Bug#227501: acknowledged by developer (Re: suddenly ignores .gnome2/rhythmbox/iradio-2.2.xml content)

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #227501: suddenly ignores .gnome2/rhythmbox/iradio-2.2.xml content,
> which was filed against the rhythmbox package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>.

> > Since this version of Rhythmbox suddenly ignores the content of
> > .gnome2/rhythmbox/iradio-2.2.xml 
> 
> >From the bugzilla bug report :
> 
> "That file was used by Rhythmbox 0.5.x.  With 0.6, everything is stored
> in rhythmdb.xml.  Rhythmbox should have automatically loaded your old
> iradio-2.2.xml into rhythmdb.xml when upgrading to 0.6.  After that, it
> is ignored."
> 
> 
> So it's not a bug but a change, I'm closing this bug report.

You definitely are not.  

Whichever file was previously holding the content, it stoped working between
0.6.x and 0.6.3, not between 0.5.x and 0.6.x.

The point is that upgrading from 0.6.x to 0.6.3 suddenly gave me empty radio and
library lists after upgrading. Looking at the .gnome2/rhythmbox folder suggested
that iradio-2.2.xml would be the file used to store the data. 

As such, I really don't care which file would be the correct one; Rhythmbox just
gave me empty playlists after an upgrade from 0.6.x to 0.6.3; it used to work
then suddenly gave me empty content; it worked one day and was broken the next,
hence the bug report.

Anyhow, the mp3/ogg library was easily reconstructed by parsing my "~/Music"
folder again, but the radio station list would have to be manually input again,
which is a BIG no-no, given how long the list is.

As such:

The iradio update script should be included in /usr/share/doc/rhythmbox/examples
so that people can manually convert their radio list, whenever necessary.  

Alternatively, if a rhythmdb.xml does not include any radio station, but an old
iradio-2.2.xml is found, it should be automatically converted, even on current
releases, then deleted to automatically clean up old files.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/