[Sugar-devel] Etoys mp3 files

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 25.05.2012, at 22:21, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rafael Ortiz <
> rafael at activitycentral.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> While trying to add a journal entry (mp3 file) from etoys-113, i'm
> getting
> >> ."An error has occurred; you should probably just hit abandon. Sorry"
> >>
> >> Is this known?
> >>
> >> Log attached
> >>
> >
> > A clue on what this might be happening and how to solve it, appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> >
> > Well, the relevant lines in the error log seem to be these:
> >
> > DBusError: Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in
> > _message_cb
> >     retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/carquinyol/datastore.py", line
> 355,
> > in get_properties
> >     metadata = self._metadata_store.retrieve(uid)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/carquinyol/metadatastore.py",
> line
> > 41, in retrieve
> >     return metadatareader.retrieve(metadata_path, properties)
> > IOError: Couldn't open metadata directory
> > /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore//m//media/Philips/Buenos Muchachos/Se
> > Pule La Colmena/2-06 Corazonoro.mp3/metadata
> >
> > So apparently Etoys tries to access the metadata for the MP3 but the
> > datastore fails to find it. Etoys does not handle that case, it relies on
> > get_properties() succeeding. Is that wrong?
>
> Being a mp3 do we even have the correct bits installed to be able to
> retrieve that information?



In this case what would be the proper bits ?




> Our default builds don't come with the
> ability to play mp3 files so I'm not sure if we can even read the
> metadata.
>
> Peter
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