Spotlight problem in Lion (Tags gone AWOL!)
My friend, Pierre Bernard of Houdah Software, figured out what was going on. I'm curious if anyone else has yet encountered this problem.
I noticed the problem with sound files - you search for a specific piece of information (a tag) and it just can't find it. I noticed this both in Spotlight itself, and in Houdah Spot, which is a very advanced front end for Spotlight.
According to Pierre:
The problem is that the CoreMedia.importer does not forward this information to Spotlight.
Whenever you modify a file on the system, Spotlight searches for an importer plug-in to process the file. The role of the importer is to process the file into a list of metadata attributes and values. Those are stored by Spotlight and thus searchable.
The Lion version of CoreMedia.importer provides only basic information: just file attributes and a bogus audio bit rate.
The older version of CoreMedia.importer provided title, album, track number, author, composer, …
Pierre submitted this information to Apple
Here are his more specialized technical reports:
Attached below is the output for:
mdimport -d4 "/Volumes/Media/iTunes Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up.m4a"
CoreMedia.mdimporter reports a audio bit rate of 128 bit/s. The correct value would be 128kbits/s
Thus CoreMedia.mdimporter should return a value of 128000.
Conversely /System/Library/Spotlight/Audio.mdimporter reports correct values for MP3 files it imports.
Thus the Spotlight database has kbit/s values for M4A files, but bit/s value for MP3 files.
(Debug) Import: Attributes for file /Users/pierre/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up.m4a: {
"_kMDItemFinderLabel" = 0;
"com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 259498596;
kMDItemAudioBitRate = 128;
kMDItemAudioChannelCount = 2;
kMDItemCodecs = (
AAC
kMDItemContentCreationDate = "2004-06-09 18:33:12 +0000";
kMDItemContentModificationDate = "2009-03-23 10:56:36 +0000";
kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.m4a-audio";
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"com.apple.m4a-audio",
"public.mpeg-4-audio",
"public.audio",
"public.audiovisual-content",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
kMDItemDisplayName = {
"" = "12 Wake Up.m4a";
kMDItemDurationSeconds = "293.4766666666667";
kMDItemKind = {
"" = "Audio-MPEG4";
da = "MPEG-4-lyd";
de = "MPEG-4-Audio";
en = "MPEG-4 Audio";
es = "Audio MPEG-4";
fi = "MPEG-4-\U00e4\U00e4ni";
fr = "Audio MPEG-4";
it = "Audio MPEG-4";
ja = "MPEG-4 \U30aa\U30fc\U30c7\U30a3\U30aa";
ko = "MPEG-4 \Uc624\Ub514\Uc624";
nb = "MPEG-4-lyd";
nl = "MPEG-4-audio";
pl = "audio MPEG-4";
pt = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
"pt-PT" = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
ru = "\U0410\U0443\U0434\U0438\U043e MPEG-4";
sv = "MPEG-4-ljud";
"zh-Hans" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U9891";
"zh-Hant" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U8a0a";
kMDItemLogicalSize = 4909487;
kMDItemMediaTypes = (
Sound
kMDItemPhysicalSize = 4911104;
kMDItemStreamable = 0;
kMDItemTotalBitRate = 128;
The CoreMedia.mdimporter version 705.35 installed with Mac OS X Lion extracts much less metadata from AAC files than version 484.52 on Snow Leopard did.
Attached below is the output of
mdimport -d4 "/Volumes/Media/iTunes Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up.m4a"
First from Snow Leopard. The from Lion. Output on Lion lacks:
kMDItemAlbum
kMDItemAudioEncodingApplication
kMDItemAudioTrackNumber
kMDItemAuthors
kMDItemComposer
kMDItemMusicalGenre
kMDItemRecordingYear
kMDItemStreamable
kMDItemTempo
kMDItemTitle
Thus AAC music titles, including those purchased from the iTunes store, can no longer be found with Spotlight searching for author, composer, genre, …
Attributes for file /Volumes/Media/iTunes Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up.m4a: {
":MD:kMDItemSeedLastUsedDate" = 1;
"_kMDItemFinderLabel" = "<null>";
"com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 284396150;
kMDItemAlbum = "Jagged Little Pill";
kMDItemAudioBitRate = 128;
kMDItemAudioChannelCount = 2;
kMDItemAudioEncodingApplication = "iTunes v4.5, QuickTime 6.5.1";
kMDItemAudioTrackNumber = 12;
kMDItemAuthors = (
"Alanis Morissette"
kMDItemCodecs = (
AAC
kMDItemComposer = "Alanis Morissette & Glen Ballard";
kMDItemContentCreationDate = "2010-01-05 15:55:49 +0100";
kMDItemContentModificationDate = "2010-01-05 15:55:50 +0100";
kMDItemContentType = "public.mpeg-4-audio";
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"public.mpeg-4-audio",
"public.audio",
"public.audiovisual-content",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
kMDItemDisplayName = {
"" = "12 Wake Up.m4a";
kMDItemDurationSeconds = "293.4766666666667";
kMDItemKind = {
"" = "MPEG-4 audio";
da = "MPEG-4-lyd";
de = "MPEG-4-Audio";
en = "MPEG-4 audio";
es = "Audio MPEG-4";
fi = "MPEG-4-\U00e4\U00e4ni";
fr = "audio MPEG-4";
it = "Audio MPEG-4";
ja = "MPEG-4 \U30aa\U30fc\U30c7\U30a3\U30aa";
ko = "MPEG-4 \Uc624\Ub514\Uc624";
nb = "MPEG-4-lyd";
nl = "MPEG-4-audio";
pl = "audio MPEG-4";
pt = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
"pt-PT" = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
ru = "\U0410\U0443\U0434\U0438\U043e MPEG-4";
sv = "MPEG-4-ljud";
"zh-Hans" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U9891";
"zh-Hant" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U8a0a\U6a94";
kMDItemMediaTypes = (
Sound
kMDItemMusicalGenre = "Adult Alternative Rock";
kMDItemRecordingYear = 1995;
kMDItemStreamable = 0;
kMDItemTempo = 0;
kMDItemTitle = "Wake Up";
kMDItemTotalBitRate = 128;
Attributes: {
"_kMDItemFinderLabel" = 0;
"_kMDItemStaticInterestScore" = "1.111111";
"com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 259498596;
kMDItemAudioBitRate = 128;
kMDItemAudioChannelCount = 2;
kMDItemCodecs = (
AAC
kMDItemContentCreationDate = "2004-06-09 18:33:12 +0000";
kMDItemContentModificationDate = "2009-03-23 10:56:36 +0000";
kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.m4a-audio";
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"com.apple.m4a-audio",
"public.mpeg-4-audio",
"public.audio",
"public.audiovisual-content",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
kMDItemDisplayName = {
"" = "12 Wake Up.m4a";
kMDItemDurationSeconds = "293.4766666666667";
kMDItemKind = {
"" = "Audio-MPEG4";
da = "MPEG-4-lyd";
de = "MPEG-4-Audio";
en = "MPEG-4 Audio";
es = "Audio MPEG-4";
fi = "MPEG-4-\U00e4\U00e4ni";
fr = "Audio MPEG-4";
it = "Audio MPEG-4";
ja = "MPEG-4 \U30aa\U30fc\U30c7\U30a3\U30aa";
ko = "MPEG-4 \Uc624\Ub514\Uc624";
nb = "MPEG-4-lyd";
nl = "MPEG-4-audio";
pl = "audio MPEG-4";
pt = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
"pt-PT" = "\U00c1udio MPEG-4";
ru = "\U0410\U0443\U0434\U0438\U043e MPEG-4";
sv = "MPEG-4-ljud";
"zh-Hans" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U9891";
"zh-Hant" = "MPEG-4 \U97f3\U8a0a";
kMDItemLogicalSize = 4909487;
kMDItemMediaTypes = (
Sound
kMDItemPhysicalSize = 4911104;
kMDItemStreamable = 0;
kMDItemTotalBitRate = 128;
Just FYI, I tried this and CoreMedia.mdimporter is still snagging my files.
However, if you do something like:
$ mdimport -g $to_the_snowleopard/Audio.mdimporter $files_to_index
This should work, at least until the system decides to reindex with the default. However, neither appear to be importing M4a files and when I run this command with either the Snow Leopard Audio.mdimporter or CoreMedia.mdimporter I get:
"2011-10-01 11:03:14.235 mdimport[1386:707] Imported '/Volumes/Work/Sound Library/Sound Ideas/SI9000 M4A/SI9012/901299 Swinging Wood Door 6.m4a' of type 'com.apple.m4a-audio' with no plugIn"
Ugh: "no plugin." When I don't use -g and let the machine use it druthers to decide which importer to use, it uses the /System/Library/Spotlight/ one. If I remove the CoreMedia importer from /System/Library and leave the Audio and CoreMedia importer in /Library/Spotlight, it imports m4as with no plugin. If I COPY the old Snow Leopard CoreMedia importer into /System/Library/Spotlight, it imports m4as with no plugin. Something keeps the system from using the old importer, you suppose the new one is signed and the old one is just untrusted?
I for one use the kMDItemComment and kMDItemDescription extensively for a sound effects library and not having them in my Apple Lossless M4a files really screws me up.
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