Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Corrupted EXIF data in folder.jpg interferes with LMS operation

[Martin Gregorie]

Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:35:27 +0000
> From: slartibartfast
>       <slartibartfast.8t5...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com>
> 
>
> Rather than do a clear and rescan you could remove the affected
> folder, do a new and changed scan, add the corrected folder and do
> another new and changed scan.
> 
Why? 

That doesn't fix the problem, which is that corrupted EXIF data in 
folder.jpg screws up web pages displayed by LMS and prevents the image
being sent to my Touch. 

It doesn't do any good either: I tried replacing folder.jpg with one
with EXIF data removed and rescanning. Nothing changed until I rebuilt
the complete database as I described. And anyway, doing a complete
database replacement takes less than 15 seconds more than the rescan.
Stats: 158 albums with 1701 songs by 118 artists.

Also, if you don't run GIMP from the command line you'll never see its
error report about invalid EXIF tags because it isn't logged by either
GIMP or LMS. Yes, I checked. GIMP doesn't pop up any error messages as
part of its GUI either. This means that if anybody else hits this
problem but never runs anything from the command line they'll have no
clue about its cause and just think that LMS has messed up its web page
for no apparent reason.

Before you ask, I'm about to raise a bug against GIMP for failing to
show an error pane  about the faulty EXIF data on its desktop display.


Martin


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