Re: [Tracker] No metadata in search results

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 20:57 -0700, Brian Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:43:53 +0100
> jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 02:13 -0700, Brian Davis wrote:
> > > Jamie, it's great to have you back. Things picked up in my life as
> > > well and Hum development stagnated a bit. I was cleaning up some
> > > bugs when I realized that the metadata issue I was whining about
> > > never seemed to go away for me. Any calls I make to
> > > "tracker_metadata_get()" return pointers to empty arrays. 
> > > 
> > > I'd love to find out that I'm misusing the API, but the trackerd
> > > logs appear to be properly extracting and returning the correct
> > > metadata.
> > > 
> > > You had mentioned a few months ago that this was a known issue. Is
> > > there a fix in the pipeline?
> > > 
> > 
> > should be fixed in latest svn - you must reindex to see the metadata
> > though as the original bug occurred while indexing the data
> > 
> > let me know if it solves your problems
> > 
> > jamie.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I recompiled after some initial difficulty. There was an error where the
> "aclocal" directory appeared to have been hard-coded
> as /opt/gnome/share/aclocal, when mine is /usr/share/aclocal. I'm too
> tired to mess with autotools, so I just created a soft link and
> compilation ran successfully to completion. 
> 
> I reindexed, but continue to have difficulty getting any metadata to
> show up in Hum's search results. 
> 
> Any ideas? User error?

is the metadata showing up in tracker-search-tool?

if so then it would imply some error on your part.

if not then check you have the nexcessary plugins for gstreamer (install
the good, bad and ugly plugins)