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CoverPrint

Amarok 1.x Scripts

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Description:

CoverPrint creates CD cover images of the Amarok playlist, ready for printing.

The templates are inkscape files, which can be easily modified to your own taste.

Dependencies:
amaroK 1.4
>= Python 2.3
PyQt3
PyKDE3
>= xsltproc 1.1
>= inkscape 0.45 (older probably ok)

Last changelog:

11 years ago

v1.7

Improved text fitting

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hefee
8 years ago

Hello,

I created an amarok2 version of this plugin:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=157997

Feel free to take my code under:
https://bitbucket.org/hefee/coverprint/overview

You made a very cool plugin, this one is the reason why my mother was not switching to amarok2.

Regards,

Hefee

heatseeker
6 years ago

Cool, thanks for the kind words! Sorry I'm a bit late answering, but I just found out about your post by accident :)

I just tried your amarok2 version of CoverPrint. It works very well! Funny to see the same old (boring) template after all these years :)

draffin
11 years ago

Will it be ported to amarok 2 ?

heatseeker
11 years ago

yes, I'm planning to, as soon as amarok can export the playlist as XML.. Last time I checked it didn't do that.

SputnikRock
11 years ago

Hi!

It looks like
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf
could already be the format you need as it is already XML!

An upgrade would be _very_ helpful! :o)

Many thanks! - And have fun!

heatseeker
11 years ago

yeah now I remember what was the problem.. Amarok 2 doesn't keep that xspf file updated, and at the time I found no means to forcefully save the playlist to xspf just before calling the cover rendering.

If it's possible now, notify me, and I'll see what I can do. Still a happy 1.4 user though, so don't hold your breath :)

SputnikRock
11 years ago

Yes, me too :) - I would love if the script would work with amarok2 as well ... as it happens not to work in the moment anymore here... :(

heatseeker, as far as I understood the ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf file is already the actual playlist. As far as I understood you only have to pass it further...

Thanks for the answer! :) - And all the best to you! Happy coding also ;o)

SputnikRock
11 years ago

Very good!

Your script is more important to me than amarok2 itslef as amarok14 is very good as well...

I will stay on amarok14 on KDE4 as long as there is no better solution than your script (which is a high standard) :)

Thank you very much! :)

dominiik
13 years ago

Hi,

I like yuor script very much, but I have one question - is it possible for script to add a cover art from eg: amarock database?? It would be ideal than ;-)

Cromwell
13 years ago

Why do I have to enter the CD title and artist by myself instead of gathering the data from the mp3-tag that contains all the info?

Moreover: Is it possible not to print the artist always behind the track title? TIA!

heatseeker
13 years ago

You can swap every occurrence of Artist and Title references in the render.xsl file to achieve that.

Furthermore, the ability to open the generated cover in Inkscape for postprocessing is a great idea. As soon as I have a little spare time I'll look into it.

grau
14 years ago

I really like this addon!
Would it be possible, to add something like an "open in Inkscape" option so you can postprocess the file before printing?

Maschman
14 years ago

i like this app, but it seems not to be working since i updated to amarok 1.4.4 :-(

anyone has the same problem ?

herrschneider
13 years ago

Still broken in 1.4.6, tracks will not be printed. title and artist are ok.

heatseeker
13 years ago

strange. can you send me your playlist (current.xml) just after (trying to) print?

heatseeker
14 years ago

is this still the case with the 1.4 version?

10erMandi
14 years ago

I answered your (heatseeker's) mail from 18.12.06 at 20.12.06 and sent you a template for printing directly onto CDs. You promised to add the code, so one can print directly onto the CD with suitable printers. I am not sure, that you received my eMail and was not succesfull when trying to send a message to "sander (at) 3v8.net"
Could you please tell me, if you got my .svg-file?

10erMandi

heatseeker
14 years ago

no I didn't get your mail. must have been catched by the spam filter. Please send again!

10erMandi
14 years ago

Hi!

I use Kubuntu dapper drake. (Contains amarok 1.4.3)
I installed all packages you mentioned in "dependencies" but CoverPrint failed with: execution of xsltproc failed
unspecified error
Then I added xsltproc, but error message is "error in one of
the documents"
Could you please update your list of dependencies and give me a hint, what is going wrong now?

Regards

10erMandi

P.S.: I would highly appreciate the funktion of printing directly on CDs.

casparwrede
14 years ago

I had the same problem but solved it by doing:

sudo apt-get install xsltproc

I use kubuntu edgy eft.

Very nice script by the way!

10erMandi
14 years ago

Hi!

I use Kubuntu dapper drake. (Contains amarok 1.4.3)
I installed all packages you mentioned in "dependencies" but CoverPrint failed with: execution of xsltproc failed
unspecified error
Then I added xsltproc, but error message is "error in one of
the documents"
Could you please update your list of dependencies an give me a hint, what is going wrong now?

Regards

10erMandi

P.S.: I would highly appreciate the funktion of printing directly on CDs.

10erMandi
14 years ago

Hi!

I use Kubuntu dapper drake. (Contains amarok 1.4.3)
I installed all packages you mentioned in "dependencies" but CoverPrint failed with: execution of xsltproc failed
unspecified error
Then I added xsltproc, but error message is "error in one of
the documents"
Could you please update your list of dependencies an give me a hint, what is going wrong now?

Regards

10erMandi

heatseeker
14 years ago

I cannot reproduce the error you mention, but it might be that the playlist contains special characters that xsltproc chokes on. mail me your playlist xml and I'll try to diagnose it.

you idea for printing directly on CD is very nice, but unfortunately I cannot test that since I have no cd label printer. You could however draw up a SVG template (in inkscape) that matches your cd label printer, then I can modify that template to add in the dynamic parts.

TMG
14 years ago

Hi!

I really like your script, it is very useful for me.

However, I found an annoying bug:

I have other scripts installed (MP3Fixer and lastamarok).
Those scripts also show an entry in the context menu when right-clicking on a file.
So I have the following entries in the context menu:

CoverPrint -> Print CD Cover
MP3Fixer -> FixIt!
lastamarok -> Love
Skip
Ban

Whatever entry I click, "Print CD Cover" ALWAYS gets activated.
For example, I click the FixIt! entry, the MP3Fixer correctly fixes my MP3. However, the Cover Print dialog is also shown.

Please fix your script so that it only gets activated when clicking the, and only the, "Print CD Cover" entry in the context menu.

Other scripts behave correctly.

heatseeker
14 years ago

thanks for the report. should be fixed now.

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