Impossible to change FLAC Vorbis Tags using Rhythmbox

[Arnaud Dessein]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Hi,

I am updating the tags of almost every files in my music library using Rythmbox : I right-click on a song or a selection of songs, then properties and in Basic I change Title, Artist, Album... fields. That works perfectly for all my MP3 files but NOT for my FLAC files.

When I change the tags of a FLAC file under Rhythmbox, the changes seem to be saved : on the library the tags are correct and the songs are sorted in the right Genre, Artist and Album (using the function Browse to have the 2 or 3 panes like in ITunes). BUT if I close Rythmbox and restart it, the FLAC files appear with their old tags, the ones I have tried to modify.

Looking at the files properties into Nautilus shows that the tags are not modified or SAVED in the file. I have to use EasyTAG 2.1.4 to be able to change the tags of my FLAC files and that works perfectly.

Then I think it is a bug : the writing/updating of FLAC tags does not work in Rhythmbox.

Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 22 10:00:16 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Arnaud Dessein (arnaud.dessein)]

Oh sorry !

But I have search in Launchpad if the bug was already reported and I
have found anything... Maybe I do not search correctly.

I have seen on the other bug report that the bug will be / is fixed for
Intrepid. Does that mean the bug fix will also be released for Hardy,
which is an LTS version ?

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 191389 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191389
>
> Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
> reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
>
> ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 191389
> FLAC tags cannot be edited
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is no hardy update scheduled, there is lot of bugs fixed in intrepid and everything can't be applied to stable too, the current team is small and has already a lot to do and this bug is minor issue, if somebody works on figuring what changes are required and trying the change on hardy and confirming it's working that could be considered as an update though