Re: Rhythmbox podcasts multiple desktop machines

[Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk>]

Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Bob wrote:
> > Hi, for various reasons I have multiple desktops around the house,
> > (my main desktop and 2 HTPCs) I don't login to all the machines as
> > the same user and I subscribe to quite a few podcasts in Rhythmbox.
> > What I'm trying to achieve is for the subscriptions, downloaded
> > files and preferably things like the play count to sync up. Can
> > anyone think of a way to do this? Thanks for any help.
>
> How about using setting up suitable music and podcast directories and
> then using Unison to sync these directories and ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox
> (which contains the playlists, etc.) across your multiple desktops? I
> have used this to some extent and it works.
>
> HTH,
> Girish.


Thank you, with that prompt I've figured it out,
First I copy ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml into my Podcast directory
cp /home/bob/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml /home/bob/tmp/Podcasts
then I use rsync to copy the downloaded files up to my NAS box.

on my other desktops I do it in reverse, the only thing is the 
rhythmdb.xml file stores the location of the file so despite the fact I 
log into my HTPCs as user the podcast directory is /home/bob/tmp/Podcasts