libkcompactdisc test (testkcd) finds no tracks - wrong initialiser sent to the Phonon backend?

[Boudhayan Gupta]

libkcompactdisc doesn't work and should either be deprecated or rewritten
by someone who has access to an audio cd and a drive.

Nothing actually uses libkcompactdisc.


Freundliche Grüße
Boudhayan Gupta
KDE e.V. - Community Working Group
+49 151 71032970

On 18 August 2017 at 09:24, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not certain where to raise issues with libkcompactdisc, I hope this ML
> isn't the worst choice.
>
> I can't say I understand very well exactly how this library is suppose to
> integrate with Solid and the backends. It evidently works with the audiocd
> kio on Linux, but while trying to get that to work on Mac too (part of some
> work I'm doing on Solid) I discovered that testkcd doesn't find any (audio)
> CD tracks on Linux either.
>
> It looks to me like that could well be because it hands off a Solid UDI to
> Phonon and from there to the VLC Phonon backend. I've lost track of the
> control flow somewhere in there but I don't think Phonon knows how to
> handle such UDIs. Annoyingly there appears to be no way to get useful
> debugging done via the audiocd kio so I cannot corroborate this intuition.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> René
>
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