My Music scope attempts todownload artist biography, but biography is always empty.
Bug #1549616 reported by
James Henstridge
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Canonical System Image |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Alejandro J. Cura | ||
| unity-scope-mediascanner (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The My Music scope tries to download artist biography from dash.ubuntu.com when displaying the artist overview page. It in turn tries to retrieve the biography via the 7digital API.
However, the 7digital API always returns an empty string because they don't have a license to provide the biographies shown in their own web store:
https:/
While dash.ubuntu.com could be modified to retrieve biographies elsewhere, at the moment the scope is just wasting time and bandwidth by asking for the data. So in the short term we are better off disabling the biography download code.
Related branches
lp:~jamesh/unity-scope-mediascanner/disable-artist-bio
- Michi Henning (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 25 lines (+8/-1)1 file modifiedsrc/mymusic/music-scope.cpp (+8/-1)
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in unity-scope-mediascanner (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| milestone: | none → ww08-2016 |
| Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Alejandro J. Cura (alecu) |
| Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-
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unity-scope-
* Disable artist biography download, since the online service always
returns an empty biography. (LP: #1549616)
-- James Henstridge <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:41:04 +0000