[Rhythmbox-devel] library problem

[Derrick Ashby <daeroncs ozemail com au>]

Hello folks,

The other night every PC on my home network rebooted while I was in the 
land of nod.  It wasn't the Sasser virus because two of them are linux 
boxes, and the microwave reset itself as well - and I'm sure there's no 
Microsoft software in that!  My gentoo linux box had rhythmbox open at 
the time, and when I brought them all up in the morning I found that all 
the music tracks I had imported from my Red Hat server machine had 
disappeared from the library.  Needless to say, when I imported them 
again all the tag information (including play count, ratings, etc.) had 
disappeared.   I'm running rhythmbox 0.8.1, which is the latest 
available on gentoo.  When I try importing all the tracks in /mnt/music 
at once at some point the program crashes - I haven't identified where, 
but there are some wma files in the collection.  Could this be a 
problem?  Is there any procedure for recovering lost metadata of this sort?

Derrick