Bug#544121: rhythmbox: Playlist "filename" support?

ben bwpearre at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 01:54:25 UTC 2009


Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.12.4-1
Severity: wishlist


I have a great deal of music that does not obey standard ID3 naming
conventions, because those conventions are useless for classical and
esoteric music.  Since it's hard to deal with arbitrary tags in the
player, could Rhythmbox perhaps use "filename" as a full-featured
field?

For example, I have 32 files whose Title is "Le Nozze di Figaro".
They come in a defined order, but Rhythmbox doesn't know that.  There
is no "Artist" (although there is a "Composer", a "Conductor", several
"Performers", etc...).  Here's an example filename:

  Mozart - K.492 Le Nozze di Figaro - (25) Ecco la marcia.ogg

It would be really great to allow the playlist to manipulate filename
(not URL or Location, or possibly Location with the
"file:///home/ben/music" trimmed off the beginning...).

This bug is similar to 192579, but I'd prefer being able to sort by
just filename, and I don't think that adding support for a few more of
the many possible tags is productive, since not all files have
compatible fields.

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.26.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.24-1         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-esd [gst 0.10.15-2         GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.13-1         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.24-1         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.15-2         GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaud 0.10.15-2         GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gstreamer0.10-x        0.10.24-1         GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.25-1          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.25-1          Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1         0.6.25-1          Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbrasero-media0      2.26.2-1          CD/DVD burning library for GNOME -
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.1-3         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.26.1-1          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome-media0        2.26.0-1          runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgnome2-0            2.26.0-1          The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgpod4               0.7.2-1.1         library to read and write songs an
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.24-1         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.24-1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.5-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liblircclient0         0.8.3-5           infra-red remote control support -
ii  libmtp8                0.3.7-7           Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii  libmusicbrainz4c2a     2.1.5-2           Second generation incarnation of t
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1     2.27.4-1          an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.27.4-1          an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.1-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtotem-plparser12    2.26.2-1          Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-13       userspace USB programming library
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-2.1    GNOME XML library
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gnome2          2.26.1-1          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gst0.10         0.10.16-1         generic media-playing framework (P
ii  python-gtk2            2.14.1-3          Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support         1.0.3             automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python2.5              2.5.4-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                0.6.25-1     Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly  0.10.12-1+b1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 
ii  gvfs-backends               1.2.3-3      userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  hal                         0.5.13-3     Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  notification-daemon         0.4.0-1      a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  yelp                        2.26.0-2     Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install           <none>     (no description available)
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.26.0-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad     0.10.13-1  GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
pn  python-coherence              <none>     (no description available)

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