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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0007392 | MMW v4 | DB/FileMonitor | public | 2011-02-16 17:47 | 2011-02-21 02:03 |
| Reporter | zvezdan | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Target Version | 4.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0007392: Work with multiple database files needed | ||||
| Description | There is the "Multiple Libraries" thread in the Wishlist forum which has the largest number of requests (after requests for Mac/Linux versions) since many users want a possibility to open and/or manipulate different database files. Filter/Collections could be used in some cases as replacement for that, but not always. For example, I am developing scripts and I have several databases that some users sent me for tests. Whenever I want to test my scripts with some another database I need to restart program and to modify database filename, which is pretty tedious. Some users could want to deal with another databases which they got e.g. from friends - if they want to take a look at the contained tracks just once or twice, it is unpractical to merge such database with their one since one large database is slower then several smaller ones and more prone to the corruption. Not to mention that we don't have friend's actual audio files and we cannot add them into our databases using Add/Rescan option. There exists some script which allows specifying of the database file, but it is just a dirty hack since it requires the restart of the program and has some another drawbacks. There are two main things which many media organizers have already implemented, so it would be nice if we could have the similar functionality with MM: 1. Open Database -> a possibility to open the specified database, it should replace the current one from the memory, in the same way as you open a document in some application which allows work with single document, e.g. Notepad; I bet that implementation of this could be very easy; 2. Import/Export Database -> this is a possibility to import/export some tracks (according to some specified filter, not necessarily related to the current Collection) and/or some other data (Playhistory, Playlists, ...) between some external database and the current (opened) one; it is not big deal either, even my Restore Playhistory/Date Added/Playlists add-on has part of that; There is one thing which I haven't seen so far in some media organizer (I haven't tested them recently): 3. Open Database into new Tab -> a possibility to open multiple databases in the same time and work with them simultaneously as you work with several documents in e.g. Word; well, this is the hardest one for implementation, but if you add the first option, then this one is not really needed because it could be simulated using two or more instances of the program with opened different databases. | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4967 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | |||||
