gmusicbrowser and Ubuntu 24.04

[gdedas]

Hello,

has anyone managed to run gmusic in ubuntu 24? In my case it works only for a few seconds and then stops responding. thanks!

[yves]

Hello .
same problem everything works it find but freeze after a while

after some test i think the problem is about the search of missing covers

[karu]

Hello,

similar problem with Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon and XFCE. Everything works fine until I use the right mouse button,then GMB freeze.
GMB on Zorin 17.2 also based on Ubuntu 24.4 works fine, no freeze at all.

[yves]

unchecking in the Configuration menu
«Current song must always be in the playlist»
seems to avoid the freeze

[karu]

I found a solution for the freeze:
replace line 4370 at \bin\gmusicbrowser
   redo if grep $_, @toobig;
by
   #redo if grep $_, @toobig;
   redo if $_ && grep $_, @toobig;

[manoel]

Hi, I've just upgraded from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS and seen that gMusicBrowser has been removed by the upgrade process. What is the reason for that? Should I reinstall it?

Thanks.

[manoel]

Besides, I think all the lyrics gathered manually (by me and my daughter) during the years since the lyrics plugin stopped working have disappeared! I thought gMusicBrowser saved them at an external location to its folders, in a local directory accesible by other programs or to be edited externally... but now it seems that it was saved under its own subdirectories and now all the lyrics are gone when the Ubuntu upgrade removed the sofware :-((((

I think it's always a good software design principle to separate programs from data.

[rude]

I found a solution for the freeze:
replace line 4370 at \bin\gmusicbrowser
   redo if grep $_, @toobig;
by
   #redo if grep $_, @toobig;
   redo if $_ && grep $_, @toobig;

Hi.
I'm on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon.
It works for me! No more freezes!
Thank you

[manoel]

Besides, I think all the lyrics gathered manually (by me and my daughter) during the years since the lyrics plugin stopped working have disappeared! I thought gMusicBrowser saved them at an external location to its folders, in a local directory accesible by other programs or to be edited externally... but now it seems that it was saved under its own subdirectories and now all the lyrics are gone when the Ubuntu upgrade removed the sofware :-((((

I have to apologize and correct myself. It's strange that "find" command didn't find them, but they are under my home directory in /.lyrics folder, stored in one folder per artist, and in .lyric format which seems to be just another extenstion for TXT files. I found out about this possible location reading about rhythmbox storing lyrics there, so I looked there just in case... and bingo! It's a good thing that various programs use the same format and location.

So I guess that if I manage to reinstall under Ubuntu 22.04 the gMusicBrowser will find them again.