Re: [Banshee-List] The artist-centric nature of Banshee (particularly the grid view)

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 01/09/13 19:56, Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:54 PM, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Well, having a user test my fix would be good anyway. I'll provide you with
> > the necessary bits so you spend the least time possible.
>
> OK. Go ahead. I'll see what I can do.
>
> > ... file ... in our bug tracker ...
> ...
> > ... could you file bugs about this?
> ...
> > ... please file the bug ...
>
> I'm hesitant.
>
> The thing is, I've filed quite a number of bugs in my time, and it
> almost never helps. Open source developers write code to scratch their
> own itches, and Banshee developers don't seem to be an exception to
> this rule. For example, right-clicking on Audiobooks → "Import Media"
> imports to the main music library, rather than the Audiobooks library.
> If I'm not mistaken, this bug has been known for years. Simple fixes
> have been suggested on the mailing-list, but nothing has been done.
> You yourself filed a bug —with a patch!— in January, and it hasn't
> gotten so much as a response or status-change. In fact, there are 465
> reported Banshee bugs with status NEW. That's bugzilla shorthand for:
> no one has given this any attention.
>
> You see why this might be discouraging?

Of course. But it is because you're looking at the set of reported & 
unfixed bugs.

However, there is the other side of the coin: look at the release notes 
for every banshee version released, there you will see that a lot of 
bugs are fixed, and a lot of those bugs are actually fixed by a 
different person to the reporter of the bug! I don't negate that 
opensource development model leans to "own itches" because "talk is 
cheap", but sometimes the developers also find pleasure in fixing bugs 
that other people found.

One thing I can at least assure you: expecting your bug to be fixed by 
filing it may sound too hopeful, but for sure, if you don't file it, 
it's less likely that it happens. For example, I sometimes feel the need 
of fixing something that is affecting many people, so then I search in 
bugzilla for a bug with a big amount of people in the CC field.


> Secondly, I'm finding even more bugs. I might not soon be finished
> reporting them: (1) When the system volume goes below a certain level,
> Banshee mutes. When it goes back up, Banshee doesn't unmute.

That is already reported in bugzilla, go look for it and add yourself to 
the CC list (I guess it will be fixed soon because there are several 
patches in it, and people are testing them).


> (2) I've
> tried three times now to import an album with artist, album artist,
> cover art, etc. all filled in for every track, but still Banshee won't
> show the cover art.

I bet the bugfix I told you about in the beginning on this thread would 
fix this.


> I'm seriously considering switching to another application. No offense.
>
> > but what is the
> > case about "No artist"? What is the use case? Are you really talking about
> > music with no artist? Or about other kind of audio?
>
> Language audio courses, nature sounds, memos, recorded phone-calls.
> For a while I recorded myself at night to know if I was snoring. Am I
> the artist in those tracks? :-)

Then non-music audio :) So those files shouldn't show up in the "Music 
Library", but in other kind of library so I'm afraid I'm going to tell 
you again to file the bug as a feature request...

Regards