Blah, I forgot I never responded to this.. Sorry for the delay =)
On 16-Nov-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have downloaded 2.1RC5 for both Windows and Linux. Actually the
> Linux version is compiled from CVS, but I updated CVS as soon as I
> received the release announcement so it should be close enough.
>
> Anyway, I have some comments regarding the new versions. The Linux
> side looks really solid. I deleted my metadatabase (more on that
> later) and re-scanned my computer for music. The scan was the fastest
> I have ever seen - both for MP3 and Ogg files. Currently FreeAMP is
> signaturing all of my files.
>
> The Windows version looks a little less solid - more flakey. I'll try
> to describe exactly what I noticed. When I first opened the music browser
> and added a track to be played all of the fields on the "Current Playlist"
> side of the window were squashed to a width of 5 or so. Also, the "My
> Music" button acts differently than under Linux. Under Linux, clicking
> "My Music" while the window is open will close the "My Music" window.
> Under Windows this is not the case - "My Music" has to be closed using
> the close button on the window. Not a serious bug, but annoying
> nonetheless.
Yea, I'll fix both of these before the final release.
> Speaking of seriously annoying bugs, it appears that the format for
> the databases was changed between RC4 and RC5. When I tried to
> signature tracks in Windows using my old database FreeAMP promptly
> generated a "This program has executed an illegal instruction" dialog
> back. The backtrace indicated a Page Fault error. (See bug 1147 for
> details.) It wasn't until I deleted my old metadatabase that FreeAMP
> bothered to tell me that the format had changed. Also, under Windows
> the signaturing process hung four times. I had to keep killing
> FreeAMP, and restarting the process (not from the beginning -
> thankfully!) in order for all of my tracks to be signatured.
The database format didn't actually change -- the message box that says it did
was coming up because it detected a change from a version 0 (ie., no database)
to version 1 (database present). The crash on signaturing was because of
stale entries in your database -- a bug in the pruning algorithm would make
it attempt to signature things that weren't there, and something else changed
to make it crash because of that. Both bugs have been fixed in CVS.
> Under Linux, after I installed RC5 FreeAMP came up asking for
> permission to resignature my tracks. After saying yes, FreeAMP
> crashed. I repeated the process twice before deciding to delete my
> metadatabase file under Linux. As soon as I did so, FreeAMP told me
> that the data format had changed.
Same as above =)
> So, could FreeAMP please be changed so that changes to the metadata
> formats are reported *before* attempting to signature tracks? Real
> error reporting instead of puzzling crashes and segfaults would be
> nice too. And how about fixing the "My Music" button in Windows?
> Other than those few annoyances a solid product that I intend to use
> for sometime to come. And on that note I'll mention some feature
> enhancements. Will it be possible for the Relatable technologies to be
> used offline? For instance, when I am on a disconnected laptop, but
> still want to generate playlists? Will it be possible in the future to
> specify how long of a playlist should be generated? For instance I
> could specify "add 25 songs to playlist" or "generate a playlist
> lasting 2 hours".
Nope, you need to be connected to the net to access the servers to generate
things.. More control over how many songs are returned would be nice, but
that's something that's quite definately a post-2.1 improvement.
Isaac
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