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

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

Hey lfreeze,

On 09/21/2011 10:53 PM, lfreeze wrote:
> Thanks for all your responses.
>
> I don't think I have the same issue you're having Mac.  I'm embedding the
> metadata into the file itself so that I can play the file with other music
> players (if I or others in my house wish to) and still have the metadata
> available without having to add it by hand again.  (I have a lot of
> classical music, and rarely to does music management software automatically
> add the metadata---if it can find it---the way I want.)
>
> I've done a little more troubleshooting.  If I rip a cd into ogg format with
> the same software, Banshee has no trouble reading and displaying the
> metadata whether the file is on the local machine or on the server.  So it
> seems to have something to do with the flac format.

Cool, thanks for testing that! Can you file a bug report about reading 
the tags of the flac format, mentioning that it works for ogg?


> I also tried comparing Banshee's behavior when I right-click on the file and
> tell it to "play with Banshee" as opposed to when I import the file into
> Banshee's media library.  The problem I was having arose with the former of
> these two methods; selecting a set of flac files, right-clicking, and
> telling my computer to open them with Banshee resulted in Banshee playing
> the file but not displaying the metadata.  Something slightly different
> happened when I imported the music and played it.  In the Libraries>  Music
> window, the track that happens to be playing displays the correct metadata
> in the list of tracks in the album at the bottom of the window.  However,
> all of the non-currently-playing tracks show "unknown artist" and "unknown

Cool, can you file this behaviour as a separate bug (about flac format 
when right clicking, as opposed to importing and playing)?


> album".  Also, no album art shows in the albums windows, but the correct
> album art shows up at the top beside the slider, pause, and forward and back

And file that as a third bug please! Because all of them are different 
issue (although, to be honest, it smells like maybe the bugfix for one 
of them may fix all of them in one go, but we don't know for sure yet!).


> buttons.  If I open the Now Playing window, the album art is shown beside
> correct metadata.  I don't know if this is something that would be solved
> with the feature that you point out Andres.

No, it seems to be a different issue.


> I'm relatively new to things, so I've never filed a bug report before.  If
> it's warranted, however, I'll give it a shot.

Yes please, follow this: http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/

Thanks again!

  Andres

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