Picard Qt

PicardQt is a rewrite/port of PicardTagger to Qt including implementations of ideas such as IntuitivePicardInterface, TaggerScript, etc.

Source Code

The code is still very far from finished, but slowly starting to be usable. If you want to help, you can get it from the Bazaar branch:

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

See the Launchpad page for more info about the branch.

Installation

• Warning: This is still in development, do not try to install and use it unless you know exactly what are you doing!

First, download and install these libraries:

• PyQt4
• Mutagen 1.9
• python-musicbrainz2 0.4.1

Optionally also:

• libofa
• libavformat/libavcodec
• DirectX SDK
• libdiscid for cd lookups.

Then build the C extensions and locales:

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

And now you can start Picard:

python tagger.py

Windows Binaries

If you want to help with testing on Windows, you can download compiled snapshots of the source code at http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/picard-qt/win32/. But please remember that this is not a finished application and it might not work correctly, so use it carefully. If you find a problem, please report it here.

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.

Plugins

Some examples of Picard plugins:

• Last.fm artist images downloader

Documentation

• /Scripting