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Bug 579946 - mp4 metadata seems to be broken
mp4 metadata seems to be broken
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: taglib-sharp
Classification: Other
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: taglib-sharp-maint
taglib-sharp-maint
Depends on: 575842
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-23 11:38 UTC by Dominic Evans
Modified: 2018-08-17 19:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Dominic Evans 2009-04-23 11:38:43 UTC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/364574

Binary package hint: banshee

banshee's handling of mp4 metadata seems to be broken in some of its behaviour, an example of the use case (and several problems) is below:

e.g.,

1) turn on file system organization and update when saving metadata
2) import a .mp4 music video containing h264+aac with no metadata set on it
3) play the video and confirm it works fine
4) use `MP4Box -info filename.mp4` on the commandline to check the .mp4 file is valid
5) set the artist and title fields in the metadata editor in banshee and save
5) note that the file has been moved to (for example) ~/Music/Artist/Album (Year)/00 - Title.mp4
6) attempt to play the video and note that banshee cannot play it (it thinks it cannot find it).
7) choose Tools --> Rescan Music Folder
8) note that banshee adds a new entry for the video with no metadata set and '00 - in the title column
9) confirm that the new entry plays back fine whilst the old one still thinks it cannot be found
10) try `MP4Box -v -info 00-title.mp4` on the newly moved file in a command prompt and note that MP4Box segfaults due to corruption in the .mp4 metadata

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: banshee 1.4.3-3ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
Comment 1 Gabriel Burt 2009-04-30 01:08:17 UTC
Sounds like a taglib-sharp issue
Comment 2 David Nielsen 2010-08-30 19:39:53 UTC
It sounds like this depends on #575842 which has a patch to improve mp4 handling which does not appear to have been merged in the github repo which appears to be the active upstream.

http://github.com/mono/taglib-sharp/
Comment 3 André Klapper 2018-08-17 19:48:44 UTC
taglib-sharp has moved to Github a while ago.
Furthermore, GNOME Bugzilla will be shut down and replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.

If the problem reported in this Bugzilla ticket is still valid, please report
it to https://github.com/mono/taglib-sharp/issues instead. Thank you!

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping.