Bug#833670: benefit to libtag1-dev >= 1.1x?

[Thomas Pierson]

On 16/09/2016 15:04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> I'm not sure how to reproduce the following behaviour: Sometimes
> Clementine does not play the whole song; it plays part of the song and
> then skips to the next one.  A long time ago I checked to see if the
> file was truncated by playing it in mplayer or mpv, and it seemed to
> be fine.  I had always assumed that I had bad tags/headers, or that it
> was minor bitrot, and I used to work around the issue by reripping the
> CD into FLAC.
> 
> Unfortunately I was cooking in the kitchen the one time I heard it
> happen since I filed this bug.
> 
> Who should I ask about methods to trigger this skipped content
> behaviour?  I'm guessing it will require a known-bad test file to
> reproduce, and I wonder if the maintainer of libtag1v5 could provide
> one.  L114-15 of the clementine changelog is why I thought a newer
> libtag might do the trick:
> 
>   * Fix issues with some songs length thanks to Taglib. People with Taglib
> installed on their system will have to wait a new release of Taglib.

Yes, it seems that clementine get a lot of troubles (including crashes)
using the current version of taglib in Debian but this is not a
build-depend issue and clementine is not the only package affected.

The source of the problem is just that the version 1.9.1 of taglib is
very buggy and that we need a newer version to be packaged in Debian.

There is a bug report against the taglib package here and I already post
on it:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805848

The best you can do to help is find a way to reproduce the bug you talk
about and next open a new bug report against clementine. Next we will
see what to do…

Regards,

Thomas Pierson

Bug#833670: benefit to libtag1-dev >= 1.1x?

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Thomas,

I agree that I provided insufficient evidence, and too many issues
mixed together.  Please see my reply at the bottom.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 07:00:13AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On 21/08/2016 23:36, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
...
> >The version of taglib bundled with clementine-1.3.1 is 1.10.0, and
> >there is this entry in the changelog:
> >https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/1.3.1/Changelog#L114
...
> 
> First you talk about a new requirement, next you talk about a possible issue
> that affect a release not yet present in Debian archive, and next you talk
> about making a backport... Please don't mix everything and don't try to go
> too fast.
> 
> I think the right thing to do now is:
> 
> * First, waiting for the version 1.3.1 reach unstable.
> * Next, if you can still reproduce an issue, you will report it as a new bug
> of clementine package.
> * Next, if we see that this issue is related to an other package, we will
> re-affect that issue.
> 
> In the meantime I will close this bug as invalid.

I'm not sure how to reproduce the following behaviour: Sometimes
Clementine does not play the whole song; it plays part of the song and
then skips to the next one.  A long time ago I checked to see if the
file was truncated by playing it in mplayer or mpv, and it seemed to
be fine.  I had always assumed that I had bad tags/headers, or that it
was minor bitrot, and I used to work around the issue by reripping the
CD into FLAC.

Unfortunately I was cooking in the kitchen the one time I heard it
happen since I filed this bug.

Who should I ask about methods to trigger this skipped content
behaviour?  I'm guessing it will require a known-bad test file to
reproduce, and I wonder if the maintainer of libtag1v5 could provide
one.  L114-15 of the clementine changelog is why I thought a newer
libtag might do the trick:

  * Fix issues with some songs length thanks to Taglib. People with Taglib
installed on their system will have to wait a new release of Taglib.

Kind regards,
Nicholas


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