Current stable versions of ncmpcpp with taglib duplicate existing tags when writing changes to files in the tag editor. This has been reported upstream in https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/issues/371 and fixed with https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/pull/373 Since a new release containing this fix is not yet forthcoming, the ebuilds should be updated with a patch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build ncmpcpp with taglib 2. Open a music file in the in-built editor 3. Make some changes such that tags will be re-written to the files 4. Save changes Actual Results: Tags are duplicated in the music file Expected Results: Tags are not duplicated, and changes are saved normally
The bug is still present [1,2] and hasn't been resolved for the the stable Gentoo package (0.8.2-r1 for AMD64 & x86). Upstream [3] has since then released new versions (0.9 & 0.91 [4]) that are still masked for Gentoo. Wolf's patch [5] was merged [6] into upstream and is now in 0.9 and newer, but nothing has changed for the stable gentoo package (0.8.2). To fix the bug on stable AMD64 and x86, it requires the user to manually add the patch [5] to their user patches. Otherwise they have to unmask a newer version (e.g. 0.9.1). (Assumption, I haven't tried the second solution out) P.S. I was going to attach the patch, but due to compliance with GLEP 76, only a link to the commit and patch is included [5,6]. The patch has been merged into upstream and the project is under GPLv2 [7]. [1] I have the issue on my updated system with the stable 0.8.2 version and taglib 1.11.1_p20190920-r1. Wolf's patch [5] fixed it. [2] User with the latest taglib (stable) package (1.11.1_p20190920-r1), but with a 0.9_dev version (the package version used is unknown, but it is newer than Gentoo's stable 0.8.2): https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/issues/371#issuecomment-610435956 [3] https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp [4] https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/releases [5] https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/commit/5e54cf2ca3e18de05df82bb0cd00292e8924ce24.patch [6] https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/pull/373/commits/5e54cf2ca3e18de05df82bb0cd00292e8924ce24 [7] https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/blob/master/COPYING
For what it’s worth, it’s completely valid to ask for a newer stable version.
