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
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:
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".
