Banshee unable to correctly sort via Album title

[James]

Binary package hint: banshee

The current (as of 07/04/2007) version of Banshee in Feisty cannot sort song by Album title correctly. Sorting by Title or Artist, ascending or descending, works correctly, but sorting either way by Album title puts the Albums in random order (for me it goes M -> S -> D -> # -> A -> D and on and on).

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Intriguing. It seems that sorting by artist, album, or track all produce the same results. That is, the list is sorted by Artist->Album->Track number, regardless of which of the three is selected to sort-by.

[James (chiisu81)]

Hi Chris. Do you mean you're unable to get Banshee to sort correctly under any field? For me sorting by Artist and Song Title works, it is only Album Title that is messing up.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

No, I mean that sorting by Artist, Album, or Track all give the same behaviour. Sorting by anything else works as you would expect.

[James (chiisu81)]

Is anyone else having the same problems as Chris, or just sorting by Album title like I am?

[Daniel L. Wang (wangd)]

I have the same problem as jclemon on banshee 0.12.1 on Fedora 7. It seems to sort by Artist and Title properly, but it's random by Album.

[Chris (chris-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem: Banshee cannot sort by Album Title

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): .12.1

How reproducible: Every time user tries to sort by Album Title

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Banshee
2. Click on Artist, Song, and Time
3. Click on Album
4. Banshee sorts by Album in random order

Actual results: Albums are grouped in a seemingly random order

Expected results: Albums should be sorted correctly, ascending or descending

Additional info:

[Chris (chris-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 160504
Screenshot of Banshee

[Chris (chris-redhat-bugs)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432034
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/103994

[paultrotter88 (paultrotter88)]

I too am having a similar problem. I am able to sort by title, track and artist just fine, but when sorting by album, I get random results.

[Sebastian Kaps (spambucket)]

I also have this problem (banshee 0.12.1).
I'm using banshee to connect to a firefly-server (former mt-daapd).
I cannot sort by track-number or album title. Sorting by artist, track time or genre however works.
Also the results for the non-working columns appear to be consistent, i.e. they are always sorted in the same (wrong) order.

[Lil (vicky-lamburn-deactivatedaccount)]

Same here unfortunately using Banshee 0.13.1 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04

Sorting by Album just produces random sorting orders meaning quite a few albums have their tracks divided up by random stuff in between.

It would appear that sorting by album is in fact sorting by artist.

Vicky

[James (chiisu81)]

Bug is still present in .13.1 in Gutsy beta

[DavidDay (dday376)]

I am using Gutsy Release, Banshee 0.13.1 and Firefly 2.4-r1376 (mt-daap). Sorting by Track Number appears to work okay for local files, but not for anything over DAAP.

[ijbuss (ianjbuss)]

Me too. Am using Gutsy release, Banshee 0.13.1. I found a quick fix (sort of) by adding 'date added' column on to the library page, this sorts properly and assuming you added the entire album at the same time sort of helps a bit. Lets you play a compilation album in order anyway!

[Chris (chris-redhat-bugs)]

This is still happening in .13.1 in Fedora 8

[Christopher (christopher-redhat-bugs)]

Probably because the upstream bug is still open. We're going to let them handle
it since we try to stick to upstream.

[Igor Guerrero (igorgue)]

Confirming this issue on Hardy Banshee 0.13.2

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Marking the bug as invalid for LTSP, looking at the description, comments and the upstream bug there is no mention of LTSP. It sounds like a software bug in a LTSP environment but in no way a ltsp specific issue.
Feel free to reopen the task if I'm wrong.

[Valentin Neacsu (valentin.neacsu)]

This is stil la problem in Intrepid. Sorting by some columns works, some work partially, and some don't work at all.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Valentin, which version are you using?

Also, from bug 144173, there is a suggestion to fill in the track metadata (i.e. "Track Count"). Can someone show a screenshot or use exiftool to show the metadata from some of the incorrectly sorted tracks?

Also, can anyone try backing up/moving their database (~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db) and importing your music again? This kind of problem seems to happen with a corrupted database. *Please*, do not delete your database; we can probably fix the problem if it does seem to be corrupt. I just want to help determine if the problem is with Banshee or the database.

[Valentin Neacsu (valentin.neacsu)]

I'm using the version that is shipped with Intrepid: Banshee 1.2.1 (1.2.1)

At first I thought you were right about the "Track Count" tag, but then I found albums correctly sorted w/o the "Track Count" tag (see attachments below).

I'll try the DB thing and will come back with results.

[Valentin Neacsu (valentin.neacsu)]

Moving/renaming/deleting the database file has no effect as it reappears as soon as I restart Banshee.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 15:21 +0000, Valentin Neacsu wrote:
> Moving/renaming/deleting the database file has no effect as it reappears
> as soon as I restart Banshee.
>
Stop Banshee, delete the database file, and then start Banshee again.
And while you're at it, delete the one from ~/.config/banshee as well,
if you've used 0.13.x and below.
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Chow Loong Jin

[Valentin Neacsu (valentin.neacsu)]

Thanks, deleting both database files seems to have fixed the sorting issue for me.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:01 +0000, Valentin Neacsu wrote:
> Thanks, deleting both database files seems to have fixed the sorting
> issue for me.
>
That seems to indicate that the error lies with the database migration
code. Perhaps the old database was corrupted.
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Chow Loong Jin

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

Can anyone confirm that this bug is still present using Jaunty and the version of Banshee that is available.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

[Sebastian Kaps (spambucket)]

At least for me the bug is gone in jaunty.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Friday 26,June,2009 04:32 AM, Sebastian Kaps wrote:
> At least for me the bug is gone in jaunty.
>
Then I'll mark it as fix released.

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status fixreleased

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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[persi (xander-stepanov)]

Lucid here (currently alpha 2), Banshee 1.5.3 and I have just had to remove the db to fix this bug.