Rhythmbox 2.90.1: multiple library locations

mipper · 2011-09-14 13:51:28

I'm having real trouble setting multiple library locations in Rhythmbox on Arch. I had this working on Ubuntu with an older version of Rhythmbox by following the steps in the following webpage:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rhyth … irectories

As far as I can tell the use of gconf-editor has been depricated in the latest version of Rhythmbox as found on Arch, in favour of dconf-editor. In addition the location of the key has moved to:

org.gnome.rhythmbox.rhythmdb/locations

The problem is that I can't seem to figure out what the format of the list should be in dconf-editor (it doesn't have the nice support for editing list types that gconf-editor has). I've tried the following:

['file://home/user/location1:file:///home/user/location2'] - no effect
['file://home/user/location1;file:///home/user/location2'] - no effect
['file://home/user/location1', 'file:///home/user/location2'] - Rhythmbox won't start with the following error: Rhythmbox:ERROR:rb-display-page-model.c:650:rb_display_page_model_add_page: assertion failed: (find_in_real_model (page_model, parent, &parent_iter))

I can't find any documentation on the Rhythmbox site (http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/) nor via google that refers to dconf-editor. Does anyone know how to do this?

Regards,

mipper

parintachin · 2011-09-15 02:27:52

just make a softlink from location2 in location1 works for me

mipper · 2011-09-15 07:36:52

parintachin wrote:

just make a softlink from location2 in location1 works for me

Unfortunately that doesn't work that same way as adding multiple locations. When multiple locations are added you are able to select each location under the Music entry in the Source list. In other words, I can choose to include or exclude the files in each location if I play all files randomly, or create an auto playlist from the sources. If I add a softlink it's all or nothing.

Regards,

mipper

parintachin · 2011-09-16 03:26:16

I didn't knew of that feature sorry i couldn't help

parintachin · 2011-09-16 04:45:32

in your first post you wrote that you used ['file://home/user/location1', 'file:///home/user/location2'] and i think the problem is that location one has file:// while location2 has file:///
maybe thats the problem

mipper · 2011-09-16 08:00:26

The missing slash is a typo, the setting that causes the crash was:

['file:///home/user/location1', 'file:///home/user/location2']

Many thanks for taking the time to look anyway. Much appreciated.

bernarcher · 2011-09-16 08:21:29

mipper,
if your problem is solved now, please mark this thread [SOLVED] by editing the title of your first post.

mipper · 2011-09-16 11:06:39

Rest assured, if it gets solved I will mark it as such.

bernarcher · 2011-09-16 12:13:41

mipper wrote:

Rest assured, if it gets solved I will mark it as such.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your last post.

charlbur · 2019-01-18 12:52:35

I know that this post is extremely old now but this answer is still relevant. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with Rhythmbox 3.4.2 and managed to configure multiple locations.

I found the actual answer on this post:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/189265/ … -rhythmbox

However, the dconf-editor method did not seem to work for me but the gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.rhythmdb locations did the trick. Full string below.
gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.rhythmdb locations "['file:///home/charlesb/Music', 'file:///media/charlesb/SAMSUNG/CharlesB/My%20Music%20Collection']"

This is how my working locations config looks:
['file:///home/charlesb/Music', 'file:///media/charlesb/SAMSUNG/CharlesB/My%20Music%20Collection']

The above gives me two separately selectable music locations in Rhythmbox. Hope this helps someone that is also looking to add multiple media locations

V1del · 2019-01-18 13:15:49

Thanks for sharing, however as this post is indeed aextremely old, i'll close this here.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping%22

Closing.

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#1 2011-09-14 13:51:28

Rhythmbox 2.90.1: multiple library locations

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