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Hi.
After system crash I restarted Mint 17.1, finding:
gmbrc        8,5 kB
gmbrc.bak         0 byte
gmbrc.bak.20150909.xz         2,1 MB
...
...
gmbrc.error         0 byte
gmbrc.premove         3,1 MB

when my last backupped gmbrc is 12,4 MB
GMB says my collection is empty...

After restoring it, everything is fine.
What happened?

Thanks

Maybe:
SORT EXCLUDING _______________
(The... Les... Los... Gli...)


;)

I received a BRAND NEW (2 gmbrc's mixed together) gmbrc file from Quentin that seems to be containing all my (precious) data.
Let's hope this problem doesn't happen again in the future.
Thanks sincerely to Quentin!  :) :) :)

[YES! Please try to restore my data!]

Hi, I'm back!  :) :) :)
First of all: YES! Please try to restore my data! The three gmbrc files I sent you are the most recent and they should contain (don't know in what manner) all the data I need. Thanks in advance for that!!

Then:
My attempts to restore gmbrc were simply the substitution of the 'corrupted' with the backupped ones that I keep in other disks (exactly what I sent you).

Neither I know the cause or what happened. I just remember of a strange and unusual very-long session of file-verifying (?) that I stopped after a long time because apparently with no end... Don't care of Extra: it's a partition of passage where I spend the files not yet stored in gmb.
No special filesystem: just an ordinary EXT4 under Linux Mint. This is the first time I have such a big problem with my music collection.

Hope in your help... Thank you again!

Quentin, thanks for your answer.
No, I didn't move or rename any of my files.
I noticed (more or less 2/3 months ago) that some files were losing their album image (each album has an image, each file has an album) with no apparent reason. Reassigning them was a matter of seconds, but after a while the image disappeared again.
One day my system was heavily slowed down: after half an hour waiting gmb could end up with its checks, I closed the little progress window and I realized what happened.
Thinking it was a database corruption, I tried to restore an old gmbrc file, but with no evident success.
At the moment, also files with correct ratings, etc., have lost their image, but many of them show an unwanted one (every file > the same image).
I sent you my last 3 backupped gmbrc files: note their size is decreasing, but I didn't erase or clean anything.
Thanks

Hi,
my collection is 43882 songs.
Few days ago I found 17097 files which had lost their ratings, album images, # reproduction/skips, genres, labels...
Thinking it was a gmbrc file corruption problem I restored a backup version of it, but with no positive result.
Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to get back my settings?
Thanks

mplayer installed and loaded.
Everything seems fine  :)

Thanks

totem (Video) reads them...
Soundconverter fails...

???

libmpcdec6, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
already installed, but it fails again.

Something else? I'm on Linux Mint Qiana, amd64, gmb 1.1.12

Thanks

from your main page:
support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and mpc/ape/m4a with gstreamer or mplayer)

I'm trying to read some .mpc files (with gstreamer) but it fails:

Errore di riproduzione : Impossibile decodificare lo stream. at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_gstreamer-0.10.pm line 137.

Nedd some extra tool?

Bye'n thanks

Did it. Pheeww...  8) no loss.
Many many thanks!
GMB is big, waiting for 1.2 and more...

Byez

OK, that's not the problem.
The real problem is that the perl command tells gmbrc where will be stored FILES I'm going to move, but what really I want to move is a WHOLE HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM of nested FOLDERS and - finally - files.
So , if I move files only, everything is fine (tags etc.), but if I move all folders gmbrc doesnt find the files it is searching, so I need to rescan and newly rescanned files are "new" with-no-tags.
Here is the problem, isn't it?
:)

[before]

I think the problem is the terminal slash "/", try :
perl -pi.premove -e 's#/home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI#/home/ego/Musica#g' ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

OK, that's good... so and so...  ;)
Now the Perl script (without final '/') correctly overwrites gmbrc.
But, relaunching gmb, my settings are always lost: it reads VANNELLI in /home/ego/Musica, but nothing more than that. No counts, ratings...

Goin' to try again...

Question: how has to be set Settings/Library/ FoldersToSearch before and after filemoving?

Thank You  :)

[Target]

2 things
1) gmusicbrowser must NOT be running while you run the perl -pi... command
2) make sure you replace by the exact same folder, if you move everything that was in /A/ into /B/ use :
perl -pi.premove -e 's#/A/#/B/#g' ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

you can move the files however you want, use a graphical file browser if you want.

I'm going crazy...  :o
Target: to move folder "VANNELLI" scanned and tagged in gmb from /home/ego/Scrivania to /home/ego/Musica without losing gmb data and tags

OK, let's start...
1- in gmb I can play files, add rating and follow playcounts...
2- quit gmb
3- gedit ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

[Songs]
added   album   album_artist_raw   artist   bitrate   channel   comment   compilation   disc   file   filetype   genre   grouping   label   lastplay   lastskip   length   missing   modif   path   playcount   rating   replaygain_album_gain   replaygain_album_peak   replaygain_track_gain   replaygain_track_peak   samprate   size   skipcount   title   track   version   year
1   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   001 Gino Vannelli -1- In the Name of Money.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374684   0   235   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   60   0   0   0   0   44100   3772325   0   In the Name of Money   1      1987
2   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   002 Gino Vanelli - 2-Time out.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374687   0   279   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   60   0   0   0   0   44100   4462960   0   Time out   2      1987
3   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   004 gino vannelli -4- Young lover.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374692   0   203   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   100   0   0   0   0   44100   3248789   0   Young Lover   4      1987
4   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   003 Gino Vanelli -3- Wild Horses.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374712   0   280   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   2   20   0   0   0   0   44100   5605452   0   Wild Horses   3      1987
5   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   007 gino vannelli - 7-something tells me.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374700   0   261   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   20   0   0   0   0   44100   4176658   0   Something tells me   7      1987
6   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   009 gino vannelli - 09- King For A Day.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374707   0   271   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   100   0   0   0   0   44100   5417370   0   King For A Day   9      1987
7   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   006 Gino Vanelli - 6-Persona Non Grata.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374698   0   258   0   1303765300   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   40   0   0   0   0   44100   5161893   0   Persona non grata   6      1987
8   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   005 Gino Vanelli - 5-down with love.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374695   0   268   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   80   0   0   0   0   44100   4281984   0   Down With Love   5      1987
9   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   167   2      0   0   008 Gino Vanelli - 8-Shape me like a man.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374704   0   292   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   2   20   0   0   0   0   44100   6092017   0   Shape me like a man   8      1987

[album]
album_picture
Big Dreamers Never Sleep\x00   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI/Gino_Vannelli_-_Big_Dreamers_Never_Sleep-front.jpg

4- from shell:

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perl -pi.premove -e 's#/home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI/#/home/ego/Musica/#g' ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc
5- In Nautilus window I can see file gmbrc date/time refreshing to actual, so I'm sure something happened...
6- gedit ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc

[Songs]
added   album   album_artist_raw   artist   bitrate   channel   comment   compilation   disc   file   filetype   genre   grouping   label   lastplay   lastskip   length   missing   modif   path   playcount   rating   replaygain_album_gain   replaygain_album_peak   replaygain_track_gain   replaygain_track_peak   samprate   size   skipcount   title   track   version   year
1   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   001 Gino Vannelli -1- In the Name of Money.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374684   0   235   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   60   0   0   0   0   44100   3772325   0   In the Name of Money   1      1987
2   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   002 Gino Vanelli - 2-Time out.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374687   0   279   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   60   0   0   0   0   44100   4462960   0   Time out   2      1987
3   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   004 gino vannelli -4- Young lover.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374692   0   203   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   100   0   0   0   0   44100   3248789   0   Young Lover   4      1987
4   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   003 Gino Vanelli -3- Wild Horses.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374712   0   280   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   2   20   0   0   0   0   44100   5605452   0   Wild Horses   3      1987
5   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   007 gino vannelli - 7-something tells me.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374700   0   261   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   20   0   0   0   0   44100   4176658   0   Something tells me   7      1987
6   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   009 gino vannelli - 09- King For A Day.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374707   0   271   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   100   0   0   0   0   44100   5417370   0   King For A Day   9      1987
7   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   006 Gino Vanelli - 6-Persona Non Grata.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374698   0   258   0   1303765300   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   40   0   0   0   0   44100   5161893   0   Persona non grata   6      1987
8   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   005 Gino Vanelli - 5-down with love.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374695   0   268   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   1   80   0   0   0   0   44100   4281984   0   Down With Love   5      1987
9   1311374587   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   167   2      0   0   008 Gino Vanelli - 8-Shape me like a man.mp3   mp3 l3v1            1311374704   0   292   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Scrivania/VANNELLI   2   20   0   0   0   0   44100   6092017   0   Shape me like a man   8      1987

[album]
album_picture
Big Dreamers Never Sleep\x00   /home/ego/Musica/Gino_Vannelli_-_Big_Dreamers_Never_Sleep-front.jpg

SO NOTHING HAPPENED!!!
Let's go on...
7- Graphically I move VANNELLI from .../Scrivania to .../Musica
8- run gmb: <Playlist Empty> ...sigh!
9- gmb Settings/Library: add folder to search for new songs > /home/ego/Musica
10- library gets populated with my songs, but I've lost my work in tags, ratings, counts, etc...
11- quit gmb
12- gedit ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc AT LAST:

[Songs]
added   album   album_artist_raw   artist   bitrate   channel   comment   compilation   disc   file   filetype   genre   grouping   label   lastplay   lastskip   length   missing   modif   path   playcount   rating   replaygain_album_gain   replaygain_album_peak   replaygain_track_gain   replaygain_track_peak   samprate   size   skipcount   title   track   version   year
10   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   001 Gino Vannelli -1- In the Name of Money.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   235   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   3772325   0   In the Name of Money   1      1987
11   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   002 Gino Vanelli - 2-Time out.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   279   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4462960   0   Time out   2      1987
12   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   004 gino vannelli -4- Young lover.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   203   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   3248789   0   Young Lover   4      1987
13   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   003 Gino Vanelli -3- Wild Horses.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   280   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5605452   0   Wild Horses   3      1987
14   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   007 gino vannelli - 7-something tells me.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   261   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4176658   0   Something tells me   7      1987
15   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   009 gino vannelli - 09- King For A Day.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   271   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5417370   0   King For A Day   9      1987
16   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   006 Gino Vanelli - 6-Persona Non Grata.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   258   0   1303765300   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5161893   0   Persona non grata   6      1987
17   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   005 Gino Vanelli - 5-down with love.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   268   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4281984   0   Down With Love   5      1987
18   1311375808   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   167   2      0   0   008 Gino Vanelli - 8-Shape me like a man.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   292   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI   0      0   0   0   0   44100   6092017   0   Shape me like a man   8      1987

[album]
album_picture
Big Dreamers Never Sleep\x00   /home/ego/Musica/VANNELLI/Gino_Vannelli_-_Big_Dreamers_Never_Sleep-front.jpg

WHY?!?  :'( :'( :'(
[tested on Mint 11 and Debian]

Thank laite too  :)
Last rows of my gmbrc are:

[Songs]
added   album   album_artist_raw   artist   bitrate   channel   comment   compilation   disc   file   filetype   genre   grouping   label   lastplay   lastskip   length   missing   modif   path   playcount   rating   replaygain_album_gain   replaygain_album_peak   replaygain_track_gain   replaygain_track_peak   samprate   size   skipcount   title   track   version   year
10   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   001 Gino Vannelli -1- In the Name of Money.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   235   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   3772325   0   In the Name of Money   1      1987
11   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   002 Gino Vanelli - 2-Time out.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   279   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4462960   0   Time out   2      1987
12   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   004 gino vannelli -4- Young lover.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   203   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   3248789   0   Young Lover   4      1987
13   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   003 Gino Vanelli -3- Wild Horses.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   280   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5605452   0   Wild Horses   3      1987
14   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   007 gino vannelli - 7-something tells me.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   261   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4176658   0   Something tells me   7      1987
15   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   009 gino vannelli - 09- King For A Day.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   271   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5417370   0   King For A Day   9      1987
16   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   160   2      0   0   006 Gino Vanelli - 6-Persona Non Grata.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   258   0   1303765300   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   5161893   0   Persona non grata   6      1987
17   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   128   2      0   0   005 Gino Vanelli - 5-down with love.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   268   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   4281984   0   Down With Love   5      1987
18   1311356911   Big Dreamers Never Sleep      Gino Vannelli   167   2      0   0   008 Gino Vanelli - 8-Shape me like a man.mp3   mp3 l3v1            0   0   292   0   1303765294   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)   0      0   0   0   0   44100   6092017   0   Shape me like a man   8      1987

[album]
album_picture
Big Dreamers Never Sleep\x00   /home/ego/Musica/010 Big Dreamers Never Sleep (1987)/Gino_Vannelli_-_Big_Dreamers_Never_Sleep-front.jpg

I suppose it should be fine... but again i lose ratings, counts, etc...
I'll go symbolic, if nothing else helps....