Bugzilla – Bug 4472
Playlists display incorrectly after rescan
Last modified: 2009-01-29 10:50:57 UTC
Whilst my players had a playlist, I did a complete rescan of the DB. All I had done was add some things, but I did a clean rescan anyway(scanner.pl --wipe). After that, the songs in the playlists played correctly, and the track information for the current track displays correctly on the players, but the web interface shows largely incorrect data about almost all tracks in the playlist. The track title is always correct, but the album and artist are almost all wrong. For example, one of the tracks displays as "The waitress - Van Morrison - Zooropa", which is at least intriguing. Similarly fascinating is "The King Of Rock 'N' Roll - Oasis - Echoes (The Best of Pink Floyd)". Tracks from the same album in the playlist show with the same (but wrong) album and artist information -- for example, the tracks from Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales" all show up as from Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" audiobook. Seems that this is some sort of error when it comes to referencing bits of the database that have moved... (Was surprised not to be able to find a bug referencing this problem already -- perhaps my search was bad).
please try the latest nightly. 6.5.0 is ratherold now, and there have been many changes to the nightly builds. As the bugzilla main page states, it is always worth trying the nightly before filing just in case the issue is fixed as part of a related bug which may have had differing symptoms.
Mmm, cannot reproduce with the 2006-11-05 nightly. Of course, I'm not precisely sure I tried everything, so it's not a cast-iron guarantee, but the obvious tests didn't reproduce it. Steps attempted: (a) install 2006-11-05 nightly; (b) scanner.pl --wipe; (c) create some playlists, one one on each player with different tracks; (d) add some stuff to the audio tree; (e) scanner.pl --wipe; (f) examine contents of playlists via web UI. Now, it might have been that the problem depended on what it was that was added to the audio tree, and where that new stuff ended up in the DB. But I don't have any evidence on way or the other.