I love MusicBrainz Picard. It keeps my music collection organized, tags and renames them{#aptureLink_0HBhpzYgM6}, 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