One way of keeping puddletag running as ubuntu and other distros move on (eg to ubuntu 20.04) is to create an appimage. miniworm has done so (see issue 462). It seems like a good idea to keep such discussions in one thread, so I have started this new issue to cover this activity.

I can't get miniworm's appimage to run, but he suggested using dep2appimage as a tool to create one, and so I have tried to do this. See https://github.com/simoniz0r/deb2appimage for the method and basic tool.

As I understand it, I need to recursively find all the dependencies of every single library that puddletag uses and include them. I have tried to do this based on ubuntu bionic. So far I have failed to get a running image - it crashes every time with a segmentation fault. I'm wondering whether I have got a fundamental misunderstanding of how to go about this, or if there is some 'obvious' and 'standard' library I am missing. How can I find out? I can post the json configuration file here if that would help.

See entry https://github.com/keithgg/puddletag/issues/464#issuecomment-624616173 for a solution,

There's an updated appimage in https://github.com/keithgg/puddletag/issues/464#issuecomment-626898569

Would love to be able to have the UI in my language. Is is currently possible 
to translate the UI? If so, please advise. I can provide an Norwegian Nynorsk 
translation.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Oct 2010 at 2:10

Hi, I am using Opensuse 11.3, KDE 4.4.
I tried this program, I found 2 crashes:

chipu@linux-nzdu:/data/chipu/programs/source/puddletag-0.9.6$ ./puddletag
puddletag Version: 0.9.6
puddletag(16374)/: Trying to open ksycoca from  
"/var/tmp/kdecache-chipu/ksycoca4"
QObject::installEventFilter(): Cannot filter events for objects in a different 
thread.
Segmentation fault

This when deleting a comment in a ogg file (using the inline editor)

About the other, I attach the trace

chipu@linux-nzdu:/data/chipu/programs/source/puddletag-0.9.6$ ./puddletag
puddletag Version: 0.9.6
puddletag(16388)/: Trying to open ksycoca from  
"/var/tmp/kdecache-chipu/ksycoca4"
*** glibc detected *** python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x00000000020f1360 
***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x73226)[0x7fb5ec926226]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x73690)[0x7fb5ec926690]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x74bc4)[0x7fb5ec927bc4]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x79)[0x7fb5ec92aaa9]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(+0x3a894c)[0x7fb5ea31d94c]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZNK14QX11PixmapData11paintEngineEv+0x198)[0x7fb5ea2151
c8]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN8QPainter5beginEP12QPaintDevice+0x13e)[0x7fb5ea27a65
e]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN8QPainterC2EP12QPaintDevice+0x128)[0x7fb5ea27b078]
/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so(+0x429dd)[0x7fb5dea3d9dd]
/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so(+0x428e6)[0x7fb5dea3d8e6]
/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so(+0x3eb5e)[0x7fb5dea39b5e]
/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so(+0x3e380)[0x7fb5dea39380]
/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so(+0x3e652)[0x7fb5dea39652]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QMetaObject8activateEP7QObjectPKS_iPPv+0x25f)[0x7
fb5e9c71a1f]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN9QLineEdit11textChangedERK7QString+0x22)[0x7fb5ea528
0c2]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN9QLineEdit11qt_metacallEN11QMetaObject4CallEiPPv+0x2
4c)[0x7fb5ea52855c]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QMetaObject8activateEP7QObjectPKS_iPPv+0x25f)[0x7
fb5e9c71a1f]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QLineControl11textChangedERK7QString+0x25)[0x7fb5e
a78dea5]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QLineControl12finishChangeEibb+0x20b)[0x7fb5ea52ce
6b]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QLineControl15internalSetTextERK7QStringib+0x191)[
0x7fb5ea52d0d1]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(+0x57cb2b)[0x7fb5ea4f1b2b]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN9QComboBox11qt_metacallEN11QMetaObject4CallEiPPv+0x2
c8)[0x7fb5ea4f44a8]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so(+0x4b68d0)[0x7fb5eb09b8d0]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QMetaObject8activateEP7QObjectPKS_iPPv+0x25f)[0x7
fb5e9c71a1f]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN18QAbstractItemModel11rowsRemovedERK11QModelIndexii
+0x44)[0x7fb5e9cb7464]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN18QAbstractItemModel13endRemoveRowsEv+0xaa)[0x7fb5e
9c58b4a]
/usr/lib64/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN18QStandardItemModel10removeRowsEiiRK11QModelIndex+0
x98)[0x7fb5ea6b9428]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so(+0x4b5024)[0x7fb5eb09a024]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x144c)[0x7fb5ed56465c]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x151)[0x7fb5ed569251]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0xe2d)[0x7fb5ed56403d]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x151)[0x7fb5ed569251]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(+0xa8db2)[0x7fb5ed536db2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x52)[0x7fb5ed52acb2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(+0x9f03f)[0x7fb5ed52d03f]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x52)[0x7fb5ed52acb2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords+0x36)[0x7fb5ed562d2
6]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/sip.so(sip_api_invoke_slot+0x120)[0x7fb5e6172
6f0]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x195d7b)[0x7fb5e5ea3d7b]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x195e92)[0x7fb5e5ea3e92]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QMetaObject8activateEP7QObjectPKS_iPPv+0x25f)[0x7
fb5e9c71a1f]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x19bf12)[0x7fb5e5ea9f12]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x19a565)[0x7fb5e5ea8565]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x180dd9)[0x7fb5e5e8edd9]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x144c)[0x7fb5ed56465c]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x331)[0x7fb5ed569431]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(+0xa8db2)[0x7fb5ed536db2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x52)[0x7fb5ed52acb2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(+0x9f03f)[0x7fb5ed52d03f]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyObject_Call+0x52)[0x7fb5ed52acb2]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords+0x36)[0x7fb5ed562d2
6]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/sip.so(sip_api_invoke_slot+0x120)[0x7fb5e6172
6f0]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x195d7b)[0x7fb5e5ea3d7b]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x195e92)[0x7fb5e5ea3e92]
/usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QMetaObject8activateEP7QObjectPKS_iPPv+0x25f)[0x7
fb5e9c71a1f]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x19bf12)[0x7fb5e5ea9f12]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x19a565)[0x7fb5e5ea8565]
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so(+0x180dd9)[0x7fb5e5e8edd9]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x144c)[0x7fb5ed56465c]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x35fb)[0x7fb5ed56680b]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x331)[0x7fb5ed569431]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0xe2d)[0x7fb5ed56403d]
/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x151)[0x7fb5ed569251]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 525762                             
/usr/bin/python2.6
00600000-00601000 r--p 00000000 08:01 525762                             
/usr/bin/python2.6
00601000-00602000 rw-p 00001000 08:01 525762                             
/usr/bin/python2.6
00602000-024a0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
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/var/cache/libx11/compose/l4_030_313cb605_00280cc0
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/var/tmp/kdecache-chipu/ksycoca4
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/usr/lib64/qt4/plugins/imageformats/libqtiff.so
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/usr/lib64/qt4/plugins/imageformats/libqtiff.soAborted

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 18 Oct 2010 at 1:15

Attachments:

• trace.txt

I am working on publishing puddletag on flathub. The pull request is made and the flatpak manifest and application definitions have passed all checks. The app build and runs, tags are saved and everything. The flathub maintainers though found an issue with how QFileDialog is used across the project. To allow QFileDialog to use portals and enable the flatpak to communicate with the file system, it needs the DontUseNativeDialog = true option everywhere it's used.

Is this something you would like to enable? It would be great to have puddletag as a flatpak and I am willing to make it happen. If you agree with the DontUseNativeDialog I can try to create the pull request myself.

Ubuntu in it's new 20.04 LTS release (will be ready in few days) removed not only pyqt4 (in fact whole qt4) but also python2. So as a result Puddletag was dropped from repositories for 20.04 and onwards.

I really like Puddletag, even after trying Mp3tag, it's so flexible and Linux-native. Do yo have plans to move to Qt5/6 and Python3? I see branches for Python3 and for Qt5 but not for both, which seems to be the only way to have it running in Ubuntu, most popular desktop Linux with many derivatives (Mint, Elementary ...). When we count together Debian (with Qt4 removal), Ubuntu + their derivatives it seems like most of distributions are affected. Or maybe snap/flatpak/AppImage with current version is an option?

Hi there. It's been a while.

The project has been in stasis now for a bit and I've lacked not just the time, but the motivation to do anything with it. Ever since streaming became useful enough, I haven't needed puddletag much on the daily and what it does is more than enough for my uses.

So the plan for puddletag is that I'll be sunsetting it unless more able bodies volunteer. Marko Hauptvogel has been kind enough to contribute change for PyQt5 [git checkout pyqt5]. Unless someone else jumps in, I'll do the Python3 migration somewhere in January 2018 [holding thumbs], after which I'll halt development and only do bugfixes where needed [promise to look at the current open tickets as well].

Suggestions and feedback are welcome.

I installed xubuntu 16.04 recently. puddletag won't install because python-support is no longer available.

It seems they are moving to only support python 3 and I believe puddletag needs 2.7.

I managed to get around it (by temporarily adding a debian 8 jessy ppa) so I'm OK for now.

However, if the writing truly is on the all for older python, is there any chance of puddletag moving to python 3?

Hello, the python bindings fro Qt4 are being removed from Debian; afaik puddletag only works with pyqt4, so that means puddletag will stop working soon in Debian (other than the fact it's still py2, but we have more time for that :) )

is there any work to port it to pyside or pyqt5?

thanks!

Appimage helps packing apps which can run on all major Linux distributions. It's based on concept of one app = one file

If puddletag can be packed along with all its dependencies inside an appimage, users can simply download give permission & run the file. Appimage also supports Delta updates.

Popular apps like subsurface, scribus, krita also adopted this method to distribute their apps. It's easy to pack apps using AppImage. No extra knowledge required.

Project repo: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImagekit

The developer @probonopd is happy to help you packing your app :)

Following error occurs when trying to edit a tag of a file which is located on 
a remote filesystem over SMB or NFS:

QString::arg: Argument missing: An error occurred while writing to <b>%s</b>: 
(%s), /home/william/Filesrv/Musik/Alben FLAC/Michael Cassette/Temporarity/01. 
Michael Cassette - My Name Is Michael Cassette.flac
QString::arg: Argument missing: An error occurred while writing to <b>%s</b>: 
(%s), operation not permitted

It works if the file is on the local filesystem and I guess it has to do with 
permissions. The file on the remote fs has it's owner and group set to 
"data:data" with permissions -rw-rw-r--. My user on the local machine is 
"william" and is a member of the "data" group remote as well as local.

I'm actually not sure if I setup my permissions on the remote host correctly. 
On a side note this is a shared folder and so the "data" group should have 
groupowner I guess. 
Also I haven't had any problems with similar applications.

I've installed the puddletag_0.9.10-1_all.deb package on Ubuntu 10.10.
The SAMBA/NFS server is running Ubuntu Server 10.10.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Dec 2010 at 4:05

When trying to add .m4a files (Apple iTunes) encoded in AAC the program doesn't add them (does nothing). This is the same whether dragging and dropping the files, or choosing a directory.

Editing MP3s works without a problem.

Here's the terminal output when I add a .m4a:

puddletag Version: 1.2.0
Fontconfig warning: "/home/najjara/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 36: Expression doesn't take any effects for delete and delete_all
Locale: en_US
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
An error occured.
/home/najjara/something.m4a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/puddleobjects.py", line 675, in gettag
    return audioinfo.Tag(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/tagmodel.py", line 298, in ReplacementTag
    return extensions[ext][1](filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/tagmodel.py", line 151, in __init__
    super(ModelTag, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/audioinfo/mp4.py", line 190, in __init__
    util.MockTag.__init__(self, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/audioinfo/util.py", line 663, in __init__
    self.link(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/puddlestuff/audioinfo/mp4.py", line 366, in link
    isinstance(v, unicode) else v for v in audio[key]]
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found

Here's the relevant metadata from that file:

$ mediainfo '/home/najjara/something.m4a' 

General
Complete name                            : /home/najjara/something.m4a
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID                                 : M4A  (M4A /mp42/isom)
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 285 kb/s
Flavour                                  : 2:256

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 256 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 395 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate                               : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy

Installed from Arch packages

puddletag 1.2.0
PyQt 4.12.1
Mutagen 1.38
Pyparsing 2.2.0
Qt 4.8.7

What's missing?

As far as I know, currently puddletag does not support editing id3v2 chapter frames.

This document describes a method for signalling chapters and a table of contents within an audio file using two new ID3v2 frames. The frames allow listeners to navigate to specific locations in an audio file and can provide descriptive information, URLs and images related to each chapter. https://id3.org/id3v2-chapters-1.0

Your solution

Create UI for editing chapters, mutagen seems to have support for these frames.

mutagen docs has an example on how to add chapter info

As far as for UI, I am not sure what info a chapter can contain (atleast text and timestamps), but it should be some sort of list.

Any alternatives?

This is in the id3v2 spec and already supported by good number of players. (for examle mpv shows them currently and vlc should in the 4.0 version)

Anything else?

Some other formats support chapters too (like m4a & ogg) and AFAIK there is no support in puddletag for those either? In that case the UI probably should be designed to be used with those too.

What's missing?

I want to suggest pipx as another alternative installation method to add to the documentation/README.md and probably the new default installation method.

Your solution

It could be as simple as:

pipx install puddletag

# To run puddletag, it should be on you PATH now:
puddletag

And that works well. When you know your way around Linux/FOSS and Python. More complete instructions would look like this:

# Linux installation of pipx taken from https://pypa.github.io/pipx/installation/
python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath

# Install Puddletag
pipx install puddletag

# Improve desktop integration with shortcut and icon
mkdir -pv "$HOME/.local/share/"{applications,icons}
ln -sv "$HOME/.local/pipx/venvs/puddletag/share/applications/puddletag.desktop" \
  "$HOME/.local/share/applications/"
ln -sv "$HOME/.local/pipx/venvs/puddletag/share/pixmaps/puddletag.png" \
  "$HOME/.local/share/icons/"

# You can run in from the command line, but it should have a functional icon
# like any other app in your app drawer now.

Upgrading to a newer version is as easy as:

pipx upgrade puddletag

Or if you want to upgrade all the other tools you installed with pipx to do pipx upgrade-all. When you switch to a newer Python version (e.g. distribution release upgrade), do pipx reinstall-all.

Any alternatives?

Well there was Flatpak support which had been discussed and declined: https://github.com/puddletag/puddletag/issues/735

Someone is publishing a snap, not sure if that is official, but as an Ubuntu user who also uses other Linux systems like Steam Deck, the best outcome for Snapd seems to be that it will be successful on Ubuntu while every other Linux distribution seems to avoid it in favor of Flatpak or other mechanisms (static binaries, AppImage, or pipx).

Anything else?

It's apparently meant to be for CLI utilities (also supports generating Shell Completion for tools) but it works surprisingly well with Puddletag so far (I loaded up a few files and added a comment to the comment field of an album, but Puddletag worked well in a venv before and this is no different, just easier). I heard about it in talkpython.fm some time ago, but it took until today for me to look into it, because my experience with Python and Pip had been messy in the past and I'd thought it would be a nice to have that is still super complicated to implement and convince maintainers to do so. But was very simple as you can seem.

I wish you all the best for your holidays.

Current Behavior

When reading MP4/M4A/AAC audio files puddletag does not show the mood tag of the files. It does write them though if they are added. I was able to confirm that the tags get written using my own little mutagen Python script. MP3 files do not seem to be affected.

Expected Behavior

It should show the mood tags that were written to the file when loading it.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open a MP4 audio file
2. Add a mood tag to the file
3. Save
4. Reload puddletag and load the file again
5. Check if the mood tag is shown

Information about your system

Puddletag: 2.2.0 OS: Fedora Linux 37 (Thirty Seven) Python: 3.11.0 PyQt: 5.15.6 Qt: 5.15.7 Mutagen: 1.45.1 PyParsing: 3.0.9 ConfigObj: 5.0.6 lxml: 4.9.1 pyacoustid: 1.2.2 audioread: 3.0.0 Levenshtein: unknown version Chromaprint: unknown version

Anything else?

If needed I could help with a reproducer script that verifies the tags were written correctly.

Current Behavior

When I start Puddletag, the maximize button is (most of the time) there and I can maximize the window. If I then un-maximize the window, it's suddenly gone and I can only resize it manually.

Expected Behavior

The window should have a maximize button all the time and can be maximized and un-maximized.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open Puddletag
2. Maximize and un-maximize it
3. Button is gone

Information about your system

Puddletag: 2.2.0 OS: Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon Python: 3.10.6 PyQt: 5.15.6

Anything else?

If I delete the ~/.config/puddletag directory, it works again

Current Behavior

When I use Tag Sources to retrieve track titles from MusicBrainz, the titles are coming from the MusicBrainz 'work' instead of the tracks on the specified release. These aren't always the same.

Expected Behavior

It should retrieve the track titles from the specific release I choose.

Steps To Reproduce

With Tag Sources configured to connect with MusicBrainz:

1. Select all tracks in the Puddletag track list
2. In Tag Sources window, make sure 'title' is being retrieved, either by leaving 'Fields' empty or including 'title'
3. enter :b [release mbid] in the search field and click Search
4. Select the release in search results

Information about your system

Puddletag: 2.0.1 OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Python: 3.8.10 PyQt: 5.14.1

Anything else?

No response

What's missing?

Currently there's no way to get metadata from VGMDB, which is a pain if you're trying to tag game and anime soundtracks. I already tried using the mp3tag source for VGMDB, but it doesn't work in Puddletag.

Your solution

Add a source for VGMDB so that it can be accessed by default from within Puddletag.

Any alternatives?

As stated before, I attempted the mp3tag source, but it's not functional in Puddletag.

Anything else?

No response