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location of files and library in Songbird
I can't' seem to find the file locations in the doc's and I can't easily see how Songbird is building its library. Is is importing merely a pointer to the original file or is it copying the file into a library?
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Inappropriate?Your music files stay where they are, Songbird doesn't move or copy them (but this functionality will come in the next Isan-Release!). The locations of your music files are stored in a database, the "Library", together with the Metadata.
Your Library is located in your Songbird Profile folder. In XP for example it's
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Songbird2\Profiles\SOMETHING\
If you want to see, where a music file is located on your disk, you can f.e. right-click it in the Library and choose "Show File".
I'm not sure if I answered all you question, just ask again, if you miss something ;)
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Inappropriate?That is what I thought, but still this would be a good thing to have documented, well it may well be documented but I could not locate it.
It is my hope that Songbird is successful. A single player capable of multi-format media and distributed libraries on devices, drives, web sites makes life so much simpler. The gyrations one has to go through to keep content on an external drive for iTunes is awful. It is just plain negligent. This proprietary intent is the least attractive vibe of life on the Mac.
My other bugaboo is duplicates. I look forward to more control of dup's in Songbird. I have been trying to use the ghost editor but I fear I have so many that it just hangs. Now that I understand what Songbird is doing I will just spend some time on the front end cleaning this up before importing, rather pointing. I look forward to its capacity to import and maintain its own content library.
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CHAMP
