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Recently I came across an issue regarding the copy to media library option in Banshee in a way that caused me quite a bit of headache and so I thought I might share what happened and suggest an update in the code.

The situation I ran into happened as I was showing Banshee off to a ex-Windows user on his new install of Linux Mint 14.1 that I installed on his behalf. Previous to showing him Banshee, I had put in some videos to his home video directory, a few albums to his home music folder and I had configured some of the podcasts he liked to fetch through GPodder (which then in turn I set as a download directory Music/Podcasts so that any new podcast downloaded would then be detected/updated in Banshee).

After these above tasks completed I fired up Banshee and started to demonstrate how it worked to him. Right before that I went into the options and clicked the 'copy to media folder' in the audio tab so that a) any music he might later drag into Banshee from a USB/etc would copy to his music folder & b) so that the aforementioned way I configured GPodder would allow him updated podcasts when downloaded..

This done, I clicked okay and went back to the main interface and called the owner over for a once-over of Banshee. At this point I started to notice something very wrong as everything was slowing down quite hard. After a few seconds I noticed that in the corner Banshee said it was copying videos to the media library from elsewhere on the computer. This took me by surprise as I hadn't told it to do anything of the sort in the video options tab (nor had I seen a similar option for this kind of operation in the tab as opposed to the music one).

Unfortunately the harddrive was quite small on this computer and quite soon the transfer stopped as the system had remaining 140K left. This naturally was quite a monkeywrench in my plans as I then had to shutdown Banshee and go about deleting all the video files that had just copied over to the music library (which I did not want to happen in the first place).

So, anyhow this is in essence the problem I ran into and for which I would love to see a change made in the code to specifically address a distinction in what media files one wants Banshee to copy into its chosen music space. Not everyone wants to dump video/watch video via Banshee (in this case the person I was showing it to only wanted to use it for a music player) and so having a small option in the video tab of the preferences that simply says 'copy video to Banshee library' or the like would, I think, be the easiest solution to similar situations like the one above and would allow users to better control Banshee. Similarly, such an option in the podcast tab as well would be just as useful.