A new lightweight music manager

ugkbunb · 2009-03-21 21:33:14

I will check this out... thanks for the release.

do you have plans for supporting large music libraries (50k+ songs)?

The two things I can thing of I would love that would make me be able to drop Amarok are... the previously mentioned support for large libraries as well as the ability to control it from the command line.

amarok %f --play load (play the passed file immedietely)
amarok %F --append (appends the passed file(s)/folder(s) to end of the current playlist)
amarok %F --queue (I barely use this option, but it queues up the passed file(s)/folder(s) to play next, so it places the files at the top of the current playlist)

I organize my musice myself and like to be able to control/add songs to my playlist from the right-click menu. IIRC the only two linux players that allow for this is amarok and mpd... this is pretty much a standard feature in windows and it would help support users like me who can't seem to switch out of their old habit.

sacamano_m82 · 2009-03-27 14:23:19

Helmchen wrote:

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.

Thanks for reporting these. Will look into these.
And yes, a full refresh is done for tag editing right now. Will look into this too.

sacamano_m82 · 2009-03-27 14:24:31

ugkbunb wrote:

I will check this out... thanks for the release.
do you have plans for supporting large music libraries (50k+ songs)?
The two things I can thing of I would love that would make me be able to drop Amarok are... the previously mentioned support for large libraries as well as the ability to control it from the command line.
amarok %f --play load (play the passed file immedietely)
amarok %F --append (appends the passed file(s)/folder(s) to end of the current playlist)
amarok %F --queue (I barely use this option, but it queues up the passed file(s)/folder(s) to play next, so it places the files at the top of the current playlist)
I organize my musice myself and like to be able to control/add songs to my playlist from the right-click menu. IIRC the only two linux players that allow for this is amarok and mpd... this is pretty much a standard feature in windows and it would help support users like me who can't seem to switch out of their old habit.

Will look into the cmdline options.
And as for large collections, what is missing ?

thisperishedmin · 2009-03-27 16:56:08

this looks extremely promising! maybe this will get me off amarok sometime soon haha...its becoming bloated and bothersome in a hurry

Odysseus · 2009-03-27 21:27:32

Wow, this looks *soo* much better than exaile.

Anyway, I used sound-juicer to rip my music collection, and it rips them as *.oga files. (ogg audio) http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Typ … udio.2Fogg
When trying to play a song, consonance spits out:

** (consonance:8494): WARNING **: Unable to locate tag
** (consonance:8494): CRITICAL **: OGG Info failed

Lol, wait just a minute...I renamed a track to .ogg and now it plays.
That's not right. *.ogg has been depreciated in favor of *.oga anyway. (see link ^)
Heck, why does it even need a filename extension to recognize it? Thunar doesn't need a filename extension to recognize it's an audio file.

Sorry, hate to be so critical

Last edited by Odysseus (2009-03-27 21:40:51)

cwjiof · 2009-04-09 13:17:57

I'm using it for a long time, but find it cannot support ape music. Would please make the ape music supported?

palobo · 2009-04-09 14:15:08

WOW!! Nice work. This looks very promising indeed.

Keep it up.

GogglesGuy · 2009-04-09 19:32:01

Odysseus wrote:

Wow, this looks *soo* much better than exaile.
Anyway, I used sound-juicer to rip my music collection, and it rips them as *.oga files. (ogg audio) http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Typ … udio.2Fogg
When trying to play a song, consonance spits out:
** (consonance:8494): WARNING **: Unable to locate tag
** (consonance:8494): CRITICAL **: OGG Info failed
Lol, wait just a minute...I renamed a track to .ogg and now it plays.
That's not right. *.ogg has been depreciated in favor of *.oga anyway. (see link ^)

Well. only for flac, ghost and pcm type streams. For vorbis, it's still recommended to use .ogg.

arch0r · 2009-04-10 17:18:57

it's still running 6 hours a day in the background. truely one of my favourite apps
pls add autoconf and automake to the dependencies of the git version. best regards!

Last edited by arch0r (2009-04-10 17:24:17)

Lyceuhns · 2009-04-17 04:20:08

Hello there, so long...

What happened?
I was browsing a X folder on Consonance file browser, add some files to the playlist, listening to the files i've decided delete those songs, so delete the X folder, and did it. Long time after, i just click play on Consonance and the musics wasn't playing, so i remember that i delete those files (and the X folder), so i try to up a folder level on Consonance browser folder to select others songs and i couldn't, because that folder is gone, so i couldn't change folder.
Quit consonance, and start it again with -d give this:

** (consonance:16718): WARNING **: Unable to locate audio properties

** (consonance:16718): CRITICAL **: MP3 Info failed

** (consonance:16718): WARNING **: Dangling entry in current playlist

** (consonance:16718): WARNING **: Unable to locate audio properties

** (consonance:16718): CRITICAL **: MP3 Info failed

** (consonance:16718): WARNING **: Dangling entry in current playlist

...

and the file browser opened on my home.

Sorry the "problem" description, but have a way to solve a situation like this without restart the program?

Thanks. o/

Last edited by Lyceuhns (2009-04-17 04:27:21)

ShadowKyogre · 2009-04-21 00:32:41

Fantasic app! Can't wait for more ^^ You should add keyboard shortcuts.

ugkbunb · 2009-04-24 04:12:05

sacamano_m82 wrote:

Will look into the cmdline options.
And as for large collections, what is missing ?

I appreciate you looking into the cmdline options

For large collections... my only gripe is that it seems to freeze/crash or act unresponsive for 5+secs when searching for files in my large library (seems to get worse when I mistype and have to delete and entry or if I am searching for multiple files subsequently)... I can understand that this is practically inevitable when you are attempting to search a song in a library with 50k+.... amarok with mysql seemed to offer the fastest/most responsive file searching... what type of database does consonance use?

Thanks again for all your hardwork! much appreciated

EDIT: The "use software mixing" option is a bit confusing. I use OSS with vmix. I could not get Consonance to recongnize my oss sync without this option enabled. Can this not be detected using some means and enabled/disabled? Or am i misunderstanding it's purpose?

Last edited by ugkbunb (2009-04-24 15:55:32)

s3kt0r · 2009-04-25 05:18:27

Consonance is a really neat and LnF worthy app! Working very smoothly here.

Thanks a lot for this!

jeanrhum · 2009-05-16 07:59:24

Your apps is really a must-have.
It's been some months now I use it and it really my favourite audio software.

Keep in mind its major benefit in my own opinion: KISS.
Go the arch way!

PhotonX · 2009-05-16 09:55:44

Does it really need curl-7.19.2? I'm trying to compile the latest version (0.51 tar.gz) on Ubuntu jaunty and there is just curl-7.18.2 in the official repos...

ammon · 2009-05-16 17:16:29

Wonderfull!!! Thanks!
Finally music manager that suits me.. tried exaile, rhytmbox, amarok, audacious.. used decibel for long time.
But this, fantastic... Simple as decibel, but with search option, faster, better and louder sound.
I would like to see same file browser as in decibel but I will get used to it.

Last edited by ammon (2009-05-16 17:22:13)

msdelos · 2009-05-21 14:13:05

PhotonX wrote:

Does it really need curl-7.19.2? I'm trying to compile the latest version (0.51 tar.gz) on Ubuntu jaunty and there is just curl-7.18.2 in the official repos...

Modifies the file "configure.ac" , and it makes reference to that version of libcurl.

In my case, with fedora 10:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libcurl],
                  [libcurl >= 7.18.2],
          [],
                  [AC_MSG_ERROR(curl-7.18.2 is required)])

And soon it executes ". /autogen.sh"

People… I am average desolate... this discontinued Consonance?????????

According to: http://sites.google.com/site/consonancemanager/ (New page of consonance)

Consonance is on an indefinite hiatus. I don't plan to return to civilization for a while,
so anybody is free to fork it - Sujith.

:(

PhotonX · 2009-05-21 15:05:34

Hmm, didn't really help, I had to remove a piece of code from configure itself... But the next thing it is missing is libcdio-0.80 while 0.78 is avaiable. I think I'll just wait for Karmic.

msdelos · 2009-05-24 20:56:57

Hello!

Before the doubt if it does not continue the development of consonance.:/.. It creates a page in googlecode in order to continue developing consonance!!!

http://code.google.com/p/dissonance/

It is not a fork!!!
Dissonance is called the project, that it tries continue developing consonance... and I would like they help that me in this.. Any patch of dissonance will be able to be added to consonance...

In svn, this consonance 0.5.1 and all the patches that sometimes it develops...
* svn checkout http://dissonance.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dissonance
Also upload a tarball initial
* http://dissonance.googlecode.com/files/ … 5.9.tar.gz
Shot her: http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com/

They would remember that I had problems in the filter of the library (http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=17619). Now it works correctly and it makes use of sexy-icon-entry..

I would like to receive patches and suggestions..!!!!

PLEASE… ANY AID IS WELCOME! But to seem. For really consonance progresses, first that we must do is to translate the application..!!

If they want, use wiki http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com. They have free access to, and anyone I could codify it...

Thanks! and excuse my English..!:P

seppo0010 · 2009-05-24 22:21:28

Hey, I liked this program, I was also looking for a lightweight music manager so I will start using it often.

One issue I had is I compiled it from the tarball and I was running it without installing and I saw many problems with images being looked for in a wrong path (/usr/local/share/consonance/data/consonance.png, /usr/local/share/consonance/data/artist.png...).
I will install it as soon as Pacman finishes updating and take another look, but it will be nice to fix this issues.

Lyceuhns · 2009-05-24 23:26:13

msdelos wrote:

Hello!
Before the doubt if it does not continue the development of consonance.:/.. It creates a page in googlecode in order to continue developing consonance!!!
http://code.google.com/p/dissonance/
It is not a fork!!!
Dissonance is called the project, that it tries continue developing consonance... and I would like they help that me in this.. Any patch of dissonance will be able to be added to consonance...
In svn, this consonance 0.5.1 and all the patches that sometimes it develops...
* svn checkout http://dissonance.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dissonance
Also upload a tarball initial
* http://dissonance.googlecode.com/files/ … 5.9.tar.gz
Shot her: http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com/
They would remember that I had problems in the filter of the library (http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=17619). Now it works correctly and it makes use of sexy-icon-entry..
I would like to receive patches and suggestions..!!!!
PLEASE… ANY AID IS WELCOME! But to seem. For really consonance progresses, first that we must do is to translate the application..!!
If they want, use wiki http://tux-goodies.wikispaces.com. They have free access to, and anyone I could codify it...
Thanks! and excuse my English..!:P

Hi there,
i was searching yet to try another player, but i saw your page and like it, mainly features like "increase and dec. the volume with the wheel of mouse in systray".

As you said, let's translate the aplication, i said this on a post (before), i can do the portuguese translation. Another guy offered the germany and russian translation.

As i said one time too, i don't know "professional" programming, but i like the project and i help as i can, mainly with bug report. =P

Can you make a PKGBUILD for us?

Thanks. o/

seppo0010 · 2009-05-25 04:30:03

I can help with the spanish translation. If you wanna do this, my email is my forum username at gmail dot com.

PhotonX · 2009-05-25 05:38:49

I'm the guy with the russian and german translation. First problem: I can't compile it since it uses too new libs. But I'll just install Arch again in some days, I think. Second problem: It seems not to be set up for translation.

Last edited by PhotonX (2009-05-25 05:40:13)

msdelos · 2009-05-25 15:44:47

Sorry!!
Dependency had added to orient it to xfce-- (Droped and Fixed)

New tarball: http://dissonance.googlecode.com/files/ … 9.1.tar.gz

And you are right... Consonance no supports internationalize... I am trying to correct it… but I am not a great developer either… For that reason it is priority to fix this, I hope that they help me..

I am reading to internalise me in the subject. and it will try to make the patches...

But somebody knows like doing it, PLEASE, that saves the work to me!!!:cool:

PS.: Add murrine RGBA support!!!! Totally useless, but cool..!!!

PhotonX · 2009-05-25 16:17:46

Hmm, should this update fix the problems with too new curl and libcdio versions? If so, it doesn't.

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