some ratings don't stick

[Alan Ezust]

I am storing ratings in the database though, not in the tags. but the files
are writable anyway. And they're all MP3s of the same file format.


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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