↓Skip to main content
  1. Archives/

Use MusicBrainz Picard ? Don’t update to KDE 4.4 RC (yet)

··215 words·2 mins·
News Linux Applications

I love MusicBrainz Picard. It keeps my music collection organized, tags and renames them, and heck even fetches the cover art for (almost) all songs. Picard is just brilliant.

And the icing on the cake - its FOSS & cross platform. And it was working fine - till couple of days ago.

Eager to try out the RC of the upcoming 4.4 release of KDE, I upgraded it. Later on I got a bunch of music files from Ankit, and I set to tag ’em correctly. Double clicked Picard. Bouncy icon starts, and then - nothing. Uh-oh. Rinse, repeat, no change. Wondering what could’ve happened, I launched Konsole and passed the command And - boom.

sathya@shaman:~> picard

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/usr/bin/picard”, line 2, in

from picard.tagger import main; main(‘/usr/share/locale’, True)

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/picard/tagger.py”, line 21, in

from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v6.0 but the PyQt4.QtGui module requires API v7.0

Seems the upgrade in Qt has resulted in MusicBrainz Picard being broken :(. As of now there seems to be no solution - perhaps wait and watch till someone notices and fixes it ? Or dive into code and try to fix it myself ( mmm enticing). Anybody reading this has a solution ? Do drop a comment

Sathyajith Bhat
Author
Sathyajith Bhat
Author, AWS Container Hero and DevOps Specialist.

Related

Changing the GNOME Menu panel in openSUSE GNOME back to Gnome defaults
··128 words·1 min
Tips & How-To's Applications Linux Opensuse
Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar with Applications/Places/System entries. Personally I prefer the new style, perhaps because I’m used to the openSUSE Kickoff panel, and I really dig the search feature You can go back to the default Applications / Places / System panel pretty easily. To do this: Right click the bottom panel and choose add a panel Now right click the top panel and choose Add to Panel In the search input box type “menu”, and you will see about six entries, one of which is “Traditional main Menu” Add the menu to the panel, move it to where you like, and delete the “original” menu.
Mounting file system created by Wubi in other Linux distros
··100 words·1 min
Tips & How-To's Linux Applications
I wasn’t aware of this tiny little thing - the filesystem in the file created by a Wubi install can be easily mounted as a loop device. To do so, just open the Terminal and type the below: mount -o loop This will make the kernel auto detect the filesystem type and try to mount it. Alternatively, if you’re sure of the filesystem type, mention it explicitly mount -t -o loop
Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
··445 words·3 mins
Reviews Applications Linux
I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye -Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full) time - I read the article with great interest. Amarok 2 users would know that Amarok 2 series is a shadow of its old Amarok 1.4(“Amarok Classic” self) - and quite a few people still prefer Amarok classic to Amarok 2 - primararily because of Amarok’s missing support for visualizations, equalizer amongst others.