Noise

Set a particular folder as default does not work ?

Bug #1451242 reported by Coeur Noir
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1226027: noise don't change the music folder. Edit Remove
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Hi,

It seems Music/Noise uses /home/user/music as default folder for music files.

Well it may be logical in most cases.

But here I have organized my Music folder in an other way :

- a "library" folder where everything is nicely organized, inside "Music" folder

- and many other "sound" files raw and messy, inside the same "Music" folder.

So I'd like Noise/Music to scan only that "library" folder but over-more to only write in that folder !

For the moment each time I modify metadata info through Noise/Music it uses "Music" folder as destination - instead of "library" folder, so it moves the files from the well organised place to the the messy one…

So next time I open Noise/Music the modified files are missing since it scans "library" but it has moved those modified files in "Music"…

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Joren Verspeurt (musicide) wrote :

You can change your default music (library) folder in the settings (gear icon -> Preferences)

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :

Ok, my bad expression ;-)

I've already set another folder as source for my music.

Let's say it's /home/me/music/library/

And Music/Noise accordingly displays what's inside that folder.

But.

In Music the dialog box where one enters the location for source folder still shows "Music" what so ever the folder I have formerly set.

There I'd expect it to be "library" (or even better the entire personalized path)

And moreover,

each time I modify a music file through Music (title, artist, album name…) it's then to be found in

/home/me/music/artist/album/

instead of expected

/home/me/music/library/artist/album/

the same if I import music from other places/devices, it's then written into

/home/me/music

instead of expected

/home/me/music/library/…

summary: - Set a particular folder as default music folder ?
+ Set a particular folder as default does not work ?
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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :

Dconf Editor also shows me only :

/home/me/music

as music folder string instead of expected and previously chosen folder.

But.

If I modify that string into dconf editor then it appears in Noise/Music !!!

So it seems that Noise/Music does not write the path in dconf settings ?

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :

Same behavior with other option :

close-while-playing.

(screenshot)

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