Rhythmbox erroneously displays genre from ID3 tag on some mp3 files

[James]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

At startup, Rhythmbox seems to change the genre metadata on some mp3 files. For example, I have an album containing 14 tracks with the genre "Soundtrack." When Rhythmbox starts up it reports these as "Instrumental." I can change these back to "Soundtrack" from the properties dialog, but Rhythmbox changes them back to "Instrumental" when restarted.

I can check the tag outside Rhythmbox, using Cowbell for example, and it is "Soundtrack" regardless of what Rhythmbox reports. It seems that there is an old cache somewhere that the erroneous metadata is being drawn from.

Ubuntu 8.10
Rhythmbox 0.11.6

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

which version of id3 are those tags? could you attach an example to the report?

[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!.