Rhythmbox doesn't properly pick up track numbers on wma files

[John Ward]

I am using Rhythmbox 0.11.5 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy heron and this bug is somewhat similar to Bug # 179664.

When wma files are imported into the Rhythmbox music player the track numbers get read incorrectly. For example: Track 1 never gets a track number of 1 beside it - it receives nothing, stays blank whereas track 2 will receive "1" as its track number and the rest of the tracks will receive the next number available so the Track 4 gets a number of 3 etc. I have included screenshots and provided an example of what I mean:

   Track 1
1. Track 2
2. Track 3
3. Track 4
4. Track 5
5. Track 6 etc.

In the past I used a mixture of Windows Media Player 9 and 10 and dBPowerAmp to encode these files into wma. I have done reinstalls in the past of Ubuntu (in relation to other issues) and when I reloaded the files the same situation existed so it wasn't a particular corruption in a particular installation but a particular bug in either Rhythmbox or the wma files themselves. This problem does not affect OGG or MP3 files in my library whatsoever.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, how they're tagged with id3v ? can you use the command line of that tool and show us the output? thanks.

[John Ward (automail)]

More detail please, what tool do you want me to use? id3v doesn't exist. Are you talking about rhythmbox itself?

[John Ward (automail)]

I'm still waiting for a reply on my previous comment and I don't want this report to end up closed due to lack of activity.

Thanks, John.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you attach a song example to the bug? does using gst-launch to play the song display the right informations?

[John Ward (automail)]

I will try running gst-launch tonight. Could you give an example of how I would use gst-launch?

Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gst-launch-0.10 --tags playbin uri=file:///directory/example

[John Ward (automail)]

Thanks Sebastien. I'll try it now.

2008/10/2 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> gst-launch-0.10 --tags playbin uri=file:///directory/example
>
> --
> Rhythmbox doesn't properly pick up track numbers on wma files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263262
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>
> Status in "rhythmbox" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am using Rhythmbox 0.11.5 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy heron and this bug is
> somewhat similar to Bug # 179664.
>
> When wma files are imported into the Rhythmbox music player the track
> numbers get read incorrectly. For example: Track 1 never gets a track number
> of 1 beside it - it receives nothing, stays blank whereas track 2 will
> receive "1" as its track number and the rest of the tracks will receive the
> next number available so the Track 4 gets a number of 3 etc. I have included
> screenshots and provided an example of what I mean:
>
> Track 1
> 1. Track 2
> 2. Track 3
> 3. Track 4
> 4. Track 5
> 5. Track 6 etc.
>
> In the past I used a mixture of Windows Media Player 9 and 10 and
> dBPowerAmp to encode these files into wma. I have done reinstalls in the
> past of Ubuntu (in relation to other issues) and when I reloaded the files
> the same situation existed so it wasn't a particular corruption in a
> particular installation but a particular bug in either Rhythmbox or the wma
> files themselves. This problem does not affect OGG or MP3 files in my
> library whatsoever.
>

--
John
<email address hidden>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Sean Talbot (sean-talbot)]

I can confirm this bug. However, I get it for MP3 files.

I have exactly the same problem as the original poster, with the tracks shown like this:

   Track 1
1. Track 2
2. Track 3
3. Track 4
4. Track 5
5. Track 6 etc.

Please can this bug report be reopened and the issues worked on.

Thanks. :)

[John Ward (automail)]

Sebastien, unfortunately I don't have gst-launch-0.10 and it's not available in the repositories using "sudo apt-get install gst-launch-0.10". Do you know where I can find it or do I have to enable some repositories etc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you need to install gstreamer0.10-tools

[John Ward (automail)]

Thanks Sebastien.

[John Ward (automail)]

So as you can see it comes up as track 00 and Track 2 comes up as 01.

TRACK 1: One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces of You:

johnward@johnward01:~$ gst-launch-0.10 --tags playbin uri=file:///media/JOHN-DATA/Music/Ben\ Folds/Whatever\ And\ Ever\ Amen/01\ -\ One\ Angry\ Dwarf\ And\ 200\ Solemn\ Faces.wma
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
           album: Whatever And Ever Amen
           genre: Rock
            date: 1997-01-01
    track number: 0
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
           title: One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
          artist: Ben Folds Five
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
     audio codec: WMA Version 8
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock

TRACK 2: Fair

johnward@johnward01:~$ gst-launch-0.10 --tags playbin uri=file:///media/JOHN-DATA/Music/Ben\ Folds/Whatever\ And\ Ever\ Amen/02\ -\ Fair.wma
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
           album: Whatever And Ever Amen
           genre: Rock
            date: 1997-01-01
    track number: 1
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
           title: Fair
          artist: Ben Folds Five
FOUND TAG : found by element "asfdemux0".
     audio codec: WMA Version 8
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the log shows that the issue is not a rhythmbox one, either a gstreamer bug or those files are not correctly tagged

[John Ward (automail)]

What I'll try and do is rip some files using WMP (preferable an oldish one, maybe 9 or 10) and another program.

The other thing to point out now (I should have reported this in the bug report but forgot) is that the likes of Winamp and Windows Media Player within Windows have no problems with the tags and report them as normal so this is some kind of reading problem with gstreamer.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you add a song example to the bug?

[John Ward (automail)]

A good test would be to add this file to a Jukebox program you use in Windows (if you use still use it) and also to Rhythmbox and see if you see the track number issue. I still haven't tried this in the likes of Amarok or VLC (within Linux) yet and I'll try that later and report back.

[John Ward (automail)]

I would like to point out that I have Ubuntu installed on several different machines (it's a good OS, can't blame me), laptops, PC's etc. and I have wma files from several different sources (not just my ones from years ago) and the same thing happens on all of them - incorrect reading of track numbers. This is not specific to my library (which I thought may have been the case as I used mostly WMP to rip them years ago and that could have been my single point of failure). There's some problem somewhere in reading and understanding

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GStreamer is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.