gmusicbrowser lost saved lists
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QuodLibet |
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gmusicbrowser (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
gmusicbrowser lost my saved lists.
I had 14 lists, with about 150+ songs at a guess.
The lists were drawn from my music library, which is stored on an external disk. I have been using them for a couple of months. Then I started gmusicbrowswer without remembering to mount the external disk first. gmusicbrowser took that to mean the music library was no longer there. It cleared its library - an error that can be corrected easily. But it also cleared the saved lists. I would rather it had not done that.
The lists were filed painstakingly. I had filed songs according to what key they were in. I worked the classification out myself over long hours of loving work at my musical instrument. The lists formed a library of songs for practicing. Now I shall have to start over.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gmusicbrowser 1.1.9-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 3 21:25:56 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (279 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gmusicbrowser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (112 days ago)
Changed in gmusicbrowser (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Thanks for reporting this. When songs are removed, most informations are kept for a number of sessions, and restored if you re-add the songs. But the songs are indeed removed definitely from saved lists. It hadn't occurred to me, probably because I rarely use lists. I will think about this, but it's not easily fixable, so I don't know what I will do about it or when.
The good news is that there are backups in ~/.config/ gmusicbrowser/ . Almost everything is saved in the gmbrc file, and there should be 5 backups of it from the last 5 days/sessions.
To avoid that in the future, you can of course disable the auto-removing of songs in the preferences.
You could also use labels instead of saved lists, unless you need to keep an order, or to have a song present more than once in a list. Though there are some things that may not be as convenient with labels as they are with saved lists (you can't add a label by drag and drop for example) I will try to improve this in the future.