ABSubmit plug-in generates "Exit code 1" on a few tracks

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Richard

26 Jul, 2020 07:33 AM

I thought it would be appropriate to begin a new discussion for this error.

While running the AcousticBrainzSubmit plug-in v 1.0.3, I encountered a few error messages like "Failed to submit '' to AcousticBrainz. Exit code 1. See log for details."

This is a repeatable error at least for 3 tracks. I tried each of these 3 tracks 3 separate times with the same result.

I attached some screen shots. It can't be coincidence that all 3 tracks are from the same album. However, other tracks from the same album processed OK. I'm also attaching one of the problem tracks. I tested this track ("Love Insurance". It plays fine. Also, I uploaded the logs immediately after creating the error for the 3rd time.

These are 3 errors out of a batch of 31,000 tracks, so the incidence is very low. Nonetheless, a bug is a bug, if that's what it turns out to be, so I'm reporting it. Personally, I consider this low priority since it happened so seldom. And I wouldn't be reporting it at all if the error weren't repeatable.

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 26 Jul, 2020 09:21 AM

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    Hey Richard,

    thanks for reporting this.

    It appears to me that your files contain malformed metadata that the AcousticBrainz tool has a hard time dealing with. In the end, it dumps image data (the cover art) into a metadata string ("contentgroup"), which leads to a malformed JSON file—I assume invalid UTF-8.

    I am not able to fix this, as this an AcousticBrainz issue. If you would like to bring this to the attention of AcousticBrainz, please file a bug report along with your sample file at https://tickets.metabrainz.org/projects/AB/issues/AB-447?filter=all...

    For your reference, I have attached the produced JSON file (zipped). The error message I get is Invalid control character at: line 1 column 40593 (char 40592).

    Cheers!

    -hendrik

  2. 2 Posted by Richard on 26 Jul, 2020 03:24 PM

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    Hendrik,

    Thank you very much for looking into it, and so quickly. I'll go to MusicBrainz for further action.

    Richard

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 28 Jul, 2020 04:01 PM

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    Great! :-)

  4. hendrik closed this discussion on 28 Jul, 2020 04:01 PM.

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