omit Album information for files w/o album information

Bug #58941 reported by Martin Emrich
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
Rhythmbox
New
Unknown
rhythmbox (Debian)
Confirmed
Unknown
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Currently, when a new song starts which does not have an "Album" entry, the notification bubble and the track information bar say:
"<title> by <artist> from Unknown"
I'd say it would look nicer if Rhythmbox would just omit the "from Unknown" (or whatever it says with LANG=C) if there is no Album tag (empty string or only nonprintable chars) in the file.

Thanks,

Martin

Tags: bionic
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Martey Dodoo (martey) wrote :

I marked this the same as Gnome #328971 ("Missing tags should not use 'Unknown'") because its resolution would solve the notification issue, I think.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Martin Emrich (emme) wrote :

Yep, I looked into the code, the notification text is generated only once in the rhythmbox source code once.

Ciao

Martin

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
description: updated
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Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This is a very old bug report. Can any please confirm if it's still an issue on 12.04 or 12.10?

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Can one of the paper cuts ninjas please test this and see if it's still an issue? This bug report if prehistoric and it would be nice to get it sorted.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: none → raring-round-1
assignee: nobody → Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Tom Ato (tomato2-71) wrote :

Yes, it is still an issue

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Javier López (javier-lopez) wrote :

I wonder if the attached patch is still applicable, I'll check it out tonight
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Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Javier López (javier-lopez) wrote :

Gnome bug #328971 is about tags, this one (Gnome bug #556828) about album entries, both reports are open and seem forgotten, probably they wont be fixed upstream in a close future, the attached patch never was accepted in upstream and isn't applicable in ubuntu anymore.

It's present in 2.98-0ubuntu1 (raring) and there is also a report in Debian #680584 (which may indicate they also have it).

I'm not programmer, however, maybe someone in the ninja papercut team knows C and can provide a patch.

Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Medium → Unknown
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Changed in rhythmbox (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → New
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: raring-rhythmbox → papercuts-s-rhythmbox
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance: Medium → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: Papercuts Ninjas (papercuts-ninja) → nobody
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Expired
Revision history for this message
Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Wishlist → Unknown
status: Expired → Unknown
tags: added: bionic
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → New
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