MusicBrainz ID tags not written to ogg files

[James Henstridge]

Binary package hint: sound-juicer

This report concerns sound-juicer 2.31.6-0ubuntu2 running on Maverick/AMD64.

When ripping a CD, sound-juicer is supposed to write the MusicBrainz artist, album and track IDs to the resulting ogg files, and did so in previous Ubuntu versions. After upgrading to Maverick, this doesn't seem to be happening. The only tags on one of the files I ripped were:

    TITLE=Catapult
    ARTIST=Operator Please
    TRACKNUMBER=1
    TRACKTOTAL=10
    ALBUM=Gloves
    ARTISTSORT=Operator Please
    DATE=2010-04-26
    DISCID=7c07e90a
    MUSICBRAINZ_DISCID=9J2J6mzR7Smu2nOxMTOZPnoI_kA-

Files ripped with Lucid also included MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID, MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID, MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID and MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID tags.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

Looking at the source code, the code for writing the UUIDs is only enabled if HAVE_MB_EXTRACT_UUID is set, This is an autoconf check that is set if the mb_extract_uuid() function is available.

That function appears to have been added in libmusicbrainz 3.0.3, while Maverick contains 3.0.2.

[Philipp Wolfer (phw)]

Yes, a newer libmusicbrainz is required. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578654 for details.