amarok cannot read tag in mp3

[humufr]

Binary package hint: amarok

Amarok is unable to read correctly the tag of some of my mp3 files. I checked with kid3, juk, banshee or even mpd and I don't have any problem with all these softwares and the tags for the same files so the problem is from amarok.

For exemple I do have a mp3 from a group called aaron even when I am putting the files directly in amarok without using the library. Amarok is unable to give an information from the tags and worst sometime it decide to give me bad information as replace aaron by akton...

I do have the ubuntu version for amarok 2.1.1

[humufr (humufr-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello,
I just tried to use amarok 2.1 on fedora 10 and I don't have the same problem so it seems that it's an ubuntu specific bug.

[slozan0 (lozano-saul)]

same problem here. Ubuntu 64bit 9.04.

[zeratul2099 (zeratul2099)]

same here with Ubuntu 9.04 32bit with Amarok 2.1 from ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu. Approximately 10% of the collection is not readable. From the same album some tracks are readable and some are not. No pattern visibible. The length of the tracks isn't readable, too.

[Barrakketh (barrakketh)]

I've been having the same problem with various MP3 and AAC files, and the behavior is very inconsistent but applies to files in my collection. The files are tagged, and if I copy them to my desktop and play them in Amarok the tags show up.

The track details dialog shows the problematic AAC and MP3 files as being 0 bytes.

[zeratul2099 (zeratul2099)]

Ogg-Files have the problem, too. Seems to be a format-independent problem

[Anjum Vear (phillipstallworthy)]

I find that if you edit a tag externally to Amarok then simply updating your collection to is not enough. You need to deselect the collection directory, rescan, restart Amarok completely and then reload.

I also find that any files with blank tags end up under Unknown. Tag them correctly and follow the above reload procedure.

Workarounds I know, but I hope it helps

[humufr (humufr-deactivatedaccount)]

It cannot help when your collection is 2 or 3 Gigs and the main is that this bug is ubuntu specific so something is weird on how the package has been done. Bad version a library or a patch that break the stuff? Don't know but a good idea for packagers will be to compare ubuntu version with fedora's one...

[King Oleg (kingoleg)]

My amarok does not read any tags from my music collection on import folders.

[pyriand3r (pyriand3r)]

hi there,
same with me - some are readable, some not. I'm using Amarok 2.1.1 from launchpad ppa in kUbuntu Jaunty 9.04 with kde 4.3

[rhys (rhysmadigan)]

Same for me, Amarok 2.1.1, jaunty 9.04, kde 4.3.

[Ramesh (rame20002007)]

I'm also having the same problem, the songs from one album show up in another album. I am using Ubuntu 9.04

[Jonathan Kolberg (bulldog98)]

Thanks for reporting this bug.

Your version of amarok is outdated and your Ubuntu version isn’t supported anymore, could you please try if this still happens in Kubuntu 11.04.

Regards Jonathan

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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