[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[Tuomas Nurmi]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

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--- Comment #6 from Tuomas Nurmi  ---
Ah, interesting. Reading the description and steps to reproduce, I got a
feeling this might be related to a bug that was fixed yesterday in git master (
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475528 ).
I tried the steps and could reproduce this, but (in addition to the bug fixed
yesterday?), this case involves another aspect: Seems that when some
subdirectories of a directory are excluded from the collection, all files in
the root of the directory are excluded, too (and only the specifically included
subdirectories are included). I'm not completely sure if it should include the
top level or not; maybe it should, but that's technically a bit complicated to
implement.
(Here seems to be also an additional small UI bug: when files in a top level of
directory are not included, they are shown as checkable single files in
collection directory setup. However, selecting them has no effect as collection
scanner skips them as they are not directories)

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[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[Stephan Schöttl]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

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[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[Ralf Engels via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

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--- Comment #3 from Ralf Engels  ---
I think this is what happened:

When you removed the link and did the rescanning Amarok deleted the old songs
from the database.

If you would instead have moved everything in place and then let Amarok rescan,
then Amarok would have noticed that the files were just moved.

The behaviour is a little bit up to interpretation, but I think forgetting
about not longer used songs is the right thing to do.
However you could add a "wish" that Amarok should not clean up deleted files
until a restart.

Allowing Amarok to save the playcount in the file will prevent this from
happening again.

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[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[robert marshall via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

--- Comment #4 from robert marshall  ---
Ralf

That's not the problem, to give an explicit example:

~/Music/ contained (say) track1.flac and otherArea - otherArea is a soft link
to /newPartition/Music and contains track2.flac
I removed otherArea from the directories (within ~/Music) where are scanned (in
amarok settings) and at that point track2.flac loses its stats (this I
expected!). I then added /newPartition/Music (using the full path) as a
directory containing part of my collection. track2.flac reappears in the
collection with a never played status (also an expected outcome). I then
removed the otherArea soft link.

What I didn't expect was that track1.flac would suddenly also appear to be
never played - and in my simple example at one point in the process (after
adding /newPartition/Music and the consequent scan I only have one track in the
collection)

I hope this makes it clearer, maybe I should create a dummy user and check that
the issue is easily repeatable.

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[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[Myriam Schweingruber via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

--- Comment #1 from Myriam Schweingruber  ---
No problem, I think I understood the issue, this should indeed not happen.

Assuming this is a database problem, Ralf, if you could have a look?

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[amarok] [Bug 356996] Tracks become 'never played' after modifying the root Music directory

[robert marshall via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356996

--- Comment #2 from robert marshall  ---
I should have mentioned (but was probably implicit) that I have both 'scan
folders recursively' and 'watch folders for changes' set to true.

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