Cannot change Artist Sort error, Rythmbox reports "Internal GStreamer error"

[Jim Patterson]

Using Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

Rhythmbox frequently fails to change the Artist Sort Order property. I think I've seen similar errors on other properties as well. This has a high probability of occurring when changing multiple tracks at once e.g. switching a property an entire album. However, even though it's more likely to succeed if done track-by-track, it still happens even then.

I'm using Rhythmbox to maintain a collection of Ogg Vorbis audio files, and these properties, I believe, are kept within the actual music files (but that's a guess on my part).

When the action fails, I get two message boxes from Rhythmbox, and as expected, the property does not get changed in the track file.

*Error while saving song information* internal data stream error
*Error while saving song information* Internal GStreamer problem; file a bug

rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.12.8-0ubuntu7
libgstreamer0.10-0:
  Installed: 0.10.28-1

I would expect to be able to change the property - there is no reason it should prevent me. Usually, repeating the action on individual tracks will work. Sometimes, restarting Rhythmbox seems to help.

[Gary M (garym)]

I've encountered this same situation once, on maverick (10.10 post-beta).

[Gary M (garym)]

There is an upstream bug that looks similar ("Internal GStreamer error when changing Genre on a batch of marked tunes from Rhythmbox") -- see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627678

[Terry Hamel (thpublic+nospam)]

I get this error too, so I logged the problem with:

GST_DEBUG=*:5 rhythmbox 2>dbg.log

Per the instructions @ https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627678

After executing/closing multiple song properties, RB will stall - or at least
the GUI will become unresponsive, occasionally resulting in this error. I
noticed it is more likely to trigger if RB is playing audio and the status
graphic is animating.

RB v0.13.1

gst-inspect-0.10 fakesink | grep Version
  Version: 0.10.30
gst-inspect-0.10 playbin2 | grep Version
  Version: 0.10.30
gst-inspect-0.10 autoaudiosink | grep Version
  Version: 0.10.25

The compressed log is 201mb. Can this bug tracking system accept that
attachment size?

[Jan Heitkötter (jan-heitkoetter)]

I can confirm this bug for Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit and Debian Wheezy 64 bit: Rhythmbox writes crap (i.e. the same artist all the time) to the ARTISTSORT tag in FLAC files on both systems. Any chance to get that fixed?

jan@haktar:~$ gst-inspect flactag | grep Version
  Version: 0.10.30