Picard Qt

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PicardQt is a new version of PicardTagger, written using Qt as the GUI toolkit. It also includes implementations of a few new ideas, such as IntuitivePicardInterface or TaggerScript.

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• This version has changes that are incompatible with the previous versions, see /ChangeLog before upgrading. Don't use drag&drop from Windows Explorer on Vista! It will delete your files.

Latest Testing Release - 0.9.0alpha12

• Windows installer (6.1M, MD5: c51a0a0c1960d68f050b70d8c6709daa)
• Source code (381K, MD5: 878b7fa3974138deade56ab6586bd14f)
• Ubuntu package:

• deb http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/users/luks/ubuntu feisty musicbrainz

• SUSE/openSUSE RPMs: see below

Development Source Code

The source code is maintained in a Bazaar branch at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~luks/picard/qt-port/. To download it you need to install Bazaar and run:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~luks/picard/qt-port/ picard-qt

If you already have the branch and want to update it, use:

bzr pull

• Ubuntu Feisty: To get the right bazaar version, install package bzr, not bazaar. To build picard-qt from the source, you need to:
  • sudo apt-get install g++ python-dev libexpat-dev python-qt4 python-mutagen
  For all optional features (I think), add: sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev libofa0-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (This is from my experience, feel free to add anything else you notice. --Bogdanb)

Installation From Source Code

To run Picard you need at least:

• Python
• PyQt (4.1 with Qt 4.2 or newer)
• Mutagen (1.9 or newer)

Optionally also:

• libdiscid (and ctypes if you use Python 2.4) for CD lookups
• libofa
• libavformat/libavcodec

Once you have installed the requirements, you can compile the C extensions:

python setup.py config
<edit build.cfg if neccessary>
python setup.py build_ext -i

And now you can start Picard:

python tagger.py

Mac OS X Installation Notes

A rough installation guide is available here: /MacInstallGuide

The Apple supplied python 2.3 in OSX 10.4.x will not work with picard, and some of the dependencies listed above expect a framework version of python. http://pythonmac.org/packages/ provides a framework python 2.4 which seems to work.

OpenSUSE Installation Notes

For SUSE/OpenSUSE installation, you need to ensure two repositories are added to YAST/Smart/Zypper:

1) GURU's RPM repository. Select the correct repository for your version from the list at Guru's Website (Most SUSE users already have this repository.)

It contains the RPM for Picard-QT.

2) Go to the OpenSUSE Python repository and select the correct repository for your version.

It contains Python-QT4 and other Python RPMs you may need.

Other requirements should already be taken care of by default repositories and GURU's repository.

3) Select picard-qt in YAST/Smart/etc. and install.

4) Run Picard-QT using the command "picard".

See Also

• /ChangeLog
• /Scripting
• /Plugins
• /TagMapping