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john_schaf

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-24

Posts: 104

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Hello,

I just tried the version 0.4 here, works great exactly what i was looking for ...

... BUT it takes a bit too much cpu : from 20% to 50% on my system, depending on which song I play, whereas XMMS stays *allways* lower than 10% ...

Why are all the player nowadays eating so much cpu power ???

For me, lightweight is also a matter of cpu requirement, isn't it ?

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Tested out svn r770. Hopefully the following will help figure out what is causing my error messages when running Consonance for the first time:

consonance -e
** (consonance:5997): DEBUG: (init_threads): Initializing threads

GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
aborting...
Aborted

As for surround sound, would it be possible to add a way to specify an alsa device?

Frank

Thanks for reporting this, will look into this issue.

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Hello,

I just tried the version 0.4 here, works great exactly what i was looking for ...

... BUT it takes a bit too much cpu : from 20% to 50% on my system, depending on which song I play, whereas XMMS stays *allways* lower than 10% ...

Why are all the player nowadays eating so much cpu power ???

For me, lightweight is also a matter of cpu requirement, isn't it ?

Yep, this happens when ALSA is used.
Pausing and resuming brings usage back to normal.
Consonance uses libao to interface with sound backends and I still haven't figured
out where the bug lies, but using OSS doesn't seem to spike the cpu usage.
But this is a proble for sure, will look into this.

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

In new menus, Consonance stays on others category, because there isn't Audio only category.
Changing it to AudioVideo (on .desktop) solve this.

Categories=GTK:Application;AudioVideo;Player

Thanks, will fix this.

kholis

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Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 3

Re: A new lightweight music manager

hi. i got same problem with fcaraballo. i use ubuntu 8.10

$consonance
** (consonance:21189): CRITICAL **: (init_config): Unable to load conrc, err: File is empty

GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

Last edited by kholis (2009-01-10 01:07:15)

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

hi. i got same problem with fcaraballo. i use ubuntu 8.10

$consonance
** (consonance:21189): CRITICAL **: (init_config): Unable to load conrc, err: File is empty

GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

This bug should be fixed in SVN trunk.

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

And I have pushed this fix to the 0.4 branch and released 0.4.1.

kholis

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Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 3

Re: A new lightweight music manager

And I have pushed this fix to the 0.4 branch and released 0.4.1.

thanks. it works again

dduong

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From: Waterloo, Ontario Canada

Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 14

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Good job on this player!  I've been trying to look for a lightweight music player (other than mpd) for such a long time and this is great!!  Keep up the good work!

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GordonFreeman

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Registered: 2008-06-06

Posts: 16

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Hello,

I just tried the version 0.4 here, works great exactly what i was looking for ...

... BUT it takes a bit too much cpu : from 20% to 50% on my system, depending on which song I play, whereas XMMS stays *allways* lower than 10% ...

Why are all the player nowadays eating so much cpu power ???

For me, lightweight is also a matter of cpu requirement, isn't it ?

I just wanted to report the very same issue, I never noticed this before. I think it's because until recently I've been using the conservative governor instead of the ondemand governor.

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

It is a problem when using ALSA, using OSS doesn't show this behaviour.
Will come up with a fix.

sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 248

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Re: A new lightweight music manager

@sacamano_m82  There's been quite lot of conversation about alsa having the same problem with mpd. I'm not sure, but it seems to be a bug in alsa? I haven't experienced this behaviour for a while with mpd, so you might want to search around if they found a fix for it (or maybe I've just been lucky?).
Anyway, after a quick tour I really like consonance. Keep up the good work!

GordonFreeman

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Registered: 2008-06-06

Posts: 16

Re: A new lightweight music manager

I found the problem and how to fix it: http://blog.sarine.nl/2008/12/21/dmix-t … cpu-usage/

I could confirm that the default sampling rate is indeed 48KHz, but his asound.conf is not working for me, alsa complains that it is deprecated and chokes on the format.

I'm using 1.0.17 alsa

Here's a wiki article from alsa: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix# … quality.3F

Last edited by GordonFreeman (2009-01-31 00:28:49)

big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Re: A new lightweight music manager

I just wanted to say that I installed consonance on my Asus EeePC 1000 and its working great! This is exactly what I was looking for!
Thanx!

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: A new lightweight music manager

wow just found this today, great player! nice and light, and works great.  Just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work!

tinhtruong

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: A new lightweight music manager

I just build the consonance from aur. The build process is fine but I get error when run it. Here is the error in the terminal

/usr/share/themes/MurrinaChrome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:83: Murrine configuration option "highlight_ratio" will be deprecated in future releases. Please use "highlight_shade" instead.
/usr/share/themes/MurrinaChrome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:84: Murrine configuration option "lightborder_ratio" will be deprecated in future releases. Please use "lightborder_shade" instead.

** (consonance:10547): CRITICAL **: (init_config): Unable to load conrc, err: File is empty
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory

** (consonance:10547): CRITICAL **: (init_audio): Unable to open audio device

** (consonance:10547): CRITICAL **: (main): Unable to init audio

I am using OSS4.1. Exaile and Audacious run just fine with my OSS 4.1 setup.
Is it a bug or my faults?
Thanks.

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,223

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Re: A new lightweight music manager

I am using OSS4.1. Exaile and Audacious run just fine with my OSS 4.1 setup.
Is it a bug or my faults?
Thanks.

You need to make a 'conrc' and specify OSS in that file. You should find the specifics in this thread (not to long ago IIRC)

Zl.

tinhtruong

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: A new lightweight music manager

I am using OSS4.1. Exaile and Audacious run just fine with my OSS 4.1 setup.
Is it a bug or my faults?
Thanks.

You need to make a 'conrc' and specify OSS in that file. You should find the specifics in this thread (not to long ago IIRC)

Zl.

Thanks. Here is my working ~/.consonance/conrc

[Audio]
software_mixer=true
audio_sink=oss

[General]
installed_version=0.4.1
shuffle=false
repeat=false
show_hidden_files=false
filetree_pwd=/data
show_album_art=false
show_osd=false
save_playlist=true
window_size=811;483;
playlist_columns=Title;Artist;Album;Length;
playlist_column_widths=200;200;200;200;

The part:

software_mixer=true
audio_sink=oss

is important for consonance to work with OSS4.1
Many thanks everyone.

msdelos

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Registered: 2008-07-11

Posts: 171

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Hello!
... After long time here again..

I itself playing… Although I believe that it obtains some interesting things...

I returned to have something of time, reason why I put myself to update my patches... Basically i present to them just like before, only that cleans code and fixes small disadvantages and bugs.., + one that another modification but….

Tarball: http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com/file/ … 5.1.tar.gz
Patch to git: http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com/file/view/Pach.tar.gz
  * If it interests some modification in particular warn to them and I make a patch isolated..

and shot:  http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com/

Itself having only a problem with this..
Everything works as it is expected, except the button to erase the search in the library .. :-( Reset the search, but does not clean the GTK_ENTRY)
The function that implements this is:

void clear_library_search(struct con_win *cwin)
{
    g_critical("%s: No working gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(cwin->search_entry), "" ); \n", __func__);
    GtkTreeModel *model, *filter_model;
 
    filter_model = gtk_tree_view_get_model(GTK_TREE_VIEW(cwin->library_tree));
    model = gtk_tree_model_filter_get_model(GTK_TREE_MODEL_FILTER(filter_model));
 
    gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(cwin->search_entry), "" );
    cwin->cstate->filter_entry = NULL;
    gtk_tree_model_foreach(model, set_all_visible, cwin);
    gtk_tree_view_collapse_all(GTK_TREE_VIEW(cwin->library_tree));
}

This is what supposedly it fails.

gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(cwin->search_entry), "" );

Although I do not understand like!

Please… I am thankful for all the help..

Paper Lawyer

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 13

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Hi, I installed Consonance a few days ago and it is working well ith my FLAC and mp3 files stored on another PC on my network with just one problem.  The library has two entires for each music file, one of which is a "dead" link.  I've tried rescanning the database without success and I don't know where to find the database file to delete it and then rescan.  Can you help?

Thank you.

EDIT: Ignore me, I've rebooted and the problem has disappeared

Last edited by Paper Lawyer (2009-02-18 22:48:38)

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andrew123456

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Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 32

Re: A new lightweight music manager

loving this app, been using it for a few weeks now.
i'm just really holding out for last.fm support, i'm sure it's on it's way

don't know if this is a bug or not, but every few times i open it, the tray icon doesn't appear, and i can't minimize it to the tray. i'm using stalonetray as my trayer app.

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: A new lightweight music manager

Consonance is great, and maybe I'm thick, but I can't get an audio file to play from the command line.
I've tried 'consonance filename' and 'consonance -p filename' but I all get is the track sitting in the playlist waiting on me to press the play button.

I'd also like to associate it with audio files in PCManFM but this would need the above solved first.

PS: Consonance feels to me a bit like the wonderful 1by1 player on Windows!

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Ok, I just released version 0.5.
Changelog is at: https://sites.google.com/site/consonanc … releases-1
The AUR package has been bumped.
Any borkage or encounters with braindead behaviour of the new release can be sent to my email id - m dot sujith at gmail dot com

And I have pretty much finished all that I set out to do when I started this project.
So, major feature additions would be minimal. Small enhancements, bug fixes would certainly be done.

Slug0

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Registered: 2008-07-22

Posts: 15

Re: A new lightweight music manager

Thanks for the new release! Since it now has Last.fm support I'm going to test it properly.

Last edited by Slug0 (2009-03-20 11:24:26)

Helmchen

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 8

Re: A new lightweight music manager

I didn't find it mentioned in this thread but it turns the volume of my right speaker to zero on startup. I configured the settings to not use software mixing with OSS on /dev/dsp. Besides when I use the integrated tag editing feature it seems as if it tries to update my whole library when I edit one song's information. Apart from that I really like the lightweightness of your program with its range of functions.