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

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Monday, May 14, 2012 19:21 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <address@hidden> 
wrote:

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

After a longer debugging session, I found that had sndiod running, which blocked
the audio device. Doh! After stopping the deamon, I was able to use Esound and 
OSS
bundles on macppc. Both have different problems with different file types as it
seems. Will investigate more tomorrow.

Sebastian

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> >
> > 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
> >
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