GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675308
Mixup tags of different edited mp3 files
Last modified: 2012-05-02 20:35:32 UTC
Hello, when editing the tags of multiple files, rhythmbox mixes them up. The simplest way to reproduce this bug (without spoiling your precious mp3 collection) is: - put two mp3 files in a folder (for example, download http://www.mi.infm.it/manini/tmp/test_mp3.tgz, and unpack it) - cd to this folder (in the example above: cd tmp) - open both files in rhythmbox (rhythmbox *) - right-click on the first song, and select Properties; - in the dialog change the album tag of the first song to "aa"; - close the Properties dialog; - right-click on the second song, and select Properties; - change the album tag of the second song to "bb"; - close the Properties dialog. - clear all songs from the list and exit from rhythmbox. - Now, reopen both files in rhythmbox (rhythmbox *) or in any other music player, e.g. audacious, and check the album tags of both songs. - Both album tags now equal "aa", while they should be "aa" and "bb" respectively, instead. This bug can and does cause extensive data loss (it did to me) when editing the tags of multiple songs: most tags get screwed up. This is why I label this bug as "major". The old version 0.12.8-3 of rhythmbox in debian-squeeze had no such problem. Thank you for any fix! Nick
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 671840 ***