Ratings in playlist don't persist

[Dr. John]

I'm using Exaile 0.3.3.0-dev with Ubuntu 10.04.

Song ratings don't seem to persist between application launches.

If I rate a song in a playlist, then close the playlist and reopen it,
the rating is maintained.
But if I close Exaile and restart it, when I open the playlist the
ratings are gone.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Odd. When you run Exaile from a terminal, are there any tracebacks displayed?

[Dr. John (john-roshi)]

When run in a terminal, several warnings appear:

/usr/local/lib/exaile/xl/main.py:271: Warning: unable to set property `rating' of type `gint' from value of type `gchararray'
  self.gui.main.window.show_all()
INFO : Playing file:///media/MultiMedia/Music/Aria.mp3
/usr/local/lib/exaile/xlgui/__init__.py:53: Warning: unable to set property `rating' of type `gint' from value of type `gchararray'
  gtk.main()
/usr/local/lib/exaile/xlgui/widgets/playlist.py:823: Warning: unable to set property `rating' of type `gint' from value of type `gchararray'
  self.scroll_to_cell(path)
/usr/local/lib/exaile/xlgui/widgets/playlist.py:889: Warning: unable to set property `rating' of type `gint' from value of type `gchararray'
  return gtk.TreeView.do_button_press_event(self, e)

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Looking at my own install, it does appear that ratings do not persist. However, I don't get any error messages. Will look at this further next week.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

I decided to look at this tonight. This actually is just a symptom of a bigger problem -- and I know why this is occurring, but I don't have a good fix for it yet.

What's happening is *something* is creating the track objects before the Track Database is loaded. Because this is happening, the rating isn't loaded into the track. In particular, I've found that if a track is in the queue, it will tend to be created before the collection is loaded.

As a workaround, you can disable the splash screen (Preferences -> Appearance -> Show splash screen on startup) and ratings may work properly. Alternatively, don't use the queue. Disabling various plugins may help as well.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Fixed in trunk in r4346 , and in 3.3.1 in r4313

Someone else should review this fix to make sure I didn't mess anything up. However, I believe this should not affect anything adversely.