Bug 417039 - Elisa doesnt recognize some files regardless of name and format
Summary: Elisa doesnt recognize some files regardless of name and format
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Elisa
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 19.12.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthieu Gallien
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Reported: 2020-02-01 22:40 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2023-11-17 15:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 24.02.0


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Description Unknown 2020-02-01 22:40:57 UTC
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Refresh ELisa to search for music

OBSERVED RESULT
Elisa doesnt recognize some of the files, but they can stillbe played from the "Fles section"

EXPECTED RESULT
Elisa should find and recognize all tracks

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 19.10
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.12.4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Alexander Stippich 2020-02-02 10:26:59 UTC
Do these files have their title tagged in their metadata?
Comment 2 Unknown 2020-02-03 00:17:05 UTC
(In reply to Alexander Stippich from comment #1)
> Do these files have their title tagged in their metadata?

Some of them, doesnt seem to affect it
Comment 3 Alexander Stippich 2020-02-04 17:08:46 UTC
If the title is missing, the files should not be discovered. This has only been fixed in Elisa 19.2.2.

Do you have baloo enabled or disabled? If enabled, are the unrecognized files in a location not indexed by baloo?
Comment 4 Unknown 2020-02-09 21:19:12 UTC
(In reply to Alexander Stippich from comment #3)
> If the title is missing, the files should not be discovered. This has only
> been fixed in Elisa 19.2.2.
> 
> Do you have baloo enabled or disabled? If enabled, are the unrecognized
> files in a location not indexed by baloo?

Where do i enable Baloo ?
Comment 5 Alexander Stippich 2020-02-11 18:43:16 UTC
in system settings -> search -> file search
Comment 6 Matej Mrenica 2020-02-15 11:24:41 UTC
It looks like I have this problem too, or at least very similar. Some albums or entire artists are missing in Elisa but are visible in Clementine. These files aren't any different from the rest. Baloo is enabled and works correctly.
Comment 7 Matthieu Gallien 2020-02-15 11:45:10 UTC
(In reply to Matej Mrenica from comment #6)
> It looks like I have this problem too, or at least very similar. Some albums
> or entire artists are missing in Elisa but are visible in Clementine. These
> files aren't any different from the rest. Baloo is enabled and works
> correctly.

If you search those missing files in KRunner, do you find them?

On my laptop, some files are not found because they are classified as videos files. You can check that with balooctl utility.
Comment 8 Matej Mrenica 2020-02-15 13:02:08 UTC
It looks like those files weren't indexed, although I don't know why. After using 'balooctl purge' those albums were found.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2020-02-15 15:02:56 UTC
Great, sounds like the issue was with the Baloo index, probably an old one. There have been a lot of improvements recently so I'm not surprised that re-indexing fixed the issue. Glad to hear it!

qik00yt, does rebuilding the index with `balooctl purge` also fix the issue for you?
Comment 10 Unknown 2020-02-18 14:29:35 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9)
> Great, sounds like the issue was with the Baloo index, probably an old one.
> There have been a lot of improvements recently so I'm not surprised that
> re-indexing fixed the issue. Glad to hear it!
> 
> qik00yt, does rebuilding the index with `balooctl purge` also fix the issue
> for you?

do i just run balooctl purge as a command ?
Comment 11 Unknown 2020-02-18 14:37:22 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9)
> Great, sounds like the issue was with the Baloo index, probably an old one.
> There have been a lot of improvements recently so I'm not surprised that
> re-indexing fixed the issue. Glad to hear it!
> 
> qik00yt, does rebuilding the index with `balooctl purge` also fix the issue
> for you?

i ran the command, it did nothing to help the issue
Comment 12 Christoph Cullmann 2023-11-17 15:36:10 UTC
Should be fixed by removing the 'fast' indexer.
https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/521