Ubuntu Music App

  1. Bug #1436110
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1436110

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Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen) wrote : Re: Music refuses to play file opened via file manager

Looking again at the mediascanner logs every time the following errors/warnings appear the service restarts itself directly after, this is probably what is causing the database to be left locked. Therefore I am adding mediascanner2 as also affects to this bug.

(mediascanner-service-2.0:4547): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_date_time_new: assertion 'year > 0 && year <= 9999' failed

(mediascanner-service-2.0:4547): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_mini_object_unref: assertion 'mini_object != NULL' failed

(mediascanner-service-2.0:4547): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_date_time_to_iso8601_string: assertion 'datetime != NULL' failed
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_construct null not valid

Mediascanner service starting at 2015-03-25 12:43:07.

To answer, "What can I do to prevent that?", it looks like alot of your audio files have none/invalid metadata for the year field so you could manually set these and then try importing again. However for testing purposes for this bug it would be useful to keep a copy of the original files that were causing the error (maybe you could pm one of them to me?) so we know that is the issue has been fixed.