Add option to select where music books are.

[Kirtai]

Edit:I found that just loading one of the songs from the books allows PB to find all the other books. Sorry for the noise.

I moved my Music folder and now PianoBooster cannot find the music books and there is no way to tell PB what the new location is.

This is on Kubuntu 21.04

Being able to tell PB where to look would be great :)

btw,
The place that the standard folders are in linux are in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs or $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs according to the XDG standard.

[louis-barman]

Ok Thanks, you raise a good point actually "what if the users don't want the Booster music books in their `Music' folder?"

On very first startup PB unzips and copies the music books into the users "Music" folder without asking where it should be installed. I propose to keep this behaviour as asking new users where they want the Booster music books to be installed would add unnecessary complication especially for novice users. Also I don't think installing files that users need to access in hidden directories would be a good idea. There are PDF of the sheet music in the PB Booster Music directory and I don't want to hide that in a hidden directory.

I propose adding a new file menu option 'Open Booster Music Course' as not all users can remember where the course is located after they open a different MIDI file. Then if the PB app did not find the music installed in the default location (the users ~/Music folder) it would ask where you wanted to install the Booster music course.

[Kirtai]

The new menu item sounds good.

Regarding the install, maybe check to see if the Music folder is there and install automatically if it is and ask if it isn't?

Also, I just remembered that the default folders on linux can be automatically translated depending on locale. This can be checked through the user-dirs.dirs file.