[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 348502] Re: Unknown Artist/Unknown Album gets overwritten

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** Changed in: banshee
   Importance: Unknown => Critical

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Unknown Artist/Unknown Album gets overwritten
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348502
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Status in Banshee Music Player: New
Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: banshee

Recently when I imported CDs, Banshee could not retrieve album metainformation.  I don't know the reason for that, but this bug is about a problematic consequence rather than this specific problem.  (Even if Banshee was bug-free, you would end up with unidentified albums e.g. if you do an import when you are not connected to the Internet.)

When the metainformation is not available, the album gets saved (by default) into Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/01 Track 1.ogg etc.

Now if I import another album and its metainformation cannot be retrieved either, the existing files will be overwritten without warning.

What's worse, if I noticed and added the track information etc for the first imported album by hand, the database entries will now point to entirely the wrong songs.

The solution to this would appear to be simple: import unknown albums to unique temporary names.

Of course, down the road, it would be nice if "Edit Track Information" would also update the file names of the underlying files on disk.

vnix$ apt-cache policy banshee
banshee:
  Installed: 1.2.1-3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.2.1-3ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.1-3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

vnix$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
Release:        8.10