Re: Artist name not visible for tracks

[Mehmet Giritli <mehmet giritli eu>]

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 11:59 +0200, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Do, 2012-06-28 at 12:03 +0300, Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> 
> > 1. When playing a music file, the artist name can not be retrieved from
> > the library. It is set to "Unknown artist". All other tags are okay
> > tough.
> 
> If you run tracker-info on one of the files, do you get a proper artist?
> If no, then it's a tracker problem.

This is what I get for one of my tracks:

Querying information for entity:'/mnt/media/musica/Aerosmith/Devil's Got
a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith/Aerosmith - Devil's Got a New
Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith - Dream On.flac'
  'urn:uuid:4d39ffcd-f2ab-cd6b-2846-448807c6a534'
Results:
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor' = 'urn:artist:Aerosmith'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date' = '2006-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date' = '2012-02-02T19:00:54.000Z'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date' = '2012-02-05T13:10:26.000Z'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source' =
'urn:nepomuk:datasource:9291a450-1d49-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66'
  'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title' = 'Dream On'
  'tracker:added' = '2012-06-21T13:53:31.000Z'
  'tracker:modified' = '4462'
  'rdf:type' = 'http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource'
  'rdf:type' =
'http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/01/19/nie#DataObject'
  'rdf:type' =
'http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/01/19/nie#InformationElement'
  'rdf:type' =
'http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#FileDataObject'
  'rdf:type' =
'http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#Media'
  'rdf:type' =
'http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#Audio'
  'rdf:type' = 'http://www.tracker-project.org/temp/nmm#MusicPiece'
  'nie:byteSize' = '28366519'
  'nie:dataSource' =
'urn:nepomuk:datasource:9291a450-1d49-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66'
  'nie:isPartOf' = 'urn:uuid:55238f4e-17c9-4bfa-327c-f3db5aa3fe4c'
  'nie:url' = 'file:///mnt/media/musica/Aerosmith/Devil's%20Got%20a%
20New%20Disguise:%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Aerosmith/Aerosmith%20-%
20Devil's%20Got%20a%20New%20Disguise:%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%
20Aerosmith%20-%20Dream%20On.flac'
  'nfo:belongsToContainer' =
'urn:uuid:55238f4e-17c9-4bfa-327c-f3db5aa3fe4c'
  'tracker:available' = 'true'
  'nie:contentCreated' = '2006-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'
  'nie:informationElementDate' = '2006-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'
  'nie:isLogicalPartOf' = 'urn:album:Devil's%20Got%20a%20New%20Disguise:
%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Aerosmith'
  'nie:isLogicalPartOf' = 'urn:album-disc:Devil's%20Got%20a%20New%
20Disguise:%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Aerosmith:Disc1'
  'nie:isStoredAs' = 'urn:uuid:4d39ffcd-f2ab-cd6b-2846-448807c6a534'
  'nie:mimeType' = 'audio/flac'
  'nie:title' = 'Dream On'
  'nco:contributor' = 'urn:artist:Aerosmith'
  'nfo:fileLastAccessed' = '2012-02-05T13:10:26.000Z'
  'nfo:fileLastModified' = '2012-02-02T19:00:54.000Z'
  'nfo:fileName' = 'Aerosmith - Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very
Best of Aerosmith - Dream On.flac'
  'nfo:fileSize' = '28366519'
  'nfo:codec' = 'FLAC'
  'nfo:duration' = '266'
  'nfo:channels' = '2'
  'nfo:sampleRate' = '44100.0'
  'nmm:musicAlbum' = 'urn:album:Devil's%20Got%20a%20New%20Disguise:%
20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Aerosmith'
  'nmm:musicAlbumDisc' = 'urn:album-disc:Devil's%20Got%20a%20New%
20Disguise:%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Aerosmith:Disc1'
  'nmm:performer' = 'urn:artist:Aerosmith'
  'nmm:trackNumber' = '12'


> 
> > 
> > 2. I think I have a problem with the hierarchical display of my library
> > through dlna. When I explore the library from phone, initially I have
> > "Music, Picture and Videos" Options. Under "music", I get "Albums,
> > Artists, Titles, Genre and All". Under "Artists" I get a complete list
> > of my artists in the library, but under each artist I get all the tracks
> > from that artist whereas I expected to get Albums and the tracks
> > populated under each album accordingly. Can this be done via rygel
> > configuration?
> 
> No. But there's a bug about that already:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676135
> 
> > 
> > 3. A question: After I activated the tracker plugin, MediaExport plugin
> > seemed to get deactivated by itself. Is this normal?
> 
> Yes. They do the same so there isn't much point in having both running.
> 

Thanks for the info.