Are you still interested by Guayadeque

[filochard]

Hi
I know that you deeply collaborate to improve Guayadeque in april 2021

I have been using Guayadeque for years and usually packaged it for Mageia (a rpm based linux distribution)
I could build it without any problem with
wxgtk 3.1.5
and gstreamer1.0-1.18
I use the last commit from 2023/09/08 (and I am very sad that Juan ended his nice work on it)
It works without any problem with our previous Mageia8.

Since Mageia9 we use more recent versions of

• wxgtk3.2.0 for which we used a little patch for AuiNotebook to build Guayadeque
• gstreamer1.0-1.22
  Now Guayadeque works only if we disable fader equalizer and volume control : if they are enabled we get a segfault
  I have used several clones after your commits, built and tested them
  I discovered that the crash happened since your commit from 2021/04/20 and it was OK until your commit from 2021/04/18
  Something in your source code seems to be not compatible with the new gstreamer1.0-1.22
  (Is it the same kind of problem as wxgtk which is not backward compatible with previous versions) ?

You seem to know well gstreamer and you may be the only person to understand what to modify
Would you be interested to look at this and find what to modify ?
proposing a commit to Juan himself or committing in a fork owned by you or providing a patch (a diff)

Here is the end of the xml file created by Guayadeque (built with the clone of 2023/09/08) after the crash

[openmonk]

Please check my latest commit for the fix: https://github.com/openmonk/guayadeque

[filochard]

Thanks a lot for your so quick answer and for caring about this
I'm gonna test it

[filochard]

You are just a genius
I used your last commit as a patch on the last git clone from Juan
Everything is OK now

I wonder if we may continue to use https://github.com/anonbeat/guayadeque as source adding your patch
Or if you allow us to use your fork https://github.com/openmonk/guayadeque as our source from now since Juan ended to develop Guayadeque

Perhaps you may contact Juan as he told anyone wishing to continue to contact him : your certainly the best candidate to follow his track : you have just proved it

[openmonk]

Thanks for a feedback.

I did a cross-version fix and relevant PR: anonbeat/guayadeque#164

Also I will ask Juan on how to deal with Guayadeque further - since I am still an active user I will definitely continue maintaining the player to the degree my time allows me to.

Cheers.

[filochard]

Hi again
I am very happy that Guayadeque works perfectly for me now with a rpm built with your last gitclone

I proposed as an update this rpm to mageia testers
And there appears something weird for them : when launched it crashes immediately !
I can't reproduce this crash on my computer and we use the same rpm !!!
(I even renamed /home/myusername/.guayadeque /home/myusername/.guayadequebak... to be sure to start with a new config )
We have exactly the same versions of known dependencies of Guayadeque

Worst ! they installed the previous rpm built on tag 0.4.7 that got crash problems with fader for me when I read a playlist,
but worked perfectly with fader and equalizer disabled

For them, this version crashes immediately when launched : they can't even disable fader and equalizer nor create a library by importing a path !

Since I have no crash I suppose I have an hidden dependency installed that they don't have but I can't find which one

Nevertheless here are the last lines of the xml created by their crash maybe you'll see what is wrong

I attach the spec file I used : (I changed the .spec to .txt so that it can be attached)
guayadeque.txt

Maybe you will find an explanation

[filochard]

Sorry for the noise !
The problem that some users encountered was caused by their very old 64bits processor
Our build time flags for rpms created the problem
(same as what we had in the past with the rpm on 32bits when besides this guyadeque built directly from source was OK)

[l300lvl]

will either of you continue development of this app or fork it and continue it as something new perhaps? i ask because quite a lot of time went into this and it used to be my favorite, but now im starting to forget about it.

[filochard]

will either of you continue development of this app or fork it and continue it as something new perhaps? i ask because quite a lot of time went into this and it used to be my favorite, but now im starting to forget about it.

Hi Craig
I am not able to continue the development of Guayadeque and that's the reason why I asked Openmonk to modify the code so that it will be compatible with the last version of gstreamer (1.22.3) and wxwidgets (3.2.1-3) since anonbeat has stopped working on this code... which was no more adapted to these versions
Thanks to openmonk (who was a great contributor of this code) guayadeque is still alive and is always my favorite music player (able to use a very huge database, able to download and embed the lyrics inside the music files)
There's actually nothing to do to the code that is quite perfect except perhaps some improvement to the script that look for lyrics (some addresses need to be changed)

Anonbeat had informed that he stopped developing Guayadeque and proposed to anyone wishing to continue this development to contact him
Maybe we might ask to Anonbeat to add a link to the openmonk's fork that can now be built (and can perfectly work) with the last versions of wxwidgets and gstreamer (if openmonk is OK for this)
Unfortunately the openmonk's fork is not well known and some linux distributions will obsolete guayadeque since anonbeat's version doesn't work well...