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

4.0.0 Release Notes

I looked at the missing icon in the trayapp (C-code which I don't know). Using the svg icon is supported, but HOW TO SIZE IT ?

Source code is here

Thanks for any help
Sigmund

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Ukraine

Dear Zigbert,

You can either first scale the svg (with a text editor) like this (very quick and dirty):

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

Hello vovchik and Sigmund

I came up with a different solution, but it could be better.

R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

Hi.

Sorry to say, but the early versions of pMusic did not fit to my needs and did also not feel really comfortable to me - but, that's just me. Nothing bad about pMusic in general. Even though I did not use it and removed it from LazY Puppy, I've followed the thread from time to time.

By now, having version 4.0.0 it seems to became a smart application and so, I gave it a go tonight. I extracted the pet, added the Nad5 Theme to the pet, modified the files for the use of gtkdialog 0.8.4 by naming it gtkdialog5 and included the gtkdialog5 binary (grabbed from LxPup 13.01) to the extracted pMusic Package. Edited the .desktop files to have German menu entries and also a nicer Icon for pMusic CD player. Repackaged it and converted it to LazY Puppy SFS (SFS P.L.U.S.) format. Created a RunScript and here it is:

Executed by SFS P.L.U.S. RunScript, running from SFS and currently playing Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage.

Even though I did not really like the early versions, I must say: this version could conquer my heart!

But there is something, a small (but big for me) issue when playing concept and/or live albums. There is a interrupt between the tracks. This might not be noticed when playing albums containing usual chart stuff, but when playing concept or live albums it is really ugly.

Is there any solution/option to listen to live albums just as it would be played from LP or CD?

Thanks.

So far, well done!

RSH

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

4.0.0 Release Notes

vovchik and Mick
Thank you very much for your coding skills. I really appreciate your input. We have a solution, but we have to decide which one is the best. Vovchik's solution is the most robust cause it's not depending on the content in the svg. Mick's solution takes it all one step further and uses only stock icons and also changes label. The check wc -l ~/.pmusic/tmp/icon_playpause.svg|grep -q 3 is weak cause it relies on that the play.svg contains 3 lines while the pause don't. In another theme, this could be something else. The check could be strengthen by comparing the size of the files $HOME/.pmusic/icon_playpause.svg and /usr/local/pmusic/$THEME/icon_play.svg. The variable $THEME is set in $HOME/.pmusic/pmusicrc

Sigmund

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

4.0.0 Release Notes

R-S-H
I am glad you like it (a bit) Smile

You can minimize the gap between tracks in the preferences, but I ahve not found a way to get gapless playback with the very simple play-engine based on ffmpeg | aplay

Looking at your screenshot, I see 2 issues that worries ME.
- There is a missing icon for the button to choose playmode.
- There is no albumart and info about playing track. (made a brief test, and there is an issue with updating track info if file has no meta-tags. I will look into that.)

Sigmund

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

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

4.0.0 Release Notes

R-S-H
I have fixed the missing track info update for files without meta-tags. This is important because it guides the user to extended info like albumart, lyrics, album, discography...

...But I still wonder why you are missing icon(s). Did you include the dir $HOME/.pmusic in your SFS? If so, that is not recommended. The default rc file is /usr/local/pmusic/pmusicrc. pMusic initialize if $HOME/dir is missing (or if version is old), and then set up some default settings like the playmode (with corresponding button-icon)

Sigmund

R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

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

The icons are too dark in Precise NOP

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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

Tray icon

OK, not testing the state of the icon at all now, just the state of aplay, this *should* be reliable and works ok for me if I delete ~/.pmusic or not. Also changed some variable names to make more sense.

EDIT: code removed

I have tested this a bit, even in old pmusic-3.2.3 and 3.3.0 and it seems quite stable, the icon works as expected, even with CD's.

I have now gettex'd the source and it is attached with a compile script, pot file and 32 bit binary.

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Bug report

Now, in 4.0 there is a problem I experience with CD playing, or should I say the lack of CD playing, they don't play with the "source not detected" error, same CD's play fine in older versions mentioned.

Here is commandline output:

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

4.0.0 Release Notes

R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

Hi.

I did it in /usr/local/pmusic/pmusicrc but it starts with the Gtk theme. Is this config file appearing in /root/.pmusic created by pmusic? It isn't a copy of /usr/local/pmusic/pmusicrc ?

Where to find the code in pmusic ?

RSH

P.S.

I did decide to upload pmusic in SFS form for the LazY Puppy users, when latest noticed bug is fixed! Smile

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

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

4.0.0 Release Notes

R-S-H
The rc file in /usr/local/pmusic is copied to $HOME/.pmusic if $HOME/.pmusic doesn't exist.