Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
No musicbrainz support in amarok
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Multimedia
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Horus107
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 230

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:30 pm    Post subject: No musicbrainz support in amarok Reply with quote

Hello,
I've installed amarok from ~x86:

Code:

[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3  USE="aac* arts ipod kde opengl -debug -ifp -mysql -njb -noamazon -postgres -real -visualization -xinerama -xmms" LINGUAS="de -az -bg -br -ca -cs -cy -da -el -en_GB -es -et -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka -km -ko -lt -ms -nb -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -rw -sl -sr -sr@Latn -sv -ta -tg -th -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB


But the musicbrainz support seems to be not enabled. The button is just greyed out.

What's wrong?

Thanks,

Florian
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
El_Presidente_Pufferfish
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 11 Jul 2002
Posts: 1179
Location: Seattle

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iirc its not supported in the latest version of amarok because it's unstable
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
yngwin
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002
Posts: 4572
Location: Suzhou, China

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140184
_________________
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Free Culture | Defective by Design | EFF
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tychver
n00b
n00b


Joined: 14 Aug 2006
Posts: 19

PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's wrong I'm afraid. Amarok-1.4.3 uses libtunepimp-0.5.x which is not vulnerable. There's also the musicbrainz portage overlay if you want to use musicbrainz through the picard tagger. It's still forcefully disabled in the ebuild. The version of musicbrainz in portage is also two minor revisions behind. I think we are probably waiting for the ~arch testers to keyword it now.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
yngwin
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002
Posts: 4572
Location: Suzhou, China

PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tychver, you didn't read the bug report, did ye?

Diego Pettenò wrote:
Are we sure this is fixed in 0.5, in the first place? About Amarok support, I'd
be waiting on upstream telling me about it, libtunepimp is not API stable and I
don't want to do this mess once again next month or the one after....


Diego Pettenò wrote:
No bump will be done, I don't want to return to the infinite cycle to add,
remove, patch, and so on because upstream takes months to fix a simple issue,
and in the mean time we need to act.

MusicBrainz support will remain disabled, and if I'm not able to find the cause
of the crash of Amarok and fix it, 0.5 series might be dropped maintenance.

_________________
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Free Culture | Defective by Design | EFF
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
phil_r
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 265
Location: Omaha, NE, USA

PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry to sound like a complete 'tard but if someone could point me in the direction of an ebuild that allows musicbrainz, or can tell me how to modify the one emerge pulls down, I'd appreciate it.

Phil.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kaste
Guru
Guru


Joined: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 546
Location: /home Sweet /home

PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://dominikx.blogspot.com/2006/08/amarok-svn-ebuild-1.html

Try that one
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Zarathustra[H]
Guru
Guru


Joined: 30 Dec 2002
Posts: 389
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yngwin wrote:

Diego Pettenò wrote:
No bump will be done, I don't want to return to the infinite cycle to add,
remove, patch, and so on because upstream takes months to fix a simple issue,
and in the mean time we need to act.

MusicBrainz support will remain disabled, and if I'm not able to find the cause
of the crash of Amarok and fix it, 0.5 series might be dropped maintenance.


I can understand Diego Pettenò's frustration with the musicbrains development team, but I wonder... libtunepimp 1.5 has been stable for quite some time now, it seems like its being held back on the potential that another bug may turn up, and that musicbrains developers might not fix it quickly. Is this correct?

So what is the condition for which libtunepimp 1.5 might be unmasked and the musicbrains useflag returned to portage?

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I don't wan't to insult anyone) but it almost seems like this has turned into a little bit of a pissing contest with the result being reduced features on part of Gentoo users... :roll:
_________________
----
Athlon 64 3000+ / 1Gb Kingston Hyperx PC3500 / MSI K8N Neo / Geforce 6800GT
----
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
phil_r
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 265
Location: Omaha, NE, USA

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with you. It looks to me like Diego can't be bothered dealing with the issue because Musicbrainz isn't "important" or something.

If the Amarok developers include the ability to use Musicbrainz, then it's not upto Portage maintainers to decide if we as users should be allowed to have the programs required.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
yngwin
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002
Posts: 4572
Location: Suzhou, China

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're perfectly allowed to have it any way you want. It's free software after all. But Gentoo maintainers are free to withhold support for features that generate bugs. They are volunteers after all, you know. So you can change the ebuild yourself, or use an overlay - which is a portage feature after all!
_________________
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Free Culture | Defective by Design | EFF
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
BorgDrone2
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 24 Oct 2006
Posts: 107

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yet more ebuild bogus-ness (search bugzilla for problems with kword spelling)
Musicbrainz works just fine with amarok.
echo =media-libs/tunepimp-0.5.1 >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

modify the amarok.ebuild
add this:
musicbrainz? ( media-libs/tunepimp )
in the DEPEND section
and remove this line.
--without-musicbrainz

No point in complaining. The dev's have made it perfectly clear that they don't give a damn about what the user community wants. I've resolved to maintain an ever growing overlay until FreeBSD matures enough to replace Gentoo.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
yngwin
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 19 Dec 2002
Posts: 4572
Location: Suzhou, China

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BorgDrone2 wrote:
The dev's have made it perfectly clear that they don't give a damn about what the user community wants.

My own experience is quite different. And unless you just made an account for trolling, it looks like you haven't been around long enough to make such sweeping statements. The devs certainly are sensitive to the user community and are overall very reasonable. It's just that certain users don't understand the reasons.
_________________
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Free Culture | Defective by Design | EFF
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
BorgDrone2
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 24 Oct 2006
Posts: 107

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been using Gentoo since 1.4RC4. Only recently created an account because the distro that I have been using for years seems to be heading in the wrong direction and I felt the need to speak up.
Look at the number of packages in Gentoo, and the trend (heading downward), compared to FreeBSD (also volunteers, yet XMMS, Gnome 1.4 libs, etc are still there and the number of packages keeps going up.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kaste
Guru
Guru


Joined: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 546
Location: /home Sweet /home

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm just curious, what do you need Gnome 1.4 for still?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
BorgDrone2
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 24 Oct 2006
Posts: 107

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't need it myself, but the Gnome 1.4 libs are used by more than just old gnome 1.4, just like there are still useful gtk+ 1 apps around.
Take a look at this blog post from planet.gentoo
http://www.datanode.net/?p=309
removing gnome 1.4 libs breaks a number of otherwise live and active packages.

The current trend in gentoo, taken to full conclusion (which, I know won't happen) is that there are NO packages in portage, just a bunch of community supported overlays. Great for a hobbiest system, but not useful for more than that.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kaste
Guru
Guru


Joined: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 546
Location: /home Sweet /home

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well that is just a rational consequence I'd say. The number of packages in portage grows a fair bit stronger than Dev man hours. That means either less packages wil be supported or they will be supported in lesser quality. I'd certainly opt for less packages. If I still want them I can get them some other way, but I'd hate to get a less reliable system.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hairyfeet
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 07 Jan 2003
Posts: 118
Location: Århus, Denmark

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@BorgDrone2: Gentoo devs are trying to maximize the usage of their free time spend on Gentoo thus less used/unmaintained ebuilds are removed from the Portage tree from time to time. The only thing that can really change that is more man power. For example see: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/. Maintining ebuilds, dealing with bugs and pushing out security updates in a timely manner is quite time expensive.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
BorgDrone2
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 24 Oct 2006
Posts: 107

PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Especially if one is trying to support alpha
amd64
arm
hppa
ia64
mips
ppc
ppc64
ppc macos
s390
sparc
sparc fbsd
x86
x86 fbsd

I see that arm, s390, and alpha are listed on the help wanted list. From what company would I get a new alpha machine? Supporting dead architectures is draining away man power. Gentoo should pick a few to concentrate on them (suggest x86, ia64, amd64, and maybe x86fbsd)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hairyfeet
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 07 Jan 2003
Posts: 118
Location: Århus, Denmark

PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

@BorgDrone2: Gentoo is a volunteer project and as such most developers tend to work on what they like/need. Anyone able to help out with ebuilds on main architectures are more than welcome to join (or help out elsewhere like Sunrise). As such work on the extra architectures are not really any work lost for Gentoo since the contributors would probably not have donated the same amount of work for an architecture in which they have no interest.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
BorgDrone2
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 24 Oct 2006
Posts: 107

PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So be it.
Gentoo once seemed to have aspirations of being a serious, enterprise class distribution. But I have noticed and you just echoed is that it is now a hobbiest distribution. The ever shrinking official portage tree and the ever growing list of overlays just further confirms this. Why bother even separating devs from non-devs. Apparently, now everybody is a dev. I've got years of experience maintaining a system, starting with LFS and then moved to Gentoo because didn't have time to deal with the maintenance, install scripts, etc. Lately, Gentoo seems more and more like LFS. A great learning experience to be sure, but I personally don't have time for that anymore.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
zerojay
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 1033

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BorgDrone2 wrote:
So be it.
Gentoo once seemed to have aspirations of being a serious, enterprise class distribution. But I have noticed and you just echoed is that it is now a hobbiest distribution. The ever shrinking official portage tree and the ever growing list of overlays just further confirms this. Why bother even separating devs from non-devs. Apparently, now everybody is a dev. I've got years of experience maintaining a system, starting with LFS and then moved to Gentoo because didn't have time to deal with the maintenance, install scripts, etc. Lately, Gentoo seems more and more like LFS. A great learning experience to be sure, but I personally don't have time for that anymore.


Where have you been?

I don't remember Gentoo being anything other than a hobbiest distro in my years of using it. No, it's not meant to be an enterprise distro. Portage has definitely NOT been shrinking by any stretch of the imagination.

Wake up.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
unreal128
n00b
n00b


Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Posts: 5

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coming back to the tunepimp discussion. Musicbrainz shows that the buffer overflow bug has been addressed and tunepimp is now stable. Does anyone know why tunepimp is still masked? If not, can we ask the maintainers directly?

I really need to fix the ID3 tags in my music library. :(
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Conan
Guru
Guru


Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 360

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

flameeyes reenabled musicbrainz in one of the recent amarok ebuilds, I forget which though.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
unreal128
n00b
n00b


Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Posts: 5

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have musicbrainz installed and running with Amarok but I am still unable to emerge the tunepimp package. :(
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Multimedia All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum