Re: [Banshee-List] CD metadata

[Todd Wilson <twilson csufresno edu>]

Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 11:32 -0800, Todd Wilson wrote:
>> I'm using Banshee 1.4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (actually Ubuntu Studio).  While
>> ripping my CD collection, I've come across a couple of problems that I
>> would like to ask about.  I'll describe the first problem here and send
>> a separate email to the list asking about the second problem.
>>
>> Banshee has found the CD metadata for most of the CDs I insert, but
>> sometimes not on the first try.  After timing out on "Searching for CD
>> metadata", if I eject the CD and reinsert it, Banshee sometimes is able
>> to find the CD metadata.  Sometimes, if this doesn't work, I restart
>> Banshee and reinsert the CD, and it finds the metadata.  But there is
>> one disk so far that Banshee has never been able to find the metadata
>> for, not matter how many times I try:
>>
>>     Rush, "A Show of Hands"
>>     MusicBrainz DISC ID: dLx4fErXHvIKfvb2zh4ELcG76rI-
>>
>> MusicBrainz Picard does the CD Lookup successfully, and so does
>> Rhythmbox, but Banshee always times out looking for it.  I can't imagine
>> why that would be.
>>
>> In terms of features, it might be nice to be able to retry the metadata
>> search without ejecting and reinserting.
> 
> There are already several open bugs related to this kind of problem.
> This is one of them :
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527788
> 
> Any insights on this issue are welcome.

Reading through the comments on this bug report, one person said that,
even though "Searching for CD metadata" went on forever, he did see the
name of the CD in the context menu for the "Audio CD" entry in the
sidebar.  I just checked, and 'Import "A Show of Hands"' is also in my
context menu, so some part of the MusicBrainz query is succeeding.

Todd Wilson