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[don570]

A warning to users of Lucid Puppy.
I have been using Shinobar's version of Lucid Puppy 5.1.
He removed lots of unnecessary files to slim it down.
Unfortunately this has resulted in some problems especially with fonts.
xfce has a problem running on it as well, which affects Pmusic and gnome -mplayer .
He seems to be working like a madman to fix it all.
He's already on his fifth update in one week. Is this the
new world record?

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I live near Toronto which is one of the crowded media markets in
the world. I can get radio stations from my dental fillings so I have
no need for the internet.

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The woman Prime minister of Australia boasted about
subsidizing rural Internet access during a debate so I wonder
which party Barry Kauler supports.

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[wow]

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wow
Have you experienced any trouble with "aplay -D plughw"


nice signature
Sigmund

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Version 1.3.0
See main post

Changelog
- Play audio-CD.
--> Mix CD-tracks with other files and streams in playlist.
--> 'Play CD-audio' menuitem.
--> 'pmusic -c' loads disc into playlist and starts playing.
--> Simple ripping feature.
--> Requires ONLY cdda2wav for both playing and ripping.
- Improved language detection. (thanks to wow)
- Option to bookmark saved playlist. (thanks to don570)
- Removed Navigator window and 'Hide gui'. - Tray app works better.
- Include FAQ into pet package.
- New signal: stop (pmusic -s)
- Moved some features from Tools-menu to File.
- 'Copy/Convert' and 'Burn' has become 'Export'
- Add filebrowser to overview (music sources).
- First run message.
- Bugfix: Copy files; request to overwrite file; NO --> stopped all copying.
- Bugfix: 'Pmusic -a *.m3u' loaded twice. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Do not export CD-tracks and streams to Pburn.
- Bugfix: Rox-integration for *.ogg and *.flac files.
- Bugfix: canada radio stations
- Bugfix: 'Undo' (go back in playlist history) missed sometimes.
- NLS: Added $LOC105, 106, 289, 521, 522, 523, 800, 801, 802
- NLS: Changed $LOC290, 291, 298, 299
- NLS: Removed $LOC142, 143, 145, 181, 182, 280

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aplay 1.0.16

aplay -D plughw:

[don570]

I worked hard last night and tested Pmusic 1.3 and
compiled the latest mtPaint 1.34.55.

DOWNLOAD HERE

It will open SVG files which I find useful.
Both are amazing pieces of software.

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Here's the features that I tested that worked correctly using luci 218
(which has just been released).

1: File that was renamed by Rox Filer was described by Pmusic as 'not found'
2: Jump to time
3: Show elapsed time/remaining time
4: Calculate Playlist time
5: Show Rox-Location
6: Turn off Tooltips
7: Trash recent and most played lists
8: File can be Bookmarked midway thru playing
9: Playlist can be a Bookmark using save dialog
10: New Playlist icon worked as expected
11: Tray icon works as expected
12: Two Asunder playlists opened correctly, one was WAV and the other OGG
songs
13: Playlists opened correctly either with Pmusic file browser or with Rox Filer
scripts
14: Going back in history worked as expected
15: Copy files worked even with special characters
16: Folder names or playlist names that accidently found themselves on a
playlist could be easily deleted with right click

Next post the bugs

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[don570]

Here are the things that are wrong or are strange oddities.

I tested on seven different versions of Puppy and with three versions I didn't see the navigator window interface option (see picture)




The versions that didn't have this feature were Lighthouse 4.4.3, lighthouse5
and the latest Luci 218. I don't use this feature anyway.

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When the ripping of an Audio CD is proceeding, a simple splash screen
'Pmusic 1.3' is shown to user. It should say 'Please wait for work to finish'
or else do like Ubuntu and have five horizontal lights blinking sequentially
which shows that some work is being done.

..and once the ripping has finished how do you get these songs to appear on
a playlist. I believe Apple iTunes automatically puts these songs at the
head of a giant list of songs (called a 'Library') and the user is supposed
to make a playlist from this giant list. If Pmusic could put the ripped songs
on the tail of the current playlist that would be nice. Another possibility
would be to save the playlist info along with the songs, just like Asunder does.

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Bookmark Manager has a feature where the individual bookmarks can
be dragged to a new spot on list, but on rare occasions I find that
all the Bookmarks on the list disappear. It is so rare that I can't reproduce
the bug. I would recommend getting rid of this feature and instead have a
preference option to arrange the bookmark list 'Alphabetically'
which some users might find useful.

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Here is an oddity. To choose a folder for a Bookmark, the filebrowser requires the
user to just select the folder, whereas the Burn/rip/convert target directory
must be selected by going 'inside' the directory with the filebrowser.

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It might be nice if the burn/rip/convert directory was automatically made a
bookmark

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How do you eject an Audio CD? pCD has a eject feature which works well.
Pmusic needs that as well.

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The CD icon in window ----> The Tooltip pops up with an empty field


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I tracked down a bug where the final two songs on a playlist would repeat themselves
over and over (until stop icon is clicked) (see pictures)






The common factor in both playlists is that
the final song on playlist ended with a name ending in *&


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Here are some old problems that remain.
The renaming of a file with a backtick ` as final character ---> field is empty



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The tranferal of a playlist to pBurn ---> # character is a problem.
Other characters seem fine (see picture-Pburn list is on left)



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I suggest that the icon for elapsed time/remaining time should be a clock face
such as /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/mini-clock.xpm
Unfortunately it is only 16x16 pixels so it looks rotten.

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[chrismt]

Hi Zigbert,

It would be great if you can make it possible to add and edit radio stations manually from RadioSure

Like this

http://www.radiosure.com/stations

RadioSure provides a text file with more than 10,000 radio stations

You can download the zip file there

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