Media library not scanning

[phorward]

Hello again,

this is another issue I have when I tried to use epymc on the Arch Linux ARM device. There is a USB hard drive connected, I can access all its files using the command-line or even other programs. But when I give it as music source to epymc, nothing happens, except 3 songs are loaded? I cannot be a rights problem! Surely the amount of files is very high. The connected device is an ext4 device. Is there any possibility to trace or debug why nothing happens here?

Cheers!

[phorward]

Hello, I found the reason. Its a bug in the music.py, I'm checking out if I can fix it by myself.

[phorward]

Hey folks, I now checked it out, but was unable to fix the bug.

This is the traceback that occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "efl/ecore/efl.ecore.pyx", line 341, in efl.ecore._ecore_task_cb (efl/ecore/efl.ecore.c:3308)
File "efl/ecore/efl.ecore_idler.pxi", line 77, in efl.ecore.Idler._task_exec (efl/ecore/efl.ecore.c:9356)
File "efl/ecore/efl.ecore_idler.pxi", line 78, in efl.ecore.Idler._task_exec (efl/ecore/efl.ecore.c:9305)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/epymc/plugins/music/music.py", line 356, in rebuild_db_idler
if self._songs_db.id_exists('file://' + full_path):
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/epymc/sdb.py", line 122, in id_exists
return key in self._sh
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/shelve.py", line 102, in contains
return key.encode(self.keyencoding) in self.dict
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcf3' in position 69: surrogates not allowed

The problem is, that os.listdir() returns a filename from my media library that is "/tmp/Taraxacum/Rainmaker/Taraxacum - 12 - Lo Que Faltó.mp3": The "ó" is converted by os.listdir() to a UTF-8 representation. I tried several fixes to handle it, but my knowledge is too less on Python's string encodings and the file system behavior, maybe you have a quicker solution?

[phorward]

Hello, I started a pull request, got a working version right now at my local box (I use the epymc package from arch linux aur)

[DaveMDS]

Hi, thanks for reporting!
I'm not really sure the pull request is the best way to fix the issue, we shouldn't handle the encoding in sdb.py... but I need to dig a bit more on this issue. Will do in the next few days

[phorward]

Yeah, I really was not sure if this would be the best way, but it was a way to get it work for me. Indeed, handling these encoding errors with Python is annoying.

[DaveMDS]

I'm not able to reproduce your issue :/
I tried with a file named "Test File àèìòùó asd asd.mp3", in my local harddisk, in an ntfs share and in a fat32 usb key.
EpyMC always scanned the file correctly (using python 3.5 like your)

I can think at 2 different problems:

1. your mp3 file is strange (can you send it to me? maybe via email)
2. your system locale is not well configured, please paste here the output of the locale command.

[DaveMDS]

well, no more activitiy, I'm closing this.
Please reopen if it still occur