[mp3togo] mp3togo, tags, and silent adaptation

[Dan Stromberg]

On 8/12/07, sim <reallifesim at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > I just found a moment to get tags to work on my Ubuntu system, and I
> wanted
> > to make a suggestion to save others the difficulty.
>
> Did you install from the Debian package or from the tarball? The deb
> recommends or suggests the necessary dependencies. I've had mixed
> reports from people using the deb on Ubuntu, it seems it mostly works.
> I run Debian myself, but I try to keep the package working with
> Ubuntu.


I downloaded  mp3togo from the web, not realizing there was a deb.

> It'd be useful if mp3togo could, upon finding that an optional module
> isn't
> > avaialble, warn the user and suggest what's missing - possibly even
> listing
> > the package names in some of the more popular distributions.  It's great
> > that mp3togo is so adaptive, continuing even when key modules aren't
> > available, but in a way, this makes diagnosing missing functionality
> harder
> > when done silently.
>
> Good suggestion. mp3togo actually will produce that message, but only
> at higher than default verbosity levels. "mp3togo -v 2" will give
> module load errors.
>
> I may bump the default level and reorganize the priorities a bit.
> Module load errors should probably print by default, but be easily
> suppressed. Thanks for the suggestion Dan.


Thanks for being receptive. It's always more fun to  suggest things when
people  consider the suggestions.


>
> I do always try and fix problems people report, I appreciate bug reports.


Awesome.