[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
** Changed in: rhythmbox Status: Unknown = Invalid -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
Thanks for sending this upstream. Setting to triaged. ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
I confirm this bug. Nautilus doesn't suffer from this with thumbnails of images. .thumbnails has the thumbnails for your pictures, with the filenames based on the MD5 of some file metadata including the path. If you drag the image to another folder, the thumbnail's MD5 filename is updated to match the new file location. ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
I see two ways of doing this: 1) Have a hash for each of the filename, the path (without the filename), and the id3 tag data. If a file shows up as new, check whether there are matches on any of those three hashes. If two of them match and the third one doesn't, then it's probably been renamed, retagged, or moved outside Rhythmbox. If one of the hashes matches but the other two don't, then it might be reasonable to check with the user whether they this is the same track as before. If a whole bunch of files have changed two hashes but kept a third, then it might be more reasonable to assume that e.g. a directory has been retagged or renamed. 2) Use something like musicbrainz, which can recognise a track by a musical 'fingerprint' of the audio. This allows tracks to be recognised even if the tags have been moved in the file, the file renamed, the path changed, and even the file re-encoded. I don't know how unique and reliable the fingerprint is, however. -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
** Also affects: rhythmbox via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587483 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 394095] Re: Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata
Finally figured out Bugzilla and submitted new bug for this problem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587483 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #587483 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587483 -- Renaming music directory causes loss of metadata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
