All ratings are gone

[Alex78]

Hi,

I'm using GMMP for years now without having serious issues. Now I wanted to play my smart playlist "rating" and it was empty. There should be all 5 star rated music files. I took a look into music files, which have been rated with 5 stars. Every rating is gone. Loading the statistics doesn't help either.

Is there anything to fix that?

Specs:
Galaxy S10
GMMP 2.2.23

[GoneMAD]

most likely not. a faulty sdcard that gets unmounted and remounted can cause the database to lose everything for a track (when unmounted the scanner things the file is gone so its removed, and then its restored when remounted). If you have a backup of the stats that should restore any ratings you had tho. Unless your files were moved into a different location. Also assuming you granted write access to your sdcard (or your music is on internal storage) those ratings should have been written to the tags of each file and would be picked back up by the scanner on a rescan

Are you sure your smart playlist wasnt modified?

[Alex78]

Thanks for your fast response. I've made a backup of my original statistics and saved the current state.

Original statistics:
- Sorted the way the music was copied to the phone
- Path: /storage/409B-AF73/Music
- Full albums are listed and ratings are included

New statistics:
- Sorted alphabetically
- Path: /storage/409B-AF73/Music
- Only non edited songs of an album are listed without ratings

I also thought GMMP writes ratings or mp3 tags directly into the file in newer versions.

[GoneMAD]

ratings are written to the tags as long as write access is granted to the sdcard. I cant remember if 2.x brings a prompt if you just adjust the rating if access isnt already granted. Regardless if the original statistics has all your ratings, and running a restore stats does not bring back your ratings. .that means your music is mounted into a different location (your new stat file seems to indicate that the paths are the same)? Or its hitting an exception and stop before the restore is complete

When you try to rate a song that was previously rated.. does dialog show the correct rating? What you've said so far makes me think something is wrong with the smart playlist and not your music

[Alex78]

2.x brings a prompt. When inserting a new sd it asks for the root folder of the card in order to grant write access. But I was never able to verify, if it had been activated or not.

After switching from Galaxy S8 to S10, I put my sd card in the new phone and everything worked fine! All ratings were there. It still has the same storage name.

I took a closer look and noticed the following:

- all mp3 tags have been erased
- all mp3 files with 5 star ratings have been erased

My 5 star rated music files are gone. I cannot find them in android file explorer anymore. How could that happen?

[GoneMAD]

gmmp will not edit tags without user interaction.. and removing all tags would be quick hard for one to do. it would involve selection all your music, opening your tag editor, checking every box, and blanking out every field then saving.

gmmp will also not remove files unless the user selects delete and then accepts the warning prompt that the file is going to be deleted

Unfortunately its something outside of gmmp that is messing with your files (unless of course you or someone else manually did what i said about.. but i highly doubt thats the case)

[Alex78]

Okay. But how is it possible to delete all 5 star rated music files in gmmp and all mp3 tags at the same time?

[GoneMAD]

no clue. i only know the capabilities of the code i wrote

[Alex78]

The only unusual thing I did was creating a second smart playlist a few month ago. I wanted to mix the rating feature with something else. That didn't work out and I've deleted that playlist.
My 5 stars rating playlist still worked after that experiment. 2 month ago I started listening to audio books and never touched the smart playlist...

Is there a way to determine, if the write access works or not?

[GoneMAD]

easiest way to check that would be to make a copy of a file on your sdcard.. get it scanned into gmmp. Edit the tags / rating and save. Take that file and move it to a different folder on your sdcard. After its moved run the scanner again and check the tags in gmmp. Moving to a diff location will cause gmmp to create a new entry in the database and populate it with whatever is in the tags. If you have a pc you could also transfer the file back to your computer and open it using mp3tag to look at the tags and see if they have changed www.mp3tag.de/en/

[Alex78]

Thanks for your help. I've reconstructed everything manually and reworked and updated all id3 tags (ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)). It seems to be better than before
I'm not quite sure why there are still some tags not 100% complete in gmmp, although they've been completed in mp3tag... Is it because of ID3v2.3 instead of 2.4?
Write access works so far with a little exception. Ratings won't be saved into the file's meta data.
By the way, what do those checkboxes mean in Tag-Editor?


All I can say is you can be really proud of yourself! You've got a great piece of software!

[GoneMAD]

gmmp can read 2.2/2.3/2.4 (and probably earlier versions). It writes in 2.4

no clue why the ratings are being saved, but i know it definitely works in the 3.0 alpha which is all im really working on nowadays.

The checkboxs just indicate which fields you are editing. It doesnt really matter for single file tag changes but if you are doing a bulk edit, you might only want to update specific fields without changing all of them. 3.0 handles this much better and doesnt have the checkboxes

[Alex78]

Sounds great, I'm looking forward to the official release