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#1 2016-02-04 17:45:58

Goresome
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Cantata 2.0 regressions

So cantata-2.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz hit me and I noticed few unfortunate things:
- no more ability to search in Albums view. What the heck?
- search field in the Folders view is present but doesn't do anything.
- *.cue files are no longer recognized and thus multitrack files are no longer unrolled into multiple track in library.

Folders view is reported in tracker, and Albums view probably will also come back, but loss of .cue saddens me greatly and I've found no solution so far.

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#2 2016-02-04 18:43:18

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

and what has this to do with arch linux? report it on cantata's bug tracker. https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/issues (which you already found)
And if you don't like the direction a project is taking, feel free to fork it smile

Also I really wonder how cantata made cue albums appear in library, since mpd doesn't even support it. (It can only show them as playlists)

Last edited by Rasi (2016-02-04 18:48:50)


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#3 2016-02-05 20:33:49

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

I really wonder why cantata needs vlc now?
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageD … me=cantata

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#4 2016-02-08 08:18:53

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/bl … NSTALL#L72

https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/issues/493

It's used to support HTTP Stream Playback (and the occasional file not governed by MPD), if you don't like/need that you can always recompile the package

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#5 2016-02-08 18:52:26

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Client for the music player daemon (MPD) with VLC? For me...Sounds very stupid.

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#6 2016-02-09 18:56:35

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Henrikx wrote:

Client for the music player daemon (MPD) with VLC? For me...Sounds very stupid.

Could this just be a KDE dependency? I do agree that this does not make much sense.

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#7 2016-02-09 21:39:26

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

it was answered already what its used for. it is used to play a mpd httpd output directly in cantata.

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#8 2016-02-09 21:42:40

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Rasi wrote:

it was answered already what its used for. it is used to play a mpd httpd output directly in cantata.

Oops, sorry, didn't see that post. That makes more sense.

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#9 2016-02-13 09:45:45

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

it was answered already what its used for. it is used to play a mpd httpd output directly in cantata.

Http stream playback  it's also supported by enabling qt5-multimedia, so if you build with ENABLE_LIBVLC=OFF, playback will be supported with qt5-multimedia . Why this senseless solution with VLC?

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#10 2016-02-13 10:26:46

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Go on and vote this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47888 .
By the way unfortunately cantata defaults to ENABLE_VLC=ON on linux and our packager correctly did not changed linux defaults.
I think  opening an issue on cantata github to switch back to qt5-multimedia by default can fix this situation.

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#11 2016-02-13 20:33:34

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Ok. Thank you.

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#12 2016-02-14 12:47:16

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

You're welcome smile

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#13 2016-02-21 02:05:31

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

If there are any regressions, people should definitely report it to upstream (https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/issues).  Over the years, Craig has been pretty prompt in addressing them.  Or, if anyone has any cool ideas/enhancements, suggestions and patches are welcomed!

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#14 2016-02-21 09:43:46

nierro
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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

Ok, here it is the bug report.
https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/issues/810

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#15 2016-02-21 16:13:48

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Re: Cantata 2.0 regressions

The cue regression appears to be fixed upstream (thanks OP for the report): https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/issues/801

Last edited by ssri (2016-02-21 21:43:49)

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