codergeek42

Well, Rhythmbox was being a total pain in the butt with Music Applet (which is how I use Rhythmbox a good 90% of the time), so until it recently started working again¹, I had no choice but to try an alternative media player.

Banshee fit the bill quite nicely...except for one minor detail: It re-organized my entire Music directory. Most of my albums are self-made compilations from various anime soundtracks and/or other foreign stuff. Banshee apparently doesn't know that I've the "Copy files to music folder" specifically adds "when importing" (emphasis mine). When I set the preference after importing my entire folder, it should not re-arrange the already-imported stuff for me. I don't care if it's more efficient and better organized and will tell me the meaning of life! It's not right.

So now instead of Music/Compilations/Album/## - Song.ogg I have a bajillion folders with just one or two files (Music/Artist/Album/##. Song.ogg) since the compilations are by nearly as many artists as there
tracks on the disc. Now, after my Linear Algebra exam on Thursday, I'm going to spend much of the weekend just rebuilding my music hierarchy to its former glory.

While I greatly appreciate the work the Banshee hackers have put into it, one thing a user application should never do is alter how external files are organized (unless explicitly instructed to do so).

Okay, bugs happen; but messing up my Music is something that irks me past any tolerance and patience.

Edit: Okay, maybe recommending against it isn't such a friendly thing; but it still seems rather odd (and surprising) behavior.

(¹) I still have no idea what this was. Don't get me wrong, I love it when bugs disappear...but only when it's because they were actually fixed and not just silently worked-around or ignored. :-/