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Metadata not read on network drives?
My Music is on a network drive. How can I automatically parse the metadata when scanning for files?
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This appears to be a bug in the TagLib library we use which, during scan, attempts to open the file with read/write permissions and when that fails on a read-only SMB share (and as far as I am aware, only under that circumstance) fails to fall back to opening with just read-only permissions.
Songbird shouldn't be writing anything back without your permission, and furthermore, you can disable all metadata writing everywhere by setting the "songbird.metadata.enableWriting" pref to "false" in about:config.
Hope that helps, and I think we'll probably get to that one with the codename Hendrix release.
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Inappropriate?Explain more detailed, what are you trying to do and what's expected as a result?
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I'm having this same problem. I'm running Songbird on a Windows XP machine, with all of my songs accessed through a Samba share on another machine. When I use "Import Media", the songs all import into the library, but no metadata is read.
I've also imported files on a USB drive, and the metadata was read correctly from those ones. -
I'm also having this problem. Windows Vista, music on an SMB share. Music imports successfully, but no metadata comes along. Same files imported from local drive work fine.
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Inappropriate?I have the same kind of a problem.
When I installed the Songbird to my main computer, I was able to get all my records correctly from the server, includung the metadata from mp3 -files.
Whe I made the same installation to my other computer, the program shows, that all the songs were imported, but the metadata form mp3 -files are not shown. Actually they are shown partly (about 60 albums out of a 2000).
My main computer is connected to a 1Gb switch, and the server is at the same switch. This works OK. The other computer is further away, behind a wireless connection, and this is not working correctly.
The server is running on Linux, and the share is done with Samba.
It just came to my mind: I have a full access to the server, and with my user account it worked OK. When I did the data importing to the other computer, I used a different account which has only read -access to the server.
Can this explain the problem?
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Inappropriate?I think, i've seen some reports related to read-only issues in Linux...
I will look for it in Bugzilla...
@Chris & Jon
Can you, guys check if your access to the server is limited to read-only?
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Changing my samba share to allow write access seems to have fixed the problem for me.
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Inappropriate?@boris, I can confirm that my server is NOT read-only. It is actually a Windows share (not linux), which I have full read/write/delete access to. -
Inappropriate?/me slaps head. turns out i didn't have write permission. problem solved. thanks!
I’m happy, feeling a bit silly.
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Inappropriate?I have the same problem with the same configuration as Chris. I have a Windows XP client running a fresh Songbird install, with my music stored on a read-only Samba share (from Gentoo Linux, if it matters). Ogg file imports are read correctly; MP3 and M4A files show no metadata whatsoever. And I have very carefully ensured that all my music is tagged long before my Songbird installation; I'm kinda anal-retentive that way :-)
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Inappropriate?I'm with Jason - why does Songbird need write-access to metadata for my files? I'm reluctant to let it "touch" my carefully managed library without knowing what data it might update
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Inappropriate?@John
It doesn't mean that Songbird will write any updates to the files without your knowledge. The application needs a full access to the files in order to scan, read, play your files, import/delete files to/from the library, re-arrange by creating new playlists, or edit metadata (by you, not by itself).
If you so reluctant to let it touch your files, then let them seat there with no touching.....nor playing1 Comment Add a comment
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>> If you so reluctant to let it touch your files, then let them seat there with no touching.....nor playing
Surely you must be joking. What if i store my collection on a DVD jukebox? Requiring that Songbird have RW access to media files is poorly thought out at best. I have yet come across another media player with this requirement. It seems that if you want to play with the established "big boys" you will address this issue not throw around ultimatums like "no touching... nor playing" -
Inappropriate?@Boris - thanks. It just seems odd to have a "player" app require write access upfront - I've had other "library organizing" type apps go in and make unexpected meta-data changes before and I'd like to avoid that . . .
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Inappropriate?This appears to be a bug in the TagLib library we use which, during scan, attempts to open the file with read/write permissions and when that fails on a read-only SMB share (and as far as I am aware, only under that circumstance) fails to fall back to opening with just read-only permissions.
Songbird shouldn't be writing anything back without your permission, and furthermore, you can disable all metadata writing everywhere by setting the "songbird.metadata.enableWriting" pref to "false" in about:config.
Hope that helps, and I think we'll probably get to that one with the codename Hendrix release.
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Inappropriate?Thanks pvh - that rocks. I will take a look at about:config.
Songbird is fantastic, and I'm promoting every chance I get - thanks for the good work
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Inappropriate?Did setting "songbird.metadata.enableWriting" pref to "false" fix your problem? It doesn't seem to fix the problem with reading tags from MP3s on a read-only network shared folder.
