[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 788532] Re: U1 music store plugin severely delays banshee startup

[Chow Loong Jin]

On 22/07/2011 20:51, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Copy on Import is a misfeature because I shouldn't have to have 2 copies
> of every song I import, and it causes the import to lose information
> about the file being imported; primarily, the piece of information about
> where it came from (which is why you end up with N+1 songs from the
> "Purchased from Ubuntu One" folder, every time you restart banshee. The
> issue is not unique to U1MS. It is simply the only thing exposing the
> problem right now. Banshee features are already crippled, which is why
> we have to rescan the Ubuntu One purchases at every startup in the first
> place. If Banshee supported multiple library folders as Rhythmbox does,
> this wouldn't be an issue. But rather than having music files in
> arbitrary locations on disk, it has a copy-on-import misfeature.
> 
> Why does it matter to you where the files are on disk or what directory
> names they are in or what the files are named? Are you importing lots of
> music which has broken/bad/missing tags? The only thing I see copy-on-
> import being useful for, is to import from external/removable media.
> 

Actually it does. I like all my files in ~/Music, and Banshee creates the folder
structure and renames the files accordingly using tag information for me. All I
do is import them from wherever I got them, whether I downloaded them into
~/Desktop or got them from some external media.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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Title:
  U1 music store plugin severely delays banshee startup

Status in Ubuntu One widget library:
  New
Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: banshee

  Everytime Banshee starts a blank window appears, then after a few
  seconds it turns grey and stays grey for about 20 seconds, then
  finally the UI populates.  I ran Banshee with --debug and piped the
  output to a log file using tee.  I watched the log file while Banshee
  starts and as soon as all the plugins are loaded the U1 music store
  plugin start iterating over every music file I have purchased checking
  whether it has been copied to ~/Music.  If the file already exists
  then the log says something like "not copying because this file
  already exists in  ${HOME}/Music/.  During this exhaustive check is
  when Banshee's window goes grey (which is I think Compiz telling me
  the window is not sending updates and inactive).  As soon as those
  checks end, Banshee paints the window and I can use Banshee.

  I thought maybe the problem was that the files didn't need to be in
  ~/Music, so I deleted any files in ~/Music that were already in
  ~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/.  On next startup the log file
  showed the check w/o the "not copying messages" and Banshee started
  somewhat faster (but by no means fast).  I noticed I missed one file
  so I deleted that file in ~/Music and reran Banshee and watched the
  log file.  This time again all the files were back in ~/Music and
  Banshee took forever to start.

  This may have one other side effect.  I noticed that many of my
  purchased songs show up multiple times in my Library.  For instance, I
  purchased a song call "Hello" by Martin Solvig and that appears in my
  library five times.  Looking in ~/Music I see the file has been copied
  multiple times so I have the same file name with (n) appended to it.
  If I delete the dups they just reappear over time.

  This all seems very broken and wrong.

  1.  Why does the U1MS plugin need to check every time for purchases it has already recognised?
  2.  Why do the files need to be copied to ~/Music when it could just watch ~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/
  3.  Why do I keep getting multiple copies of purchased songs even after I delete the duplicates?

  Will attach my latest log file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore 2.0.0-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May 26 09:57:33 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110120)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: banshee
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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