This info is for Clementine devs who may perhaps find something of use in my odyssey.
Due recent relocation of my computer to bedroom from living room, I've had to start using WiFi for networking. For some reason I could not discover Kutuntu 16.x and Linux Mint (17.2, 17.3, and 18.1) would not correctly use either the on-board RealTek wifi or a RealTek-based USB wifi. So, a distro journey began and I ended up on Fedora 25 Workstation running Cinnamon just to get consistently working wifi. This means I've had reinstall all of my favorite apps including Clementine. The Fedora 25 repo has a Clementine build so I installed it. Issue One -- it would not successfully scan my music library. I tried multiple times removing the libary path from preferences and re-adding, uninstalled Clementine (removing .config/Clementine), but the library scan only "found" about 5% of my library located on an external NTFS USB drive mounted on /opt. I confirmed that my mount options set uid/gid to my login and rw was enabled but I think these kinds of file-system things were not a factor because Clementine *did* find some the music, but not all. :-/ What to do? I searched for a different build rpm and found one for Fedora 23. It would not successfully install due to a library version mismatch. Rats! So, I downloaded source and compiled. Success! Clementine successfully built, installed, and scanned my /opt/music successfully. Issue Two -- but, there were glitches in music playback. Little hiccups or moments of static. WTH? I tried modifying the output setting in Preferences but the only two that would "stick" were "Auto" and "PulseAudio" -- since Pulse is the Fedora default I assumed (!) that pulse is the audio sink in use when the glitches occur. But selecting any of the listed options would not remain past closing the Preferences dialog. Reopening showed output reset to Auto. WTH? Did some googling and found this: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/5344 One poster said that they were able to manually edit the .config/Clementine/Clementine.conf file and specify the alsasink as the output and "hw:x,x" for device. I did that to my Clementine install .conf file and all was well :-) No more glitches. Happiness. Issue Three -- Next day I opened Clementine and attempted to filter the Library to find something and discovered that the playlist filter and Searching were non-functional. Any character typed in either one returned a blank result list. WTH? Did more googling and no one has reported such behavior so no guidance. Happiness gone. While doing this, I did a Fedora upgrade for new packages. This may have broke something Clementine relied on. The upgrade is the only thing I can think of because I changed nothing else that might have caused the *next* issue. Issue Four -- Clementine fails to load. Run from terminal and there is a database error with "unicode" WTF? It was *just working!*The breakage is permanent. I uninstall my compiled version (the latest build). In my googling discovered the Clementine-provided lastest build rpms, so I download the latest build rpm (didn't know it was there or I'd not have built from source) and install--same "unicode error." I cannot install anything other than a 1.3.1 version (e.g., 1.2.x) because of a library mismatch error. I can only install the Fedora 1.3.x repo version :-/ So I do install it. And guess what, unicode error is not more and it *now successfully scans my music when at first it would not!*This is maddening. Very unhappy. *And ... Issue Two -- the playback audio glitches are back.* I attempt to edit the .config/Clementine/Clementine.conf file as I mentioned earlier, *but now it does not work* WTF!?! Issue Five -- now any attempt to specify device: device="hw:1,0" results in a "Device in use" error. So I can set "auto" or "pulse" in the Clementine preferences but either result in audio glitches on music playback. For some reason the audio glitches are solely a Clementine thing. I've since installed squeezelite, a headless SqueezeBox emulator, to connect to my Max2Play Logitech Media Server and it plays just fine--no audio glitches. I know this stuff is complicated but this is the first time I've encountered Clementine issues in *years of use*. I have been a user since your first public release (yep, that long) and I've installed and used it on many computers (It's currently installed on my work Win7 desktop and Mac OSX MacBookPro and a personal old MacBook running LinuxMint 17.2). I expected to be able to use it on this Fedora 25 Workstation. Clementine is the BEST playlist editor, tag editor, and library manager. Period. I'll keep it installed if only to use it for those purposes, but I cannot play music with it if there are audio glitches. So I'm very disappointed that it will not play music without glitches and I've run out of will to pursue a solution. If anyone has read this far and has a *known solution to the audio glitches on Fedora 25* I'm happy to try it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
