Upgrade to 1.4.7 & Build Collection = Incorrect Mapping

[Ian Monroe]

On 10/2/07, bhanks at bhanks.com <bhanks at bhanks.com> wrote:
> > can you reproduce the same problem using sqlite ?
> > unless somebody knows where the problem is already, that will help to
> > locate it faster.
>
>
> I started from scratch and configured Amarok to use SQLite.  The
> results were the same as with Postgresql.  That is there are paths in
> the DB that are mapped to the incorrect artist/title info.  A little
> more investigation shows that the affected files actually contain
> incorrect ID3 tags.  I'm not sure how these got updated because they
> were fine when I was using Rhythmbox.  After converting to Amarok,
> this issue popped up.
>
> One other observation -- the affected files appear to be inverted (see below).
>
> /prod/data/music/mp3/Beck--Mellow_Gold is mapped to
> Artist=Beastie_Boys Title=Check_Your_Head
>
> /prod/data/music/mp3/Beastie_Boys--Check_Your_Head is mapped to
> Artist=Beck Title=Mellow_Gold
>
> At this point, my only option seems to be to rebuild the ID3 tags for
> the affected files.  Any idea what the best approach would be?

Bad data in, bad data out. :)

You could use PicardTagger to retag your files.

Ian