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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

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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There's another crowd funding campaign for remix os.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/unuiga-s905-with-remix-os#/

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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

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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pmusic 5.0.0 Beta
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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

thanks.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

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 · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 908 Location: Philadelphia, PA

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

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 · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

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 · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 908 Location: Philadelphia, PA

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

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 · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

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

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-precise/ffmpeg-1.2.1-i486-precise.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 · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

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

Flash · Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2016, 15:44 Post subject:

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 · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Flash
Nice catch Smile

- 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