touch-packages team mailing list archive

[Victor Thompson <1536307@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've discussed this before, and instead of showing a blank album or
artist we decided to show "Unknown Album" or "Unknown Artist". Note that
we did decide to filter out any blank genre from the Genres view. I
agree with you--I think it'd be preferable to just filter any blank/null
Album/Artist. Songs that are missing this data will show up in the Songs
view.

ahayzen or popey, do you agree?

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to thumbnailer in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536307

Title:
  Unknown albums should not be shown

Status in Ubuntu Music App:
  New
Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Unpack the attached archive into the Music folder and wait for
  mediascanner to finish indexing (takes a few minutes).

  Now look at the album tab in the music app. There are hundreds of
  unknown albums at the beginning of the list.

  The attached music collection has a lot of poorly tagged songs in it
  (just like many users' collections will have imperfectly tagged
  songs). There are lots of songs with an empty album tag. (Such songs
  are legit too because I might add, say, audio recordings of a meeting
  or audio books to my collection.)

  The music app shows a separate "Unknown Album" for each and every song with an empty album tag. That's wrong. It should not show any album at all in this case because, by definition, a song with no album tag isn't part of any album--it's a stand-along song.
  (Note that collapsing all songs without an album tag into a single album not an option because it would conflate many unrelated tracks into a single album that doesn't exist.)

  This is how the mediascanner scope deals with empty albums; the music
  app should do the same thing.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1536307/+subscriptions