rhythymbox gets rid of my library every time i open it

[goggzy]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Hi, first, the information!
I'm not sure what the source package i found the bug in is, sorry, all i can tell you is it's RhythmBox,
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron.
The RhythmBox version is 0.11.5-0ubuntu6.

Basically,t he problem is that every time i open RhythymBox for the first time after start up, it proceeds to get rid of every song in my library, one-by-one, until it is empty. I then have to go and re-add the library. There's 25+ GB's of music there, and therefore it takes up to ten minutes to get rid of the whole lot, and then another 10 mins to add it all again!! I have the "watch my library" box ticked. After getting rid of all my library, i then go to re-add it, but it adds everything twice, before getting rid of all the duplicate references. thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 13 22:08:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[nglnx (nglnx)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Does your music library reside on an external drive? If so, you could be experience a bug already reported on gnome's bugzilla.

[goggzy (gareth-rhiwlas)]

My library resides on a separate partition on the same physical disk as my Ubuntu partition, however not on an external hard drive. Could you point my in the right direction with the bugzilla bug? I can't find it! Sorry, and thanks!!

[nglnx (nglnx)]

Here is the link:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523790 (with 'watch library folder' enabled on a USB drive, whole library gets wiped if drive is not connected)

[John Ward (automail)]

Is this other partition an NTFS partition because NTFS partitions do not automatically mount on startup of an Ubuntu 8.04 machine and hence your library will be essentially disconnected at every startup. If this is the case what you have to do is click on the "Places" menu on the desktop top bar and select in that list the partition you want mounted. Then open rhythmbox and it wont destroy your library.

In previous Ubuntu versions (7.10 Gutsy and previous) all partitions would automatically be mounted and the problem would not have appeared, 8.04 changed in this regard (not sure why exactly) and you have to (somewhat) manually mount NTFS volumes through the "Places" menu before you can us them.

[beerfan (beerfan)]

Opening an NTFS partition via the places menu clearly auto-mounts the partition. No manual mount is required.

Therefore, Rhythmbox should also trigger (or request) an auto-mount of the partition.

[John Ward (automail)]

When I talk about automatic mounts I mean the system mounting all drives (that you want mounted) without your intervention and usually before you reach the desktop and the lack of need to even click on the volume in the Places menu. When I say manual mount I mean in the context of having to do something to make the drive active and that technically is mounting the drive manually. Yes, you're right in the sense you don't run the "mount" command but the drives are not "automatically" set up for you when you begin - YOU have to take the next action, hence it becomes manual to some extent.

Anyway, I agree that RhythmBox should be able to mount the volume, as the mounting procedure that exists in the "Places" menu is done at user level and doesn't require administrative privileges. I'd like, in fact, to know why exactly automatic mounting was disabled in 8.04 and 8.10 (which I'm testing now, still the same story) as volumes were automatically mounted at startup in previous versions of Ubuntu, which in affect negated this problem.

[Jason Kern (jaskerx)]

I have all my music files on an external hard drive every time I open Rhythmbox it has to rescan my music folder which is a 100gb+. I have heard that this is because the drive is not getting auto mounted at boot but played around with it and nothing but problems trying to enable that. Would expect that a program like this would save my music data in a database file so that it wouldn't have to scan the folder every time. Would call this a major flaw. Using Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 with RB 2.95 and getting a bug from 2008...weird.