Changing Track Number before importing CD produces unexpected results

[Geoff Goehle]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I'm using Hardy Heron, but I imagine this will be true for all Rhythmbox. To replicate this bug do the following.

1. Put a CD in the computer.
2. Open Rhythmbox
3. Before importing the CD change the track number of the first song to 2 by using the "Properties" editor.
4. Import the first song.

What you get is an MP3 with the title, artist, etc... of the first track on the cd but if you try and play it you'll discover its actually the second song on the CD.

There are two (or possibly more!) solutions. First, don't let people change track numbers for songs on CD's. This makes a lot of sense because you can't actually change which track a song is. OTOH If you really want to be able to change the track number of songs before you import them then Rhythmbox is going to need to remember which songs correspond to which tracks on a CD, even if their track number is changed in the properties window.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, there's also a similar issue when changing the track number on the cds here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515472 the bug is refering to rhythmbox re importing the track several times when changing the track number are you seeing that aswell?

[Geoff Goehle (goehle)]

Yes, its exactly the same behavior. For instance, if you changed the metadata track number to 1 for every track on a cd then after you import every song will be track 1 on the cd, even though the metadata for the various songs will be different.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

yeah just tried that here, ouch... ok can you comment on the upstream bug ? I'll link it, thanks.

[Geoff Goehle (goehle)]

I guess I don't know how to do that. Do you mean comment on bug 515472 at bugzilla.gnome?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Hello Geoff, yes exactly that, may you comment there? bug link is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515472 : thanks again!.