Development - Guayadeque Music Player

Bug in the notifications for new songs

siddharthasahu — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:05:29 -0400

OS: Arch Linux x64 with KDE 4.10.3

The Body.Append function seems not to be working properly on my system. In all notifications, only one star appeared, and the rest of the data was missing. After changing the code as below, it is working properly. Could you please have a look?

Patch:
diff -aur guayadeque/src/PlayerPanel.cpp guayadeque-1/src/PlayerPanel.cpp
--- guayadeque/src/PlayerPanel.cpp 2012-01-25 02:47:56.167437000 +0530
+++ guayadeque-1/src/PlayerPanel.cpp 2013-05-15 14:16:26.690071100 +0530
@@ -3041,7 +3041,8 @@
if( m_MediaSong.m_Rating > 0 )
{
Body += wxT( " " );
- Body.Append( wxT( '★' ), m_MediaSong.m_Rating );
+ for(int i=1; i<=m_MediaSong.m_Rating; i++)
+ Body += wxT( "★" );
}
Body += wxT( "\n" ) + m_MediaSong.m_ArtistName;
if( !m_MediaSong.m_AlbumName.IsEmpty() )

PS: It has been a year since 3.5.0 was released.You were porting Guayadeque to qt, right? Could you give us a status update on that or further plans you have? It would be great to have an update.

Thanks!

Scrobbling online radio: Required POST parameters are empty

Kirembu — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:22:09 -0400

I've logged in to both libre.fm and last.fm, guayadeque seems to be scrobbling some tracks while others failed.
Scrobbling offline tracks works perfectly, and also the last.fm tab is able to recognise songs playing though they are not scrobbled to either last.fm nor libre.fm

I know this is a tricky feature yet guayadeque does it so well.

Thank you anonbeat

guayadeque v 0.3.5-

06:09:48 PM: Error: Server Error when connecting to LastFM server : FAILED Required POST parameters are empty

Debugging info

mrmahon — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:17:07 -0400

When Guayadeque encounters a problem (svn 1881 version) it opens a debugging report window. I can see a debugging report there and can type additional information. It says it will be sent to the developer unless i press Cancel.

Are you receiving these reports or should they be emailed to you?

Bug report.

Haight6716 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:22:34 -0400

Not sure if this is the right way to report a bug. I'm sick of rhythmbox and found out about guayadeque here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/76449

It looks really promising.

I have a huge library of mp3s and some of them may be corrupt. I was simultaneously updating my library and importing a playlist when it crashed. Here's the output when it happened:

http://www.julianhaight.com/guayadeque_bug.txt

Hope this helps .. I'll see if I can get it to work if I don't stress it so much. Keep up the nice work - it looks really nice in theory.

Error when advancing or changing song in Magnatune

geraba — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:54:39 -0400

Hello.

I noticed a bug when using a playlist from Magnatune. After you let it play a few songs, the highlighted song in the playlist is actually the next song then the one being played. For example, if the playlist now is:

A
B
C
D

and B is really being played now, the song that is highlighted is actually C:

A
B -> actually being played
C* -> highlighted
D

Also, after playing a few songs, if you try to advance 1 track, either the Next Song command/button does not work, or it skips 2 tracks.

To reset the problem, you have to double click the actual track in the playlist (B, in the previous example). When you do so, the player tries to load the song, and then skips to the next, effectively playing the song next to the one you clicked (C, in the example).

I hope my explanation is clear enough.

Congratulations on the great player, it was just what I was looking for in Linux.

P.S.: I forgot to mention: I use Guayadeque 0.3.5~, that installs from Ubuntu Software Center in 12.04.

Sound menu issue

Wawanakwa — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:32:01 -0500

Hi everyone, I'm posting because I have an annoying problem with guayadeque. I've installed it on ubuntu 12.10 and for a while it worked fine, but after uninstalling it (messing with something) and trying to install it again just keeps ending in the same way.
Basically, now every time I launch the player, the sound menu stops working, I don't see the guayadeque bar (even though I've set it as default player) and I can't even access the volume anymore. I'm using a laptop and even trying to raise the volume using the default keyboard command doesn't work.
I've already uninstalled and reinstalled it multiple times, trying both the svn version and the one from ubuntu software center, removed the .guayadeque folder from /home, removed (or tried to) everything via the --purge remove command and after every attempt the situation was the same.
The player actually works, since it plays my songs and should be able to do everything else, but it messes up with almost everything sound related and so I can't really use it anymore.

Thanks for any reply, I hope I'll be able to use it again because it's way better than Rythmbox.

gstreamer-0.10 not found!

bmbaker — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:26:05 -0500

i was just doing a new pull from svn and have run into buildd error!

bb@bb-quantal:~/guayadeque$ ./buildd
rm: cannot remove `CMakeCache.txt': No such file or directory
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Using install prefix /usr ...
-- Found PkgConfig: /opt/gnome/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.25")
-- Found wxWidgets: TRUE
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-0.10'
-- package 'gstreamer-0.10' not found
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:36 (MESSAGE):
gstreamer-0.10 not found!

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I think its because i have gstreamer 1.0 as well as gstreamer-0.10 on my system.
I have purged the gstreamer 1.0 twice now but i still can't get guaya to build !!
i saw this article it might be why i can't build!
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIzNjQ
running ubuntu 12.10 with GS 3.7.2

Incorrect track displayed in the top left area of the window

shapirus — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:37:27 -0500

Hi,

while playing a CUE+FLAC album starting from the first track, there are two issues:

1) While the first track is playing, the top left area of the main window shows the name of the second track instead;
2) When the first track finishes and the second track starts playing, the name of the first track in the playlist gets replaced with the name of the second track.

The respective screenshots and CUE file are attached.

Fedora 17 install kernel

pir8don — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:12:23 -0400

Hi I am a newbie and would like to use this app on FC17 but when I attempt to build it from the svn I get:
-- checking for module 'indicate-0.7'
-- package 'indicate-0.7' not found
-- checking for module 'indicate-0.6'
-- package 'indicate-0.6' not found
-- checking for module 'indicate'
-- package 'indicate' not found
libindicate library not found! No sound menu support!!
-- checking for module 'appindicator-0.1'
-- package 'appindicator-0.1' not found
-- checking for module 'wxsqlite3-2.8'
-- package 'wxsqlite3-2.8' not found
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:116 (MESSAGE):
libwxsqlite3-2.8 not found!

Any help would be appreciated. Have a large collection and would love to give this a tryout.
Thanks
Don

Problems with the mpris2 dbus interface

bayanr — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:59:55 -0500

I am having a problem trying to connect to the "seeked" signal in the mpris2 Player dbus interface. I connected to the interface and am able to make calls such as PlayPause or Next, but I am unable to connect to the "Seeked" signal in the Player. I have the correct number of arguments, is it a problem with my code or is the seeked signal not implemented yet?

Here is the python test code I ran:

import dbus
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
import gobject

def test(x):
.....print 'seeked'

loop = DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
bus = dbus.SessionBus(mainloop=loop)
remote_player = bus.get_object('org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.guayadeque', '/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2')
iface_player = dbus.Interface(remote_player, 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player')
iface_player.connect_to_signal("Seeked", test)
#iface_player.Next()
loop = gobject.MainLoop()
loop.run()

Only display "Guayadeque" *.version in title when not playing

l300lvl — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:35:36 -0400

I was hoping I could do something simple like this to only show Guayadeque and the version in the title when theres no song playing, but it doesn't update if you stop the song. So I thought I'd make a feature request.

open */guayadeque/src/MainFrame.cpp & find and modify around line 1770 to look like so:

// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
void guMainFrame::OnUpdateTrack( wxCommandEvent &event )
{
    guTrack * Track = ( guTrack * ) event.GetClientData();
    if( Track )
    {
        SetTitle( Track->m_SongName + wxT( " / " ) + Track->m_ArtistName +
            wxT( "  " ) );

        if( m_TaskBarIcon )
        {
            m_TaskBarIcon->SetIcon( m_AppIcon, wxT( " " "\r" ) +
                                               Track->m_ArtistName + wxT( "\n" ) +
                                               Track->m_SongName );
        }
    }
    else

blank line in cuesheet crashes guadeque

forceps — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:26:45 -0400

version: guayadeque (0.3.5~ds0-4) in Debian Wheezy

The cuesheets tested are in ascii, utf8, and gb2312 encoding. Guadeque crashes during update/rescan library when the cuesheet contains blank line, remove blank line fix the crash.

10:15:52: GetKeyValue: ' INDEX 01 38:23:32' ==> '01'
10:15:52: RedBookToMTime( '38:23:32' )
10:15:52: '' [here is a blank line, guadeque crashes here]

Portable device support questions, bug reports, etc HERE

anonbeat — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:28:01 -0400

I need opinion on how to handle playlists and album browser for the portable devices. It can be done like most other players do with a panel where you can select the source (local, jamendo, magnatune, media player, etc ) or from every pane can be a choice that allow to select what source to inspect so you can be browsing albums from the main library, having the library for a specific device open and also with the playlists of other device open.

Dont know if I explained it well.

Right now dont copy playlists or covers.

Please post here everything regarding the testing of the portable device support

Developing Guadeque

l300lvl — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:39:30 -0400

Hey I'm not really a coder or programmer but I was wondering what all it might take just to start writing C which is what I believe guayadeque is written in? What would I use as an ide and how would I browse the code? Is there access to any of this information, and also perhaps could this be in the wiki?

Maybe eventually this can be more of a community project and others can contribute to it by providing hacks or tweaks even if very simple? I'm mostly just curious and want to play around at coding something like Guayadeque, and maybe that will help me understand what I'd like to see it grow into in the future and what I really expect out of a music player.

Lately I realize Guayadeque is by far the most experienced program with music lovers in mind which actually handles large libraries, as other players either lack things like Album Artist, still. Or they are bulky where they should not be, or they lack customization in many areas, as well as most just cant handle a library over 10k tracks even when they boast that handling huge libraries is their main feature.

Guayadeque is number one by far, with probably Banshee running behind at number 2 which was closely tied with gmusicbrowser which has too many features that are useless or it doesn't understand how to just play music and even after tweaking every little thing it is still full of bugs and bulk and then can't handle a large library, then that R-box still wont do what it needs to do to be logical and future proof. Others, bulk, poorly written, run on java, too many bugs, not enough features, etc etc etc.

Are there any forks of Guayadeque out there?

I have many questions about the future of Guayadeque, as it now my number one choice over all.

Last question, would it be possible to perhaps 'fork' one of the 'Views' and then have guayadeque see views as sort of plug-ins where as we could write new ones and Guayadeque could use the new views for more advanced customization. If that makes sense. Sorry this is so long.

bug -> cuesheets with non-english characters

696 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:04:56 -0400

Hi there anonbeat,

Fisrtly, I just want to congratulate you for all the great work.
There are a lot of other positive things to add, but I will stop here for the sake of brevity.

With that being said, I want to report a problem.
It is a bug report, any I apologize if this is not the place to report a bug, but I could not find any :)

When running Guayadeque 0.3.5-, it crashes, and here's what I receive (started it from console)::

05:29:19 PM: CuePlaylist from file : '/mnt/multimedia/@Pur6atorY/SalSa/Sonora Ponceña - Unchained Force/FLAC/00-Unchained Force.cue'
05:29:19 PM: Content:
05:29:19 PM: ''
guayadeque: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

So, probably the spanish "ñ" is a showstopper.

On the same page, I also have trouble with Guayadeque crashing when trying to play tracks with names imported from cuesheets that contain Scandinavian characters or cyrilic (Russian/Ukrainian). I understand that adding unicode support could be a big programming task, however making Guayadeque gracefully behave, instead of crashing, is preferred.
I attached two cuesheets, renamed to .txt, if needed, I can supply more info.

Best regards.

Bug: Enter to play

l300lvl — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:00:11 -0400

Now sure whats going on and maybe its just me again. So in preferences if you select Enqueue as default action it will add the song you selected and hit enter on to the end of the playlist. Maybe this is close to the last issue and is beyond the scope of Guayadeque, but the following seems logical:

If Enqueue as default is NOT selected, and you hit enter, it will start playing that track, BUT it also removes everything else on the playlist. Is there any possible way that can be fixed, and instead of it removing everything it just replaces the current playing song with the one you selected? Or perhaps bump the current playing track down the list to number 2, and add the new track as number 1?

At any rate, the playlist should not just vanish to play a new song? Perhaps if this is not possible another alternative might be to make Guaya save the current playlist, and possibly add a 'restore now playing' button somewhere?

Cannot load tracks...

nemo — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:53:34 -0400

Hello.
I am using Guayadeque(svn 1813), on Ubuntu 12.04(64bit).
A few days ago, when Guayadeque starts up, it shows the message 'Loading Tracks. Please wait.', but it cannot load the playlist at all.
Here is some messages when I run Guyadeque in a terminal. (Please ignore Korean Letters..)

21시 47분 20초: Initialized locale ( ko_KR )
21시 47분 20초: MediaViewer 'My Music' => '4FCA6C0C' ==>> 00000000
21시 47분 20초: Library Db Version 21
21시 47분 20초: SetViewMode -1 => 0
21시 47분 20초: guLibPanel::IniPanelData( 13101 )
21시 47분 20초: guLibPanel::DoTextSearch( '' )
21시 47분 21초: OnCollectionCommand 13100 0 0 1
21시 47분 21초: Updating the podcasts...
21시 47분 21초: Indicators_Sound_Available() => 0
21시 47분 21초: Indicators_Sound_Available() => 0
21시 47분 22초: playlist active 0
....................
After I close it..

21시 54분 21초: Indicators_Sound_Available() => 0
21시 54분 23초: Destroying the volume monitor object...
21시 54분 23초: >> ~guGIO_VolumeMonitor()
21시 54분 23초: << ~guGIO_VolumeMonitor()
세그멘테이션 오류 (core dumped)
---> Segmentation fault(core dumped)

Guayadeque still works except not loading the playlist.
I also removed .guayadeque dir., and the program package itself, but nothing changes.

And, when I close it, an error report is generated. I tried to attached the file, but I could not.
I uploaded the file on my blog. http://pds23.egloos.com/pds/201206/02/47/err.xml.7z

Can you help me to get over this?

Thank you in advance!!
I really love Guayadeque!!

smoother page change when browsing by album cover

altercat — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:58:08 -0400

I guess this goes in the Development section. I'm amazed by the versatility of Guayadeque, and I'm really looking forward to what's going to happen in further development stages :))

Just two issues for the time being. One is a feature request that I'll be posting in the other section and the other, would it be possible to have smoother page changes when browsing through Album Covers? It seems it's coded for the pages to move horizontally, but IMO it looks much better / sweeter / smoother if the transition happens vertically, without having a sudden change of page with another 30+ albums. It would be great to see it as it is in Banshee for example.

Help please make easy but large steps

KmCrct — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:39:16 -0400

can u please make the player widget slimmer include a smaller image of the cover 30% right side = total player widget height ..... put time-line ontop and buttons below and cover on right with proportional height = to player widget height this way width is done by keeping ratio also put slider on bar horiz instead of button .....just try to make the player bottom like vlc with an album cover b4 maybe all over to the left (small ,stretch with bar) then controls then space and time (toggle +/-) and vol bar with slider above ..... the slimmer the better

Old bug, new segfault.

l300lvl — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:39 -0400

Instead of opening several posts I am once again starting a new thread.

1. I previously encountered an issue where Filters was displayed as selected in the menu, and while I thought this was fixed it is back again. It appears 'visible' under the menu, but you don't see it until you uncheck it and select it again. I don't use filters but this is a bug and should be worked out. I have tried removing guaya and all sources etc and the problem always comes back. Screenshot attached screenshot-2012-04-04T15:19:49.png.

2. Recently I was 'moving' a track to the bottom of the list using the song editor, and as soon as the track hit the bottom of the list it seems like it tried to keep moving it, and the player crashed with a debug report. I have reproduced it running under gdb and also posted screenshot after the crash screenshot-2012-04-04T15:26:41.png:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000005ffd26 in operator!= (s2=..., s1=...)
at /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1567
1567 { return (s1.Len() != s2.Len()) || (s1.Cmp(s2) != 0); }
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000005ffd26 in operator!= (s2=..., s1=...)
at /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1567
#1 guTrackEditor::SetTagField (this=0x2221170, field=..., newval=...,
changedflags=@0x7fffffffb8bc, flagval=1)
at /home/l300lvl/guayadeque/src/TrackEdit.cpp:984
#2 0x0000000000600680 in guTrackEditor::WriteItemData (this=0x2221170)
at /home/l300lvl/guayadeque/src/TrackEdit.cpp:1016
#3 0x0000000000602f56 in guTrackEditor::OnSelectTimeout (this=0x2221170,
event=) at /home/l300lvl/guayadeque/src/TrackEdit.cpp:831
#4 0x00007ffff7b6b825 in wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventIfMatches(wxEventTableEntryBase const&, wxEvtHandler*, wxEvent&) ()
from /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff7b6bbef in wxEvtHandler::SearchDynamicEventTable(wxEvent&) ()
from /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff7b6bca2 in wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent(wxEvent&) ()
from /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff774cce9 in wxTimerBase::Notify() ()
from /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff766d87b in ?? ()
from /usr/lib64/wx-2.8-wxcontainer/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
#9 0x00007ffff54a5dbb in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff54a45dd in g_main_context_dispatch ()
from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
---Type to continue, or q to quit---

Can't build from svn, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2

kinggo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:45:48 -0400

I tried a couple of times, even on clean install but every time I get message that I'm missing some libindicate

In file included from /home/mario/guayadeque/src/AlListBox.cpp:28:0:
/home/mario/guayadeque/src/MainFrame.h:73:32: fatal error: libindicate/server.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/guayadeque.dir/AlListBox.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/guayadeque.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

But I have some libindicate packages installed, but don't know which one is missing.

crash while copying

Skeorx — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:26:09 -0400

While trying to copy mp3s to a directory via right clicking in the collection if I try to copy more mp3s before the first group of mp3s has completed transferring the program crashes. Both copy requests were writing to the same directory. Running svn 1800 on Linux Mint 12 with Cinnamon.

Program ends after playing some songs/configurations not saved

FabianFSP — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:57:11 -0400

Hello
Yesterday I found Guayadeque and on first sight I really like it. But I have a huge problem with the program:
always after playing some songs it stops and the program is finishing. It is really awkward. After restarting the program I am loosing all configurations (for ex. volume, size of frames, etc.).
I am using Linux Mint LXDE, version 11.

Do you have any idea what could be the problem and some recomendations how to solve this problem?
Thanks a lot

Tree view -- double line spacing when Artists is set as first Sorting criteria

NigelT — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:59:26 -0500

The tree view defaults to single line spacing "out-of-the-box" (i.e. shorting of Generes-Artists-Albums), however when I change the sorting to Artists-Albums-Genres (or anything with Artists as the first parameter in the sort), a blank line gets inserted between every artist in the tree. In other words, when reading down the list, it will show Artist#1, then a blank line (empty space), then Artist#2, and so on. This double-spacing will then persist even if I go back to the original sorting order (with Genres first). Functionality is all still good, it just looks weird. Any idea on what might be causing this behaviour or how to troubleshoot it (or even better, how to fix it)?

Crash: Moving track in active playlist

Skeorx — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:24:50 -0500

Although it used to work in the older version, now anytime I try to move a track in the currently active smart playlist to change the order it plays in, guayadeque crashes on me. Running the svn version. Running Linux Mint 12.

(That said, guayadeque has by far the best functionality of any player I've used. I very much appreciate the hands on approach you take to keep the program as bug free and usable as possible. I know pretty much squat about programming but I'll try to bring any glitches I find to your attention.)

Instability or inconsistency?

l300lvl — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:26:13 -0500

I have read that if something like restoring the tracks at their correct position isn't working, or when it isn't even restoring the correct track or layout, sometimes it takes several attempts to get it to remember a setting, and that a could be an indication that segfaults are occuring when exiting Guaya.

So that bring me to ask, is this perhaps an inconsistency between updates, perhaps something is changing in the svn and that is why sometimes it will work fine and other times those features won't work at all?

OR, is it an instability of either Guayadeque or the system I have it running on. How can I determine WHY it is so random in that it works when it wants to?

It is not the most frustrating thing in the world, but it is starting to become harder to deal with. Perhaps I should get it 'working' and never update again? I never see any problems when building, and I guess I can test for segfaults in gdb but I wanted to get a word in before I pull hair.

BUG: iPod crash

gobater — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:40:43 -0500

Hi Anon,

I have deleted all MP3 and the DB in my iPod. When trying to attach it to Guayadeque to copy some files it crashed.

Backtrace:
http://pastebin.com/drSneYN7

Regards

Artist order in Album Browser

tamalet — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:51:34 -0500

As I understand, the order by Artist in the Album Browser is actually by Album Artist to avoid having several entries for albums with different artists. That's great, but it seems that ordering is not working well as you can see in this screenshot: http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/8851/albumbrowserordering.png

Stop at End issue

l300lvl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:53:47 -0500

I mentioned this feature only once before when I asked for it to be added to the players now playing list, here http://guayadeque.org/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/568/words-to-detect-covers-smart-mode-improvements.#Item_44

But this problem is different, I learned the shortcut, and when trying it, sometimes it doesn't stop.

This only seems to happen when there is only one track on the playlist, and smart mode is enabled. It doesn't always happen, but it does occasionally and that can be pesky. Is there perhaps an app out there that will stop pulse or disable the master output device after so many minutes of inactivity?