Can't save any track information

[Jujucristine]

This has been going on since I downloaded clementine months ago, on version 1.2.1 I think. I now have version 1.2.3 installed, on windows version.

One of the features I loved the most on Amarok was its rating system comboed with shuffle, and this, among other things, simply does not work at all on Clementine. It seems it can't save any track information at all, on the main tab (on the "Edit tags" tab you can change things just fine). It can't save play counts, rating, or anything else, even going on edit, then save, it never saves anything. I've already tried running it as administrator, but the problem persists.

So, basically, anything that displays when going to edit track information can't be edited or changed, even by the automatic track count system itself, everything is always at 0.

[rgould]

:+1: I'm experiencing this as well. 1.2.2 on OSX. It's easy to reproduce. Edit track, changing title. Play the song, and original title is shown.

[Chocobozzz]

Please try with the latest build http://builds.clementine-player.org/ and tell us if the bug is still here.

[rgould]

@Chocobozzz Just tried it with clementine-1.2.3-1174-g971df03.dmg, and it seems to still be there.

I'll throw an album into a playlist, select all, click Complete tags automatically..., and once that's done, the playlist looks okay.

If I then play a song, after it's done playing (or I skip to the next song), the metadata in the files hasn't changed at all, and the playlist then reflects this. I'm working with mp3s here.

[Jujucristine]

Nothing changed for me either with clementine-1.2.3-1174-g971df03.exe. I tried with .ogg and .mp3 files, same result. A wav file didn't allow me to even try to edit, not sure if that's intentional or a bug.

[ahills]

I have this issue for MP3 and FLAC files on OS X with the latest build (http://builds.clementine-player.org/mac/clementine-1.2.3-1249-gd886609.dmg).

[Chocobozzz]

Please provide some logs by running Clementine from the command line

[ahills]

TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.
TagLib: FLAC::File::save() - Cannot save to a read only file.

After changing the permissions, it worked fine. It would be nice if the UI would give some feedback.

[Jujucristine]

Which permissions did you change? None of my music files are read only, and it doesn't work running clementine as administrator.

[ahills]

I just ran chmod -R u+w ~/Music and that took care of it. I don't know how OS X handles file permissions beyond the classic Unix modes.

[Jujucristine]

Oh, I'm on windows. The folder (but not the files inside) were actually set to read only, but unchecking that and applying to all sub folders didn't help, unfortunately. It still does not work.

(And windows command prompt is horrible, no idea how to make it run clementine there. Tried some things but even when it "runs" it just opens another window written clementine in it. Would be nice if clementine had a logs inside the program itself)

[TheUbuntuGuy]

We have debug builds which have a console. You can download it from here: http://builds.clementine-player.org/win32/debug/ (Just use the top one)

[ahills]

Find the path of the Clementine executable and type the whole thing into the command prompt surrounded by quotes, e.g., "\Program Files\Clementine\clementine.exe". It should just launch the regular Clementine application as usual. Try to make your changes, and then watch the command line window, which should still be open.

[Jujucristine]

Yes, I forgot you can use cd on windows as well, since starting from the default path you can't do that. (I never bother with windows command prompt unless there's no other way to something...), but it can't display any messages, or none show up.

From the debug version, when trying to save some rating info: 14:37:21.256 DEBUG _Mess14:3ageReplyBase:24 7:21.260 DEBUG MessageReply<Messag eType >:90 Re leasing ID Waiting 10 (finished) on ID 10 14:37:21.282 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:26 Acquired ID 10 14:37:21.291 DEBUG _Me14:37:21.293 ssageReplyBase:24 DEBUG MessageReply<Message Type>:90 Releasing ID 11 (finished) Waiting on ID 11 14:37:21.304 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:26 Acquired ID 11 14:37:21.309 DEBUG PlaylistBackend:294 Saving playlist 1 14:37:25.360 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:24 14:37:25.364 DEBUG MessageRepl y<Mes sageT y pe > : 90 W aiting Releasing onID 12 (finished) ID 12 14:37:25.389 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:26 Acquired ID 12 14:37:46.735 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:24 14:37:4 6.7 44 DEBUG MessageReply<M ess a geType>:90 Waiting on Releasing ID ID 13 13 (finished)

When finishing playing a track (which should modify play count): "file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/Jujucristine/M·sicas/Shadow of the colossus /17 Wander's Death.mp3" ) to "Koh Ohtani" "Wander's Death" 14:40:43.732 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:24 Waiting on ID 15 14:40:43.779 INFO MoodbarLoader:108 Loading cached moodbar data for "C:/Users/user/Desktop/Jujucristine/M·sicas/Rurouni Kenshin OST/Ruroun i Kenshin OST III Kyoto Kessen/06-Warriors Blue -A Theme of Shinomori Aoshi-.mp3 " 14:40:43.803 DEBUG PlaylistBackend:294 Saving playlist 1 14:40:43.816 DEBUG MessageReply:90 Releasing ID 15 (finished) 14:40:43.823 DEBUG _MessageReplyBase:26 Acquired ID 15 14:40:43.874 DEBUG MainWindow:1361 position 0 scrobble point 60 status 0

[TheUbuntuGuy]

Clementine isn't logging anything out of the ordinary there.

I tested this on my Windows machine. The tags do indeed get written to the files correctly (I've tested MP3 and FLAC), but the SQLite database is not updating with the new tags/ratings.

Even stranger, is that with some files the rating sticks, and others it does not, and I can't find any correlation.

[Jujucristine]

Another thing I noticed is that when I went to check the files, I changed the rating on one of them directly in the file. When trying to edit it on clementine later, the rating displays as saved, but the rating row stays empty.

[DegreesK0]

It's been 7 years so i don't know if you still have this problem, but might help others who get stuck.

Installed clementine on a fresh install of Ubuntu. Started playing music and, like Jujucrristine, tried to change cover art and ratings but nothing stuck. After scouring the internet and trying a ton of things i gave up and started loading all my music files into clementine. And then i noticed i could make edit changes and it worked!

To clarify, loading music files was done by opening up preferences(Ctrl+P), selecting Music library and clicking add new folder before choosing the folder with said music.

I think the issue might have to do with how clementine observes permissions for editing your music files

[docvalentine]

I'm having this problem on Steam Deck right now. I can make changes and they appear visually, but as soon as I play those tracks, they revert.

All of my music is loaded as DegreesK0 suggested, by adding library folders and scanning.