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zigbert · #2041 Post by **zigbert** » Sun 06 Mar 2016, 12:36

don570 wrote:I've been testing playmusic by THUNOR

and I saw an interesting feature.

Click on the name of the file and the location or details are shown.

I don't see how this can extend pMusic?
In the main window track info is shown beside the albumart, while filename with path is shown in statusbar.

Hover a track in the playqueue will also show complete /path/file as a tooltips.

Please explain if I misunderstand your point.

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don570 · #2042 Post by **don570** » Mon 07 Mar 2016, 19:35

I just thought it was interesting technology when I saw it.
By the way, your new beta version is noticeably faster in precise puppy 5.7.1.

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zigbert · #2043 Post by **zigbert** » Mon 07 Mar 2016, 22:20

don570 wrote:By the way, your new beta version is noticeably faster in precise puppy 5.7.1.

Good news

Thank you for testing

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zigbert · #2044 Post by **zigbert** » Mon 07 Mar 2016, 22:39

01micko mentioned many find/grep commands running at first startup of pMusic. I have now dived into it, and tries to understand and improve...

Many finds and greps has become one find and grep even if user actively adds/manages tracks in pMusic. This should reduce the scan-time.
I have given the first-run scan a lower cpu priority (nice -n 18 )
'find' is much slower on my ntfs filesystem than my ext4. This could be an issue for many users, and a solution could be to skip scan if filesystem is not linux-friendly. - But after all, I guess music files is likely to be stored on both vfat or ntfs for compatibility reasons, so this doesn't sound too smart.
'find' becomes even slower if filesystem contains errors...
I have not tested if splitting 'find' into parallel tasks could give a noticeable speed improvement. It would be possible (I think) to ie. run one 'find' command for each /mnt/ folder. This would require a bit of coding...

Please share your thoughts

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gcmartin · #2045 Post by **gcmartin** » Tue 08 Mar 2016, 08:02

thanks.

zigbert · #2046 Post by **zigbert** » Tue 08 Mar 2016, 17:51

New Beta uploaded
Beta 4 focus on the first run (music scan) experience.
Hoping for feedback from those of you having large systems with several partitions/harddrives. Please rename (backup) /root/.pmusic to get a fresh start. How is it working for you?
Speed? Understandable? Result?

Have you read my previous post?

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sheldonisaac · #2047 Post by **sheldonisaac** » Tue 08 Mar 2016, 19:22

zigbert (in part) wrote:Beta 4 focus on the first run (music scan) experience. Hoping for feedback from those of you having large systems with several partitions/harddrives.

Not a "large" system; one 128GB SSD boot (4 primary partitions), one 320 GB hard drive (3 primary partitions)

Please rename (backup) /root/.pmusic to get a fresh start.

Done

How is it working for you? Speed? Understandable? Result?

Good. Starts up, plays the Hoovers song.

gcmartin · #2048 Post by **gcmartin** » Tue 08 Mar 2016, 19:41

Works and stable. This is a complete new subsystem/app.

Hope this gets its own thread when it becomes final because of its major improvements, its look and its behavior this has over the old versions.

Thx, again.

zigbert · #2049 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 12 Mar 2016, 18:16

pMusic 5.0.0
See main post

Changelog
- Complete rewrite of code for efficiency:
. . . .- Snappier functions
. . . .- Less cpu-usage
. . . .- Smaller size
. . . .- No visible changes from version 4.7.4

Thanks for all testing and feedback

sheldonisaac · #2050 Post by **sheldonisaac** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 02:49

zigbert wrote:pMusic 5.0.0
See main post

Thanks. Playing radio now.
LuPu Super2.

Despite ffmpeg >= 1.2 being missing ?

~> which ffmpeg
/mnt/home/mybin/ffmpeg
~> ls -l /mnt/home/mybin/ffmpeg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84264 2016-03-12 20:49 /mnt/home/mybin/ffmpeg

~> /mnt/home/mybin/ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 0.8.11, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jun 6 2012 17:48:40 with gcc 4.4.3

Probably I'm confused.

zigbert · #2051 Post by **zigbert** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 08:11

sheldonisaac
pMusic 5 will play with ffmpeg 0.8.
Actually, it will mostly work just fine with ffmpeg 0.8.
But there are features that relies on more recent versions of ffmpeg, so you shouldn't be surprised when things are not turning the expected way. That said, using the radio-streaming frontend should not involve such (I think).

Because of this, I have to state the dependency of ffmpeg 1.2. This version of ffmpeg is 3 years old, and it corresponds with the age of gtkdialog 0.8.4 which is the other core dependency.

vicmz · #2052 Post by **vicmz** » Mon 14 Mar 2016, 02:04

Since new pMusic 5 requires ffmpeg > 1.2, Precise users should install this pet as well:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... recise.pet

NOTE: You may need to delete /root/.pmusic and restart pMusic.

NOTE 2: The ffmpeg seems to be compiled with different configuration options, so it is possible that other apps don't work properly, for example I wasn't able to take screenshots with SFR's Take A Shot! app. I haven't tested shinobar's FFConvert yet.

zigbert · #2053 Post by **zigbert** » Mon 14 Mar 2016, 16:09

vicmz
I have updated main post with a link... Thank you

#2054 Post by **Flash** » Mon 14 Mar 2016, 19:44

I installed both the newer ffmpeg.pet and Pmusic 5.0.0 in Quirky Werewolf 64. I haven't done anything with it yet except start it to see if it would start. While it seemed to start ok, I noticed that the version at the top of the GUI window does not agree with the one at the bottom left. Is that because I installed it without first removing the version that came with Werewolf?

zigbert · #2055 Post by **zigbert** » Tue 15 Mar 2016, 17:54

Flash
Nice catch

- Upgrade from an earlier version
- No internet connection
- No chosen track/radio to play

You succeed to find a variant not tested - thanks a lot.
Fixed for 5.0.1

Sigmund

#2056 Post by **Flash** » Wed 16 Mar 2016, 20:08

Wait, there's more!

I tried to use Pmusic's Mass tagger to edit the files of an audio book I had just converted to mp3 (with Pcdripper) and nothing happened. It worked fine until I installed the ffmpeg and Pmusic 5.0. If you require more info, tell me what you want screen shots of and I'll try it again.

zigbert · #2057 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 15:09

I use the masstagger a lot and it works for me, so I need more...

- Output of 'pmusic -D' in terminal
- Is this Quirky Werewolf 64?
- How did you start the masstagger?
-----> from the Tools menu in the main window
-----> from the rightclick menus in the playqueu or sourcelist
-----> from the trackinfo 'Album' tab (right click menu)
- Did you use the Fetch buttons in the masstagger?
- Did you use the builtin commands (as shown in the info tab)?
- Did you embed an image/albumart to your files?
- Did you convert to a variable bitrate when using Pcdripper?

don570 · #2058 Post by **don570** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 16:32

Just a note that the beta version works well in ZAP6 (using Raspberry pi 2 board)

It has an old version of mplayer.

I compiled and installed gtkdialog 0.8.4
I extracted and reconstructed pmusic pet package.

I didn't test streaming but all the other features seem to work fine.
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#2059 Post by **Flash** » Fri 18 Mar 2016, 13:35

zigbert wrote:I use the masstagger a lot and it works for me, so I need more...
- Output of 'pmusic -D' in terminal

# pmusic -D
R E Q U I R E D
bash >= 4.0 [OK]
coreutils, awk, sed, diff [OK]
gtkdialog >= r512 [OK]
ffmpeg >= 1.2 [MISSING]
aplay (alsa) [OK]

R E C O M M E N D E D
streamripper (extended radio-rip/play) [OK]
cdda2wav (play/rip audio-CD) [OK]
wget (connection to www) [OK]

O P T I O N A L
pBurn (burning audio-CD) [OK]
pFilesearch (File-search engine) >= 1.28 [OK]
pSchedule (podcast managing) >= 1.12 [OK]
pEqualizer (10 band equalizer) [MISSING]
Timidity (play midi) [MISSING]
libcddb (improved CD detection) [MISSING]

- Is this Quirky Werewolf 64?

Yes. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

- How did you start the masstagger?
-----> from the Tools menu in the main window <-- This one

- Did you use the Fetch buttons in the masstagger?

Yes, the Fetch Sourcelist one, after I got the files to show in the left pane of the Pmusic GUI.

- Did you use the builtin commands (as shown in the info tab)?

To number the files, I use a command that has worked in the mass tagger for years, like so: exe:echo 'COUNT - 150' (if there are 150 mp3 files to be numbered.)

- Did you embed an image/albumart to your files?

No, never.

- Did you convert to a variable bitrate when using Pcdripper?

No, but I have before and it didn't seem to affect mass tagging at all.

zigbert · #2060 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 25 Mar 2016, 11:48

Flash
Sorry for the delay

Masstagger is now fixed, and will be in the upcoming 5.0.1

Thank you
Sigmund

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