Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune - Current known problems to solve before release

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

Just some comments.

Le 14/05/2012 09:41, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> let's try to sum up.. and then I propose a separate mail thread for
> discussion, proposals fixes.
> 
> 1) Resetting properties of backends (channels, rate and endianness).
> Philippe proposes to reopen the device, perhaps it can be reset. Affects
> 2) in the term that if endianness changes during playing there are
> troubles. Affected are ALSA for sure, AO perhaps...
> 2) Endianness. I hope this is mainly sorted out for most backends? I
> fear only me and Sebastian can check that
> 3) Shuffle/Repeat. Selecting the Menu-action and the toolbar action do
> not highlight the same way...
> 4) Long delays when passing to one song to the other, experienced at
> least for ALSA. It could be related to 1) since each time I get an
> exception...
> 5) Sndio not working at all for me (will retest again tomorrow)
> 6) Gorm file is bogus, will ask for help.
> 7) Crashes/memory issues. Yesterday i still got a crash after playing
> several files (I brought my old debian laptop with Cynthiune to a sound
> studio and used it as a sound input... it plays quite well!!!)

I'll work on 1), 4) and 7) (ie ALSA and general crashes) as I can't help
with endianness or gorm issues.

I will open other threads if/when I find something useful.

> Fixed problem which we should confirm are
> 1) opening/saving playlists
> 2) object deduplication

Works for me, even if deduplication is only based on file path right now.

> I'd love to revive the Mac version, but I don't know how to handle
> dependencies. Even if with just one backend (I was able to compile MP3
> library, but not audiofile) to check the code.
> 
> We can also add a feature wishlist for the next release, but I want to
> get this one out soon. For that I want
> 1) sort out musicbrainz stuff
> 2) include audiocd support?
> 3) preference panel for timidity and better handling of it
> 4) context menus...
> 5) ID3tag editing (integration with POE... more info about that
> separately, after the release! :)

Maybe I didn't get understand you correctly but in my opinion all these
points shouldn't block a release, unless they make Cynthiune crash. But
all of them would be welcome in a future release of course !

Thanks,
Philippe