Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee doesn't show metadata when playing a streamed flac file

[Mac <macdroid53 gmail com>]

I have just seen a similar problem.

I went through my whole collection on my server and setup all the
compilations so they showed up as an album for a given compilation.
(essentially, I added the album artist tag as "Various Artists")

Though external tag programs, Easytag for example, do not show this tag,
it seems to work fine when displayed by Banshee on the server. On a
remote machine though, the tag is not seen and each song on the album is
listed as a separate album. (on the remote, the compilation checkbox is
unchecked, the field is grayed out and shows the artist name)

Since I can't see the tag in Easytag, I'm guessing the extra info is
locally cached by Banshee and thus isn't seen on a remote. 

It just so happens that these are flac files. (I just don't have any
non-flac compilations, so it may not work with mp3 either...)

Mac

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:58 -0400, Michael Martin-Smucker wrote:
> I don't have any guesses about what would be causing this, but it's
> probably worthy of a bug
> report: http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/  Especially since
> Totem on the same machine can see the metadata.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:12 PM, lfreeze <lowellfriesen shaw ca>
> wrote:
>         I've recently decided to move my music collection from CDs on
>         to a hard
>         drive.  I want to box my CDs and have my music available to be
>         played by the
>         many different computers in my house.  I'm converting the
>         music to flac
>         files using Asunder, editing the metadata with Ex Falso, and
>         importing cover
>         art from the cli with metaflac.  My file server is a headless
>         system running
>         Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I have an assortment of computers
>         running different
>         versions of Windows and Ubuntu accessing the music from around
>         the house.
>         
>         Banshee plays the flac files just fine when they are on the
>         local machine
>         (running Ubuntu 11.04).  The issue, however, comes when I move
>         those same
>         files on to the server (using rsync) and play them from
>         there.  When I do
>         so, Banshee plays the music fine, but doesn't seem to read or
>         display any of
>         the metadata.  Computers running Windows and Winamp display
>         the metadata
>         just fine as does my Ubuntu system when I play the file with
>         Totem.
>         
>         Any ideas as to what the problem might be or how I could fix
>         it?
>         
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