Rhythmbox tracks stats on paths, not songs

[John Moser]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Rhythmbox tracks stats on paths, not songs. If I insert a CD and play a song that I have a FLAC of, and it can identify them based on Musicbrainz checks or noticing the CD is in my library, it should treat plays of that track of the CD as plays of that file, and mark the play count and rating appropriately. Play count and rating should also follow a file if it moves, perhaps by SHA1 sum and musicbrainz data.

I am not sure the implications of this re tagging, or inserting a CD and doing a musicbrainz check... everything in here requires some kind of fast lookup cache of such data, probably on an on-disk hash table (i.e. indexed database like sqlite).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this is known upstream, you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351745

[Si Dedman (si-dedman)]

Solution could also be as per https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538549
similar to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/394095
which would additionally solve this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/502474
as well as any (I didn't search for them) relating to migrating libraries in/out of RB to other (especially other FOSS) players.

It would be truly lovely if this could be bumped up in importance - I know that's an odd request, but a simple solution which writes playcount & rating to the file would solve numerous bugs affecting many people in one fell swoop. Hence [multiple bugs * low importance] = [single challenge * medium/high importance]