Michael G Fletcher <mich...@ilovemylinux.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Rowan<rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> -- So, in fact, all these players will open and play MP3 files, or whole MP3 >> folders (i.e. albums), straight from the Nautilus file >browser, if you >> right-click and select that -- even if you prevent them from 'populating' >> their own 'libraries' altogether? You can >certainly do this with Winamp in >> Windows -- I never let it 'populate' its own 'library', but it worked fine >> straight from the Windows >Explorer file browser. >> > > Ok, maybe it's just me being stupid, but why would you not want a > library with all your music in? all neatly categorised and searchable? One reason is that the 'music libraries' that these players create are not auto-updating, nor can you simply add new items to them as you add them to your files: you have to 're-populate' them from scratch every time you add anything, if you want it listed. This is a 'known issue' in Banshee. But more generally, even though I have 13,000 MP3 files, or about 1000 albums, I prefer to use the general file browser (Nautilus or Internet Explorer) to navigate among them, and see no need to duplicate it. I cannot in fact experiment right now to see whether it is really the case that you can use the Banshee player without 'populating its library', since I am in between Ubuntu machines, and do not expect to get my next one (a Thinkpad from LInux Emporium) for a couple of weeks, but I shall attempt it then. At any rate, it's a good thing I keep all my music, ebooks, and personal material in general on an external hard drive, which I can access equally from any computer ( I am now on my fourth home computer, and the Thinkpad will be my fifth).
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