GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 586964
All changes to iPod sometimes lost
Last modified: 2018-05-24 14:26:19 UTC
Please describe the problem: I tend to have Rhythmbox open all day, and exit it at the end of the day. Sometimes, all changes I have made to iPod during the day are completely lost. Ratings I've added, changes I've made to playlists, etc -- just completely gone, as if I had never made them. My suspicion is this: If I eject the iPod from within Rhythmbox, THEN quit Rhythmbox, everything is fine. If I quit Rhythmbox, then unmount the iPod by other means, then everything is lost. Steps to reproduce: Not positive, but see above; may be related to ejecting the iPod Actual results: Expected results: The UI gives no visual indication that changes haven't been saved. rhythmbox should commit changes to the iPod immediately, just like it does with the local PC database. Even if it doesn't, it shoul dhave a Save button to do so without unmounting the iPod. Does this happen every time? Other information:
It appears that my initial hypothesis for the cause of this may have been off. Today I made sure to eject the iPod before closing Rhythmbox. I had done a variety of things: 1) Added ratings to tracks 2) Added tracks to playlists 3) Removed tracks from other playlists 4) Removed tracks (that were in playlists) from the iPod entirely (moved to trash). Of these, here's what happened: #1: was preserved #2: was preserved #3: was lost #4: tracks were moved to .Trash-1000, but were left in the database and re-displayed
I can confirm this. If you exit rhythmbox straight after copying a file to the iPod, the DB isn't saved when it should be (eg. the "Writing iPod database to disk" message never appears in the debug output).
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