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I just tried installing pMusic 5.0.5 into my remastered Wheezy Puppy.
Rather strange, on first run it is creating a file at /usr/share/applications/deadbeef.desktop containing the code exec pmusic "$@"

This overwrites my deadbeef desktop file and then when fixmenus runs I lose deadbeef from my menu. Why would pMusic write a file with that name at that location?

OscarTalks
pMusic does not make a Deadbeef.desktop file. Something is strange about your experience.
The only thing I can think of; is that the pMusic pet includes a /usr/local/bin/defaultaudioplayer. The pinstall script also overwrites the content of ./usr/local/bin/defaultaudioplayer if installing it inside a woof-like environment.

Please update me if you find more details about this.
Thank you

Hello Zigbert,

Thanks for the reply. It certainly is very strange. I thought I must be dreaming or something, but I deleted the .desktop file, deleted /root/.pmusic and tried the first run again and the file was created again.

I am not installing the .pet or running the pinstall script. I am putting the new pMusic /usr/local/pmusic into my remastered main Puppy .sfs file.

I tested without loading my save-file (pfix=ram) and the .desktop file is not created so it must be something that is happening within my save-file. Also it doesn't happen in my remastered Slacko 5.7 so I guess it is not a problem within pMusic. If I find any further information I will let you know.

I am adding some screenshots to show the creation of this strange file.

OscarTalks wrote:Rather strange, on first run it is creating a file at /usr/share/applications/deadbeef.desktop containing the code exec pmusic "$@"
This overwrites my deadbeef desktop file and then when fixmenus runs I lose deadbeef from my menu. Why would pMusic write a file with that name at that location?

Is deadbeef normally your default audioplayer?
EDIT : Could you share what application you access via the Alsa input level.desktop file visible in your pic please? cheers

greengeek wrote:Is deadbeef normally your default audioplayer?
EDIT : Could you share what application you access via the Alsa input level.desktop file visible in your pic please? cheers

Yes, deadbeef is set as the default audio player in this scenario. It looks as if pMusic (on first-run) is attempting to create /usr/local/bin/defaultaudioplayer to set pMusic as default which I can understand, but then somehow the file is getting renamed as deadbeef.desktop and moved to /usr/share/applications which is all very peculiar because the file does not even have the format of a .desktop file, it is an executable script. Maybe it has something to do with deadbeef being set as default, but I have the same thing in my Slacko 5.7 and this does NOT happen in that so I don't know what to think. Probably it is something silly I am doing which is right under my nose and I can't see it for the moment.

The original alsa-input-level program was on this forum somewhere, written by 01micko or jamesbond or both of them, I can't quite remember. It had a graphical bargraph display, but for some reason I ended up modifying it so it displays as a console with information and a VU bargraph along the bottom to show the audio capture level. Again I forget why I modified it in this way, sorry, I have a bad memory sometimes. Also I added the analogue VU meter icon which I grabbed from somewhere because I thought it looked nice. There is a .pet in my http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks storage, but I am not sure if it is the same as the one I am using now.

New development release - Close to Beta - Version 5.1.3

- Completely new approach to podcast management. Now 24000 podcast channels available within pMusic. - sorted by category.
- ... and you can search/play/download youtube inside pMusic. - Thanks to trio for you2pup

Even if not completely frozen, it is time to report any buggy experience. There will not be any major new features for this release, but still some fine-tuning... This is the road to the next major release - 5.2.0

More highlights in pMusic 5.2.0
- Tempo detection and extended Smartadd
- Realtime sound processing
- Nad has become the standard graphical theme
- Wider documentation and help
- Basic visualization
- Rewritten right-click menus
- Optional deeper indexing when scanning local collection. See Menu->Music Sources->My Music

I have written a blogpost about the new podcast module.

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On the road to pMusic 5.2.0 with all the goodies...

I have written a blogpost about the youtube support in pMusic-5.1.3.

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On the road to pMusic 5.2.0 with all the goodies...

zigbert wrote:I have written a blogpost about the youtube support in pMusic-5.1.3.

Thank you, I ran it in Slim Slacko.

But when I try the "Downloading
Check target path and click the Download button.", nothing happens.
Is it supposed to save an mp3 file to some location?
Please explain 'Check target path'.

Thanks a lot.

sheldonisaac
When pressing the Download button, pMusic will save the youtube stream to the file set in the entry field beside the button. Atm, there is no feedback when downloading is complete. I have not solved this query... To verify the download, you have to enter the target directory (using rox, pmusic, ...)

It will be a m4a file which is another naming of aac. Strangely, ffmpeg does not support tagging of aac, while m4a is ok - even if they are the same format.

If you have any suggestions how to make this feature more user-friendly, I would like to hear.


Thank you
Sigmund

Does pmusic support the ogg music format?

I using Barry's newest distro quirky pre alpha
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108132

and ogg files don't play and don't show in list window.

ogg123 is difficult to compile. Thunor's script 'playmusic' needs a player for ogg files.
http://puppylinux.info/topic/playmusic- ... io-players

It's not a format that I use.
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I have been running more and more into ogg files, too.

zigbert wrote:
It will be a m4a file which is another naming of aac. Strangely, ffmpeg does not support tagging of aac, while m4a is ok - even if they are the same format.

m4a is a container (same as mp4 but named as m4a to indicate it contains audio). aac is raw MPEG-4 encoded bitstream. I think you need container to support tagging. Whilst m4a usually contains an aac encoded bitstream, as a container, it is capable of holding other encoding types (even mp3) so you can't rely that m4a will be aac inside. If in doubt you should always check contents (e.g. with ffmpeg -i).

William

mcewanw wrote:

zigbert wrote:
It will be a m4a file which is another naming of aac. Strangely, ffmpeg does not support tagging of aac, while m4a is ok - even if they are the same format.

m4a is a container (same as mp4 but named as m4a to indicate it contains audio). aac is raw MPEG-4 encoded bitstream. I think you need container to support tagging. Whilst m4a usually contains an aac encoded bitstream, as a container, it is capable of holding other encoding types (even mp3) so you can't rely that m4a will be aac inside. If in doubt you should always check contents (e.g. with ffmpeg -i).

William

Thank you for the explanation.

don570 wrote:Does pmusic support the ogg music format?

I just played the test-file /root/puppy-reference/audio/illegal_move.ogg in Slacko-6.9.6.

Ogg is supported as long as ffmpeg is compiled with ogg-support

I reported that ogg and wma doesn't play with ffmpeg -i command
in quirky prealpha, but it may be my install has been damaged.
I need to investigate with a fresh install.

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I noticed that there was a strange font bug in quirky alpha as well
I typed pmusic -h in terminal and I saw the following.... see image

I copied the text to clipboard and pasted in leafpad and the characters appeared like magic

Seems that quirky troubles with ansi tags. Removed.
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... a4bacd9973

Thank you for mentioning

Version 5.2.0
See main post

Highlights

• Completely new approach to podcast management. Now 24000 podcast channels available within pMusic. - sorted by category.
• Tempo detection and extended Smartadd
• Realtime sound processing
• Nad has become the standard graphical theme
• Wider documentation and help
• Rewritten right-click menus
• Optional deeper indexing when scanning local collection. See Menu->Music Sources->My Music
• ... and you can search/play/download youtube inside pMusic. - Thanks to trio for you2pup

Complete changelog
- Gui
. . . .- Unify look of help boxes
. . . .- Albumart search
. . . . . . . .- Size of thumbs are set depending on window size
. . . . . . . .- Simpler way to increase/decrease size of thumbs in right-click menu
. . . .- Save geometry of CD-ripper/radio streamer
. . . .- Switch to Nad5 (updated) as default graphical theme
. . . .- Included alternative frontends CD/radio/podcast always follows global GTK theme
. . . .- Add frontends to View-menu
. . . .- Cleanup Music-sources menu
. . . .- Remove frames in preferences (notebook)
. . . .- Remove frames in trackinfo window
. . . .- Added class: Highlighted button
. . . .- Bugfix: Pause-icon shows play-icon
- Sound prosessing
. . . .- Input settings does not require restart of track anymore
. . . .- Input volume slider
. . . .- Mute-status shown by icon (thanks to 01micko)
. . . .- Fade-in as spin-button
. . . .- Help button
- Smartadd
. . . .- Reorganize filtering into its own 'menu'
. . . .- Include tempo filter based on bpm detection
. . . .- Include genre filter based on ID3-tags
- Right-click menus
. . . .- No longer fixed size. Scales correct when changing NLS-strings and font size
. . . .- Flat border that works for all backgrounds
. . . .- Has got its own style in gtkrc
. . . .- Rox right-click for adding files in directory to playqueue
. . . .- New right-click menu in smartadd dock
- Radio
. . . .- Add favorite marks for radio:genre radio:country after installed index
. . . .- Updated index
- Radio Grabber
. . . .- Option to delete adds is moved to preferences
. . . .- Gui has got scalegrip and highlighted button
. . . .- Bugfix: Hard to send preset to edit. Often several clicks required
- Podcast manager is rewritten (thanks to live)
. . . .- Module is completely rewritten to integrate with pMusic's data/work-flow
. . . . . . . .- View all content of podcast channel
. . . . . . . .- Play web-stream instead of downloading file first
. . . . . . . .- Mark played podcasts
. . . . . . . .- Set timestamp to podcast to start play at specific time
. . . . . . . .- View embedded image while playing (album-art)
. . . .- Include index of alive podcast channels sorted by genre
. . . .- Support *.aif files
. . . .- Removed -u (update podcast) attribute
. . . .- Removed dependency of pSchedule
. . . .- Removed option to set max downloads
. . . .- Removed link to podcast dir in default favorites
- BPM - Beats per minute
. . . .- Add soundstretch (soundtouch lib - 100kb) to dependency check
. . . .- Function (bpm detection) added to func_C
. . . .- Show bpm (tempo) in trackinfo (stream tab)
. . . .- Included as a filter in the smartadd dock
. . . .- Save to DB (col 13) when found
. . . .- Included into MyMusic editor and indexer
. . . .- Activate bpm-column in sourcelist
- Masstagger
. . . .- Reorganized gui
. . . .- Moved info to external box
. . . .- Update sourcelist/playqueue after masstagging
. . . .- Use func_id3io to write/clear tags
- Youtube support (thanks to trio)
. . . .- Search within pMusic for youtube content.
. . . .- Play youtube URL's
. . . .- Download and include id3-tags and info to DB
- id3io
. . . .- Support embedding of albumart in audiofile
- My Music
. . . .- Fullscan option in indexer
. . . . . . . .- Based on func_trackinfo
. . . . . . . .- Download lyrics and albumart
. . . . . . . .- Build albumlists
. . . . . . . .- Detect tempo (bpm)
. . . .- Save db-file (backup) in My music setup/editor window
. . . .- Help button
- Trackinfo
. . . .- Prefer embedded albumart if available
. . . .- Bugfix: read 'comment' meta tag
. . . .- Bugfix: Show embedded albumart
- Jamendo
. . . .- Split browsing into char-groups to avoid extreme slow response
. . . .- Bugfix: Browsing albums includes alien tracks with similar name
- Plugin:
. . . .- Include 'Backend info' plugin
. . . .- 'Backend info' now shows stderr log, export cmd and visualization cmd
- Dependency check
. . . .- Graphical (gtk) output of dependency check from gui
. . . .- Remove use of ANSI escape codes
. . . .- Remove dependency check from -h terminal output
. . . .- gettext dependency info
. . . .- Click on item to go to web link (gui-mode)
. . . .- Info button in gui-mode
- Add to Favorites: Add option in the menulist to clear entry - add a mark
- Help
. . . .- Wiki at http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/pmusic_doc
. . . .- Help buttons has got a standard placement at upper-right corner
. . . .- New help menuitem to the wiki page
. . . .- Removed faq menuitem - link in wiki
- Export: Convert output by default if playqueue contains items that requires convertion
- Get rid of xterm/rxvt in Dependency check
- About dialog
. . . .- New tab with disclaimer
. . . .- Removed button with link to gtkdialog homepage (dead page)
. . . .- Updated credits
. . . .- Add link to disclaimer in Preferences, Export and Radio-Hits
- Symlink Rox right-click items from OpenWith to SendTo (thanks to don570)
- New func_C file for functions not using NLS
- Move icons from Hicolor gtk-theme to /usr/share/pixmaps/pmusic/
- Bugfix: Support building pot files with momanager (thanks to L18L)
- Bugfix: Search by click on album-art thumbs: Search only audio-files and playlist files
- Bugfix: Change NLS in preferences requires restart of X (thanks to vicmz)
- Bugfix: Support libcddb without the -i switch (thanks to smokey01)
- Bugfix: Show filetypes in combobox (save dialog) even if no filetype is defined
- Bugfix: Incredible long startup time at first run if wget troubles with connection.

Questions

• Could the 5.2 PET be installed on an existing running modern PUP on top of any existing pMusic?
• Or must steps be taken to find and delete the old pMusic BEFORE installing the new 5.2?

Thanks

Edited the 1st question.