1Q: no colors in xterm and/or on textconsole 2A: check enviromentvariable TERM. Unfortunately ncurses is suboptimal for 3 "unusual" terminalenviroment ;-) MP3c works well for me, if TERM=linux. 4 5Q: some keys (often Meta and F-keys) won't work 6A: I think this isn't only problem of MP3c, but of ncurses and/or terminal. 7 I mapped F-keys to 1-0 and Meta+SHIFT+y to Meta+j. So press "3" instead of 8 F3 if you want to encode. 9 10Q: "ripper", "encoder", "mp3-info" childprocess died unexpected 11A: it seems that your ripper, encoder, or tag-program does not work as 12 expected (this means it aborted with an exitcode != EXIT_SUCCESS). You 13 should check the output of the program and try to fix it (in most cases 14 just the syntax of the parameters is wrong). 15 16Q: CDDB access doesn't work (Update) 17A: you must have a connection to internet to receive CDDB-informations. If 18 you don't have this, you should disable remote-looking-up (do this by input 19 "0" for CDDB-server in configmenu or by pressing "l"). 20 MP3c also looks on your local CDDB-base (if you have this). I think that 21 you can download big packages of entries from freedb.freedb.org. 22 CDDB.com now refuses connects from noregistered clients, so just ignore 23 them and switch to "freedb.freedb.org:8880". See http://freedb.org/ for 24 more infos. 25 I this all does not help (maybe there isn't any entry for your cd), just 26 input data manually ;-) 27 28Q: How does CDDB transmit and or save works? 29A: You can save your cd data into your local cd database by pressing "m" or 30 transmit them to the internet server by pressing "M" (Shift+"m"). 31 Please note that transmitting an entry does not mean that it is saved into 32 your local database (and vice versa), so press "m" and "M" if you want 33 both. 34 35Q: Saving and/or transmitting an CDDB entry failes because datas missing 36 (artist or album title). 37A: To save and/or transmit an entry you have to input at least one albumtitle 38 and one artist of any track. 39 40Q: I input so much data and saved it to my CDDB database, but after reloading 41 many information like genre and albumname are missing. 42A: This is a common problem with the CDDB format. There is only space for one 43 album name, one artist and a songtitle for each track. MP3c can save at 44 least artist and songtitle for each track (on sampler-cd), any more is not 45 possible in this form of CDDB format. 46 [cddb.com introduced a new format, but this is restricted and not useable 47 unter GPL and Open Source, so it will not be used by MP3c] 48 49Q: CDDB.com refuses my transmissions (update) 50A: CDDB.com uses an anti-open-source policy. Please do not use CDDB.com any 51 longer and use freedb.org therefore (freedb.org is now the default server 52 for MP3c). 53 Furthermore CDDB.com refuses search request too now, so you have to use 54 freedb.org 55 Please change your config like this: 56 CDDB-Server: "freedb.freedb.org:8880" 57 CDDB-eMail: "freedb-submit@freedb.org" 58 Find more information about freedb.org under http://freedb.org 59 60Q: What about the little genre list while saving/transmitting CDDB entries? 61A: There are only few genres which can be used with CDDB and some are hard- 62 coded in the program. Nevertheless you should use the "update genre list" 63 feature (requires CDDB remote access) if you want to get all available 64 genres or if you are using save/transmit the first time. 65 66Q: While transmitting an CDDB entry I got the message "relaying failed" 67A: This is due to a configuration problem. In the moment MP3c does only 68 support transmitting via eMail (will change in the next versions), so you 69 have to input a proper mailaddress for your relaying SMTP server. The datas 70 for your personal mailaddress and your SMTP server are just the same you 71 use in your favorit mailprogram (if you set up a local MTA like sendmail, 72 it should be possible to use "localhost:smtp" as server and any of your 73 mailaddresses - with local MTA you also can transmit entries while offline, 74 just flush all mails by typing "sendmail -q" when you are offline, like 75 you always do). 76 77Q: I want to rip several cds, before I encode it, and I have much space on my 78 harddisk. 79A: No problem at all. You have two possibilities for this: 80 a) in interactive mode use F6 to rip a complete cd: the ripped tracks will 81 go to the right side. You can rip as many cds as you like (watch your 82 harddisk space :). To start encoding just change to right side (with 83 tabulator key) and start it by pressing F3. 84 b) just create several shellscripts in batch-mode (see BATCH.README for 85 more details). 86 87Q: CDparanoia does not work as expected 88A1: CDparanoia needs access to your cdrom-device. There are two possibilites to 89 archive this: 1) give cdparanoia suid-root rights, or 2) (better in my 90 opinion) change the rights of the cdrom-device to allow access by the 91 user and/or group. 92A2: Never use CDparanoia with the "-B" option, this would cause a wrong tmp- 93 filename, and the encoding process wouldn't work. 94 95Q: MP3c seems to hang while external programs running (ripper, encoder, 96 mp3info) and does not abort even if F10 is pressed. 97A: Maybe you configured the external programs false, and it is now waiting 98 for any input. Unfortunately MP3c wouldn't get any keystrokes any longer, 99 so it cannot abort if F10 is pressed. Try STRG+C instead or just kill the 100 external program. 101 102Q: I have a problem with external programs, when the ripper/encoder finished 103 his job, MP3c waits for a key. 104Q: MP3c displays non-printable characters in the input box, and behaves 105 strange. 106A: You're using Mandrake? It seems there is a problem in the ncurses- 107 version shipped with Mandrake. Try to get a new version, or ask me for 108 a static linked binary of MP3c. 109 110Q: I have problems with the autoconf/automake stuff on BSD (by Scott Aaron 111 Bamford). 112A: bmake (BSD's make) clean and distclean do not work, seem automake related. 113 Some of autoconf's defines might be wrong, if it's installed by OS's 114 package system somewhere. 115 116Q: The shellscripts MP3c produces do not work at all. 117A: This seems due to a buggy bash-version. Please use Bash 2.00 or newer. 118 The style of batch-scripts will change in later release (maybe 0.28). 119 120Q: MP3c aborts with segmentation fault 121A: Wooh, that should really not happen. I run a lot of tests with strict 122 malloc-check, and it seems that there aren't any memory leaks. But I will 123 try to fix it, if you can reproduce the problem. Maybe you can me send 124 core-file AND executable, or a little analyse with gdb (just start 125 "gdb mp3c core" and type "where"). 126 127Q: Where can I find new versions and further information of MP3c? 128A: Look on my MP3c webpage at http://mp3c.wspse.de/ 129 Furthermore I can keep you informed about new version, if you subscribe 130 to my announcelist (see http://mailman.wspse.de/ for details) 131 132Q: Is there a public CVS repository of MP3c? 133A: Yes (but read-only). Set your CVSROOT enviroment to 134 :pserver:cvs@cvs.wspse.de:/public 135 The password is "anonymous" and the repository "mp3c" 136 137