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Songs are treated differently: some are not found, some are.

asked 2016-07-04 14:29:46 +0300

Ruben De Smet gravatar image

updated 2016-07-04 14:38:20 +0300

Hi!

I have been transcoding my whole music collection to opus format, using ffmpeg on my laptop. I've put my whole music collection on my Jolla, and only 1/3 of the songs are "correctly" indexed, with duration, title, album, artist.

This implies that 2/3 of my songs are indexed only by filename, and so I can find them under "All songs" in jolla-mediaplayer, and play them, but they have no album, nor artist, nor title, nor duration (which defaults to 0:00, afaics).

Running tracker-extract manually gives correct information for the non-indexed songs (I'm taking Rammstein as an example), but when running tracker-info, this information is not saved, and so not usable on mediaplayer.

Eg. tracker-extract on another (working) opus file

Also: is there a reason that we're using tracker 1.1.4, instead of something more recent, like 1.8?

EDIT: I have had this exact same issue (without the debugging information :( ) with flac files before. Some indexed, some didn't.

EDIT2: .opus files are .ogg containers (the same file format), but instead of Vorbis codec, it uses the opus codec.

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answered 2016-07-04 15:00:14 +0300

Ruben De Smet gravatar image

updated 2016-07-04 18:04:16 +0300

I killed tracker:

tracker-control -k=all

while jolla-mediaplayer was closed. Then I started the mediaplayer, and now I have all my artists.

This is really weird, because I used the refresh media thing too, in sailfish utilities, but that didn't help anything.

If I use the "Refresh media database" function in utilities after fixing it, it goes back to the previous 32 artists. I have to manually issue the tracker control kill command again.

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none of this stuff helps for me. All music is flac, with same metadata format. Also only some songs from any given album are indexed, and some are left out.

Whippler ( 2016-07-04 18:57:42 +0300 )edit

@Whippler: I didn't mark this as solved, to hope that Jolla updates their tracker installation.

Ruben De Smet ( 2016-07-04 18:58:51 +0300 )edit
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How much is this related to https://together.jolla.com/question/36176/trackermedia-ignores-album-artist/ ?

paulvt ( 2016-07-05 11:05:14 +0300 )edit

@paulvt: probably a lot. I suspect both questions to get resolved when tracker gets updated.

Ruben De Smet ( 2016-07-05 11:42:48 +0300 )edit
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