Any number in ID3v2 genre field is matched with ID3v1 genres

Bug #286509 reported by guillepb
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Rhythmbox
Expired
Low
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Ubuntu 8.10beta
Rhythmbox 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu3

I tag all my music with the release year in the genre (I also use the year field, but almost no browser or PMP that I know lets you browse by year, so I resort to that little trick), and when trying to import my Music into Rhythmbox, I found that it all got categorized as genre "Unknown".

After doing a little digging, I found that Rhythmbox is trying to match any number in the genre field to the list of genres in the ID3v1 spec, even if you are using ID3v2 tags as I do. Given no genre exists for, e.g., "2007", it's classified as Unknown.

I understand that the ID3v2 spec for the TCON frame is especially awkward regarding that subject, but could rhythmbox understand that if the number is larger than 127, there's no way that it's an ID3v1 genre (and therefore display the "bare" number as the genre).

I wouldn't be complaining if I had not tried before with other media managers like Amarok or iTunes, where I found no problem with this.

Thank you.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, that's an upstream issue, could you send it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
guillepb (guillepb) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → Incomplete
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Low
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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