Albums by "Various Artists" or compilations will not play in the Music app when played from the My Music scope

Bug #1409754 reported by Dave Morley
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Music App
Fix Released
High
Andrew Hayzen

Bug Description

STEPS:
See myself or popey for a track to reproduce the issue

1. With music on the device
2. Open the Music scope
3. Select and compilation (<artists=various>)album
4. Tap on play in Music app
5. Nothing
6. With the music app open search for the track find it play it, it works.

EXPECTED:
I expect the music to play

ACTUAL:
The track acts as if it doesn't exist, however after checking with another single track single artist it works fine.

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Dave Morley (davmor2)
tags: added: qa-manual-testing
Revision history for this message
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

Confirmed this happens for r745 in the store. This is what it does:-

/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmlscene: unrecognized option '--url=album:///Various/15'
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmlscene: invalid option -- 'I'

Changed in music-app:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)
Changed in music-app:
assignee: nobody → Andrew Hayzen (andrew-hayzen)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

Confirmed as well. Also, this is reproducible regardless of whether there is just one track in the album.

summary: - Some individual track on compilation albums will not play
+ Albums by "Various Artists" or compilations will not play in the Music
+ app when played from the My Music scope
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:music-app at revision None, scheduled for release in music-app, milestone music-app-14.10-week-40

Changed in music-app:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)
Changed in music-app:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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