Last Weeks Activity in Elisa

Elisa is a music player designed to be simple and nice to use.

Elisa project has now an official mailing list hosted by kde (Elisa mailing list). Alexander Stippich is now a regular KDE developer and we felt a list was good to coordinate work on Elisa. I am also very happy, to nine years after I joined KDE, to have the honor to recommend somebody. I still remember how excited I was at that time.

Following blog post from Kevin Funk on binary-factory service (KDE binary factory), Elisa windows installers are regularly built. Thanks a lot to the KDE windows contributors. They do a lot of work to help projects like mine.

Snapshot of Elisa on Windows 10

The following things have been integrated in Elisa git repository:

• Fix the case of albums with same title but different cover images by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Do not duplicate albums when a track is missing album artist metadata by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Hopefully fix compilation for neon distribution by Matthieu Gallien ;
• By default tracks are from disc 1 now: fix some tracks being from disc 0 by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Fix play list save and restore when exiting and launching the application by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Rename default license file to match documentation on community KDE wiki by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Add a reference to a snapshot for Elisa appstream metadata by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Rename Qml import to org.kde.elisa by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Give credit to astippich by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Lower requirement for frameworks except for kdoctools. This is needed to built on binary-factory.kde.org by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Print a warning if KFileMEtaData version is older than 5.39.0 that can crash when used the way Elisa code is using it by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Add a test for MediaPlayList persistence by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Make text vertically aligned to center for NavigationActionBar by Alexander Stippich ;
• Alexander Stippich changed icons in playlist entry such that :
  • Playing indicator and remove button now share the position. indicator becomes invisible when entry is hovered or selected ;
  • Play button is transformed into a play pause button, allowing pause in the playlist entry. this is also a nice way to indicate the playing status when hovered or selected ;
• Add automatic tests for MediaPlayList by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Remove extra rowsInserted signals in MediaPlayList when adding tracks from an artist by Matthieu Gallien ;
• When reselecting e.g. the all albums view with the view selector, the stackview shows a previously opened album. Reset to the initial item when the view selector is used by Alexander Stippich ;
• Add a test for tracks removal via TracksListener and fix some bugs by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Fix XML in copyright text for about dialog by Alexander Potashev ;
• Allow to display all albums from an artist directly from the view of one of its albums by Matthieu Gallien ;
• Do not extract i18n messages from localFileConfiguration/ to elisa.pot by Alexander Potashev.

Last Weeks Activity in Elisa

Elisa is a music player designed to be simple and nice to use.

Alexander Stippich did several fixes in the interface while I focused on bugs related to the music database.

KDE community has been working on flatpak. For that, a runtime including Qt5 and KF5 frameworks has been written. Aleix Pol has written a recipe to build Elisa under flatpak. It is now built regularly from the git repository.

I am very enthusiastic about that since that should allow easy testing of the application thanks to the work of a lot of people on Flatpak and the support inside the KDE community.

Currently some features are not well working and some audio codecs are missing in the current runtime. Use it at your own risk and keep in mind that some parts are known not to work correctly. Please report any bugs or suggestions to the bugs.kde.org tracker.

In order to test, you can (extracted from the KDE community wiki) do the following steps:

• flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists kdeapps –from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo

• flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.elisa

I am afraid I have no snapshots to show today.

The following things have been integrated in Elisa git repository:

• Fix context menu for MediaAllTrackView and MediaAlbumView by Alexander Stippich ;
• Improvements of the single entry in the playlist by Alexander Stippich ;
• Fixes in the play list for different albums with the same title ;
• Fix mouse interaction and dragging while LabelWithTooltip is truncated by Alexander Stippich ;
• Preliminary work to allow to store multiple artists for a track or an album ;
• Report database errors and check for them during tests. I fail to see how to report such an error to an user (being a developer or a non technical user does not make any difference here) ;
• Preliminary work to allow database versioning and evolution ;
• Fix several bugs around the music database ;
• Modify a bit the way tracks are tested for uniqueness ;

I am still planning to do an alpha release soon. This is an important milestone to test that everything needed to make a proper release after review will be possible.

Last Weeks Activity in Elisa

Elisa is a music player designed to be simple and nice to use.

I have missed those regular posts due to real life interrupting me a lot the last two weeks.

The following things have been integrated in Elisa git repository:

• Fix a bug related to error management during play of music (no longer block on an erroneous track, …) ;
• Update of the Elisa docbook documentation by Burkhard Lück ;
• Elisa now requires KDE Frameworks 5.39 to prevent a crash of Elisa ;
• Allow to start play if in pause using the play button in the play list by Alexander Stippich ;
• Increase test coverage of the code used to manage the list of audio tracks, albums and artists. Fix some newly discovered bugs ;
• Colorize the icons in the list of views on right the same way text is colorized:
• Allow keyboard navigation of the playlist ;
• Fix management of albums with the same title but different authors ;
• Implement double click actions for delegates in content views by Alexander Stippich ;

I would like to thank Burkhard Lück and Alexander Stippich for their much appreciated contributions.