What are the hardware requirements?

It requires a computer with:

• a hard disk with at least a few MB;
• a CD drive in order to rip CDDA tracks;
• a sound card in order to play music;
• an Internet connection in order to access FreeDB server.

Maestro was tested and works with the following hardware configuration:

• Pentium 3 (650 MHz) - 56 Mb RAM - SB16 compatible sound card;
• Pentium (200 MHz) - 48 Mb RAM - SB16 compatible sound card;

What are the software requirements?

Maestro may work on most Unix systems. It requires:

• Python 2.0+ - http://www.python.org/;
• Vorbis tools 1.0+ - http://www.vorbis.com/.

The following optional tools could be needed:

• cdparanoia release III alpha 9 - http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/;
• mpg123 0.59+ - http://www.mpg123.org/;
• mp3info 0.2.16+;
• python-CDDB 1.3+ - http://cddb-py.sourceforge.net/.

The following libraries are needed by the graphical tool:

• PyGTK 0.6.7+ - ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/.

Maestro was tested and works with the following software system:

• Mandrake Linux 8.0

What are the available packages?

These are the packages available for Maestro 0.2:

• Source tar ball - maestro-0.2.tar.gz;
• Binary RPM for Mandrake Linux 8.0 - maestro-0.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm.

These are the packages available for Maestro 0.1:

• Source tar ball - maestro-0.1.tar.gz;
• Binary RPM for Mandrake Linux 8.0 - maestro-0.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm.

How can I install Maestro?

If you have downloaded the binary RPM package, just type:

rpm -ivh maestro-xxx-yyy.noarch.rpm

urpmi maestro-xxx-yyy.noarch.rpm

If you have downloaded the source tar ball, please follow these three steps:

• uncompress and unarchive the downloaded package:

  tar xvfz maestro-xxx.tar.gz

• change the current working directory to the created directory:

  cd maestro-xxx

• try Maestro by launching maestro-gui or maestro-text:

  python maestro/maestro-gui.py

• install all files in your file system hierarchy:

  python setup.py install