Dolphin not displaying data in audio-related columns

[Herlock]

Running Manjaro KDE, and have an odd situation. Say I have a few music files (FLAC, mp3) in a folder. I navigate to said folder with the Dolphin file manager, then select a few audio-related columns to be displayed in Dolphin, such as Bitrate, Duration, Artist, etc., but these columns remain blank in Dolphin, even though when I examine the metadata of my music files, it shows all these fields are correctly populated.

Any reason why this should be happening?

[winnie]

Same here, just checked.

Dolphin Version: 21.08.1
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.2-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

[winnie]

Well, phooey, I figured it out, and I don’t like the “solution”.

You need to have indexing enabled (“File Search”) and file content indexed.

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Rebuild the search index, with file content enabled, let it run and complete for your home folder (might take a while). Once it’s finished, try again with Dolphin. (Might have to log out one time if it doesn’t work immediately after the indexing completes.)

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[Herlock]

Thanks so much for your help, winnie, I am not crazy about it either, think I will do without the information on these Dolphin columns, there’s always a roundabout way to get that.