Files transferred to K850i have truncated metadata
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rhythmbox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: rhythmbox
When moving files to my Sony Ericsson K850i via Rhythmbox's MTP functionality, the metadata is encoded in a way that the device does not seem to like. (This is when Rhythmbox converts FLACs to MP3 on-the-fly.)
Example: "Push", "Strange World (2000 Remake)" goes to "Pu", "Strange World (20".
This is observable both when playing music back off the device in MTP mode and when browsing on the phone itself. (I guess, in MTP mode the software on the phone itself parses the metadata.)
Looking at the files over UMS mode shows that the metadata is intact as far as GStreamer is concerned.
It seems the bug is in Sony Ericsson's parsing of ID3v2.4 tags. Version 2.4 tags may not actually be supported, and there is no way to force Rhythmbox to use (the more widely supported) 2.3 because taglib apparently doesn't support it.
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I sent another track over UMS that wasn't encoded by RB:
Paul Van Dyk - Live At Global Gathering 2007 => Paul V - Live At Global
Seems to be about half the length...
One other that I had just tagged with EasyTag came out perfectly, though.
Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World #201
Maybe there's nothing to be done here. The phone is just a buggy piece of closed source shit.