Bug 429740

Summary:	Cannot read Genre information from FLAC files
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kfilemetadata	Reporter:	David Hart <dc.hart>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel, meven29, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.76.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description David Hart 2020-11-27 19:46:24 UTC

Audio is flac. Genre displays in the info panel but not in a column.

Linux/KDE Plasma: 
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KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 via Fedora 33
KDE Frameworks Version: kf5-frameworkintegration-5.75.0-1.fc33.x86_64
Qt Version: 5.15.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-11-28 19:31:56 UTC

Cannot reproduce with some mp3 and m4a songs of mine. Any chance you can attach the song in question?

Comment 2 David Hart 2020-11-29 22:56:48 UTC

None of the 8,000 or so flac audio files show genre in the column. I tried to attach one but I have no sample which does not exceed the attachment limit. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T9uRSjbIeeNPGkiLbn94rgzlyIadpQK3/view?usp=sharing 

I suppose that I could dd a sample if you prefer.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-12-01 18:37:31 UTC

Can reproduce. Seems like an issue with KFileMetadata being unable to read the genre from FLAC files. Thanks!

Comment 4 Méven Car 2020-12-02 07:03:04 UTC

I had a look at kfilemetadata code, it supports Flac Genre just fine. It has unit tests.
And the info panel data comes from kfilemetada, so having Genre there means it works fine.

Do you have baloo enabled and running ?
If not this is a duplicate of bug 406506

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-12-02 15:18:30 UTC

Ah looks like Baloo turned itself off due to failures to index some files. So yes indeed, this is a duplicate of 406506.

Perhaps we should port Dolphin's column view to use KFileMetadata.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 406506 ***