Sort fields are not retained

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 02:51 +0000, ceneketcham wrote:
>
> Information saved to the new sort fields (e.g. Sort Artist, Sort Album
> Artist) is not retained after I shut down banshee. I'm using v.
> 1.5.0.0.
>
> Saving appears to be working correctly, but on restart, all sort
> fields
> are blank.

Hello, and thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I don't
understand what you mean by "saving". Could you be a little more clear
about this?

Thanks in advance.

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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

Sure. What I mean is that information entered into these fields does not seem to be retained after I close the program.

For example:

I can change the 'Sort Artist' and 'Sort Album Artist' fields for an album to "Zappa, Frank," and hit save. It will then appear in the correct location under 'Z' as I would expect. However, when I restart banshee, the album appears under 'F' again. When I check the album properties, both the 'Sort Artist' and 'Sort Album Artist' fields are blank again.

Make sense?

I've had a little more time to take a look at this, and it looks like I don't even need to close the program for it to strip out the Sort Artist.

In the morning, I can change the Sort Artist field for "Jack McDuff" to "McDuff, Jack." It will work immediately, changing the sort order for those tracks. I can go back and look the tags right away, and it's still correct. But even leaving Banshee open all day, by the time I get back from work, it will be back under "Jack McDuff." I look at the Sort Artist tag, and it's blank.

Odd behavior indeed.

Thanks for your report, that's something to send directly upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org by someone having the issue, for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

Bug opened upstream.

Just want to confirm that this is still an issue in 1.5.1.

I've been running with --debug the past couple days, and noticed this message that correlated with the loss of my modified sort tags:

~$ banshee --debug
** Running Mono with --debug **
[Warn 07:44:35.098] The Banshee indexer is currently running. Banshee will be started when the indexer finishes.
:~$

After a few moments, Banshee starts as normal, but debug information does not appear.

ceneketcham: I've also seen that warning, and I've also had problems with sort fields not retaining their values. I never made the connection before, but if indeed that warning is related to the problem, developers would probably benefit from that information.

I'm going to add your last comment to the upstream report, and I really encourage you to add the the conversation upstream if you notice anything else.

This is also an issue for me with version 1.5.2.

This is still an issue in 1.7.1 as well.

I've got version 1.6 and I also have sorting field problems, though slightly different (setting the sort field for all tracks in a particular album actually set the sort field to the same value for all the tracks in my library, now that sort field cannot be changed or deleted for any track)...should I file a separate bug, or is there a way I can manually upgrade to 1.7.1 so that at least the sort fields can fail to retain the wrong information?

On Friday 04,June,2010 12:27 AM, Brandi Catt wrote:
> I've got version 1.6 and I also have sorting field problems, though
> slightly different (setting the sort field for all tracks in a
> particular album actually set the sort field to the same value for all
> the tracks in my library, now that sort field cannot be changed or
> deleted for any track)...should I file a separate bug, or is there a way
> I can manually upgrade to 1.7.1 so that at least the sort fields can
> fail to retain the wrong information?
>

1.7.1 is in the Banshee Unstable PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-unstable.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

I am on 2.6.1 and this is still a problem