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0011345MMASynchronizationpublic2013-10-18 16:28
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityurgentSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version1.0.4 
Target Version1.0.4Fixed in Version1.0.4 
Summary0011345: Blank Album Artist is changed to 'Unknown Artist' on sync
DescriptionI a track that's missing Album Artist is synced (via USB or Wi-Fi), it shows 'Unknown artist' in the Album Artist field instead of nothing.

This is problematic because modifications to the device's library will trigger changes in the main library upon synchronization, and metadata is liable to be modified without the user intending that to occur. i.e. many tracks will end up with 'Unknown Artist' instead of a blank field.
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in build172

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related to 0011319 closedmarek Albums have "Unknown artist" as album artist after USB sync 

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marek

2013-10-09 21:07

developer   ~0037829

Last edited: 2013-10-09 21:08

Yes, MMA doesn't have blank artists. But I didn't find any issue.

Please specify how these reproduce issues. I tried both USB and wifi sync. Unknown artist is never propagated to MMW.

If you are able to reproduce it, please send log.

rusty

2013-10-10 05:19

administrator   ~0037835

I didn't test this out. My assumption was that if the user changes one field (e.g. rating) then when the track is synced back to MMW, 'Unknown artist' will populate the field.

BUT, even if this doesn't occur, the discrepancy in behavior is still a bug. If a field is empty, it should appear empty. If the field contains 'Unknown' then the user knows that that is what is contained within the field.

marek

2013-10-10 12:49

developer   ~0037841

No it is not propagated to MMW. Only changed field is sent to MMW.

Each category has it's unknown item: Unknown album, Unknown artist, Unknown album. But I see that other fields are not displayed in Properties dialog. So I am going to assign it to Martin to fix it because he was working on it.

rusty

2013-10-10 16:09

administrator   ~0037847

OK, but to be clear: unknown items should be blank (i.e. the solution isn't to have all other fields show 'Unknown <field>'.

martin

2013-10-14 22:54

developer   ~0037900

Fixed in build 172.

rusty

2013-10-18 16:28

administrator   ~0037953

Verified 172.

The only remaining issue is that 'Unknown artist' is displayed in the tracklist. However, this relatively minor, though it will likely be an issue once we add sorting and more columns to list views (in which case users will want to differentiate between 'blank' and 'Unknown'.