Libtunepimp problems

Dan Meltzer hydrogen at notyetimplemented.com
Mon Aug 28 20:56:21 UTC 2006


On Saturday 26 August 2006 1:40 pm, Mats Ahlgren wrote:
> Might anyone know what is up with libtunepimp support please?
>
> 1) It doesn't work out-of-the-box with Amarok; you have to compile it and
> tell your package manager to not update it
>
> 2) Libtunepimp refuses to tag songs which have any accents in their
> metadata (e.g. e-acute-accent), returning the following error: "Cannot
> parse query: not well-formed (Invalid token) at line X, column Y, byte Z "
>
> 3) One has to erase all the metadata from your songs before using the
> "Guess tags" button, or else the search will stall for 30+ seconds without
> a cancel button and return a "Could not find your song" error.*
>
> Thanks,
> Mats
>
> * I've heard this is a 'feature'; please tell me this isn't true... o_O

It's a buggy library, but its the best program of its type. 

Amarok 1.4.2 and libtunepimp 0.5.0 isn't that bad
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