Next release candidate: Lots of changes to download folder management, Qt 5.9

[Nir Arbel]

I'm itching to release this build as it already fixed a lot of issues for quite a few users, but since it includes changes to very sensitive download folder management code I'm a little wary of releasing it just yet. I'm hoping you guys can try it out and let me know if you run into any new problems or whether it works well for you. Changes include:

• Remote folder structures with more than one level of subfolders should now be properly recreated locally, and not flattened as before.
• By default, the top-level folder for each download is the name of the user the file was downloaded from. Thank you grinsanscat for suggesting this! The behavior can be turned off under Options->File Sharing.
• Files with illegal filename characters should now properly download on Windows.
• All empty subfolders in the 'downloading' folder are now erased after every download.
• Close all searches button. Also thanks to grinsanscat!
• Qt 5.9.1 seems to work better for a number of Windows 10 users.
• First time using AppImage for the Linux build! Hopefully works on most Linux distributions.

11/21: Rolled back to Qt 5.8 for the Mac build due to a yet unresolved UI bug. Other updates since the 7/29 build include minor fixes discussed in this thread.

12/21: Many users confirm Qt 5.9 works much better on OSX. The Mac build posted below uses 5.9 again, which means tab titles are back to looking screwed up. Hopefully this'll be fixed in Qt soon.

Windows: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpa4oqhr1aeju44/SoulseekQt-2017-11-21.exe?dl=1

Mac: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ex6edwvtb9cqli/SoulseekQt-2017-11-21-Qt-5-9-3.dmg?dl=1

Linux 64-bit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ru2mvycljfrejcx/SoulseekQt-2017-11-21-64bit.tgz?dl=1

Let me know!

Thanks, Nir

[majster]

Hello Nir. Can you publish Linux build?

[tund...@gmail.com]

Will there be a new linux build with this release?

[steveffisher]

The good news is that it appears people can now download tracks containing punctuation, so they're getting the message to update their build, obviously.

I did switch off the option to download folders with usernames, but they're still coming through, and some downloaded tracks which initially appear to be missing from the downloads are showing up in the 'Downloading' folder after completing the download itself.

MacOS High Sierra version 10.13 Beta (17A330h)

SoulSeekQT Build 2017.7.29

[pd]

Would love a Linux build also.

[Nir Arbel]

What do you guys think about AppImage, Snap, or Flatpak to make the executable work on different Linux distributions?

[tund...@gmail.com]

Snap is Ubuntu default 16.04.

[Nir Arbel]

Steve, are you saying newly downloaded files still end up in folders with the username in their path? Were those maybe files that were being downloaded while the setting was turned off?

[Nir Arbel]

Looking into Snap and AppImage... so far I think AppImage may be better suited for distributing Qt applications. Will post here when I know more.

[pd]

With snap, the user would need to install the snap with the "--classic" flag, or confinement (sandboxing) would be strict which would prevent the user from accessing or adding files into certain directories, anything onder /media for example. I don't think AppImage has sandboxing.

[Nir Arbel]

I'm not sure what the real world advantages for SoulseekQt would be with sandboxing and those security features. If I understand correctly, I can use the Qt Linux deployment tool to put the SoulseekQt executable and all the libraries it needs in one folder, then bundle the folder into a single executable using AppImage that the user can run on almost any Linux distribution without any extra tools. I also love the idea of not having to build Qt statically every time they release a new version. Will experiment more with this later today and tomorrow.

[pd]

I agree. I don't need sandboxing for SoulseekQt. What I meant was it would be confusing with the sandboxing security features if they installed the snap normally, because some people (like me) store music in /media and it wouldn't allow access to those directories. So the user would have to install it with the "--classic" flag. So AppImage makes more sense.

[Nir Arbel]

Oh I see! Awesome, I'll try AppImage.

[steveffisher]

It's OK, they did it once and haven't done it since.  Thank you.

[steveffisher]

I have been getting this, though.  In the search header boxes, there is no 'X' to close the window, and a strange yellow and black 'bomb-like' icon appears!

[vitora...@gmail.com]

Thanks!! Keep up the good work!

[Nir Arbel]

Thanks vitor!

[Nir Arbel]

Alright! I have the first AppImage built on Ubuntu 16.04. Qt deployment tool wouldn't work on 17.04, but the AppImage runs fine on 16.04, 17.04 and Debian 9. Only 64-bit to start with, but I'll create a 32-bit version if it goes well:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vh5bxoatgcj3csf/SoulseekQt-2017-7-29-64bit.tgz?dl=0

[Nir Arbel]

Steve, that's the usual flashlight icon for search tabs... are you not seeing any close buttons? Did it run out of room in the search tab bar?

[steveffisher]

No, no close button.  Doesn't matter whether the search string is short or long.

[majster]

Works well on Mint 18.2 64bit

[pd]

The AppImage works great on Ubuntu MATE 17.04.

[grins...@gmail.com]

Hi Nir I also forgot to mention this when you first sent me the Mac build - close buttons on tabs are missing for me too, either getting that flashlight or an empty space where the X would be. Clicking the flashlight or the empty space still closes the tab as expected.

[Nir Arbel]

*sigh* Yeah, looks like a bug in Qt 5.9.1. Supposedly fixed in the upcoming 5.9.2: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61092

I think Qt 5.9 fixes some other issue on OSX though, might be worth waiting for 5.9.2 before release. Here's a Qt 5.8 build in the meantime:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/srh9t7cp1a3agsk/SoulseekQt-2017-7-29-Qt-5-8.dmg?dl=0

[TJT74]

One bug that I've noticed is that the file counts are missing for most people who are on my userlist.  This is on Windows 10.

[Kristijonas Latvelis]

Hello, I like your idea and I want join for it's development.

[Nir Arbel]

Anyone else having a problem with missing file counts in the user list? I'm seeing file counts for everyone on my list.

[Nir Arbel]

Thank you for offering Kr1st1s, I'm not looking for help right now.

[psynature…]

no problems here on win7 (at least as far as i can tell, but i'm not hardcore user lately)
i might try it also on ubuntu based distro, however there i prefer to use windows version under wine (better tray icon support if i recall correctly)

Thank You for coding!

[Sid]

Posted this some time ago in another thread, now this user have changed his directory name and everything downloads as it should.

Stumbled across similar problem, in my case user (ivstinivs) main share directory is named "__~~[]{}()". Download would not start and show Queued place 171 (this number never change), even tho search and user info Queued uploads was 0. This was using 2017-7-29 version, I tiried Soulseek NS as well and it would loop dowload starting on multiple files and not dowload either.

Hopefully this helps to pin point the issue, should be easy to test witch character is messing with download.

[James Bassdrop]

I love the username download folders, but unfortunately on the third folder I tried to download it appears to have completely frozen my computer (Windows 7), requiring a hard power off by holding down the computer's power button...

Admittedly, I had quite a bit running on my computer at the time so I can't guarantee with 100% certainty that this caused it, but my computer's uptime was 35 days and was toast within 2-3 minutes of running this build of Soulseek... the very last thing I did before the computer froze was right click on a folder while browsing someone's files and click Download Folder... as soon as the right click menu disappeared, the computer was frozen, with the mouse cursor still beside that folder name.

If it were any other issue, I'd give it another go to confirm, but I don't want to risk data/drive corruption.

[djsarcastro]

Also, I can confirm that the folder was, in fact, added to my queue... but not created until as soon as I started soulseek again (using version 2017.02.20)... seeing as there was no remote queue, seems unlikely that something else crashed the computer within that split second window before beginning the transfer.

Cheers, hope this helps :)

[The Scarlet Fire]

Hi Nir,

Hope all is well. Thank you for the new Linux app update, I've been testing it for a little while now and have a few things to share back with you. First, I've tried this on my Ubuntu laptop as well as a virtual machine, and both have this issue: I cannot minimize Soulseek. To tray, dock, nothing. The whole GUI just flickers briefly once and each time I hit the minimize button in the upper corner of the GUI. Maximize and exit/close work fine but minimize won't work. Can you reproduce on Ubuntu (mint)?

Also, I am happy to report that I am seeing significantly better performance w/ this build of SSqt. Lower resource usage as well as more responsive user share browsing, etc.

Thanks again for all the work you do for this app.

[sylvai...@gmail.com]

Hi,
With this release a lot of my uploads fail with status "local error".
In the terminal window I have this message : "QIODevice::write (QTcpSocket): device not open"
using SoulseekQt-2017-7-29-64bit.AppImage on Ubuntu 17.04

[grins...@gmail.com]

One minor bug I've noticed (not limited to the new build) is the "scroll to" location of the left pane on a "Browse user's files" operation.

Expected behavior is that right pane shows dir contents, while left pane, which is typically a very long list of expanded dirs, would scroll to show the current selection

Observed behavior is that right pane shows dir contents, but left pane is scrolled to a portion of the dir list that does not include currently selected dir

To reproduce:

Right click on a search result, select "Browse user's files"

View switches to "Browse" tab

Split pane view shows dir hierarchy (Left) and dir contents (Right)

Left pane scrolls to a random portion of the dir list that does not include the currently selected dir

[Nir Arbel]

Hey Scarlet and Psynature,

Your replies in this thread are either empty or deleted for some reason. I posted to the Google Groups product forum describing this issue in case you're curious:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/0Ln_GjoXzlU

[Nir Arbel]

Scarlet, I'm not having any issues minimizing SoulseekQt-2017-7-29-64bit.AppImage on either Mint 18.2 (or Ubuntu 16.04). Are you on a different version of Mint?

[Nir Arbel]

djsarcastro, it might have been precipitated by the transfer, but there's very little SoulseekQt can do on its on to crash your computer, so there might be something else going on on your machine. Has it happened again since?

[Nir Arbel]

sylvainfaivre, is this only happening to you with that particular build? Is there a build that's not having this problem?