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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009660 | MMA | General | public | 2012-09-06 22:12 | 2012-10-31 01:31 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 1.0.1 | Fixed in Version | 1.0.1 | ||
| Summary | 0009660: Podcasts and Audiobooks nodes are empty | ||||
| Description | When MMA is initially run, the Podcasts and Audiobooks nodes are empty--tracks that are synced to the Android device using an application other than MMW 4.1 don't appear where they'd be expected to: - Audio podcasts don't appear in the Podcasts node--only way to find them is via 'Genre > Podcasts' (even though they appear in MMW 4.0.6 Podcast node when browsing the device) - Video podcasts don't appear in the Podcasts node--they just appear in a single uncategorized list within 'Videos' (even though they appear in MMW 4.0.6 Podcast node when browsing the device). - Audiobooks don't appear in the Audiobooks node--only way to find them is via 'Genre > Audiobooks' (even though they appear in MMW 4.0.6 Audiobooks node when browsing the device) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 51 | ||||
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That's right, we only use Type field from MM to recognize media type. For user's of different app that MMW, there's an option to modify track Type in MMA, so that tracks can be moved to Audiobooks or Podcasts views. Note that the reason MMW 4.0.6 shows them in the correct category is, that MMW has the info in its DB, while MMA doesn't (unless MM 4.1 sends it). Any idea? I would prefer not to do anything about it - guessing from Genre would probably cause more bad than good. |
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Why would guessing based on Genre cause more bad than good (if it's only done for tracks that aren't synched via MM's sync protocol)? i.e. if users have to manually change the type for such tracks, why is that any better? Note: an alternative approach would be to hide any nodes that lack content. |
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Ok, let's do it this way. So tracks would be assigned to categories while being added to DB for the first time. The rule will be (the same as in MMW): - anything that contains string 'book' in Genre => Audiobook - anything that contains string 'podcast' in Genre => Podcast - anything with m4b extension (is it even supported?) => Audiobook |
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assigning type by genre - done audio with m4b extension can be played from file manager, but these files aren't located in Android media store database, so can't be synchronized. |
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Audiobooks and Podcasts now appear in the Audiobooks and Podcasts 'Collections', however, they also appear in Artists, Albums, Genres (but not in Tracks). I suppose we could leave it like this, though I wonder whether it should work the same way as in MM (i.e. treat the Artists, Albums, Tracks, Genres, Composers as part of the Music collection, and therefore don't show Audiobooks, Podcasts, or Videos in those nodes). |
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It should be fixed. |
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Fix in build 51 |
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Verified 51. |
