Bug#662652: Should automatically discover music in $XDG_MUSIC_DIR

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Mon Mar 5 15:28:01 UTC 2012


On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:02:02PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 06:28 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Installing GNOME 3 pulled in rhythmbox, so I decided to give it a try.
> > However, when it first came up, it showed no music available.  I keep
> > all my music in ~/media/music, which I have set as my $XDG_MUSIC_DIR.
> > Rhythmbox ought to have automatically discovered music in that standard
> > location and shown it, as many other music players do.
> 
> It should already support this: 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411247

Interesting; that makes it all the more odd that it didn't.

- Josh Triplett






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