Lyrics get truncated [#5377]

[gege]

EDIT BY Peke: Discussion continued Here.
In case Gege want I can remove my edits.

I'm scared. I'm really scared!

Right now MM is screwing up all my lyrics, exactly as SlowFoxSoftwareLTD described here. But, believe me, in my case it's not a DISPLAY problem. I checked tags with other applications and lyrics is cut IN TAG. It happens when I enter some "Tree > Album Artist > SomeArtist" node, with AAD view turned on, and then I click ONE of the tracks, then click another ONE. This moment status bar starts saying "XX tracks to set tags" and the tags get rewritten, even thou I made nothing to change them! Last Modified field is updated and then the damage is done: only first verses of lyrics remain For each subsequent track I click, all album tracks get tag rewritten again and again...

In some albums, two or three tracks don't have lyrics cut, in others, all of them do. I disabled ALL scripts, and it still happens. Screenshots below show LyricsViewer, but this happens with or without it (besides, I can assure its code doesn't contain a single .WriteTags or .UpdateAll instruction.)

Here is a step-by-step screenshot sequence
(Note that LV is in 'Selected Song' mode, so after I click on a song, it will show its lyrics. It can take up to 1 sec to detect song change)

1) I enter 'Billy Idol' node and then I click in first track. Nothing wrong yet.


2) Now I click on another song. This is very fast. Note that LV didn't refresh its content yet. Noticed "XX tracks to set tags" progress bar?


3) When LV finally refreshes content, see what happened to the lyrics.


Final notes:
- This doesn't happen if I enter node in List or AlbumArt view, or if I don't click in a track then another one.
- I'm using build 1225

[justin_f]

I have the same issue in 1225. Happens pretty much exactly like gege described.

Justin

[nohitter151]

This happened to me too on over 800 tracks . Thanks for identifying how it happened gege, I wasn't sure how to reproduce it.

Thanks to lyricator, MagicNodes, and Clear Fields scripts it only took me two days to fix everything. Here's the node I used to identify the tracks:
Lyrics messed up|SQL filter:Length(Songs.Lyrics) < 256\<Artist>


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[gege]

This happened to me too on over 800 tracks . Thanks for identifying how it happened gege, I wasn't sure how to reproduce it.

Good to know I'm not going crazy (not alone, at least...)
So you were able to reproduce it with steps I provided?

I'm doing some additional tests, but I'm almost sure this happens only with tracks that have albumart in TAG.
I used to have my albumart linked, but some days ago I started to store it in TAG for some albums. And these are the problematic albums...

Good thing is I have a recent healthy database backup, so all have to do is rollback DB and sync tags.

[nohitter151]

This happened to me too on over 800 tracks . Thanks for identifying how it happened gege, I wasn't sure how to reproduce it.

Good to know I'm not going crazy (not alone, at least...)
So you were able to reproduce it with steps I provided?

I wasn't able to reproduce with your steps, but I'm running 1226 now (I know.. its not available on forum yet, sorry )

I'm not sure if it was really resolved in 1226 though so I entered the bug (don't want to take any chances). I also emailed the devs, just in case.

[gege]

I just tested in another machine and I was unable to reproduce.
Tested with both 1221 and 1225.

nohitter, thanks for the MagicNode. I noticed all truncated lyrics end with '...', so I made a little change, to give me more accurate results:

Code: Select all

Lyrics messed up|Filter:Length(Songs.Lyrics) < 256 AND <Lyrics> Like '%...'\<Album artist>\<Album>

[nohitter151]

I just tested in another machine and I was unable to reproduce.
Tested with both 1221 and 1225.

nohitter, thanks for the MagicNode. I noticed all truncated lyrics end with '...', so I made a little change, to give me more accurate results:

Code: Select all

Lyrics messed up|Filter:Length(Songs.Lyrics) < 256 AND <Lyrics> Like '%...'\<Album artist>\<Album>

Thanks for sharing, yours is much nicer

[gege]

Thanks for sharing, yours is much nicer

You're welcome.

I made more tests. All truncated lyrics have exactly 200 characters + '...' at the end. So, the MagicNode for an exact match is

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Lyrics messed up|Filter:Length(Songs.Lyrics) = 203 AND <Lyrics> Like '%...'\<Album artist>\<Album>

This MN was giving me exactly 1040 tracks with messed lyrics.

I restored my database with the latest backup (which was made March, 10th). Now the Node has 455 problematic tracks, all of them with Last Modified date = March, 8th. I have older backups, but I made lots of changes/additions to DB afterwards, which I don't want to re-do. So, I think I'll go through Lyricator too.

I'll restore lost lyrics AND do a new backup. Then I'll do more tests to track what is causing this mess.

[nohitter151]

It should be fixed in 1227.

[dypsis]

I am not sure which version this started happening in. Possibly from MediaMonkey v3.1.0.1248 (Internal Build).

But all new albums that I have added and tagged since 25 May, 2009 have had the lyrics of Track 1 of all albums truncated followed by a few dots.

For example:

Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs
And eternity
The era of static and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land...

Lucky I always keep (backup) all my tag data in a text file.

[nohitter151]

I am not sure which version this started happening in. Possibly from MediaMonkey v3.1.0.1248 (Internal Build).

But all new albums that I have added and tagged since 25 May, 2009 have had the lyrics of Track 1 of all albums truncated followed by a few dots.

For example:

Sing us a song of the century
That's louder than bombs
And eternity
The era of static and contraband
That's leading us to the promised land...

Lucky I always keep (backup) all my tag data in a text file.

Hm, I haven't reproduced it here.

[rusty]

dysis,

Can you elaborate on this?

1) Did the tracks with the missing lyricss contain lyrics when scanned by MM? Or did you use MM to tag the lyrics?
2) Is the corruption in the DB or in the tag or both ?
3) Is the issue specific to any file type (e.g. MP3, flac, etc.)?
4) Any hints about how to reproduce? Could it be that you've just discovered changes that occured long ago in relation to an earlier beta build?

-Rusty

[dypsis]

dysis,

Can you elaborate on this?

-Rusty

Hi Rusty.
This is my ripping and tagging procedure that I have been using for quite a while now with no problems until recently.

I rip entire albums to FLAC using EAC.
I then tag all tracks using Tag&Rename. This includes all tag data including lyrics except for cover art.
I use MediaMonkey to complete the tagging as it supports multiple cover art which Tag&Rename doesn't.

Points to note:
The truncated lyrics problem is in the tag. If I go back to Tag&Rename, then retag the lyrics, then MediaMonkey reads the full lyrics. Could the lyrics get truncated when I am using MediaMonkey to add multipe cover art?
I have not changed versions of Tag&Rename for 6 months or more.
The truncated lyrics issue has only arisen within the last month.
I have been updating MediaMonkey with each new Internal Build as it has become available.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if I can offer any more info.


Regards,

dypsis

[rusty]

Dypsis,

I can't reproduce this with 1251. Are you able to reproduce the problem by following the steps that you outlined?

i.e.
1) Process tracks with EAC / Tag & Rename as described
2) Use MM's Tools > Auto-tag from Web function on the tracks

If yes, can you send me a set of tracks from step 1 (PM a mediafire or yousendit link to me) ?

Thx.

-Rusty

[dypsis]

Hi Rusty.
I just tagged another FLAC album, and I am certain that MediaMonkey is causing this problem.

I checked the lyrics before adding Album Art with MediaMonkey.
All was fine.

Immediately after adding Album Art with MediaMonkey, I checked the lyrics, and the lyrics in Track 1 was truncated.

Something that I noticed at the bottom of MediaMonkey (tagging progress) as it was tagging the files is that it seemed to stall on Track 1 briefly.
But I can live with it. I just need to go back and re-tag Track 1 lyrics after adding Album Art.

I am using MediaMonkey v3.1.0.1255 (RC-3).