Someone please fix the 30-character bug

[Martin Aumueller]

Unfortunately, your report is not helpful: bug 100742 seems to be related to 
tag recoding. This option is not any longer available in the 1.4 series, so 
the reason for your bug has to be different.

But you do not give any information how to reproduce your problem:
- what tags (id3v1, id3v2.3, id3v.2.4, ...) do your files have before you use 
amarok?
- what do you have to do in amarok in order to trigger this problem?
- how do you notice that the tags have been trunacated? Could it be that they 
have been rewritten as id3v2.4 and that your external software is not capable 
of reading them? (Happens with id3lib based software, such as easytag, ...)

Please supply this information and other hints that might possibly be helpful.


On Sat Feb 10 2007, Mats Ahlgren wrote:
> addendum:
> Additionally I've noticed this problem across distributions.
>
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:26:35 Mats Ahlgren wrote:
> > Below is a friendly but urgent suggestion:
> >
> > Amarok randomly truncates metadata fields (albums, titles, artists,
> > anything) to 30 characters.
> >
> > I've mentioned this bug before on the mailing list.
> > It's been posted on bugs.kde.org --
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100742 but no one will re-open it.
> >
> > I've noticed this bug constantly for at least the past 1.5 years, from
> > Amarok 1.2.* (I think?) through 1.4.4!
> >
> > Metadata corruption is a serious problem and most users would not
> > tolerate it.
> >
> > This is the last time I'm going to suggest that this serious bug be
> > fixed.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Mats
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