I like proper apostrophes, dammit. I opened the properties for a newly imported song in FLAC format, whose title was set to “Jackie's Strength” (with a straight-tick, U+0027, in the title). I changed it to “Jackie’s Strength” (with an apostrophe or right single quote, U+2019). When I saved it, gmusicbrowser nulled out the title, album, and artist, and set the length to 415 minutes. The file appeared irreparably damaged; gmusicbrowser started playing in the middle, and Picard was unable to get a good fingerprint for it.
I got a clean copy of the file. This time, I edited the title using Rhythmbox. gmusicbrowser has no problem reading non-ASCII titles, but when I then attempted to change the genres of the song, it once again nulled out various properties and generally screwed up the file.
I like gmusicbrowser a lot, but I like being able to change properties on my songs without destroying them even more. If someone could point me to the right section of the code, I could take a whack, but I have no idea where to start.
This is version 0.964 running under Ubuntu 8.10 (“Intrepid Ibis”).
This bug was fixed ~7 months ago, in version 1.0.1 (it only appeared in combination with perl 5.10)
You should really upgrade, version 1.0.1 is in the intrepid-backports repository : http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-backports/gmusicbrowser
Molto grazie, Signor Nobody. I can confirm that the problem is fixed via intrepid-backports.