Rescanning Music Library doesn't work

[anabelli]

Binary package hint: banshee

Version: 1.4.2-1~intrepid1

After rescanning Music Library I still have entries with an "X" next to them.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Steps to reproduce in Jaunty:

1- Import small music library
2- Move files around in the physical Music directory
3- Restart Banshee, files that moved have an X icon
4- Go to Tools - Rescan Library, files are not removed/reimported

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Can you post the output of `banshee-1 --debug` when going through the steps in comment 2?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I'm marking this bug as invalid due to inactivity. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you encounter it in the latest version of Banshee (1.5.0, as of this post).

[Thomas Edwards (tom-rb-edwards)]

I've rearranged a load of my mp3's into different folders and such. Now when I do a rescan, it doesn't update the library with the new locations of the mp3s.
I have version 1.5.0

[MikeCamel (mike-hingston)]

I've just upgraded to karmic beta, and as I knew that I had some new files in my music library, I did a "rescan music library", and now have no files listed.

Neither am I able to import any files, more than one directory down.

I have -

/home/music/artist1/album1
/home/music/artist2/album2
...

I seem to have to import _EVERY_ artist-level directory. I have ~ 645, so this doesn't seem like very good state to be in.

High priority, I'd say.

Banshee 1.4.3

[MikeCamel (mike-hingston)]

Oh, and if I try "rescan" again, it loses them all.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Friday 02,October,2009 03:18 AM, MikeCamel wrote:
> I've just upgraded to karmic beta, and as I knew that I had some new
> files in my music library, I did a "rescan music library", and now have
> no files listed.
>
> Neither am I able to import any files, more than one directory down.
>
> I have -
>
> /home/music/artist1/album1
> /home/music/artist2/album2
> ...
>
> I seem to have to import _EVERY_ artist-level directory. I have ~ 645,
> so this doesn't seem like very good state to be in.
>
> High priority, I'd say.
>
> Banshee 1.4.3
>
That sounds extremely weird. Could you run `banshee --debug` and try importing
your entire music directory?

Also, what filesystem is this folder on?

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[ndrw (andrewnonumbers)]

I'm running Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) and I've just encountered this bug for the first time today. I hit Rescan Music Library, and all of my music is gone from my library, every single one. The more annoying result of this is that all of my playlists, ratings, and play counts from years past are gone. Importing my Music folder (which is on the root level of an NTFS partition) finds nothing even though I have MP3 files only one level down. Importing individual folders inside the Music folder does work. The logical workaround then is to put an additional level between the Music folder and the actual music files. So now it goes like this:
Partition > Music > All Music > *Actual music files and folders*

[ndrw (andrewnonumbers)]

I just realized what MikeCamel and I are experiencing are not related to this bug, so I've filed another bug report here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/505363

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Entries with "X" next to them mean that there was an error when attempting to play them. This includes missing files, for example, but is not limited to that, as the file may have been corrupted, or there is no suitable codec available for playing it. Hence, I believe this behaviour is by design and correct, so I'm marking this bug invalid.

[anabelli (anabelli)]

If you move a file it shouldn't be marked with an 'x' it should simply disappear from the list. If it's by design, consider re-evaluating the design because it makes really no sense.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:21:07 -0000
andrea-abelli <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you move a file it shouldn't be marked with an 'x' it should simply
> disappear from the list. If it's by design, consider re-evaluating the
> design because it makes really no sense.

There is one particular use case that could be affected greatly by what you
just proposed, i.e. to have the entire music library stored in an external
storage device. If I accidentally pressed play without the external device
mounted, *woosh* there goes my entire music library, ratings, play counts, skip
counts, scores and all since Banshee can't find the files any more.

Banshee can't read your intention, and so it doesn't know why the files are
missing -- they could have been intentionally moved away, like in your case, or
like the use case I just highlighted, the volume might not have been mounted.
Perhaps, someday when computers learn to read minds, Banshee can make use of
that to figure this out ;-) Until then, this bug will probably stay as is.

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[anabelli (anabelli)]

Or it could simply ask the user for feedback :).
Keeping it simple always works .. but this case trespass the limits.