Table of Contents
=================
1. Introduction
2. Dependencies
3. Building
4. Bugs
5. Translations
6. Covers
7. Advanced Config Items
8. CUE Files
9. Streams
10. MultiMedia Keys
11. Dynamic Helper Script - Local Mode
12. Dynamic Helper Script - Server Mode
13. Source Code
14. Debug Logging
15. Credits
16. Windows
17. Mac OSX
1. Introduction
===============
Cantata is a graphical client for MPD. It contains the following features:
1. Support for Qt4, Qt5, KDE, MacOSX, and Windows.
2. Multiple MPD collections.
3. Highly customisable layout.
4. Songs grouped by album in play queue.
5. Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track.
6. Simple tag editor.
7. File organizer - use tags to organize files and folders.
8. Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries
installed)
9. Dynamic playlists.
10. Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts.
11. Radio stream support - with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn,
ShoutCast, or Dirble.
12. USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support. (Linux only, and if relevant
libraries installed)
13. Audio CD ripping and playback. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries
installed)
14. Playback of non-MPD songs - via simple in-built HTTP server if connected
to MPD via a standard socket, otherwise filepath is sent to MPD.
15. MPRISv2 DBUS interface.
16. Support for KDE global shortcuts (KDE builds), GNOME media keys
(Linux only), and standard media keys (via Qxt)
17. Ubuntu/ambiance theme integration - including dragging of window via
toolbar.
18. Basic support for touch-style interface (views are made 'flickable')
19. Scrobbling.
20. Ratings support.
Cantata started off as a fork of QtMPC, mainly to provide better KDE
integration - by using KDE libraries/classes wherever possible. However, the
code (and user interface) is now *very* different to that of QtMPC, and both
KDE and Qt (Linux) builds have the same feature set. Also, as of 1.4.0, by
default Cantata is built as a Qt-only application (with no KDE dependencies)
Unlike most other MPD clients, Cantata caches a copy of the MPD music library.
This is so that it can create a proper hierarchy of artists and albums (where
Cantata will use the AlbumArtist tag if found, otherwise it will fallback to
the Artist tag), to provide album counts, tracks counts, etc in the browser
views and tooltips, and also to help with copying songs to/from devices.
This cache is updated only when MPD indicates that its version of the collection
is different to Cantata's.
2. Dependencies
===============
Cantata requires the following Qt libraries:
1. QtCore
2. QtGui
3. QtNetwork
4. QtXml
5. QtSql
6. QtDBus (Only for Linux builds)
7. QtWidgets (Qt5 builds - where widgets are now separated from QtGui)
Cantata may also use the following optional libraries:
1. KDElibs4
2. TagLib - Tag edit dialog, replaygain, track organizer, and UMS device
support.
3. LibMTP - MTP devices.
4. FFMPEG (libavcodec) - ReplayGain detection code.
5. SpeexDSP - ReplayGain detection code.
6. MPG123 - ReplayGain detection code.
7. CDParanoia - Read/rip Audio CDs.
8. CDDB - either this or MusicBrainz5 required for Audio CDs
9. MusicBrainz5 - either this or CDDB required for Audio CDs
10. LibQJson - only for Qt4, and KDE4, builds. If this is not found on the
system then Cantata will use its own bundled copy.
11. LibEbur128 - ReplayGain detection code. If this is not found on the
system then Cantata will use its own bundled copy.
3. Building
===========
Please refer to the INSTALL file for general build instructions. Details on how
Cantata is build for Windows can be found in section 16, and Mac OSX in section
17.
Some Qt4 builds still use com.trolltech.QtDBus.QtTypeName, whereas newer ones
use org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName. If you get build failures such as "fatal
error: playeradaptor.h: No such file or directory" then set
-DUSE_OLD_DBUS_TYPEDEF=ON when calling CMake.
4. Bugs
=======
Before reporting bugs, please check that this is not an MPD related issue with
your system - e.g. please try recreating the issue with another MPD client,
such as MPDroid, GMPC, etc.
To report bugs please visit https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata
When reporting a bug, please mention the Cantata version number, the Cantata
build type (Linux/KDE, Linux/Qt, Windows), any cmake options you specified
(other than the defaults listed at the top of the INSTALL file), and the
version of MPD you are using.
5. Translations
===============
Because Cantata started out as a KDE4 application, the translation files are
based upon KDE's i18n framework - these are located within the 'po' folder.
Translations for Qt-only builds are created from the KDE translations using
'lconvert'. To work-around issues with plural translations, Qt builds will
contain extra strings to handle plural forms.
e.g.
KDE will have:
msgid "1 Track"
msgid_plural "%1 Tracks"
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""
Qt will have:
msgid "1 Track"
msgstr ""
msgid "%1 Tracks"
msgstr ""
In the code, cantata will use "%1 Tracks" for any count other than 1. If the
language you are translating into has more plural forms (i.e. the above two
strings are not sufficient), then please translate both into the form
"Tracks: N" - e.g.
Qt would now have:
msgid "1 Track"
msgstr "Tracks: 1"
msgid "%1 Tracks"
msgstr "Tracks: %1"
Creating a new translation
--------------------------
To generate a new translation for Cantata, please just copy cantata.pot (in the
po folder) to whatever letter code your language uses (e.g. es.po for Spanish).
Then edit this new file to add the translations.
Please DO NOT use any tools to manually generate the translations from
Cantata's source code, as this will probably not work. This is due to Cantata
using the KDE framework for translations, and then generating the Qt-only ones
from this.
In the po folder there is a script named generate.sh, this is used to extract
translatable strings and update current translations.
6. Covers
=========
When displaying covers, Cantata will load album covers in the following order:
...if configured to 'Cache scaled covers', Cantata will check its scaled-covers
cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers-scaled/SIZE) for:
1. ${albumArtist}/${album}.png
...if MPD folder exists, is not specified as a http URL, and is readable, then
cantata will look for the following within the folder containing the song:
2. ${configuredName}.jpg - if set
3. ${configuredName}.png - if set
4. cover.jpg
5. cover.png
6. AlbumArt.jpg
7. AlbumArt.png
8. folder.jpg
9. folder.png
10. ${albumArtist} - ${album}.jpg
11. ${albumArtist} - ${album}.png
12. ${album}.jpg
13. ${album}.png
14. Image embedded within current song's tags.
15. ANY other jpg, or png
...then Cantata will check its cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers), for :
16. ${albumArtist}/${album}.jpg
17. ${albumArtist}/${album}.png
...if the MPD folder was specified as a http URL
18. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/cover.jpg
- or ${url}/${dirFromFile}/${configuredName}.jpg (if set)
19. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/cover.png
- or ${url}/${dirFromFile}/${configuredName}.png (if set)
...lastly, if user has enabled downloading via last.fm
20. Query last.fm using ${albumArtist} and ${album}. Cantata will attempt to
download the image specified with the "extralarge" size.
Downloaded images will be saved as ${configuredName}.jpg/png (if set), or
cover.jpg/png, within the song folder if possible. If not, then they will be
saved in Cantata's cache folder.
If configured to 'Cache scaled covers', then the resized cover (as displayed)
will be saved as a PNG within covers-scaled.
For artist images:
...if configured to 'Cache scaled covers', Cantata will check its scaled-covers
cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers-scaled/SIZE) for:
1. ${albumArtist}.png
...if MPD folder exists, is not specified as a http URL, and is readable, then
cantata will look for the following within the folder containing the song:
2. ${basicArtist}.jpg
3. ${basicArtist}.png
4. artist.jpg
5. artist.png
...the above will be repeated for the parent folder
...if song is from a Various Artists album, or file is a non-MPD file, then
cantata will look for the following within the MPD root folder:
6. ${basicArtist}/${basicArtist}.jpg
7. ${basicArtist}/${basicArtist}.png
8. ${basicArtist}/artist.jpg
9. ${basicArtist}/artist.png
...then Cantata will check its cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers), for :
10. ${albumArtist}.jpg
11. ${albumArtist}.png
...if the MPD folder was specified as a http URL
12. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/artist.jpg
13. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/artist.png
...the above will be repeated for the parent folder
...lastly, if user has enabled downloading via last.fm
14. Query last.fm using ${albumArtist}. Cantata will attempt to download the
image specified with the "extralarge" size.
Downloaded images will be saved as artist.jpg/png, within the artist folder
if the folder hierarchy is 2 levels (artist/album/) and the user has write
permissions. If not, then they will be saved in Cantata's cache folder.
If configured to 'Cache scaled covers', then the resized cover (as displayed)
will be saved as a PNG within covers-scaled.
For composer images:
...if configured to 'Cache scaled covers', Cantata will check its scaled-covers
cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers-scaled/SIZE) for:
1. ${composer}.png
...if MPD folder exists, is not specified as a http URL, and is readable, then
cantata will look for the following within the folder containing the song:
2. composer.jpg
3. composer.png
...the above will be repeated for the parent folder
...then Cantata will check its cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/covers), for :
4. ${composer}.jpg
5. ${composer}.png
...if the MPD folder was specified as a http URL
6. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/composer.jpg
7. ${url}/${dirFromFile}/composer.png
...the above will be repeated for the parent folder
Downloaded images will be saved as composer.jpg/png, within the artist folder
if the folder hierarchy is 2 levels (artist/album/) and the user has write
permissions. If not, then they will be saved in Cantata's cache folder.
If configured to 'Cache scaled covers', then the resized cover (as displayed)
will be saved as a PNG within covers-scaled.
For context view backdrops:
...if MPD folder exists, is not specified as a http URL, and is readable, OR
the song's filename starts with '/', then cantata will look for the
following within the folder containing the song:
1. ${currentArtist}-backdrop.jpg
2. ${currentArtist}-backdrop.png
3. backdrop.jpg
4. backdrop.png
...the above will be repeated for the parent folder
...if song is from a Various Artists album, or file is a non-MPD file, then
cantata will look for the following within the MPD root folder:
5. ${currentArtist}/${currentArtist}-backdrop.jpg
6. ${currentArtist}/${currentArtist}-backdrop.png
7. ${currentArtist}/backdrop.jpg
8. ${currentArtist}/backdrop.png
...then Cantata will check its cache folder (~/.cache/cantata/backdrops), for :
9. ${currentArtist}.jpg
...internet services:
10. MusizBrainz is queried for an artist ID. If returned, this artist ID is used
to locate a cover from fanart.tv
11. Download image from discogs
...lastly:
12. If all the above fails, a backdrop is created from all the album covers
featuring the artist.
Downloaded images will be saved as backdrop.jpg, within the artist folder
if the current song is not from a Various Artists album, the file is from MPD,
the folder hierarchy is 2 levels (artist/album/), and the user has write
permissions. If not, then they will be saved in Cantata's cache folder.
7. Advanced Config Items
========================
Cantata contains a few advanced config items, for which there is currently no
graphical way to control the setting. For these, you will need to edit
Cantata's config by hand - whilst Cantata is NOT running!
Under Linux, the Cantata config file will be:
Qt builds: ~/.config/cantata/cantata.conf ( Current User )
/etc/xdg/cantata.conf ( All Users )
KDE builds: ~/.kde/share/config/cantatarc ( Current User )
/etc/kde4/cantatarc ( All Users )
The following config items should be added to the "[General]" section.
maxCoverUpdatePerIteration=<Integer>
Non cached covers, and cached covers in albums view, are not located and
loaded in the UI thread - as this causes lag when scrolling. A separate
background thread is use for this. These covers then need to be sent to the
UI thread to be displayed. This config controls the number of covers that
are sent in one batch. The default is 10. (Values 1..50 are acceptable)
coverCacheSize=<Integer>
Cantata stores scaled versions of covers in a cache in memory, to reduce
memory usage and/or disk access. This setting controls the maximum size
(in megabytes) that Cantata will use for this cache. The default is 10
(Values 1..512 are acceptable)
cueFileCodecs=<Comma separated list of codecs>
List of extra text codecs to try when loading CUE files. UTF-8 and System
default are tried first, and then the entries from this config are tried.
My Qt4.8 has the following codecs available:
GBK, CP936, MS936, windows-936, System, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, latin1, CP819,
IBM819, iso-ir-100, csISOLatin1, ISO-8859-15, latin9, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE,
UTF-32, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16, mulelao-1, roman8, hp-roman8,
csHPRoman8, TIS-620, ISO, WINSAMI2, WS2, Apple, macintosh, MacRoman,
windows-1258, CP1258, windows-1257, CP1257, windows-1256, CP1256,
windows-1255, CP1255, windows-1254, CP1254, windows-1253, CP1253,
windows-1252, CP1252, windows-1251, CP1251, windows-1250, CP1250, IBM866,
CP866, csIBM866, IBM874, CP874, IBM850, CP850, csPC850Multilingual,
ISO-8859-16, iso-ir-226, latin10, ISO-8859-14, iso-ir-199, latin8,
iso-celtic, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-10, iso-ir-157, latin6, ISO-8859-10:1992,
csISOLatin6, ISO-8859-9, iso-ir-148, latin5, csISOLatin5, ISO-8859-8, ISO,
iso-ir-138, hebrew, csISOLatinHebrew, ISO-8859-7, ECMA-118, greek,
iso-ir-126, csISOLatinGreek, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-6-I, ECMA-114, ASMO-708,
arabic, iso-ir-127, csISOLatinArabic, ISO-8859-5, cyrillic, iso-ir-144,
csISOLatinCyrillic, ISO-8859-4, latin4, iso-ir-110, csISOLatin4, ISO-8859-3,
latin3, iso-ir-109, csISOLatin3, ISO-8859-2, latin2, iso-ir-101,
csISOLatin2, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, KOI8-R, csKOI8R, Iscii-Mlm, Iscii-Knd,
Iscii-Tlg, Iscii-Tml, Iscii-Ori, Iscii-Gjr, Iscii-Pnj, Iscii-Bng, Iscii-Dev,
TSCII, GB18030, GB2312, gb2312.1980-0, gbk-0, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP,
Shift_JIS, jisx0201*-0, jisx0208*-0, JIS7, SJIS, MS_Kanji, EUC-KR,
ksc5601.1987-0, cp949, Big5, Big5-HKSCS, big5-0, big5hkscs-0, Big5-ETen,
CP950
networkAccessEnabled=<Bool - true/false>
Configure whether Cantata should be allowed to make networks requests - for
accessing covers, etc. By default this is set to true.
volumeStep=<Integer>
Volume % increments. Used when mouse wheel is activated over volume control.
Default is 5. (Values 1..20 are acceptable)
undoSteps=<Integer>
Control maximum number of playqueue undo/redo steps. Set to 0 to disable
undo/redo.
Default is 10. (Values 0..20 are acceptable)
mpdPoll=<Integer>
Specified in seconds, this controls how often Cantata should poll MPD to
determine its current state whilst playing. Set to 0 to disable polling,
and rely on MPD's IDLE mechanism to determine MPD state changes.
Default is 0 (no polling). (Values 0..60 are acceptable)
mpdListSize=<Integer>
This config controls the maximum number of files sent in 1 chunk of an
"add" command when adding files to the playqueue.
Default is 10000. (Values 100..65535 are acceptable)
alwaysUseHttp=<Boolean>
Set to 'true' to always serve non-MPD files via HTTP server. If set to
'false', then Cantata will only use its internal HTTP server for songs
from media devices, or when connected to MPD via a standard socket (when
MPD version is <0.19 or not connected to 127.0.0.1).
Default is false.
menu=<Integer>
Controls usage of menubar and menu button. If set to 1 then a menubar is
used. If set to 2 then a menu button is used. If set to 3 then both the
menubar and menu button are used - and there will be a menu item to toggle
between menubar and menu button. NOTE: This menu item is not present when
run under Unity or MacOSX - as these always have a menubar - in which case
menu=3 will cause both a menubar and menu button to be present.
stopHttpStreamOnPause=<Boolean>
If Cantata is playing MPD's HTTP output stream, then this controls what
should happen when paused. When MPD's HTTP stream is paused, MPD will
output silence over the stream. If this option is set to true, then
Cantata will disconnect from MPD's HTTP stream. (NOTE: This will mean that
there will be a delay when un-pausing). If set to false, Cantata will
continue to play the 'silence' (NOTE: This will use more bandwidth).
Default is true.
cacheScaledCovers=<Boolean>
Controls whether Cantata should save scaled covers into a disk based cache.
This speed up cover retrieval and drawing on subsequent runs.
Default is true.
seekStep=<Integer>
Configure seek time when Ctrl+Arrow keys is used.
Default is 5. (Values 2..60 are acceptable)
e.g.
[General]
maxCoverUpdatePerIteration=10
coverCacheSize=10
cueFileCodecs=GBK, big5-0
networkAccessEnabled=false
volumeStep=2
undoSteps=20
mpdPoll=true
mpdListSize=5000
menu=3
stopHttpStreamOnPause=true
cacheScaledCovers=true
seekStep=5
8. CUE Files
============
If Cantata is running with MPD>=0.17, then it will attempt to parse the contents
of CUE files. The CUE file will be parsed to ascertain the album and track
details. The track durations for all bar the last should be accurate, and
Cantata will attempt to determine the duration of the last track - but this
might not be 100% accurate.
If the CUE file references an audio file that does not exist in the MPD music
folder, then the CUE file contents will NOT be used.
There is no reliable way for Cantata to ascertain the text encoding that a CUE
file uses - so, for portability, it would be best if your CUE files used UTF-8
encoding. When loading a CUE file, Cantata will attempt to load the file as if
it was UTF-8 encoded, if this fails it will try with the "System" codec. You may
add to this list of encodings to try by using the 'cueFileCodecs' config item
(as detailed in section 7 above). If Cantata fails with all configured
encodings, then it will 'peek' at the 1st 1k bytes, and ask Qt to see if it can
determine the encoding - and fallback to UTF-8 otherwise. (This peeking and
fallback was how Cantata behaved in pre 1.2 versions - and is how Clementine
behaves (where Cantata's CUE file support originates from.))
NOTE: If Cantata cannot access the CUE file (as MPD is running on a remote host,
or you have not configured the music folder correctly, etc.) then Cantata will
add the CUE File to the album's track listing.
9. Streams
==========
As of 1.4.0, Cantata only comes with TuneIn, ShoutCast, IceCast and Dirble
stream providers. To install new providers, you can either use Cantata's
download dialog (to install for Cantata's Google Drive), or install from file.
To import new stream categories into Cantata, these files need to be GZip
compressed tarballs of the following format.
Filename: CATEGORY_NAME.streams (e.g. German Radio.streams)
Contents: Either streams.xml, streams.xml.gz, OR settings.json, AND
Either icon.png OR icon.svg
streams.xml.gz should be GZip compressed.
icon.svg should be a non-compressed SVG file.
Icons for sub-categories (first level only) - these should be named
the same as the category (with / replaced by _) -
e.g. 'Hard_Soft Rock.svg' for 'Hard/Soft Rock')
settings.json is really only intended to be used by Cantata for providers
stored in its Google Drive. This JSON file has the following syntax:
{ "type": "streamType", "url": "Stream listing URL" }
"streamType" can be either di, soma, or listenlive. Cantata contains code to
download from "Stream listing URL" and parse the response based upon
"streamType"
In general, for externally provided stream lists, it is more convenient to just
list all a providers streams within stream.xml.gz. This has the following
format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<streams version="1.0" addCategoryName="true">
<stream name="Station Name" url="http://station.stream.url"/>
</streams>
if "addCategoryName" is set to true, then when Cantata adds a station from this
category to either favourites or the playqueue, it will prepend the Category
name to the station name.
e.g. To create a stream category named "Wicked Radio" that has 2
sub-categeries, and 3 stream URLs you would need:
streams.xml.gz with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<streams version="1.0" addCategoryName="true">
<category name="Rock">
<stream name="Hard Rock" url="http://127.0.0.1/hard.ogg"/>
<stream name="Soft Rock" url="http://127.0.0.1/soft.ogg"/>
</category>
<stream name="Blues" url="http://127.0.0.1/blues.ogg"/>
</streams>
streams.xml.gz & icon.svg need to be placed into a GZip compressed tarball
named "Wicked Radio.streams"
With the above example, Cantata would list the following in the streams view:
> Wicked Radio
> Rock
Hard Rock
Soft Rock
Blues
When "Hard Rock" is added to the playqueue, it will be listed as
"Wicked Radio - Hard Rock"
If Rock.png (or Rock.svg) and/or Blues.png (or Blues.svg) also exist in the
tarball, then they will be copied to the install location and used as icons for
the respective category.
To create .streams file:
1. Place all files in a temp folder
2. cd into temp folder
3. tar cfz NAME.tar.gz *
4. mv NAME.tar.gz NAME.streams
Google Drive
------------
The streams page on Cantata's settings dialog, will allow you to install new
providers from Cantata's Google Drive page. To do this, the dialog first
downloads the list of providers, this is obtained from the following URL:
https://googledrive.com/host/0Bzghs6gQWi60dHBPajNjbjExZzQ
This file is acutally named "list.xml" - for some reason Google Drive's
download links never specify the actual name! The contents of this file will be
something like:
<providers>
<category type="0">
<provider name="1.fm" url="https://googledrive.com/host/0Bzghs6gQWi60RHRSa3dqeUtkNTA"/>
...
If you want to manually download a provider, use the listed URL to download the
.streams file. e.g. for the above:
wget "https://googledrive.com/host/0Bzghs6gQWi60RHRSa3dqeUtkNTA" -O 1.fm.streams
Extract the contents with:
tar zxvf 1.fm.streams
If you wish to distribute a new stream provider via Cantata's Google Drive,
please send me an email with the .streams file. My address is in the AUTHORS
file.
10. MultiMedia Keys
===================
Cantata may be controlled via the media keys on some keyboards. To enable this,
the KDE version can be configured to use KDE's global shortcuts.
Linux Qt4 and Windows builds, as of 1.2, now also support basic media-keys
shortcuts.
Linux Qt4 and Qt5 builds can also use the GNOME settings daemon's MediaKeys
interface. This interface is normally started automatically under GNOME/Unity.
11. Dynamic Helper Script - Local Mode
======================================
When a dynamic playlist is loaded in Cantata, the cantata-dynamic helper script
is executed in the background to do the actual song selection. In this way the
dynamic playlist can still function even when cantata is terminated. It is
possible for this script to be controlled on the command line (although it was
never written with this in mind).
The list of dynamic playlists may be obtained by looking in
~/.local/share/cantata/dynamic
To 'load' a dynamic playlist, all you need to do is symlink the desired one in
~/.local/share/cantata/dynamic to ~/.cache/cantata/dynamic/rules. Then you can
start the helper by calling '/usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic start'
(or first call '/usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic stop' to stop any
current playlist).
To pass connection details, cantata-dynamic reads the same environment variables
as mpc - namely MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT
e.g. the following bash script (not tested!) will stop any current dynamic
playlist, load the 'MyPlaylist' playlist, and start this on the mpd at
'hostname:1234' with password 'pass'
# Stop current dynamic playlist
/usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic stop
# Clear the playqueue (this requires mpc)
MPD_HOST=pass@hostname MPD_PORT=1234 mpc clear
# 'Load' new playlist
if [ -f "$HOME/.cache/cantata/dynamic/rules" ] ; then
rm "$HOME/.cache/cantata/dynamic/rules"
fi
ln -s "$HOME/.local/share/cantata/dynamic/MyPlaylist.rules" "$HOME/.cache/cantata/dynamic/rules"
# Restart dynamic script
MPD_HOST=pass@hostname MPD_PORT=1234 /usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic start
12. Dynamic Helper Script - Server Mode
=======================================
In addition to the above, the helper script may be installed on the system
containing MPD, and run in 'server' mode. This requires MPD>=0.17, as
communications are via MPD's client-to-client messages.
When run in this mode, it is intended that the script be run system-wide and
started when the system (or MPD) is started. e.g. The script should be started
as:
<prefix>/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic server <location of config file>
e.g.: /usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic server /etc/cantata-dynamic.conf
When run as described above, the script will automatically daemonize itself.
To stop the dynamizer:
<prefix>/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic stopserver
e.g.: /usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic stopserver
When MPD informs Cantata that the 'cantata-dynamic-in' channel has been
created, Cantata will automatically switch itself to server mode. The list of
rules is then loaded from the server, and Cantata will change the backdrop of
the dynamic page to indicate that the rules are comming from the server.
Server mode is currently the only way for dynamic playlists to be used under
Windows.
Configuration
-------------
The server mode has a simple ini-style configuration file, that has the
following parameters (shown here with the default values):
pidFile=/var/run/cantata-dynamic/pid
filesDir=/var/lib/mpd/dynamic
activeFile=/var/run/cantata-dynamic/rules
mpdHost=localhost
mpdPort=6600
mpdPassword=
httpPort=0
'pidFile' When started, the script will store its PID within the file
configured here. This is then used to detect if the script is running, etc.
'filesDir' This controls where the dynamic rules are stored. The user the script
is run as should have read/write permissions to this folder.
'activeFile' When a set of rules is made 'active', all cantata does is create a
symbolic link from the rules file to the file specified in 'activeFile'. Again,
the user the script is run as should have read/write permissions to this file.
'mpdHost', 'mpdPort', and 'mpdPassword' are the connection details of the MPD
server.
'httpPort' if this is set to non-zero, then the script will serve up a *very*
simple HTTP control page - allowing playlists to be started and stopped.
Installation
-------------
Within the dynamic/init folder are example configuration and init files. Copy
one of the example init scripts (or create a new one) to
/etc/init.d/cantata.dynamic - and create the appropriate links in /etc/rc?.d
NOTE: These example scripts assume cantata has been installed to /usr, and that
cantata-dynamic is in /usr/share/cantata/scripts. If this is not the case, then
these will need to be edited.
Copy dynamic/init/cantata-dynamic.conf to /etc, and edit as appropriate.
13. Source Code
===============
The Cantata source folder contains the following structure:
3rdparty - Third party libraries
cmake - CMake scripts
context - Context view classes
dbus - DBUS related classes and XML files
devices - Device related classes
dynamic - Dynamic playlists
gui - General GUI classes, e.g. MainWindow, LibraryPage, etc.
http - HTTP server
icons - Icons
models - Most models, apart from dynamic playlist and shortcut models
mpd - MPD related classes; connection, status, song, etc.
network - Generic Network classes (and proxy support for Qt builds)
online - Jamendo, Magantune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts
po - Translations
replaygain - ReplayGain calculation
streams - Internet radio streams
support - Generic classes that /may/ be useful to other projects.
Mainly used for Qt/KDE and Gtk support.
tags - Tag reading, editing, etc.
ubuntu - Convergent Ubuntu version (requires the Ubuntu SDK);
cmake option: -DENABLE_UBUNTU=ON
widgets - Widgets that are probably Cantata specific.
windows - Files specfic to Windows builds..
mac - Files specfic to MacOSX builds.
freecns/ - Repeat and Shuffle icons
cumulus https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/freecns-cumulus
Cantata's SVG icons have been 'cleaned' using:
scour --strip-xml-prolog --indent=none -i in.svg -o out.svg
Symbolc media icons are taken from gnome icon theme, but have been scaled with
rsvg-convert -a -w 128 -f svg in.svg -o out.svg
14. Debug Logging
=================
Cantata contains some debug logging that might help to diagnose certain issues.
To enable this, you must set an environment variable before starting Cantata.
Therefore, its probably better to start Cantata from the commandline.
The following debug values may be used:
MPD communications 1 0x00000001
MPD Parsing 2 0x00000002
Covers 4 0x00000004
Wikipedia context info 8 0x00000008
Last.fm context info 16 0x00000010
Combined context info 32 0x00000020
Context widget 64 0x00000040
Context backdrop 128 0x00000080
Dynamic 256 0x00000100
Stream fetching 512 0x00000200
Http server 1024 0x00000400
Song dialog file checks 2048 0x00000800 (Tag Editor, etc)
Network access 4096 0x00001000
Context lyrics 8192 0x00002000
Threads 16384 0x00004000
External tags 32768 0x00008000
Scrobbling 65536 0x00010000
Devices 131072 0x00020000
SQL 262144 0x00040000
Other 524288 0x00080000 (e.g. MediaKeys)
These values may be combined to enable multiple output. e.g. to enable MPD and
covers logging:
CANTATA_DEBUG=5 cantata
for just covers logging:
CANTATA_DEBUG=4 cantata
As of Cantata 1.2.0, all logging output is saved to a file. On Linux systems
this will be ~/.cache/cantata/cantata.log For Windows this will be
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\mpd\cantata\cache\cantata.log And for OSX it
will be /Users/$USER/Library/Caches/cantata/cantata/cantata.log
When using the external helper to read/write tags, then there might also be
additional logging in cantata-tags.log (in the same location as cantata.log)
To disable logging to file, and log to the terminal instead, use a negative
number. e.g. CANTATA_DEBUG=-4
With windows builds, it is probably easier to set the env var from a DOS
command prompt box. e.g.:
1. Run cmd.exe from start menu.
2. cd c:\Program Files\Cantata
3. set CANTATA_DEBUG=4
4. cantata.exe
NOTE: Debug logging will function regardless of whether you have created a
Debug or Release build.
15. Credits
===========
Cantata contains code/icons from:
Amarok - amarok.kde.org (Transcoding, Cover fetching code in
cover dialog)
Clementine - www.clementine-player.org (Lyrics searches, CUE file
parsing, digitally imported support, and stretched
header view)
Be::MPC - Wikipedia parsing code
Quassel - quassel-irc.org (Qt-only keyboard short-cut config
support)
Solid - solid.kde.org (Device detection for Qt-only builds)
Musique - Copied code for Gtk theme detection
Asunder - CDDB code
libkcddb - MusicBrainz code
libebur128 - https://github.com/jiixyj/libebur128 (Replay gain
calculation)
QJson - JSON parser, taken from https://github.com/flavio/qjson
IcoMoon - http://icomoon.io/#icons (Monochrome sidebar icons)
Qxt - Multi-media key support
QtSolutions - QtIOCompressor, and QtSingleApplication
Trojita - http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=trojita.git (Template for
the Ubuntu CMake configuration)
sudoku-app - https://code.launchpad.net/~sudoku-touch-dev/sudoku-app/trunk
(Ubuntu about page)
ubuntu-ui-extras - https://github.com/iBeliever/ubuntu-ui-extras (Ubuntu
notification code)
QMPDClient - Last.fm scrobbling
address-book-app - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/address-book-app/trunk/files
(PageWithBottomEdge)
16. Windows
===========
Icon created under Linux using the createicon.sh in the windows folder.
The following steps are used to compile Cantata, and create the windows
installer.
This assumes the following folder structure:
z:\cantata\src [ Checkout of Cantata's source code ]
z:\cantata\build
z:\cantata\install [ make install will place target files here ]
z:\dev\Qt
z:\dev\taglib
z:\dev\zlib
z:\dev\ssl [ libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll ]
s
1. Install Qt (5.3 or later), cmake, TagLib and zlib. TagLib and zlib will probably
need compiling.
2. Set (or amend) the following environemnt variables:
QTDIR=z:\dev\Qt\5.3\mingw482_32
PATH=z:\dev\Qt\5.3\mingw482_32\bin;z:\dev\Qt\Tools\mingw482_32\bin;z:\dev\taglib\bin;z:\dev\cmake\bin
3. Load cantata's CMakeLists.txt in QtCreator, and pass the following to cmake:
../src -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_TAGLIB=OFF -DTAGLIB_FOUND=1 -DTAGLIB_INCLUDES=z:/dev/taglib/include -DTAGLIB_LIBRARIES=z:/dev/taglib/lib/libtag.dll.a -DTAGLIB_MP4_FOUND=1 -DTAGLIB_ASF_FOUND=1 -DTAGLIB_CAN_SAVE_ID3VER=1 -DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=z:/dev/zlib/include -DZLIB_LIBRARY=z:/dev/zlib/lib/libz.dll.a -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=z:/cantata/install -DCANTATA_WINDOWS_INSTALLER_DEST=z:/cantata -DCANTATA_SSL_LIBS=z:/dev/ssl/libeay32.dll;z:/dev/ssl/ssleay32.dll
Notes: -DENABLE_TAGLIB=OFF stops cmake from trying to find TagLib, as the
TagLib settings have been manually set,
4. Build via QtCreator
5. Create an 'install' project in QtCreator
- Projects
- Add/Clone Selected
- Expand Build Steps, and select install
6. Build 'install' project via QtCreator
This build is as per Qt-only, but does not have support for dbus, local dynamic
playlists, device support, or replaygain calculation.
Create Installer
----------------
Run Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, and use the cantata.nsi that has been
generated in the install folder. This will place the setup exe into the install
folder as well.
TagLib
------
Windows version of taglib was built from TagLib 1.9.1, using QtCreator with the
following passed to cmake:
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWITH_ASF=1 -DWITH_MP4=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=z:\dev\taglib
17. Mac OSX
===========
Icon created under OSX using the createicon.sh in the mac folder.
The following steps are used to compile Cantata, and create the OS X application
bundle.
These steps assume the following structure:
src/
build/
install/
1. Install Qt5.3.1 (or later) from https://qt-project.org/downloads
2. Install HomeBrew
3. brew install cmake taglib ffmpeg speex
4. Load cantata's CMakeLists.txt in QtCreator, and pass the following to cmake:
../src -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/Users/$USER/Qt/5.3/clang_64/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`pwd`/../install
5. Build via QtCreator
6. Create an 'install' project in QtCreator
- Projects
- Add/Clone Selected
- Expand Build Steps, and select install
7. Build 'install' project via QtCreator
Create Installer
----------------
1. Go into the 'mac' folder within the build folder
2. Run ./create-dmg.sh