Files and fields with portuguese characters corrupts the database and idv (2/3?)

[Almufadado]

I have my Ubuntu 10.10 in portuguese language and I often use portuguese characters like "á ã é ó ê ç " and also I have mp3 files mfrom PT brasil, swedish, noruegian, eslavic languages, spanish (ñ) korean, chinese and even japanese.

Since some rhythmbox upgrades ago my massive database get corrupted and all files are taken from the database (with a big CPU stress) and after close and re-opening the app many files that include non-english (lol) characters have the field(s) containing those characters removed and idv tag is replace with whatever (sending a lot of work to the place where idv3 tags go to die).

Files in my file system ext4 are ok . Files in my NTFS partitions are also ok (in all languages) I have checked !

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rhythmbox 0.13.1-0ubuntu6.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-32.64-generic-pae 2.6.35.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-32-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 17 13:17:37 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_PT:en_US:en
 LANG=pt_PT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eric Miao (eric.y.miao)]

Hi Almufadado, could you please test the latest ubuntu release, e.g. daily live ISO? And what is the charset encoding for the tags in your mp3 files. If this is caused by tags not in utf-8, could you try put "export GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING=<possible mp3 tags charset encoding>" (e.g. ISO8859-15) to your .bashrc file and re-login to see if anything changes?

You could also do a quick trial within a shell as:

$> set GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING=<...>
$> gst-launch --tags uridecodebin uri=file:///<path to your mp3 file> ! fakesink

And see what's the output.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]