Discussion of the Tellico application

Re: Copy&Paste from Entry View?

Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Norbert Nemec wrote:
>   
>> If you select some text in the entry view and press Ctrl-C or use
>> Edit/Copy, the selected text should be transferred to the clipboard and
>> be available for pasting (Ctrl-V) in other programs. This does not seem
>> to happen.
>>     
>
> What version? This was supposedly fixed in the latest release, 1.3.4.
>
>   
Sorry, I have indeed 1.3.3 installed, so this is probably already 
solved. (Cannot try it out currently...)

Greetings,
Norbert

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Merv Curley | 2 Feb 03:19

CD Music Collection

I am sure this must have come up before -

I would like to be able to search the online database  freedb.  The 
Doc's mention it can be done but it isn't an option when I am working 
on my CD collection with Ver 1.3.3.  Just Yahoo and Amazon.

It looks like it is just a matter of adding another Data Source stanza 
to the ~/../ tellicorc file.  I assume that the Type number 
determines when it appears,  only in an audio CD collection I assume.

What would that # be, or am I off wildly guessing about how it works.

Thanks

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Robby Stephenson | 2 Feb 07:02

Re: CD Music Collection

On Sunday 01 February 2009, Merv Curley wrote:
> I would like to be able to search the online database  freedb.  The
> Doc's mention it can be done but it isn't an option when I am working
> on my CD collection with Ver 1.3.3.  Just Yahoo and Amazon.

It's in the menus: File->Import->Audio CD Data. But if your version of 
Tellico isn't compiled with CDDB support (as the latest versions of Fedora 
and Ubuntu, among others, are not) then the menu item is just greyed out.

Robby

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Robby Stephenson | 2 Feb 07:14

Re: Tellico and Cuecat

On Saturday 24 January 2009, user wrote:
> I am using an unmodified Cuecat, but not directly. I scan into
> Alexandria and then import into Tellico. I, too, would be interested in
> scanning direct into Tellico.

I was checking it and noticed that the cuecat support only kicks in for a 
UPC/EAN search, not the ISBN search. I'll fix that, but for older versions, 
try changing to a UPC search. That'll work for the sources that support 
that, at least. I just verified with my unmodified cuecat, though again, it 
might be the window manager or somethign that has problems with the F10 
sequence.

Robby

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Robby Stephenson | 3 Feb 16:06

Re: Tellico and Cuecat

On Sunday 01 February 2009, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> I was checking it and noticed that the cuecat support only kicks in for a
> UPC/EAN search, not the ISBN search. I'll fix that, but for older
> versions, try changing to a UPC search. That'll work for the sources that
> support that, at least. I just verified with my unmodified cuecat, though
> again, it might be the window manager or something that has problems with
> the F10 sequence.

If I set Alt-F10 to maximize the window, then yes, running the unmodified 
cuecat over the barcode results in the search dialog getting maximized, 
then the bar code gets converted to an ISBN and the search runs.

So what do people think, should I try to swallow the Alt-F10 key combination 
in the search dialog and take it away from the window manager? I'm not even 
sure that could be done, but maybe with QKeyEvent or something. Is that the 
right thing to do? I guess if it's smart, it could check if the CueCat 
input comes after the Alt-F10 within a certain amount of time...

Robby

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Sandor Bodo-Merle | 3 Feb 16:29

File size increase after import

Hi,

i have an ebook collection file with cca 3500 items. The size of the file is about 18Mb.
It works fine with current stable tellico.
I just tried out with current SVN head and i have two problems with it.
First the cover images are not shown, to be more precise only a few of them are showed.
Doing an import of the collection file apparently fixed this problem, but then the file size growed to cca 110Mb.

I checked that the original file have compressed cover images, while after the import none of the cover images are compressed anymore.
Is there a way to restore the compression?

Regards,
Sanyi

PS - i compiled the HEAD version on ubuntu jaunty (development) with KDE4.2

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Merv Curley | 3 Feb 21:40

Re: CD Music Collection

On February 2, 2009 1:02:10 am Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2009, Merv Curley wrote:
> > I would like to be able to search the online database  freedb. 
> > The Doc's mention it can be done but it isn't an option when I am
> > working on my CD collection with Ver 1.3.3.  Just Yahoo and
> > Amazon.
>
> It's in the menus: File->Import->Audio CD Data. But if your version
> of Tellico isn't compiled with CDDB support (as the latest versions
> of Fedora and Ubuntu, among others, are not) then the menu item is
> just greyed out.
>
I guess we are on different wavelengths Robbie.  Following your Menu 
path isn't where I want to go since that seems to be just for the 
local CDDB cache or the local device .  To be clear I am using the 
Debian version as compiled by Regis.

I want [like for Movies]; Edit -> Internet Search - > Search Source 

Right now the Source Options are Amazon and Yahoo.  Maybe we can't 
search the freedb database?

Anyone -   What other options might be available when an album one 
has, isn't listed in the sources available.  Probably the freedb DB 
is the most complete but I do have a a number of Euro albums sold on 
this side of the pond but not listed. 

Regards

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Bruno Cornec | 3 Feb 23:30

Re: CD Music Collection

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:40:38PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> Anyone -   What other options might be available when an album one 
> has, isn't listed in the sources available.  Probably the freedb DB 
> is the most complete but I do have a a number of Euro albums sold on 
> this side of the pond but not listed. 

Personaly, to enter my CDs in tellico I put the CD in the tray and then
import it via File / Import / Import Cd Audio data (or whatever it is in
english 

If the CD is not in the CDDB database, then I get a warning from
tellico.

I then fire up kscd, fill all the fields, send it to the freedb.org
site, and do the sequence from tellico again, which give me the right
result coming from the cache.

I've entered 1030 CDs up to now, and have still a lot of work in front
of me 

What would be great is: that tellico could offer the same interface 
kscd proposes to add/send CD info. (stealing code  or use its own CD
interface and computes the CDDB id (store it at the same time) and has
an additional button to send the new data entered in the format expected
by cddb. Of course, speaking is much more easy than coding, and having
already my own projects, and not knowing that well tellico's code makes
it harder for me. As I have a solution, I'm less tempted to make a patch

Greetings,
Bruno.
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Merv Curley | 4 Feb 04:02

Re: CD Music Collection

On February 3, 2009 5:30:17 pm you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:40:38PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> > Anyone -   What other options might be available when an album
> > one has, isn't listed in the sources available.  Probably the
> > freedb DB is the most complete but I do have a a number of Euro
> > albums sold on this side of the pond but not listed.
>
> Personaly, to enter my CDs in tellico I put the CD in the tray and
> then import it via File / Import / Import Cd Audio data (or
> whatever it is in english 
>
> If the CD is not in the CDDB database, then I get a warning from
> tellico.
>
Hi Bruno

Thanks for the comment.  Yes I have done that in the past and still do 
import CD track data from KSCD to my local cddb database and tellico.      

I find that I never have to update the freedb database anymore whereas 
the first few years of its existence I did and sometimes edited some 
entries slightly.  My CD collection is a fraction the size of yours 
however and not growing much.

What prompted this was some gift CD's I have received in the past.  
They are often 'no name' label, but when KSCD reads the disk it comes 
up with an artist and Album name.  I know there are ways of finding 
out about the original recordings, I was just thinking of the first 
and easiest way for me.
Searching the IMDB and Amazon DB's for movies turns up a lot of 
information which can be used in Tellico.  I womdered about freedb 
being small but having a Comment section which sometimes has misc 
info in it. 

I am not too sure I would want to have tellico  tied into the freedb 
structure.  I am not happy with their classification system at all 
and what I use in tellico is my preference but probably not yours. 
Tellico can store so much data that isn't of interest to freedb that 
I think Robbie has better things to do with his time. I am sure there 
are many other reasons not to get cosy with freedb. There are 
databases I have used in the past such as Music Brainz, Discogs, etc 
which I have used and will continue to.

The more time I spend thinking about this can of worms,  the more I 
think the topic is in the wrong forum.  Sorry all

Cheerio

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Robby Stephenson | 4 Feb 15:42

Re: CD Music Collection

On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Merv Curley wrote:
> Right now the Source Options are Amazon and Yahoo.  Maybe we can't
> search the freedb database?

Oh right, sorry I misunderstood. As far as I know, there is no API for a 
text search for freedb I noticed they have a text search on their website, 
but that would need a script for screen-scraping..

> Anyone -   What other options might be available when an album one
> has, isn't listed in the sources available.  Probably the freedb DB
> is the most complete but I do have a a number of Euro albums sold on
> this side of the pond but not listed.

There's the Discogs one, but I don't know how well that covers Europe. I had 
in mind starting a musicbrainz source, but just haven't done it yet.

Robby

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