a bug in specific scenario.

Absolutely identical problem with version 1.5.1

/home/brad/Music = music found
/home/brad/Music/symlink to more music = music NOT found

Confirming.

Confirmed on 1.5.2. Any solutions?

On Saturday 09,January,2010 05:05 AM, Alexander Artyukhin wrote:
> Confirmed on 1.5.2. Any solutions?
>
A workaround would be mount --bind /source/path /new/path where you'd previously
use ln -s /source/path /new/path, scan, and then replace the bind mount with the
symlink. The upstream bug seems to have an issue with detecting symlink loops.
Requires too much memory or something.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 1.5.5-1

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banshee (1.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    + New Features:
      - Gapless Playback / Playbin2 (LP: #45518, #377354)
      - Grid View
      - YouTube Extension
    + Enhancements:
      - Improve search responsiveness on large libraries (LP: #474514)
      - Add icons for Nexus One and Audiobooks (LP: #532182)
      - Play Queue item count, size, duration now ignores old tracks
      - Muinshee fixes: disable Auto-DJ, allow reordering, hide previous song
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - Fix a very common, SQL-related crash in 1.5.4 (Closes: #572136)
      - Fix saving equalizer settings in culture-invariant way
      - Jumping to a source's prefs via its context menu works again
      - Usage data not submitted more than every 48 hours
      - Fix repeatedly resyncing some files to a device b/c transcoded
      - Clear the redo stack on shuffle mode change
      - Accept feeds with empty title (LP: #468323)
      - Uri encode file location queries, making them work properly
  * debian/control:
    + Bump gst-plugins-base-dev version for gapless playback
    + Add libgdata-cil-dev for youtube extenesion
  * debian/rules:
    + Add --enable-gapless-playback and --enable-gdata

banshee (1.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #571734)
    + New features:
      - Opt-In Usage Data Collection
      - Default Equalizer Presets
      - Extensible Shuffle Modes
    + Enhancements:
      - Wikipedia context pane extension enabled by default
      - Add support for Nokia N900 phones
      - Add tooltip to playback error column
      - On close Internet Archive item, return to Search
      - Notify user if trying to sync missing file to DAP
      - Popup explanation of manual playlist ordering when appropriate
      - Simplify the default set of columns in Podcasts
      - Enable 'Delete From Drive' action in File System Queue
      - Coverart for unicode artist/albums now supported
      - Dropped glade-sharp dep; GNOME 3.0 ready
      - Add columns showing track sample rate and bits per sample
      - Option to sort an artist's albums by year, not title
      - If starting Banshee hidden (--hide), up to half a second of
        startup time is saved
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - Enable LibraryWatcher only for Music and Video libraries
      - Do better job preserving IsCompilation metadata
      - Store some PlayQueue settings in the db (not GConf)
      - Update to Last.fm's API change for scrobbling/recs
      - Bring back static FileNamePattern API used by some scripts
      - Fix several memory leaks
    + Other bugs fixed:
      - Fix segfault with Cairo when playing a song without album art (LP: #523913)
      - Follow symlinks when scanning the library (LP: #406667)
      - Fix issue importing mp3s with non-ASCII ID3 tags (LP: #364562)
  * debian/control:
    + Bump libtaglib-cil-dev version requirement to 2.0.3.5
    + Drop libglade2.0-cil-dev and libgnome2.0-cil-dev build-dep
    + Add libwebkit-cil-dev to build-deps
  * debian/rules:
    + Reorder configure flags to match upstream's ./configure --help listing
    + Ad...

Ubuntu 64-bit 10.10
gnome 2.32.0
Banshee 1.9.3
music stored in my music folder

debug log:
john@john-Satellite-A505:~$ banshee --d
[Info 21:15:28.290] Running Banshee 1.9.3: [Ubuntu 10.10 1c67ab6 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-02-03 18:24:39 UTC]
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-enable-event-sounds' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1b1ea40)" of type `gboolean'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1b1eee0)" of type `gboolean'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-button-images' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1b1ee80)" of type `gboolean'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-menu-images' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1b1e200)" of type `gboolean'
[Info 21:15:29.318] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 21:15:29.349] All services are started 0.845698
[Info 21:15:30.441] nereid Client Started

(Banshee:7849): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/john/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Error reading file '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel': Is a directory.

(Banshee:7849): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/home/john/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel.O0F4PV' to '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: Is a directory

Debug in kde 4.6:
[Info 21:19:47.406] Running Banshee 1.9.3: [Ubuntu 10.10 1c67ab6 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-02-03 18:24:39 UTC]
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-enable-event-sounds' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1d7f060)" of type `gboolean'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds' of type `gboolean' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1d7f460)" of type `gboolean'
[Info 21:19:48.528] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 21:19:48.564] All services are started 0.950365
[Info 21:19:49.657] nereid Client Started

(Banshee:8436): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/john/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Error reading file '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel': Is a directory.

(Banshee:8436): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/home/john/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel.7HOIQV' to '/home/john/.recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: Is a directory

issue seems to be back in natty alpha 2 with banshee 1.9.2-1ubuntu1

seems the same in 2.0.0

On Thursday 07,April,2011 05:30 PM, snoopt wrote:
> seems the same in 2.0.0
>

What's your use case? For example, are you running a fresh new scan for music,
or clicking "Rescan Music Library" or just putting some music into the symlinked
directory with the LibraryWatcher extension enabled?

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status incomplete

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Sorry, I made a mistake. Nothing to do with symlink. My error was due corrupted ntfs partition.

snoopt, if you encounter a new issue please fill a new report about it.