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

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Monday, May 14, 2012 12:25 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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...

AO and Sndio seems to be fine for me.

> > 2) Endianness. I hope this is mainly sorted out for most backends? I
> > fear only me and Sebastian can check that

I still need to figure out why the non-threaded output bundles don't work for
me on macppc. Maybe its a bug in the very new rthread library on macppc, since 
when
I Ctrl-C in gdb, then I see it hanging there. Otherwise, my i386 snapshot I'm 
running is
a couple of weeks older than on the macppc, and it might miss some subtle 
changes
so I need to upgrade that box to really be able to make qualified answers.

> > 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...

I've only seen this with MP3 files, but with any output bundle. I.e. double 
click
MP3 file to start playing it, it takes about 5 seconds before it actually 
starts.
Double click .wav, .mid, .flac, .asf, and playing starts nearly instantly.

> > 5) Sndio not working at all for me (will retest again tomorrow)
Sndio should actually work with or without running sndiod. There is still
lots of NSLog output in the Sndio backend bundle, in case it doesn't work,
can you provide the output maybe.


> > 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'm trying to figure out why the non-threaded output bundles don't work for me
on macppc.

>
> 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.
Same here, both work for me.

Sebastian


>
> > 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
>