[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 586174] Re: Banshee corrupts certain music files

Wed Jul 7 23:55:36 UTC 2010

I just updated to the version of the lyrics plugin in lucid-proposed (banshee-extension-lyrics 1.6.1-1ubuntu1~lucid2) and enabled it.  Although I haven't heard any distortion yet, there is still a change in the md5 sum (although could this change be due to automatic downloading of album art?).  This was done after freshly copying my backup (from my Downloads folder) to my main Music folder.  The md5sums match:
jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum 09*
00da0f56c209d65ec25fe2397c088a53  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3
jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Downloads/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum 09*
00da0f56c209d65ec25fe2397c088a53  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3

Now this was done after playing the song in Banshee with the lyrics plugin enabled.  They don't match:
jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum 09*
00da0f56c209d65ec25fe2397c088a53  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3
jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum 09*
dd0015cb90b46cf1d62fab700c683428  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3

I also compared the id3 tags as described above by Peter Weissgerber.  You'll see they've still been edited:
jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Downloads/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ id3v2 -l 09\ -\ Cosmic\ Love.mp3
id3v1 tag info for 09 - Cosmic Love.mp3:
Title  : Cosmic Love                     Artist: Florence + The Machine        
Album  : Lungs                           Year: 2009, Genre: Alternative (20)
Comment: Amazon.com Song ID: 21195894    Track: 9
id3v2 tag info for 09 - Cosmic Love.mp3:
TCOM (Composer): Florence Welch
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Cosmic Love
TCOP (Copyright message): (C) 2009 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
TCON (Content type): Alternative Rock (255)
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Florence + The Machine
TPE3 (Conductor/performer refinement): 
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Lungs
COMM (Comments): ()[eng]: Amazon.com Song ID: 211958944
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 9/13
APIC (Attached picture): ()[, 3]: image/jpeg, 77143 bytes
TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment): Florence + The Machine
TPOS (Part of a set): 1/1
TYER (Year): 2009

jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ id3v2 -l 09\ -\ Cosmic\ Love.mp3
id3v1 tag info for 09 - Cosmic Love.mp3:
Title  : Cosmic Love                     Artist: Florence + The Machine        
Album  : Lungs                           Year: 2009, Genre: Alt. Rock (40)
Comment: Amazon.com Song ID: 21195894    Track: 9
id3v2 tag info for 09 - Cosmic Love.mp3:
TCOM (Composer): Florence Welch
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Cosmic Love
TCOP (Copyright message): (C) 2009 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
TCON (Content type): Alt. Rock (40)
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Florence + The Machine
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Lungs
COMM (Comments): ()[eng]: Amazon.com Song ID: 211958944
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 9/13
APIC (Attached picture): ()[, 3]: image/jpeg, 77143 bytes
TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment): Florence + The Machine
TPOS (Part of a set): 1/1
TYER (Year): 2009
USLT (Unsynchronized lyric/text transcription): ()[eng]: 
A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,
So darkness I became
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

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Banshee corrupts certain music files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586174
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Status in Banshee Music Player: New
Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “banshee-community-extensions” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “banshee” source package in Lucid: New
Status in “banshee-community-extensions” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: banshee

I purchased the album Lungs by Florence + the Machine from AmazonMP3.  The first time I downloaded it, I tried pyMazon.  It worked well, but as I started listening to the album in Banshee, I noticed some noise distortion after I listened to a song or two (sort of like squeeks, listen to attached mp3).  I quit Banshee and tried to listen to some of the songs in Totem.  The ones that had squeeked in Banshee, also squeeked in Totem, but others that I hadn't played using Banshee worked fine.  I thought maybe a file or two had been corrupted during download, so I re-opened Banshee and started playing the rest of the album.  Low and behold, some of the songs that had just played fine in Totem now had squeeks in Banshee.  When I quit Banshee and opened the same song in Totem, it now had the squeeks there also.

Now I started thinking maybe I had *somehow* missed the squeeks the first time listening in Totem and that the entire album had been corrupted somehow during download with pyMazon.  Unfortunately, I hadn't had a chance to make a back-up of the files and now they ALL had squeeks in them.  Forunately, I got the AmazonMP3 store to re-open the download for me.  I deleted the original (now corrupted) album.  This time I downloaded using the actual AmazonMP3 installer (for Windows) via Wine (since I can't get AmazonMP3's native downloader to work with Lucid).

After re-downloading the album, I made a back-up of the files right away.  I started by opening a bunch of the songs individually in Totem and Rhythmbox.  They had no squeeks, so I chalked up my problem to a corrupted download from pyMazon.  However, today I wanted to listen to the album again, so again I opened Banshee.  The first song played fine.  The second song (one which I'm confident I had checked in Rhythmbox and Totem just a few days ago) started squeeking.  I quit Banshee and opened up the file in Totem, and it squeeked there too!!

I then ran md5sums on the original and the back-up of the song that squeeks and a song I'm positive I haven't played yet in Banshee ("09 - Cosmic Love.mp3" is the song that squeeks):

jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum "09 - Cosmic Love.mp3"
261ab6c0b58811a41706001c8874f00c  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3

jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Downloads/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum "09 - Cosmic Love.mp3"
00da0f56c209d65ec25fe2397c088a53  09 - Cosmic Love.mp3

jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Music/Amazon MP3/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum "12 - Blinding.mp3"
9280f68424d5d132830b559041ed8ca3  12 - Blinding.mp3

jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/Downloads/Florence + The Machine/Lungs$ md5sum "12 - Blinding.mp3"
9280f68424d5d132830b559041ed8ca3  12 - Blinding.mp3

What the hell?

If you want to hear it, listen to the attached excerpts.

I'm using the default Banshee 1.6.0-1 packaged with Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with plugins: application indicator, lyrics, ubuntu one music store, wikipedia, audio cd, audiobooks, file system preview, internet radio, play queue, podcasts, ipod support, karma support, mass storage media player support, mtp media player support, internet archive, last.fm, bookmarks, bpm, cover art, daap, importers for amarok etc, library watcher, multimedia keys

I also have the boxes checked (in Edit->Preferences): Write Metadata to files, Write ratings and play counts to files.  Perhaps the problem is related to those 2 boxes?

I also think it may have something to do with the "+" symbol in either the Artist ID3 tag or the file path.  I have played other music in Banshee in the last couple of days and this seems to be the only album affected that I've found.

Regardless, I definitely think this is a major bug.  Please let me know what more information I can provide.  My Banshee application also intermittently starts to freeze/hang occasionally.  I think it was actually doing that when I was playing one of the songs that ended up getting squeeks in it earlier.

TEST CASE (for banshee-community-extensions lucid SRU):
1. Backup a music file (it should not contain lyrics in it, verify with id3v2 -l)
2. Start Banshee (with lyrics extension enabled)
3. Turn off the "Write metadata to files" option.
4. Play the music file, and view the lyrics to make sure it is loaded.
5. Check that the music file is unchanged (lyrics should still not be present using id3v2 -l)

PATCH: http://gitorious.org/banshee-community-extensions/banshee-community-extensions/commit/f12d70a1b2a3a0a380ecabfcf7a3b15fe0c989ae (included in upstream sources already).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: banshee 1.6.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 26 20:09:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee