Comment 29 for bug 586174

On Friday 09,July,2010 09:16 AM, Jonathan Blackhall wrote:
> When "Write metadata to files" is disabled, the checksums are now identical,
> even with the lyrics plugin enabled. The id3 tags are also unchanged.
>
>> "If the checksums don't change, then we'll know that Banshee no longer
>> corrupts files when playing them."
> My issue with that is: I want to leave the "Write metadata to files" option
> checked when I'm using Banshee. That way if I make changes to the normal id3
> tags of my music in Banshee, they're saved in the actual music file. I'm
> still not quite sure why the lyrics plugin writes the lyrics to an id3 tag.

The Lyrics extension writes the lyrics to an id3 tag because there is a
specification for adding the lyrics there. This is to be expected, IMO. Perhaps
there should be an option for telling the Lyrics extension not to automatically
write lyrics to the tags.

> Even more concerning is why writing the lyrics to an id3 tag corrupts the
> audio (which the upstream developer also acknowledged). What I'd really like
> to see: "even if the checksums do change (if the write option is enabled),
> Banshee will no longer corrupt files when playing them." This may very well
> be true now. However I can't be sure at this point. It's looking promising
> though. I haven't gotten any corruption yet, but I'm going to keep trying
> with the write option enabled and the lyrics plugin enabled just to see.

You did mention sometime back that there were some files that had the audio get
corrupted. Do you remember which files they were? Perhaps you could get Banshee
to play those files again and check if the audio gets corrupted.

> Also, I have never had the equalizer enabled in Banshee and this distortion
> is/was not an equalizer problem. Once the music files were corrupted by
> Banshee, the same distortion was also present when opening the music file in
> Totem and Rhythmbox.

Definitely not an equalizer problem then :-)

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin