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Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Post by wefj923jfew3f »

mueslix wrote: post #25
wefj923jfew3f wrote: post #12

I really like the concept, but the software is totally broken in Linux. Not even adding files to a playlist works. The song names are in the playlist, but the files can't be found. The program crashes every time it's closed. And there's a problem with the default Ubuntu theme: Selected menu items have white text on a white background. A few patches and it could be a great player.

Thanks for the kind words. We've fixed the problem with the default Ubuntu theme and also have a bunch more design improvements, as well as general bug fixes which you can find in git (stable-0.8 and HEAD). Not being able to resolve tracks at all sounds strange, though. Right now I would guess it's either a corrupted database or index. Could you try and see if you can reproduce the issue after wiping your settings /…

I reset the settings. Still, using v0.7.0, the problem appears when I drag an artist or album name from the collection into the playlist to add all tracks at once. I get many greyed out song names then and the files can't be found. Can't really make out a pattern, as some files of an album will add fine and others with the same encoding won't.

Opening every album seperately with the arrow icons and dragging the songs directly into the playlist mostly works.

Dragging the mouse to "local" when adding to the playlist seems to work better, although it will still fail to add some albums, but I don't get all the greyed out entries (I think many of these are from automatic online sources, even though I don't have any online sources configured). The behaviour is definitely weird.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Post by GotAnyMegadeth »

nemof wrote: post #29
GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something? Thanks EDIT: Using Windows 7

i've never had success with spotify and tomahawk on windows. last time i tried, i could occasionally find stuff, but playback hardly worked.

That's a shame as that would be where most of my music came from.

If I hadn't already spent countless hours battling the Spotify API I'd attempt to help...

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Post by xhochy »

[deleted] wrote: post #32

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This sounds like a problem with your current phonon-backend. If you're on linux, best is if you remove phonon-gstreamer and install phonon-vlc. On OSX and Windows, you may be better off in your case by trying one of our latest nightlies: http://www.tomahawk-player.org/download.html

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Post by Paul_S »

MPD this is certainly not. But it's a neat way to discover music. Thing keeps crashing pretty randomly and I keep sending you the crash reports so hope that helps. The meta data discovery works nicely - which is what got me to try it out. Thanks!

Edit: I give up, one segfault too many - I just can't use it in this state. I ran it under gdb and the stack during the segfault is 78 calls deep - is making Qt applications like playing Jenga? I live in the world of embedded software so maybe I'm naive.

Re: Tomahawk – A meta source music player

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Post by Guillaume86 »

Nice, I could reuse some of the sources one day, my "perpetual pet project " is a web audio player, with the same idea of unifying sources into the same interface.

Here's a screenshot of current version: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/177896/Capture-webplayer...

It's 100% client side (compiles to a html/js single page app), I have a separate optional server + client plugin to handle my local files.

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