omit Album information for files w/o album information

[Martin Emrich]

Currently, when a new song starts which does not have an "Album" entry, the notification bubble and the track information bar say:
"<title> by <artist> from Unknown"
I'd say it would look nicer if Rhythmbox would just omit the "from Unknown" (or whatever it says with LANG=C) if there is no Album tag (empty string or only nonprintable chars) in the file.

Thanks,

Martin

[Martey Dodoo (martey)]

I marked this the same as Gnome #328971 ("Missing tags should not use 'Unknown'") because its resolution would solve the notification issue, I think.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Yep, I looked into the code, the notification text is generated only once in the rhythmbox source code once.

Ciao

Martin

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Patch available upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=73826

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

This is a very old bug report. Can any please confirm if it's still an issue on 12.04 or 12.10?

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Can one of the paper cuts ninjas please test this and see if it's still an issue? This bug report if prehistoric and it would be nice to get it sorted.

[Tom Ato (tomato2-71)]

Yes, it is still an issue

[Javier López (javier-lopez)]

I wonder if the attached patch is still applicable, I'll check it out tonight
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[Javier López (javier-lopez)]

Gnome bug #328971 is about tags, this one (Gnome bug #556828) about album entries, both reports are open and seem forgotten, probably they wont be fixed upstream in a close future, the attached patch never was accepted in upstream and isn't applicable in ubuntu anymore.

It's present in 2.98-0ubuntu1 (raring) and there is also a report in Debian #680584 (which may indicate they also have it).

I'm not programmer, however, maybe someone in the ninja papercut team knows C and can provide a patch.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream issue now tracked at:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/648