[Sugar-devel] Etoys mp3 files

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Rafael Ortiz
<rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>> wrote:
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>> > On 25.05.2012, at 22:21, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
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>> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rafael Ortiz <
>> rafael at activitycentral.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Hi
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>> >> 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:
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>> > 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?
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>> Being a mp3 do we even have the correct bits installed to be able to
>> retrieve that information?
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> In this case what would be the proper bits ?
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>> 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.
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Also realized that the same problem is happening on
ogg files, so doesn't seem related to codecs.



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