GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741232
Nautilus trying to thumbnail every mp3 file causes GnomeDesktop warnings, which floods the systemd journal
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:52:03 UTC
When browsing through music folders, I see a ton of entries being created in the journal (from journalctl -f), like this: nautilus.desktop[6626]: (nautilus:6626): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error creating thumbnail for file:///home/jeff/somemp3file... nautilus.desktop[6626]: (nautilus:6626): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Unable to create loader for mime type audio/mpeg: Unrecognized image format I'm not sure it should be that verbose for a fairly normal event like this, failing to thumbnail audio files is the norm rather than the exception...
Similar report on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1497727 Seems like nautilus try to thumbnail audio files as image for some reason... (does the same on ogg, wav, etc)
Maybe because some audio files have embedded album cover/art images?
Could, be but it seems gnome-desktop tries to open those using gdk-pixbuf, not using a thumbnailer service (like totem for videos)
I was able to reproduce this on Debian Sid/unstable with Nautilus 3.22.3 and a FLAC file.
Could you find a free FLAC file to attach to this report so I can test that? I can't reproduce the downstream bug on Files 3.26.3-0ubuntu4 or the Files 3.28.0 Nightly Flatpak on Ubuntu 18.04.
(a free FLAC file that triggers the bug, I mean)
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