Yesterday I've encoded 32 audio CDs using k3b and got two weird issues with amarok.

1.- For one of the CDs, two tracks have info that are not editable. When I use the option, the info fields are all greyed out. There is no access right issue, everything was encoded at the same time with the same method.

2.- Another of the CDs had two tracks missing in Amarok. I've tried a number of things, from updating to rescanning the whole collection, touching the file,... . I've even removed that CD directory and reencoded the whole CD: now it's worse, I only have one of the tracks being displayed in Amarok. The other ones are not seen at all.

Any idea what is going on and how to workaround those issues?

I'm using Amarok 2.5.0 with KDE 4.8.0 with Archlinux

This looks very much like this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285885 which is already solved in the developer branch.

Mamarok wrote:This looks very much like this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285885 which is already solved in the developer branch.

That bug refers to playing the Audio CD directly, not to tracks ripped from the CD.



Have you tried playing/editing the tags of the problematic tracks in different software? Have you tried searching for the missing tracks in the collection with various search terms (i.e., you might be unable to find them because the artist tag is wrong, etc)? Do you get any useful output after starting Amarok from the console with amarok --nofork --debug and trying to edit the problematic tracks?

In addition to the above suggestions, check your permissions. I find non-editable tag fields are almost always permission problems.

Thanks for your answers.

So, it turns out the problem was in the name of the ogg files : somehow Amarok can't handle the english quotation mark " character. Removing those characters from the file names solved all the issues.

Not sure whether there is a reason not to handle it, but I think Amarok should at least display a clear warning when it encounters such a character so that the user can easily figure what the problem is.

I can't reproduce that here at all. File names with ", ', or even “” are detected by the collection scanner, added to the collection, and play fine.
Is your collection using a nonstandard or non-UTF8-encoded filesystem?

Sentynel wrote:I can't reproduce that here at all. File names with ", ', or even “” are detected by the collection scanner, added to the collection, and play fine.
Is your collection using a nonstandard or non-UTF8-encoded filesystem?

I have had a similar issue with a particular track:
Pink Martini - Dansez-vous

The album and track rip and play without any issues (k3b) + (Amarok).
However the problem the OP seems to be having is when trying to edit the track info.
In my case also all info fields are unavailable.

pagoda wrote:However the problem the OP seems to be having is when trying to edit the track info.
In my case also all info fields are unavailable.

Track editing works fine too for tracks with quotes in their filenames for me.