Picard Qt

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PicardQt is a development version of PicardTagger, 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 is not a finished application yet and might not work correctly, so please use it carefully. If you find a bug or have an idea for a new feature, please create a ticket.

Windows

Compiled Windows snapshots are available at http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/picard-qt/win32/

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

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
• DirectX SDK

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: MacOSXPicardQtInstallationGuide

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.

If you get stuff like this when installing libofa, you may have to replace ltmain.sh with a newer(?) ltmain.sh from the libtool package:

ld: Undefined symbols:
_create_fftsetupD

See http://forums.predixis.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2134.html for some more details.

For cd lookups you will need python-musicbrainz2 from svn, not the current 0.4.0 release. Also, use something like /dev/rdisk2 as the cdrom device, not /dev/disk2 as you might expect.

• --kuno.

See Also

• /Screenshots
• /Scripting

• Description of the scripting language used in Picard

• /PluginAPI

• Documentation for Picard plugin developers