Re: Bug and feature request/change report

[Aleksandar_B <ra...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Johannes Weißl <ja...@mo...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Aleksandar_B wrote:
> > > > 2. Even though this probably isn't related to cmus i should
> > > > probably mention it. When adjusting volume anything lower than 43
> > > > and higher than 63 makes noise.
> > >
> > > What audio output plugin are you using? Does this also happen with
> other
> > > audio players?
> > >
> >
> > This is what 'cmus --plugins' command gives:
> > Output: alsa, oss, ao.
> >
> > Been using Rhythmbox until now, doesn't happen there.
>
> Have you compiled your own version of cmus? You are missing the
> PulseAudio plugin, which is by far the best supported. You should run
>    sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev
> before compiling and then select the pulse output plugin:
>    :set output_plugin=pulse
>
> Does this solve your problem?
>

Yes, this solves the problem.


>
>
> > > This is strange, can you either send me both playlists privately or
> > > include a short part in a mail to the mailing list?
> >
> > Sure, both playlists are in the attachment (cmus_created_playlist.m3u and
> > rhythmbox_created_playlist.m3u).
> >
> > Should mention though, I'v created playlists in cmus using the command
> > ':save /path/playlist_name.m3u' while in Playlist view.
>
> Hmm, I noticed that the rhythmbox playlists contain relative paths, so
> they only work in cmus if you start it from the right directory or
> navigate to the right directory using the :cd command.
>
> I agree that it could be an improvement to cmus to use the location of
> the playlist as (additional?) start location for playlist loading. What
> do others think?
>
> I think the relative path handling is buggy in cmus, thanks for
> reporting!
>

Good idea and no problem.


>
>
> > For view 1, yes, all songs are from one artist. I'v supplied a
> screenshots
> > in the attachment (Library_view.png). On the left pane there is the
> artist
> > name, on the right there is nothing, but on view 2 songs are listed and
> > playable (SortedLibrary_view.png). Just want to make sure this is the
> > correct behavior.
>
> Ah :-), have you tried to press "Space" on the artist, navigate to an
> album and press "Tab"? Does this list the tracks?
>

My bed :)


>
>
> > > > add - l - just duplicates entries in the Library view (adds songs in
> > > > coresponding album next to already indexed songs)
> > >
> > > This is correct, but only if the filenames from the playlist are
> > > different from the filenames in your library. Is this the case? The
> > > library is designed to only allow each filename once.
> > >
> >
> > Apparently this isn't the problem. The mentioned problem exists when I
> use
> > the Browser view, navigate to the playlist and use 'a' on it, that add's
> > duplicates of the songs to the corresponding author from the playlist,
> add
> > -l doesn't do that because of my usual habit, all songs are already
> indexed.
> > I'v included a screenshot (Library_duplicates.png).
>
> I cannot reproduce this! Can you check if the filenames are different in
> your screenshot (press "I" for two identical tracks). If the filename is
> different, everything is fine, if they are the same, it's a bug in cmus.
> (probably this is related to the relative path issue above...)
>

Yes, they are different. One shows 'year - album - song_name.mp3', other
full path to the song, guess than there is no problem.


>
>
> > I have one album encoded in .m4a (mp4) format, it shows under <No Name>
> > under Library view, the name of the album is displayed so are the names
> of
> > the songs in the right pane, but no track numbers. Rhythmbox and
> foobar2000
> > show it correctly, and tags seem to be fine according to exfalso. What
> seems
> > to be the problem? I'v included a playlist created in Rhythmbox
> > (m4a_playlist.m3u).
>
> Can you privately send me a m4a file for debugging? Otherwise I can't do
> much...
>

Sent.


>
>
> > I have one more album that shows up under <Various Artists>. I's a split
> > album (some songs from one artist, some from the other). Since I don't
> want
> > that album to be decimated accros several artists, so far I'v set artist
> > tags to correspond to one artist, just added other artists name in front
> of
> > their songs. Worked under Rhythmbox and foobar, exfalso shows everything
> is
> > in order. I'v included a playlist (split_playlist.m3u). Is there
> something
> > I'm missing since I have several other albums like this and they all show
> up
> > correctly?
>
> Hmm, this is not the right solution for the problem. The best way is to
> do it is:
> - set artist (TPE1) accordingly for every file (the real artist)
> - set albumartist (TPE2) to the overall artist of the album
>
> It could be that the compilation tag is set for your album (TCMP), in
> which case it shows up under "<Various Artists>" if albumartist is not
> set! Does it work now?
>

Yeah, all set, thanks for the tip :)