It's because gnome-keyring sucks. I uninstalled it. Then everything works. There's also a hack you can do for the chromium exec command. There's better ways to store passwords anyway, the gnome-keyring is severely dysfunctional.

^^^Mega hugs back atcha Sister!!

Been a looooong day of squashing bugs and fixing behavior but the gui is close, got to start fixing some issues in the scraper script tomorrow too, after that the next phase is integrating a record button to record streams using Streamripper for the backend.

Edit: Oh yeah, right now the radio section for now playing only includes the station name and "streaming" as a placeholder for artist/song. Got to spend a hella lotta time I reckon tomorrow going through documentation as I need to parse the stream for that data, probably libavformat will work.

Right there with ya buddy, two fingers still after all these years, but I must say I can do it really fast now, still can't come close to keeping up with somebody who can really type using all fingers and not having to look at the keyboard, my wife is amazing, she can sit there and look me in the face and have a conversation and be typing the whole time at about 80-90 words a minute or better, with zero mistakes.

But thinking on it, more than I type, I copy/paste. Once i've figured out a block of code, I save it and of course whole scripts and such, and when it comes time to make something new I go through those saved snippets and scripts and copy/pasta a lot of it. Then edit manually as needed. If it's something small that I know pretty well like a small shellscript with some yad dialogs, then I just sit down and start typing.

Show me somebody who says that, and i'll show you somebody that's never tried it. Go ahead and blithely ask an LLM to make you something and then try to run it, lol, Better back up everything first and have a spare computer on hand in case one catches on fire, lol!

They are a pretty good search engine and aggregator though, and that does save a fair amount of time.

^^Snazzy! But probably a little too upscale for my ol redneck projects.

Added internet radio to the music player!

Love me some Galculator, default calculator app I use in everything. One of those apps that really doesn't need any improving. It always just works.

And now a second app, a simple video player, also using the ffplay backend. Everything working so far, it scrapes ~/Videos and makes a DB of your videos, displays them in the treeview pane, plays the video in the main pane. All controls work in the gui, and all the keyboard/mouse shortcuts work on the video. It will maximize and size accordingly (not true fullscreen though). Less than 300 lines of source code.

Next step= integrate the two for a full media player.

Screenie of working proto:

Man, this stuff is hard, spent half of yesterday getting proper behavior and squashing little self-induced bugs (made a pause button but forgot to make the un-pause method etc.), then spent the rest trying to figure out how to make the search do things in a very complex way, and that part still doesn't work right. Tempted to blow it off as this really doesn't need search as all the artists/albums are already listed in the treeview.

But now Devarch has me thinking about replaygain...*sigh*...from what I read, ffplay supports reading the tags and making volume changes accordingly, but can't calculate it itself, so the music itself would already have to be formatted with the extra metadata. Of course if the music is ripped with some care about volume levels and such to start with, replaygain is not necessary.

If there are folks out there wanting to try what i'm doing but like me don't have formal training or work-experience doing these things, the most important advice I can give is this: Baby steps for everything. And I do mean tiny baby steps. I have some skeleton scripts now for gui's that work and save me time on new projects, but they were built using baby steps too.

It's hard for sure, but the satisfaction level is through the roof when you finally get something that works.

^^^Exactly what I do. Squashing is my drug and fsmithred is my pharmacist.

I'll be rolling over all my stuff I think, too much work to build a freshie with all the custom settings and crap I have.

^^ Cool! Let me know if it works.

^^Correct!

But really, it isn't similar to the ones he mentioned at all. Plus, go ahead and search for a simple gui frontend to ffplay to only play music and nothing else. There's some bits and chunks here and there, but most are full-on MP's or video players, converters etc. ffmpeg does a lot of stuff, easy to get caught up in "what if I added blah blah?" Then comes the feature bloat.

But it seems like most times when I start a project or even think out loud about one, there's always gonna be that guy that has to post "why don't you just use blah blah?"

Really no point in trying to explain myself to 'em.

Made an updated version that I need to upload, I expanded the search function from title-only to title and description, should have done that from the get-go. Also made a kind of companion app, a manual for Vuu-do, which was previously all in the release notes which was one giant text file. Was able to re-use a lot of the code from the VAI app, the basic GUI code is very simple and works great for any simple app that's intended to display info.
Screenie ( you'll need to click the image to get full-size view or else it looks blurry):
https://imgdump5.novarata.net/no5cx2.png