[mythtv-users] 0.27 Mythmusic regressions?

[birchley giles]

Hi,

I'm using Fedora 19 x86_64 with Mythtv 0.27 on a combined frontend /
backend. I'm using the rpmfusion repository to get mythtv (and mythmusic)

A longstanding and halting project has been to transfer my very large music
collection from cd, cassette and vinyl to mythmusic. I've currently got
about 6000 tracks transferred. In the past I've had problems with the
metadata producing unhelpful track information (a particular problem with
classical music where I prefer the composer to be the artist, rather than
the orchestra or conductor).

The process of changing and adding metadata really seemed to be improved in
0.26 and I was able to google images for artists and album covers, but this
feature seems to have regressed in 0.27 - I no longer get the option to
search the web for images and metadata. I also find that disabling id3 tag
reading does not work in 0.27, when this feature worked in 0.26. Have these
features been disabled or is it a particular problem with the rpmfusion
build?

As data needs changing on a per track basis in the mythmusic, I've found it
easiest to directly hack the metadata using mysql, resulting in mysql
tables that are a bit of mess, and I have some odds and ends of files /
folders in the music library whose titles do not correspond to the database
entry. But it all works, just so long as I don't rescan my library in it's
entirety! So please don't suggest this as a workaround ;)

Many thanks for your answers,

Giles
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