Re: [Gtkpod-devel] web site home page error

[Jonas K. <jo...@jk...>]

Hi,

I still use libgpod with Strawberry Music Player, which is a fork of
Clementine. https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

I got 2 working iPod Classics that work with the library. I think one is
a 5th gen and one is a 6th gen. The 6th gen is almost unused as I found
I could not use RockBox on it at the time, so I mostly used the 5th gen
to be able to play FLAC.

I'm willing to help keeping the library and gtkpod alive. It would be a
shame if the library and gtkpod was dropped from distros.

Firstly we should fix the webpages. http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod/ is up
but has a lot of broken links, I think it has been like that for years.
I'm willing to do it we someone could can get the contact details of the
owner.

I suggest moving the git repositories to GitHub which has a larger
community, it would be easier to get contributions that way. I can help
with the transition. I can also help making sure it still compiles and
works so it doesn't get dropped, occasionally making a bug fix release.

My username on sourceforge is jonasio, my username on GitHub and GitLab
is jonaski.

Let me know what you think.

Jonas Kvinge
https://github.com/jonaski

On 04.07.2020 09:57, Paul Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The original leader on the project was a German, Jorg Schuler. Given
> the whois info shows .de name servers I think he is still probably the
> owner.
>
> I took over gtkpod for a while and updated the UI but haven't used it
> let alone compiled it in years. My iPod is long since dead - I've
> moved on.
>
> Realistically, iPods/iPhones moved on too. We spent a couple of years
> playing cat n mouse with Apple. In the end, they just locked out
> access to the iPhone/iPod db so only iPods up to the Classic (roughly)
> worked with libgpod and gtkpod. This hastened gtkpod's decline in
> interest.
>
> If you or anyonelse wishes to take over then happy to help with any
> transition. However, can't do much about the domain.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
> On 4 July 2020 00:38:03 BST, Jack via Gtkpod-devel
> <gtk...@li...> wrote:
>
>     On 2020.05.13 11:23, Jack via Gtkpod-devel wrote:
>
>         http://www.gtkpod.org gives Database error A database query
>         syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the
>         software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query
>         hidden) from within function "Job::pop". MySQL returned error
>         "1146: Table 'DB21816.gp_job' doesn't exist (80.81.241.56)".
>         If that's an IP address, I wonder if this is because the
>         site's IP address changed "recently" Separately,
>         https://www.gtkpod.org returns only an empty page (content is
>         "<br><br><br><H1><center></center></H1>") so I don't know if
>         that's a configuration issue or simply a lack of certificate.
>         Jack 
>
>
>     Does anyone know who owns the gtkpod.org domain?  It looks like it was  
>     renewed in May, so it's not abandoned.  If someone doesn't fix the  
>     database error, it seem likely that Gentoo will drop the package.  I've  
>     been unsuccessfully trying to get it to compile with gcc-10, which is  
>     another issue that will affect an increasing number of distros.
>
>     Jack
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