some ratings don't stick

[Myriam Schweingruber]

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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