GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 573217
Unnecessary re-encodings when auto-syncing
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:34:49 UTC
Please describe the problem: I bought a Cowon D2, which is capable of playing back ogg files. I recently re-ripped my entire music library to ogg format, so all the files should be in the same file format. When I sync my D2 with banshee it insists on re-encoding a subset of the files. Inspecting the properties for the files that are re-encoded and files that are not, I can't see any difference between them. There is at least one cd where some files are re-encoded and some are not. Steps to reproduce: 1. Plug D2 into computer with Auto-sync enabled 2. 3. Actual results: Some files are re-encoded. Expected results: No files should need to be re-encoded. Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
This also happens if I manually manage the library and drag and drop the "bad" file to the player.
Can you show the MimeType column (right click on an existing column header to get the show/hide column menu), and check that there are proper values on all tracks?
I just re-enabled the automatic sync to test this. Now the files are not re-encoded, but there still about 600 songs (out of 2000) that banshee deletes then recopies over. I tried unplugging and then replugging after one sync, and the same files were deleted then added again. I looked at the mime types, and they are mostly taglib/ogg. However I found a few (I think more recently ripped CDs) that are application/ogg. However it does not appear as though the copying is related to the mime type. I'll to go back to manual syncing until this is resolved.
Bulk changing the assignee to banshee-maint@gnome.bugs to make it easier for people to get updated on all banshee bugs by following that address. It's usually quite apparent who is working on a given bug by the comments and/or patches attached.
I've seen that one too, or at least a similar one: Some flac files were re-encoded (which was correct) but when syncing, they were deleted and re-added (transcoded) again. I haven't seen this behaviour in a while (several sync passes, no reencode of flac files that are in the sync playlist). I'm on git master. Darin, you could definitely try 1.9.2 to see if the problem is still there.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.