Re: Release? was Re: Stepping back as Zinf Debian maintainer

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 19:47, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:

>  I can look at  this next week, unless someone beats me to it (hint).

You know, it was only the third time I read this, that I saw the word
"hint" in brackets.

> > 4.  Issues with non-UTF8 strings in metadata. (Patch exists for this)
> 
> Please commit these.

Ok. The patch, as it stands, adds a glib dependency into the id3lib
plugin. Is that ok? Glib is currently only required for the gtk parts of
zinf. Do these text-only people object to the use of glib?


> This sounds like our alsa problems.  I still would like to understand
> why our alsa driver seems to lockup even though alsa oss emulation works
> just fine (you can seek and skip to your heart's content).
> But this is probably not a show stopper, we've had it for ages.  I've
> ended up using the emulation layer as it is much more stable.

Except I am using the esd output plugin....
Never had any problems with seeking mind you.

> > 2.  MDB only seems to remember tracks the first time the file-system is
> > scanned.
> 
> Shouldn't be an issue if we are using the original browser code.  
> mdb/browsermm  are still works in progress.  

I thought MDB was being used (albeit partially) by both browsers. I am
using the original browser code - I can't remember the exact symptoms. I
will have to find a test-case.

Rob

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Robert Hart <[email protected]>



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