Postpone set metadata until track is ready

[adamcik]

Doing a set metadata inside change track isn't "safe". We need to postpone this until the track is ready. Without this appsrc based backends never propagate metadata to sinks.

[adamcik]

Idea fix IMO would be to deprecate the set_metadata call and bake this into the appsrc API as a kwarg. But that would be a breaking change.

[jodal]

Assigning to @adamcik as he has a working patch that just needs sanity checking for concurrency issues.

[Leicas]

Is there a Fix for this issue ?
I've tried the fix from #79 and it only works when I manually change track and sometime (every 5 or 6 songs) when I let songs automatically change.
Thanks in advance !

[adamcik]

I haven't completed this yet. We prioritized getting 2.0 out instead of blocking on something which wasn't a regression.

[allquixotic]

When using mopidy and mopidy-spotify with git master, I'm having the same problem as Leicas when manually trying to apply my old patch to the new actor.py. I want to use the latest code for numerous good reasons (GST 1.0, many many great bugfixes), but I can't really use it without good support for tags.

Count me among the users waiting for this to land / willing to test any WIP code that will fix this...!

I think it's probably because set_metadata isn't being called once per track change. And I can't keep a reference to the latest track with set_uri (which I guess is being called when the track changes) because set_uri doesn't create or receive a track object.

Just mucking around in the code like a n00b but not seeing any obvious workaround right now. Looks like gapless has buried the place where this needs to be set.

[jodal]

@adamcik Was this fixed by PR #1538?

[adamcik]

Yes.

[brownjd]

What is the right way to set metadata once you add a uri to the tracklist? How can I specify a track name before playing?