Many bugs

[londumas]

Hello, Thank for your work it is a very cool app I want to repport some bugs. I have tried an the GitHub website and couldn't find where to post it. So here it is : -> Every first time I use the filter there is no way to scroll up or down. But as I use it a second time it works. -> The genres in the filter scrolling tool are not classed by alphabetical names, so it is hard to find what we want. -> See the picture attached. When an albums has two cds these two cds doesn't always eds up next to one another and in the right order in the coverart-browser. Here the name of the first cd of the album is "Blonde On Blonde (Disc 2) [The Original Mono Recordings]" the between them there is "The Times They Are A-Changin' [The Original Mono Recordings]" and after "Blonde On Blonde (Disc 1) [The Original Mono Recordings]"

-> Last think witch I am not sure if it is a bug or due to my configuration but every first time I open the jaquettes option, the software has to find again all my albums. When it doesn't do that for the song option. Maybe it is my computer because my songs aren't on /home but on a partion loaded on boot.

Thank you for your work. I hope it will help you to make better an app which is already very great.

I work on quantal 64 bits.

[fossfreedom]

Many thanks for the submission - I'll look into this as soon as possible.

We are currently preparing for our next release which we believe will resolve the other issues you mentioned.

If you are willing and able to help us test out our next version please can you use the following instructions.

sudo apt-get install git gettext python-mako python-mutagen python-requests
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser.git -b master
cd coverart-browser
./install.sh

To remove this prerelease version:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/coverart_browser

[londumas]

Hello, I have just installed the prerealsed version.

-> Not every thing is already translated into French. I can help you with that if you want. #Not fixed -> The problem with the "All genres" option and the scrolling at first click is still there. #Not fixed -> The genres are now classed by alphabetical numbers. #Fixed -> The problem with albums in two cds is still there. I think it is because after classing by artists it doesn't class by names of the album or by year but by random. #Not fixed (but not so important) -> The last part about downloading every time I oppen is still there but it is faster. #Not fixed

Thank you for this prerealese which is very beautiful and more convenient.

[edit] -> The "Sort by album artist" seems to have alse a bug. I have a "S" before a "A" then it follows the alphabet til "C" then back to "A". -> The same option also splits some albums in to or three.

[fossfreedom]

@londumas

• with regards to the "Sort by album artist" - please can you right click the album and choose "Properties". For the album artist field do you have a "space" before the name itself?
• for the albums that are split - please can you again right click and choose properties. Please can you confirm you have BOTH the album and album artist fields filled with a value
• for the All genres issue - can you post a screenshot for us to confirm what you are seeing? Use imgur.com and post a link here.
• for the two cd problem - can you again double check that you have both album name and album artist field filled in the properties for those albums.

[londumas]

-> Here are the two pictures to see the difference between the first and the second click for the genres selection. You can see that at the first click the arrows at the top and the bottom can not be seen and we can't scroll down or up. Whereas the arrows can be seen at the second click and we can scroll down. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-lfbGDxpCBVNDZEek15ZkdISHM https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-lfbGDxpCBVbUNsb3ZaMUFxZmM

-> The problem of albums split into two or more was my fault. Bad tags.

-> I still have the problem of albums with more than one disc not showed next to one another when I select "class by artist". I have no clue if it is due to me or to the software.

-> It seems that in the algorithm classing albums by alphabetical order there is a difference between capitals and lower case. This I think should be corrected. That is why at the end of my album list, I have all the albums that start with a lower case. There is also a difference between "é" and "e" so for me "É" is at the end after a "Y". I don't know if this last problem is easy to fix.

-> It seems that for your algorithm, "100 album 1" is before "17 album 2" since "0" is smaller than "7". It is not looking at "100" against "17". This is not so important, it is just that Rhythmbox is doing the contrary.

-> The downloading at the beginning of each opening is still there. Is there no solution for that problem?

Finally if you update the prerealese, how can I update the version of the prerealese I have ?

[fossfreedom]

@londumas

with regards to the update from pre-release.

My recommendation would be every week, download the latest code and install - you can help us with testing that way :)

If you install the plugin via my rhythmbox-plugin PPA, then you'll just need to remove the pre-release (the "rm -rf" command above) - run the normal update-manager and you'll get the latest version. Obviously you'll need to wait until I've uploaded to my PPA - usually at the same time as I do the release here on GitHub.

Timelines will be variable - currently slated for the end-of-this month - but may be extended with other work we may do to the plugin... and also what we do in our day jobs!

As you can see I've split your issues.

@asermax - any comments on the following queries?

" The downloading at the beginning of each opening is still there. Is there no solution for that problem?"

and

" I still have the problem of albums with more than one disc not showed next to one another when I select "class by artist". I have no clue if it is due to me or to the software."

[londumas]

Good, I hope that it will help you. Tell me if you need me for anything.

[asermax]

• There's no downloading at the beginning, that's the plugin loading the images into memory. Disk access is pretty slow, and we also have to do some modifications on the images (resizing, adding shadows), which takes time. The current behavior is to load all the images at startup, but we may change that in the future if necesary.
• As @londumas suggested, there's no sorting between the items with the same sorting key. In the case of artist sorting, if two albums have the same artist (sorting key) the order on which they are positioned relative to each other is random. This behavior can be changed; it would be better to have another issue to check on this later.
• About the natural and unicode sorting, they can be implemented but I don't know what impact would it have on the overall performance.

@fossfreedom in response of your question to which branch should the above issues be worked on:

• The sorting bugs don't have nothing to do with UI, so it should be on master or a new branch.
• The genres button UI bug should be taken care on the refactoring branch, but I'm not able reproduce it, even when I have a lot of genres too.

[fossfreedom]

@londumas - the sort issues (numbers and accent issues) you mentioned should hopefully be resolved now with the very latest code.

[londumas]

Thank, for this fix. It works fine on my album collection.