Bug 187532

Summary:	When changing uppercase letters to lowercase in filename, the collection does not update
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Zdeněk Zikán <zdenek.zikan>
Component:	Collections/Local	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	bl.bugs, mail
Priority:	LO
Version:	2.3-GIT
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot of the buggy behaviour

Description Zdeněk Zikán 2009-03-18 16:57:46 UTC

Version:           2.0.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I had a song placed at
/home/zdenek/music/Sigur Rós/1999 - Ágætis Byrjun/05 - Ný Batterí.mp3
The whole /home/zdenek/music/ folder was in the collection.
Then I fixed the file names by the folder became "1999 - Ágætis byrjun" and file name "05 - Ný batterí.mp3", i.e. the whole new URL is
/home/zdenek/music/Sigur Rós/1999 - Ágætis byrjun/05 - Ný batterí.mp3
Since that, it didn't show in the collection anymore (rescanning collection or restarting Amarok didn't help) and it showed incorrectly in the Track details dialog (only directory name; the file name was correct). However, in the "Files" view, both the directory and file names were correct.

Situation after renaming is shown on attached screenshot.

Comment 1 Zdeněk Zikán 2009-03-18 16:58:59 UTC

Created attachment 32240 [details]
Screenshot of the buggy behaviour

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-05-02 17:58:32 UTC

Are your files stored on an ext partition of is it another partition format?

Comment 3 Zdeněk Zikán 2009-05-02 20:21:46 UTC

Everything from my collection is on ext3 partition.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-05-03 14:41:51 UTC

Also happens in 2.1-SVN

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-10-03 10:52:30 UTC

*** Bug 203243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Ben Laenen 2009-12-14 21:32:45 UTC

This applies to both artists and album. Song titles aren't affected.

But not updating lowercase/uppercase is not the biggest problem, as this bug is also ignoring things like changing accents on letters. Change, say, "Andre" to "André", and it doesn't update the name. And this is much worse because it affects pronunciation.

Comment 7 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-12-16 19:57:38 UTC

Is this still valid with current 2.2-git? Ben, we do agree that this is about changes in the filenames, not in the id3 tags, as the title describes, right?

Comment 8 Ben Laenen 2009-12-16 21:20:46 UTC

I upgraded to 2.2.1 today and the problem is no longer there. It even somehow fixed all by itself several of the accent-less artist names I desperately tried to fix earlier :-)

The id3 tags were as far as I could see always updated with the correct tags, but it didn't replace them in the database, but the latest version does it correctly.

So thanks for fixing this, even if it happened by magic :-)

Comment 9 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-12-16 21:26:17 UTC

Thanks for the fast feedback :)