Hi all! Please add an ebuild for loudness-scanner. It's an application implementing the EBU R 128 algorithm for calculating the perceived loudness of audio material. It's comparable to the older ReplayGain algorithm but newer. The "loudness" tool can add replaygain tags to all kinds of audio files like mp3, ogg, aac and m4a. So this tool can replace all the single *gain tools like mp3gain, vorbisgain and aacgain. It's very handy. Building it was a bit tricky though. Apparently, there's no "real" homepage. I cloned the git repository from https://github.com/jiixyj/loudness-scanner and checked out v0.5.1. But there are two external projects that have to be put into the sources so that one can build it: https://github.com/jiixyj/libebur128.git at state 1214547 has to be put inside the "ebur128" directory and https://github.com/jiixyj/filewalk.git at state 38422e6 has to be put into "scanner/filetree". After that, the sources build just fine. it's quite easy, it can be bult via the normal cmake procedure. A CLI, Qt and GTK version of the scanner is built. Perhaps, some source snapshot with all the relevant sources could be created and mirrored by Gentoo (and that#s the point why I don't simply post an ebuild)? As this project surpasses all the other *gain ones, it would be very cool to have it into Gentoo. Cheers, Tobias
Happily, libebur128 already made it to the tree: media-libs/libebur128. Perhaps, this will help?
Just to say this: it's not that tricky, one just has to rtfm on the github info: git submodule init git submodule update in the cloned repository does the trick. No manual fiddling necessary. Still ... would be very nice if this made it to the tree :-)
Just to ping this one more time: This package is way better than all the other format-specific ReplayGain ones. It's actively developed and we really, really should have it in Gentoo. Still, it has not been added to portage ...
Unfortunately there's no dedicated team of people picking up new packages - mostly everyone ends up maintaining packages that directly interest them. The good news though is that interested person can be you! See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers
I know of this possibility (I'm currently trying to do so with Bug #574964), but the problem is that I didn't manage to write an ebuild doing the job until now. I thought this would be easy because of the "normal" build process, but unfortunately, I didn't get after "it apparently builds, but it doesn't install correctly" with this: EAPI=6 inherit git-r3 cmake-utils DESCRIPTION="A tool that scans your music files and tags them with loudness information" HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/jiixyj/loudness-scanner/" EGIT_REPO_URI="git://github.com/jiixyj/loudness-scanner.git" LICENSE="MIT" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~amd64" IUSE="" DEPEND="" RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+1 ping, need this urgently ;-)
media-sound/mp3gain and media-sound/aacgain is masked and will be removed in a few days. So this tool is needed urgently! PLEASE! ;-)
ping?
Created attachment 581582 [details] media-sound/loudness-scanner-9999.ebuild
attached ebuild works, but may need some touching from a maintainer. ;-)
Created attachment 581602 [details] media-sound/loudness-scanner-9999.ebuild fixed docs install and QA warnings.
Created attachment 581606 [details] media-sound/loudness-scanner-9999.ebuild moved plugins (libinput_*.so) into /usr/lib{,64}/r128
Created attachment 581610 [details] media-sound/loudness-scanner-9999.ebuild final cleanup. now it would be nice to have this in portage. Thanks!
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e1cda045fa5de9279d72e0641a7483982285ee84 commit e1cda045fa5de9279d72e0641a7483982285ee84 Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-07-09 20:05:42 +0000 Commit: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-07-09 20:41:15 +0000 media-sound/loudness-scanner: new ebuild Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/550342 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12411 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.68, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> .../loudness-scanner/loudness-scanner-9999.ebuild | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++ media-sound/loudness-scanner/metadata.xml | 29 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 101 insertions(+)
