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ThierryM · 2017-07-20 08:31:52

Hi,
Thanks for your work and sharing with GCstar program.
I'm testing your program in Ubuntu 16.04 because I want to make an inventory of my music CD.
In MusicBrainz, there is a field "barcode" (UPC/EAN number) in advanced research to find the release wanted.
So, is it possible to improve the MusicBrainz search plugin in order to get the album informations from the barcode ?
I tried to see the file /usr/share/gcstar/lib/GCPlugins/GCmusics/GCMusicBrainz.pm in order to add this feature but my programming skill is very limited .
In MusicBrainz, here the search address with the barcode "4007193532758" :

Code:

https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=barcode%3A4007193532758&type=release&advanced=1

To obtain the xml informations :

Code:

https://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/?query=barcode:042282834423

Here the xml informations :

Code:

<metadata>
<release-list count="2" offset="0">
    <release id="256922e9-1be4-44de-87f8-13ec9aa23a7b" type="Compilation Official" ext:score="100">
        <title>Now That’s What I Call Quite Good</title>
        <text-representation language="ENG" script="Latn"/>
        <artist id="e7516564-6f1e-4adc-a245-e481d56c2d9b">
            <name>The Housemartins</name>
            <sort-name>Housemartins, The</sort-name>
        </artist>
        <release-event-list>
            <event date="1988" country="CA" catalog-number="422 828 344-2" barcode="042282834423" format="CD">
            <label id="d348ac6f-0fb1-4d28-b95c-814eb9ad17ef">
                <name>Go! Discs</name>
            </label>
            </event>
        </release-event-list>
        <disc-list count="1"/>
        <track-list count="24"/>
    </release>
</release-list>
</metadata>

For those interested, I added the file in this message.
Thanks for your help, regards,

Thierry

Last edited by ThierryM (2017-07-20 15:06:40)

kerenoc · 2017-07-21 14:56:42

Hi Thierry

Thanks for the detailed report of the feature you want. Using the information, I modified the plugin to support the search using EAN (chose the field ISRC/EAN for the query) and to support importation using the scanner.

Since I'm not using this plugin, I did some really minimal testing.

The modifications are available in the Test branch of the GitLab repo I use to track the latest updates on GCstar.

If you extract the lib/gcstar directory from the archive of the Git branch to the right place under /usr/share, you should be able to test the new version.

Hope it helps.

ThierryM · 2017-07-23 14:26:46

Hi Kerenoc,
You are a whizz ;-) ! I 've just tested your improvement and it works exactly as expected : now with my barcode scanner, I can obtain immediatly the right album in MusicBrainz (if the barcode information existes). This new feature makes Gcstar THE perfect tool for me.
Thank you very much for your work and sharing.
Best regards,

Thierry

kerenoc · 2017-07-23 18:03:26

You're welcome but the credit goes to Tian who made GCstar easy to modify through the plugin system.

ThierryM · 2017-08-01 15:12:14

Hi Kerenoc,
I don't think if there is a link but since I installed the new plugin, the pictures of CD covers aren't displayed.
I've renammed the hidden repertory with the pictures, added new picture in the new directory but no cover displayed.
I use GCStar in Ubuntu 16.04 in french.
Regards,

Thierry

Last edited by ThierryM (2017-08-01 15:13:13)

ThierryM · 2017-08-01 16:51:25

Hi, I've found why the pictures aren't displayed : my repertory name had an è (e with an accent). So there's a problem with the localization.
Regards,

Thierry

kerenoc · 2017-08-02 09:13:33

Hello Thierry,

Is your problem similar to this one?

ThierryM · 2017-08-02 09:24:49

Hi Kerenoc,
Yes the problem seems the same. But I can't go ahead because in my .gcs file the paths for the covers are all empty.
Regards,
THierry

kerenoc · 2017-08-03 08:14:59

Hello

So it seems to be an old problem that may not be solved. I checked the lastest version of GCstar from GitLab on an Ubuntu 16.04 with Perl 5.22.1 and couldn't reproduce the problem (ok with directory name with accents, collection name with accents, collection item from MusicBrainz with accents).

Maybe its the way Perl is processing the localisation variables (LC_ALL, LANG, LANGUAGE....)?

ThierryM · 2017-08-06 11:14:12

Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I'm under Ubuntu 16.04 and perl v5.22.1 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi. I think that there is a problem on my laptop with locale (misconfiguration). The accent problem seems only for the directory name (and in the picture files names where all the special characters are remplaced by underscore _).
Regards,

Thierry

kerenoc · 2017-08-07 12:28:24

Reading the code, it appears that introducing underscores in image names was made on purpose (GCUtils file) to avoid portability problems related to accentuated characters. But the same strategy was not used for directory names, hence possible problems introduced by the possible mishandling of language's settings in Perl (currently trying to solve that for Windows!).

Anyhow one can alway choose to avoid non ASCII characters in directory names to avoid these problems and keep using GCstar.

ThierryM · 2017-08-07 15:41:25

Thanks for your response.
So the workaround is to avoid non ASCII characters in directory names.
Regards,

Thierry

GCstar forums - [Music] Add barcode search field for MusicBrainz plugin

#1 2017-07-20 08:31:52

[Music] Add barcode search field for MusicBrainz plugin

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#2 2017-07-21 14:56:42

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#3 2017-07-23 14:26:46

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#4 2017-07-23 18:03:26

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#5 2017-08-01 15:12:14

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#6 2017-08-01 16:51:25

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#7 2017-08-02 09:13:33

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#10 2017-08-06 11:14:12

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