This is a request to ekeyword banshee and gst-plugins-tablib for ~ppc.
March 24: on ppc, I built and tested media-sound/banshee-0.12.0 (including
depend atom: media-plugins/gst-plugins-taglib), which are both currently
missing keyword ppc. Everything built without error. emerge logs available on
request.
With USE="aac encode flac ipod mad vorbis -boo -daap -debug -doc -njb", the
core functions of Banshee and plugins seem flawless. Library import, playback,
album art download, tag editing, mini-interface, etc. all seemed ok (30 min
testing).
iPod functions work, but some bugs (plugging in iPod when Banshee was running
crashed Banshee on my single attempt at that, and attempting a mass 10 GB
import from iPod stalled at 15%). My instinct is this will work in smaller
batches.
All-in-all, without extensive testing, it looks like Banshee is okay for ~ppc
and likely stable on ppc as is. There may be bugs related to integration of
libipod or ipod-sharp or those components, but build, function and can be
tested.
Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0)
> This is a request to ekeyword banshee and gst-plugins-tablib for ~ppc.
>
> March 24: on ppc, I built and tested media-sound/banshee-0.12.0 (including
> depend atom: media-plugins/gst-plugins-taglib), which are both currently
> missing keyword ppc. Everything built without error. emerge logs available on
> request.
>
> With USE="aac encode flac ipod mad vorbis -boo -daap -debug -doc -njb", the
> core functions of Banshee and plugins seem flawless. Library import, playback,
> album art download, tag editing, mini-interface, etc. all seemed ok (30 min
> testing).
>
> iPod functions work, but some bugs (plugging in iPod when Banshee was running
> crashed Banshee on my single attempt at that, and attempting a mass 10 GB
> import from iPod stalled at 15%). My instinct is this will work in smaller
> batches.
>
> All-in-all, without extensive testing, it looks like Banshee is okay for ~ppc
> and likely stable on ppc as is. There may be bugs related to integration of
> libipod or ipod-sharp or those components, but build, function and can be
> tested.
>
> Reproducible: Always
>
After three hours of use: more info to assist in your judgment of whether these
are okay for ~ppc:
While it built without error, I am having problems that seem to center around
tags (note that my system is UTF-8, iPod is vfat, and I'm not sure if I'm
handling this correctly, having left Banshee with whatever it's default
configuration re: character sets, codepages, NLS or whatever it does, etc.):
While doing batch import from the iPod, the application hung on the same song
four times. For some reason, Banshee only displayed the first letter of that
song's title and genre (while it displayed fully in GTKPod). Cleaning up the
tag made no difference. Deleting the song from iPod enabled it to proceed
fully. This could have been a corruption on the iPod, but it wasn't handled
gracefully if that is the case.
While editing tags works fine, the application eventually crashes if I do too
many in succession.
If I extract the music files from the iPod using GTKPod, they display normally
in GTKPod, but when displaying those files now on pc with Banshee, many tags
have a single comma and a space appended, some have many commas appended (like
fully padded with commas), occasionally genre is preceded by what appears to be
the coded record from the relational database (e.g. "(8)Rock",
"(22)Alternative", or simply "(5)").
After another few hours of use:
Tag problems seem primarily related to operating on tags encoded other than
Banshee is currently configured for (or handles?). When working with a clean
iPod, no tag-related issues. Crashes & hangs went away -- again, this could be
my own failure to configure it properly for the encoding already on the iPod
(which was unknown to me).
iPod Synchronization functions properly.
Recommended Music plugin functions properly.
Editing multiple tags functions properly.
Big No-Go: attempting to import a CD, using MP3 encoding, 192 kbps (only
settings attempted), received error message: "Cannot Import CD. Could not link
cdparanoiasrc to mbtrm". cdparanoia is installed on this machine. All
dependencies called for by the build are installed.
I now intend to uninstall. As I understand my ekeywording will be overwritten
during my next portage update anyway.
At any rate - hope this was helpful. It builds, it runs. Some possible bugs
as described.
