Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I installed Pianobar and pypianobar today, and it says it experienced an ero

pianobar output .protocol incompatible please upgrade libpiano. restarting pianobar

and a box saying done

if you click done same happens and then crashes 3 times in a row and quits

any ideas?

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I've also had the same experience from time to time as well. I see just Pianobar has had an udpate, is it cool for N900 to upgrade(since I see some earlier users said it was saying upgrade libpiano)?


And also to add to the earlier conversation, I've NEVER gotten a message that I've played too many hours of music or that I've skipped too many tracks on this app. I'm a non-paid user and I SURELY do a lot of skipping, I can't imagine what's going on other people.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I will test this at home; I shouldn't have changed any code that would affect the station create so I will take a look.

I assume you installed from Extras? There is a fix for this in Extras-testing and Extras-devel. I really need votes in Extras-testing if it's working so that we can fix the Extras repository.

Libpiano is a part of pianobar.

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Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

That dir (=the whole python kingdom) is a softlink on the device, so it ends up being optified in the end.

The disk usage comes from webkit, based on the log snippet posten above, that sucker uses 17MB of rootfs space, though it might appear less due to the rootfs being compressed.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Oh, it is not that way on my SDK. Didn't know if it was different on the N900.

In what though?

This is all I see:

The libQtWebKit's in /usr/lib are just a bunch of symlinks

and:

Which you say is a symlink to opt. So where does the space come from?

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

That's a mistake, but the other way around. On the devices, libqt4-webkit (et al) is in the rootfs, not /opt.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

That's just hilarious! So, in my SDK on a desktop that has over 500GB available and no need for space saving.... it's optified. But on a device with 256MB root and 2GB /home and in dire need of saving space... it's not :D. Win.

Also:

We are up to 5! Keep the votes coming, we're halfway there!

@Laughing Man:
I created a station on my N810 and the first couple times I had a song playing and ran into various issues (not the ones you mention though); but the last couple I paused the song first and then created a station and it all went perfectly.

Can I get you try this a couple times and see if your problem is reproduceable every time? And to everyone else, can I get a few people to try creating stations on an N900 and see what happens? (My SDK died on me yesterday)

I should be getting my N900 today and will see.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I found a bug in pianobar when installing on a new device.

Fixing and pianobar 2.0-2 will be up soon; will need votes again.

(wow, really annoying.)

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

working on a small issue with pyPianobar remembering users/passwords now that the default config doesn't get put on with the latest pianobar.

pyPianobar will create this.. new versions will be hitting repo's.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I can confirm this works but when you press play it first plays the previous artist (you have to switch the radio to the new artist you want)

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

OH! I think I see what you're saying.. you want it to automatically switch to the newly created station?? Makes sense, I never coded anything into it that actually caused you to automatically switch stations. When you press "play" it's going to play whichever station is currently selected in the drop down (or it should).

(On a different note.. with my N900 I can't seem to create stations at all. Not sure what's up.)

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

No you can, you just have to use the close app method or the one you described to me (it'll play the old station first but just change it in the drop down)

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

No, for some reason on my N900 I wasn't getting any new stations in my drop down menu at all. It just wasn't working.

I've uploaded new versions now that handle station creating a little differently. 2.0-3 is the latest. Please try it when it's available and let me know how it works.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Seems to work better on my N900, but still has some issues. i created a station and it did not appear in the list (even though it said that it was created, and even after restart.
I tried again and it worked with no issues.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

This is the latest 2.0-3 from extras devel?

Interesting. I just did 4 in a row and deleted them without issues. Tried with it pauses, stopped, and playing.

(although, when you delete a station it's going to select the next station in the list to auto-play, dunno if that's a good thing - or if I should fix it... either way; not worth holding the app up. I want to get 0-3 through if it works.)

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Also, I definitely see what you all are saying about the QT Drop Down menu being rather... bad. I have no idea how to fix that though; Maemo is what's controlling the scrolling in the drop down. This is just QT on Maemo.

Maybe (hopefully?) the later version of QT that is coming PR1.2 should help?

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

We shall see. There's only a week left in April, so either A) we aren't getting it this month or B) we should hear something soon. Hopefully sooner than later!

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Yes - 2.0-3.
I can't reproduce this again.
I agree it is not worth holding the app for this.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

OK:

pyPianobar 2.0-3 and Pianobar 2.0-2 are in Extras Testing!

Need testers and voters again!! I just linked to their main page because having to constantly change the posts when I update gets annoying :).

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

When you say dropdown, are you talking about QComboBox ? As that one has known styling issues under PR1.1 that will be corrected with PR1.2

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

That's the one!

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Got the new updates, I don't seem to see any differences. -sry

I did think of some things though.
There is no Quick mix function? or am i missing it?

When on cellular network more times then not it seems the album art donsn't dl.(not a big deal for me)

Also for us 2.5g Att ppl, and I had mentiond this in a previous post, can we look into a longer buffer, or a crappier stream to handle the data rates on the network. While standing still, and no windows open, i still dont get a full song to play with out a buffer pause. On my net work it works great.


Thanks agian!

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

What updates do you mean? Only thing I've changed recently was the create new station stuff. You shouldn't notice any visual difference.

As far as buffer times and such, that would really all handled in the pianobar source code and I've been attempting to keep from modifying that source code directly so I can keep it as close to upstream as possible. I can take a look and see but C/C++ isn't my strongest language.

As far as audio quality, as I've mentioned, there is 3 available options in ~/.config/pianobar/config for the setting "audio_format". There is supposed to be mp3, aacplus, and mp3-hifi.

Unfortunately, I didn't compile pianobar with the aacplus support so really the only options are mp3 and mp3-hifi, with hifi being the better quality and only available to Pandora One subscribers.

I'll look into getting aacplus compiled in and see if it helps any. I seem to think I was missing a dependency, but they all appear to be in the repo's now so I'll give it a shot.

As for the QuickMix - It should show up as a normal station called like "pandora102395's QuickMix"

I'll work on all this for the next versions, for now - I really need to get some working versions into Extras as the current ones are broken. This getting 10 votes is seriously a PITA.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Yeah, missing dependencies prevents me from enabling the aacplus audio output. It requires libfaad2, which is in devel/testing, but evidently something is missing. Pianobar looks for "neaacdec.h" and it's not in the maemo packages.

Oddly enough though, I compiled/installed the from-source faad2 into my SDK just to try and get it to compile and it still didn't work. It found FAAD that time but when it went to link it, got a bunch of undefined reference errors. Something isn't working right.

So currently the only two audio options are mp3, and mp3-hifi, with the latter being only for pandora one customers.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Pianobar and pyPianobar v2.1 have been uploaded to Extras-Devel.

Nothing major. On the pianobar front just a build of todays snapshot of pianobar.

On pyPianobar I did quite a bit actually:

* Added a "*" to the end of all stations in your quickmix
* Fixed Album art to always be 100% size (no more tiny stupid images.)
* I (may) have fixed the 100% CPU error. I'll describe this below.
* I (hopefully) have fixed the album name from pushing all the buttons over to a corner. It (should) just cut the end of the album name off if it's too long. I haven't gotten scrolling to work. I also can't seem to get pandora to give me a really long album to test it with...
* The QComboBox for station lists work a little better IMHO. It still has the problem of jumping from top to bottom with the slightest flick (this I think is part of what'll be fixed in PR1.2).. BUT the actual scrolling is significantly smoother. Less lag and easier to scroll slowly to the proper station.

Ok so about the 100% CPU. I have had the report of Pianobar eating 100% cpu after X hours of play, and then I've also personally experienced and had a bug told to me on the voting pages of pyPianobar having a communication error and will then spawn a second pianobar confusing things all to hell - get to listen to two songs at once, and closing pyPianobar leaves an orphaned pianobar in the background playing.

Essentially, these errors were already caught (from what I knew?) meaning that pyPianobar told you pianobar had an error.. but my default method of handling this was just to open a new one and keep going.

I've added in there a check now to see if pianobar is still running, and then quit out of it and restart if it is. Hopefully this addresses a few problems.... I've never been able to listen to Pandora long enough to test :D.

I don't think I'll be pushing these to Testing until I can get the current ones up to Extras.

I'm really put off on the whole voting thing. I can't for the life of me get anything into Extras until it's too late or I've already made a dozen changes. This system is really anti-"Release early, release often".

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I can vouch that the qcombobox is MUCH MUCH better than the previous one, not perfect but definitely useable. The album artwork looks more squared up and the interface has remained consisent. The one question I do have is how can you choose which songs are in the starred "*" quickmix? I've never used it, but some how one of my stations is starred. No big deal, just curious.

All and all, all the features youmve added work great and its nice to see the improvements continuing to come. I just wish i could help you with the whole 10 votes thing. I'm surprised there aren't more people following this app honestly(its one of the top apps in the App Store, Android Market, and WebOS store)

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I wonder if there's a way you could put a message in the app. Like.. "like this app? Want updates and bug fixes? Willing to test? etc.."

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Its probably possible. If anything else to open the browser to the voting page.

Arsonist, Laughing Man - are you guys part of the 5-6 that have voted so far??? You can get more karma if you link your T.M.O account to your M.O. account. Theres a few voters that aren't linked to t.m.o so I don't know who's been over there.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

At pandora's website at the bottom of your station list you can switch to "QuickMix" or "QuickMix: Custom". If you do Custom, each of your stations will have a check box by them and you can select which stations you want in your quickmix or not.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I'm not following you 100%. I went onto the voting page and it keep telling me that I'm entering the wrong info(when I'm clearly logging into the forums). What is t.m.o. account(T-Mobile?)? I'm just a little lost(this voting process seems a bit pointless, a developer can make fake accounts and vote themselves up can't they?).

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Yes, and it's happened.. and it was a mess. There's a thread around here of a dude being crucified for doing so.. and probably rightly so (IMHO)... yes - the voting process sucks: No, I'm not going to exploit it because I can..

You need to sign up for an account at just Maemo.org, not Talk.Maemo.Org (t.m.o). Unfortunately SSO (single-sign on) is not implemented yet across maemo.org.

Register for an account here (you can use the same user/pass as you do on the forums). Once you get that setup you can go to the voting page and vote thumbs up or down.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Thanks for developing this app. It looks great and I can't wait to use it. I'm not a developer/programmer or anything down in the weeds, I'm just a computer literate user who ran into an error message, googled it and found this forum. I'm not sure what's relevant to you, so I'll explain my experience and see if that helps you at all. If you're already aware, then so much the better and I'll be one more reliable vote for you in the testing forums.

I just installed pianobar and pypianobar yesterday on my N900 using the apps manager function. I found both in the multimedia catalog and downloaded/installed like normal. I ran pypianobar from a shortcut on one of my desktops, and the first thing that happened is the "upgrade libpiano" error another user has mentioned previously.

Will your planned updates address this? If so, how can I get a hold of them? Where do I need to go to vote up your testing numbers? Thanks!

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

Hello Boombox!

Yes, that error is in the Extras versions of pyPianobar and Pianobar. Unfortunately I can't fix those apps in Extras (the world repo) until I get a required number of votes in a Testing repository first!

I've had that error fixed for almost a week now but have been unable to get the votes required to fix the main extras versions.

If you would like to help, you can Enable Extras Testing and upgrade your installation to the current testing branch. If they work and you are satisfied, you then Vote for my app with a thumbs up.

Understand that enabling the extras testing repo can come with some warnings/risks. However, most apps in testing should be in a decent state. Recommended action is to enable testing, download specifically the app/apps you want, then disable the repository until you need it again.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

I got the same error about the token expiring in a dialog box with clickable done box. Htop indicates pianobar with 100% CPU. Waited for 10 minutes to see what would happen. Clicked done and waited 10 minutes.

Nothing happened so i tried to exit pyPianobar. pyPianobar would not respond so I needed to force close. Took a look at htop and pianobar is at 100%. Needed to kill pianobar.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

The error about the token expiring will always happen. Nothing I can do about that. That's part of the pianobar bug already filed and marked as "Won't Fix".

As for the rest of it; I guess causing it to send the "q" and then wait for pianobar to close just causes pyPianobar to hang instead. Damn.

Back to the drawing board on that one.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

i tried installing pypianobar and it said i was missing libqt4 dependecies. so i tried doing a 'apt-get install python2.5-qt4', but then it said im missing a bunch of qt4 dependecies. any ideas?

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

what repositories do you have enabled?

Seems there might be a problem with QT4 in the repo's. Try:
And then paste exactly which qt4 it couldn't find please.

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

ive got the usual nokia ones and then extras and extras devel reps enabled

it lists:
python2.5-qt4-gui
python2.5-qt4-webkit
python2.5-qt4-network

Re: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...354#post630354

Seems there is a problem.