How can I make an RPM package for my own distribution?

First, download the source tarball. Then:

• unarchive it and enter into the created directory;
• edit the section ‘[bdist_rpm]’ of the file ‘setup.cfg’ and change parameters for your own distribution;
• type:

  python setup.py bdist_rpm

What is Ogg Vorbis?

Ogg Vorbis is a free non-patent audio coding format. Its performance is at least equal or better than the MP3, the famous but patent audio coding format. For further information, see http://www.vorbis.com/.

I have installed Maestro. What must I do now?

First, launch the graphical tool:

maestro-gui

The textual tool (maestro-text) is quite ugly and only used for tests.

A window will appear. It contains three pages:

• the page called “Library” which displays all songs contained in the library;
• the page called “Play queue” which displays the song which is currently played and a list of songs which will be played afterwards;
• the page called “Tasks queue” which displays all tasks which will be processed.

For now, all pages must be empty, except the “Tasks queue” page which might indicate two errors: no configuration files exist for now because it’s the first time you launch maestro-gui. You must build your own library.

You can be in two cases:

• first case: you already have a pretty-well-organized directory which contains Ogg Vorbis/MP3 files;
• second case: you don’t have such a directory or you don’t have any Ogg Vorbis/MP3 files (what a pity!).

In the second case, you must create a directory which will be the root of your library. For example, type in a shell:

mkdir ~/music

In all cases, click with the right button on the label “Library” and then click on the item “Refresh library...”. A new page will open. Enter the directory you have chosen for your library and click on the button “OK”. If you are in the second case, nothing special will happen but you can now import Ogg Vorbis files, MP3 files or CDDA tracks in your library. If you are in the first case, all Ogg Vorbis files contained in your directory will be scanned and their tags will be displayed in the page “Library”. You can now edit your songs, make search in your library, create a play list and even listen to it.

An error occured when I tried to access the FreeDB server and I am behind a firewall?

You must probably set the proxy of your organization.

You can do that by setting one of the following environment variables:

• http_proxy if it is a HTTP proxy;
• ftp_proxy if it is a FTP proxy;
• gopher_proxy if it is a GOPHER proxy.

For example, under bash, type:

export http_proxy="http://my_proxy.organization.net:8080"

maestro-gui

What is the plan for the future?

Some ideas could be realized in the future:

• internationalization of maestro-gui;
• adding shortcuts in maestro-gui;
• adding drag’n’drop in maestro-gui;
• encoding and ripping parameters configuration;
• win32 port (maybe);
• maestro-gui graphical aspect configuration (maybe);
• audio CD or data CD burning (maybe).

What are the known bugs?

There are certainly a lot of bugs. ;-)

Here is a list of known bugs:

• setting a genre to a MP3 file doesn’t work if this genre is not in the limited list of the MP3 genres. For more details, type:

  mp3info -p

Where can I browse the source code?

The source code used to be available in a Mercurial repository on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/julien1001/maestro. Unfortunately, in 2020, BitBucket removed the repository while removing Mercurial support.

Source tar balls are available in the Download section.

Who are the authors of this project?

The following people brought their contributions to Maestro:

• Julien L. for all releases.