A View from the Top of the World

From software-eng at cridermcdowellfamily.com Sun May 12 23:31:51 2024 From: software-eng at cridermcdowellfamily.com (J. Allen Crider) Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 17:31:51 -0500 Subject: How do I delete an entry I can't open? Message-ID: <3bab4b94-823c-4f9d-a978-3480fb9997af@cridermcdowellfamily.com> I imported the metadata into my music collection from an album that was ripped to FLAC by SoundKonverter and now whenever I select that album to look at it or modify it, Tellico freezes and all I can do is close the application. Everything else seems to work fine until I click on the album title in either view. The only obvious difference between the files for this album and most others in my collection is that SoundKonverter downloaded lyrics and other information and placed it in the Description field. I went back and looked at the files in Kid3 and discovered that the Description field had a large number of slashes at the end of it and I suspect that is causing the problem (that may also explain why I couldn't rip the CD using K3b). I have modified that description field using Kid3 and imported the album again and the second copy works fine. But I can't figure out a way to remove the original entry. Any ideas? Allen Crider From jbreland at legroom.net Mon May 13 02:06:07 2024 From: jbreland at legroom.net (Jared Breland) Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 20:06:07 -0500 Subject: How do I delete an entry I can't open? In-Reply-To: <3bab4b94-823c-4f9d-a978-3480fb9997af@cridermcdowellfamily.com> References: <3bab4b94-823c-4f9d-a978-3480fb9997af@cridermcdowellfamily.com> Message-ID: <5fd296ee-93d8-4aec-b938-fa54d9c87d93@legroom.net> Tellico's collection files (.tc) are simply zip files containing an XML file, which holds the data. You can open that file in any editor, search for the problematic album, and delete the entry. For example, I have an album named "A View from the Top of the World" that looks like this: A View from the Top of the World Dream Theater Just delete from to , save the file, update the copy in the tc/zip file, and you should be good to go. If you're not used to editing files like this, definitely recommend making a copy of your original tc file first and testing on that. Jared Breland jbreland at legroom.net https://www.legroom.net/ On 5/12/24 17:31, J. Allen Crider wrote: > I imported the metadata into my music collection from an album that > was ripped to FLAC by SoundKonverter and now whenever I select that > album to look at it or modify it, Tellico freezes and all I can do is > close the application. Everything else seems to work fine until I > click on the album title in either view. > > The only obvious difference between the files for this album and most > others in my collection is that SoundKonverter downloaded lyrics and > other information and placed it in the Description field. I went back > and looked at the files in Kid3 and discovered that the Description > field had a large number of slashes at the end of it and I suspect > that is causing the problem (that may also explain why I couldn't rip > the CD using K3b). I have modified that description field using Kid3 > and imported the album again and the second copy works fine. But I > can't figure out a way to remove the original entry. Any ideas? > > Allen Crider > From robby at periapsis.org Mon May 13 02:14:45 2024 From: robby at periapsis.org (Robby Stephenson) Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 21:14:45 -0400 Subject: How do I delete an entry I can't open? In-Reply-To: <5fd296ee-93d8-4aec-b938-fa54d9c87d93@legroom.net> References: <3bab4b94-823c-4f9d-a978-3480fb9997af@cridermcdowellfamily.com> <5fd296ee-93d8-4aec-b938-fa54d9c87d93@legroom.net> Message-ID: Allen, Jared's suggestion probably works best if Tellico is unable to edit or delete the entry directly. Would you be willing to email the file to me directly, the one that has the issue? I'd like to see if I can fix the bug that causes the freezing. Thanks, Robby On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 9:06 PM Jared Breland wrote: > Tellico's collection files (.tc) are simply zip files containing an XML > file, which holds the data. You can open that file in any editor, > search for the problematic album, and delete the entry. For example, I > have an album named "A View from the Top of the World" that looks like > this: > > > A View from the Top of the World > > Dream Theater > > > > > Just delete from to , save the file, update the copy in > the tc/zip file, and you should be good to go. > > If you're not used to editing files like this, definitely recommend > making a copy of your original tc file first and testing on that. > > Jared Breland > jbreland at legroom.net > https://www.legroom.net/ > > On 5/12/24 17:31, J. Allen Crider wrote: > > I imported the metadata into my music collection from an album that > > was ripped to FLAC by SoundKonverter and now whenever I select that > > album to look at it or modify it, Tellico freezes and all I can do is > > close the application. Everything else seems to work fine until I > > click on the album title in either view. > > > > The only obvious difference between the files for this album and most > > others in my collection is that SoundKonverter downloaded lyrics and > > other information and placed it in the Description field. I went back > > and looked at the files in Kid3 and discovered that the Description > > field had a large number of slashes at the end of it and I suspect > > that is causing the problem (that may also explain why I couldn't rip > > the CD using K3b). I have modified that description field using Kid3 > > and imported the album again and the second copy works fine. But I > > can't figure out a way to remove the original entry. Any ideas? > > > > Allen Crider > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From software-eng at cridermcdowellfamily.com Mon May 13 03:51:38 2024 From: software-eng at cridermcdowellfamily.com (J. Allen Crider) Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 21:51:38 -0500 Subject: How do I delete an entry I can't open? In-Reply-To: <5fd296ee-93d8-4aec-b938-fa54d9c87d93@legroom.net> References: <3bab4b94-823c-4f9d-a978-3480fb9997af@cridermcdowellfamily.com> <5fd296ee-93d8-4aec-b938-fa54d9c87d93@legroom.net> Message-ID: <7085b492-278d-46ce-a7da-b3521b72767d@cridermcdowellfamily.com> That enabled me to solve the problem. Somehow the cddb entry that SoundKonverter downloaded had been really messed up with one line containing well over 2 million back slashes and several other lines that had too many back slashes as well. I attempted to edit the xml file with kate, but it had difficulty with the longest line. However, once I knew which line was the culprit, I was able to go to it in vi and delete it. From there, it wasn't much trouble to get rid of the rest of the entry. Thank you, Allen Crider On 5/12/24 20:06, Jared Breland wrote: > Tellico's collection files (.tc) are simply zip files containing an XML > file, which holds the data. You can open that file in any editor, > search for the problematic album, and delete the entry. For example, I > have an album named "A View from the Top of the World" that looks like > this: > > > A View from the Top of the World > > Dream Theater > > > > > Just delete from to , save the file, update the copy in > the tc/zip file, and you should be good to go. > > If you're not used to editing files like this, definitely recommend > making a copy of your original tc file first and testing on that. > > Jared Breland > jbreland at legroom.net > https://www.legroom.net/ > > On 5/12/24 17:31, J. Allen Crider wrote: >> I imported the metadata into my music collection from an album that >> was ripped to FLAC by SoundKonverter and now whenever I select that >> album to look at it or modify it, Tellico freezes and all I can do is >> close the application. Everything else seems to work fine until I >> click on the album title in either view. >> >> The only obvious difference between the files for this album and most >> others in my collection is that SoundKonverter downloaded lyrics and >> other information and placed it in the Description field. I went back >> and looked at the files in Kid3 and discovered that the Description >> field had a large number of slashes at the end of it and I suspect >> that is causing the problem (that may also explain why I couldn't rip >> the CD using K3b). I have modified that description field using Kid3 >> and imported the album again and the second copy works fine. But I >> can't figure out a way to remove the original entry. Any ideas? >> >> Allen Crider >> > From bgee at campercaver.net Mon May 20 20:08:47 2024 From: bgee at campercaver.net (Bill Gee) Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:08:47 -0500 Subject: Odd behavior under Wayland Message-ID: I am seeing some odd behavior when running Tellico under Wayland. This is fairly easy to reproduce. It does not happen when running under X.org. Open a music database, then File - Import - Import Audio CD Data. As the import proceeds, the main Tellico window changes its color palette to what looks like monochrome - Black and White! Text can still be read, but most of the decorations and controls disappear. Switching away from Tellico to another application and then back will restore the color palette. The system is Fedora 40, nouveau display driver, Wayland window manager, and Tellico 3.5.4 as packaged in the Fedora repository This is annoying but not a show-stopper. -- =============== Bill Gee From robby at periapsis.org Fri May 24 02:29:07 2024 From: robby at periapsis.org (Robby Stephenson) Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 21:29:07 -0400 Subject: Odd behavior under Wayland In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM Bill Gee wrote: > I am seeing some odd behavior when running Tellico under Wayland. This > is fairly easy to reproduce. It does not happen when running under X.org. > Thanks, Bill. I've been testing KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland but haven't run Tellico 3.5 or KDE Frameworks 5 yet. I'll see if I can check into it. Do you see any similar behavior with any other KDE applications? Robby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <04c45297-877a-4067-841a-524c2ec9891b@campercaver.net> Sorry about the delay getting back on this ... I have been out the last few days having fun in a cave. I have not seen this exact behavior with any other application. The genealogy program GRAMPS has some anomolies in Wayland mostly related to how it saves and restores the size and position of its main and child windows. For what it is worth, here is was the System Settings tool says about my system. The graphics processor is actually an nVidia GT710. Operating System: Fedora Linux 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 Kernel Version: 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NV106 Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: C7SIM-Q System Version: 0123456789 =============== Bill Gee On 5/23/24 20:29, Robby Stephenson wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM Bill Gee > wrote: > > I am seeing some odd behavior when running Tellico under Wayland. This > is fairly easy to reproduce. It does not happen when running under > X.org. > > > Thanks, Bill. I've been testing KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland but haven't > run Tellico 3.5 or KDE Frameworks 5 yet. I'll see if I can check into it. > > Do you see any similar behavior with any other KDE applications? > > Robby From bgee at campercaver.net Wed May 29 19:32:53 2024 From: bgee at campercaver.net (Bill Gee) Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 13:32:53 -0500 Subject: Odd behavior under Wayland In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Update - Today I moved my workstation to a completely different computer. No reinstall, I just moved the hard drives. The new system has an Intel display. Everything came up just like it should. This Tellico problem is still there. I think the hardware display driver can be eliminated as the problem. =============== Bill Gee On 5/23/24 20:29, Robby Stephenson wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM Bill Gee > wrote: > > I am seeing some odd behavior when running Tellico under Wayland. This > is fairly easy to reproduce. It does not happen when running under > X.org. > > > Thanks, Bill. I've been testing KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland but haven't > run Tellico 3.5 or KDE Frameworks 5 yet. I'll see if I can check into it. > > Do you see any similar behavior with any other KDE applications? > > Robby