Re: [mb-users] Picard on PowerPC Mac

Alex Mauer <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:36:35 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/08/2014 10:59 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> I'm trying to build and run Picard on a PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X
> 10.5.8 (Leopard). Because Leopard shipped with Python 2.5.1, I installed
> Python 2.7.8 from MacPorts as well as the MacPorts version of libdiscid
> and a manually built version of Mutagen. The code builds with no issue
> and I can start the GUI, but any attempt to scan a song generates the error:
> 
>      E: 11:42:41 Fingerprint calculator failed error = No such file or
> directory (0)
> 
> I seem to be able to perform other function on the file, however.
> 
> Is there anything in the fingerprint calculator that is Intel specific?
> Any suggestions on how I would start to debug this?

Do you have the fpcalc executable?  I’m assuming that’s what it’s missing…

(Not sure if that builds for PowerPC or not)