[ubuntu-uk] Command line instructions to force Rhythmbox to set Library

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 12/01/13 11:39, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 January 2013 10:49, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/01/13 10:41, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 12 January 2013 10:22, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi -
>>>>
>>>> Here's a question I'm sure will be fairly simple for all you command line
>>>> geeks out there: when I started this 12.10 set-up, I loaded the Rhythmbox
>>>> Library from an external hard disk, where I keep the backups of all my
>>>> music. Subsequently I copied all the music into the /home/music folder of
>>>> the computer itself. Now Rhythmbox will load from these, but only after a
>>>> delay, and in Preferences, the Library source setting is stuck at
>>>> "multiple
>>>> locations set". I am sure that from the command line I can force it to
>>>> adopt
>>>> /home/music as the Library source, but I can't find up-to-date
>>>> instructions
>>>> on how to do this anywhere online. What I have found online is
>>>> instructions
>>>> for using gconf editor, which don't seem to be recognised on 12.10. So
>>>> please tell me how to do it. Thanks.
>>> Comment #6 at [1] alleges to be the solution for 12.10 (Quantal).
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+question/112192
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> Nice one, I shall try to do that. This is the second time running that you
>> have pointed me at Launchpad. In future, I promise I shall go there and use
>> their internal search machine to look for answers, before posing questions
>> on Ubuntu-uk.
> Actually I just googled for
> rhythmbox remove library locations
> and found it reasonably easily.  Comment #8 of the first hit [1] took me to it.
>
> [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1481122
>
> Colin
>
Ah, well that's even better. I solved my problem by doing apt-get purge 
rhythmbox then apt-get install rhythmbox, and now it registers the 
desired Library location (/home/music) correctly. You phrased your 
search terms much more intelligently than I did.