Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Auto-fill of album/track names in Maverick (10.10)

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Marco Massenzio <m massenzio gmail com> wrote:
> What's the status of this in Rhytmbox?
>
> I must say I'm genuinely amazed this has been going for so long, with so
> many people being annoyed by it, and nothing much apparently being done to
> fix something that seem to the uninitiated eye relatively simple to fix (I
> mean, according to the blog post on MusicBrainz, all they ask for is a valid
> User-Agent string - doesn't seem unreasonable nor too difficult to achieve?)
>
> Been searching around, the forum, Launchpad, bug reports, Ubuntu forums -
> I'm now aware I'm not the only thinking poorly of RB, but none the wiser
> about how to fix it: I've tried to build 2.96 from the source, but there's a
> dependency that can't be fixed - I'm on 0.13 and would be nice to have a fix
> for this.
> Or at least know that none is available and I'll stop wasting time trying to
> rip CDs with RB (a pretty basic functionality IMO) - I'll just use a Mac for
> this, and will put up with iTunes.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/787475
>
> says it's fixed - it most certainly isn't for me, nor is clear where I'm
> supposed to go/do to get a fix/patch.

According to the bug report you just linked to, you just need a
rhythmbox package that is built with libmusicbrainz3. This is a
distribution problem, not an upstream problem. It's a bit of a shame
that the Ubuntu developers haven't been able to resolve this yet, but
they do have other things to focus on, such as the other two versions
they've released since then and the one they're about to release.

Since you seem to have the skills to build from source, perhaps you
could provide a PPA for people still using Ubuntu 10.10 containing the
updated packages.