Fwd: some ratings don't stick

[Myriam Schweingruber]

I am forwarding this to the devel list, maybe Ralf can have a look at
it, he is our database man.

Regards, Myriam


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: some ratings don't stick
To: Amarok Mailing List <amarok at kde.org>


Just a little follow-up.
So it seems that SOME songs just do not have any statistics at all,
and those are the tracks for which I am unable to set the rating.
It is definitely a database issue. For those tracks, I also observe
there is no play count or last played or score.

Is there a nice way to create valid entries for the statistics for
these tracks that seem to be not ratable anymore? I suspect there is a
database issue here.




On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just upgraded my computer and restored my external MYSQL data to a newer
> > machine.
> >
> > Amarok works, the collection is found, some of the ratings are there. What
> > is strange is that there are a couple of songs I know had ratings before
> > which show up as unrated now, and if I try to set the rating again, as soon
> > as the mouse clicks on another track, the rating I set "disappears" and
> > there is no rating at all.
> >
> > This only happens on some tracks and not others. I can't understand why this
> > might be. Any ideas on what to try?
>
> The first thing that comes to mind is whether the file is writeable. I
> set Amarok to store the rating to the files, not just to the database,
> which of course only works if the file is writeable.
>
> Then the format might also be relevant: storing ratings works fine in
> file formats which have a container for it, so FLAC should be OK as it
> allows storing metadata in Vorbis comments format, ditto for Ogg.
> Other formats I am not so sure, even if MP3 supports recent ID3
> standards, it is de facto not a container and might have some
> different issues. As for Wave the amount of storable metadata is
> limited and done as additional chunks, not sure how much Amarok can
> use that or whether it is recognized.
>
> Hope this gives some ideas :-)
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
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