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Hi,
I recently bought hörbert and I am enjoying it very much 👍 (my son too ;-)
When I first got him in the summer 2020, I used the WIndows10/Beta version from the website to load some personal songs onto the included/preloaded "German songs" SD card and I also rearranged some songs between playlists. I remember that at that time the preloaded tracks just read 0, 1, 2, 3 in the playlist window and no actual titles. For the new songs I added from my library, the software would show the proper meta tag "title".

Now today / November 2020 (I believe still on the same software version) I wanted to add some more songs when the software asked me in a popup to reconfigure the SD card (not sure anymore about the exact wording). I said yes and the program worked on the card for a while.
Then I noticed that in each playlist, the first few songs actually showed the title names of the preloaded songs. However, as said above, I had changed the order of the songs and even deleted some of them already. The names were simply now attached to my own songs that were stored instead of the preloaded songs.

I can't reproduce the topic of course, but I am just wondering if this "reconfigure SD card function" (not sure of its purpose) should take into consideration that the songs may not be the songs from the initial load anymore.

I hope my description is understandable. If you have any follow up questions, please be in touch.
Thanks for a great product!

When trying to access advanced settings dialog while old hoerbert variant is selected, the software crashes

Hi there,

thx for the awesome hoerbert :)
Just tried to use the appimage suppied on your homepage to upload some music on the sd card.
Unfortunately the software does not detect the SD Card device even though it is detected by the OS. Other devices such as USB drives are shown in the softwares dropdown.

Any ideas?

When adding songs to my sons hörbert's sd card, I noticed that some of them were of very poor quality. Therefore I decided to take a look at the software and maybe publish a patch. I jsut noticed that the new version 3 of the software seems not released here. I am missing the hörbert version selection for example.

Did you stop publishing the software as open source? Am I missing something else?

Regards, Simon

Hi,

On my Linux system the SD card is not properly recognized inside the software (tested version 2.1.5 built from source and version 3.1.3 from AppImage on Archlinux with systemd=253). As the Software FAQ already notes the workaround of specifying the mountpoint manually, this seems to be a known and common problem.

When skimming through the source code, it seems to fail in the isRemovable method of the DeviceManager. I noticed, that the check for ID_USB_DRIVER='usb-storage' indeed is not in the output of the udevadm info call regarding my mounted drive. My output of udevadm info --query=property --export --name=/dev/mmcblk0 is

DEVPATH='/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:02:00.0/rtsx_pci_sdmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:aaaa/block/mmcblk0'
DEVNAME='/dev/mmcblk0'
DEVTYPE='disk'
DISKSEQ='6'
MAJOR='179'
MINOR='0'
SUBSYSTEM='block'
USEC_INITIALIZED='1384769046'
ID_SERIAL='0x535809eb'
ID_NAME='SN64G'
ID_PATH='pci-0000:02:00.0-platform-rtsx_pci_sdmmc.0'
ID_PATH_TAG='pci-0000_02_00_0-platform-rtsx_pci_sdmmc_0'
ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE='dos'
MMC_TYPE='SD'
ID_DRIVE_FLASH_SD='1'
ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_SD='1'
DEVLINKS='/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-platform-rtsx_pci_sdmmc.0 /dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SN64G_0x535809eb /dev/disk/by-diskseq/6'
TAGS=':systemd:'
CURRENT_TAGS=':systemd:'

When replacing the regex in the code with

    return output.contains(QRegExp("ID_DRIVE_FLASH_SD='1'", Qt::CaseSensitive));

the drive is properly recognized. I'm not sure whether that change would fix things on other systems, as well.

It would be nice to have the latest version here on Github, btw. It does not feel right to open a PR on a 3 year old version, which is why I created this issue instead.

         Yes, for historical reasons, the feedback branch is the most recent.

I've never changed that so far, "works for me" (TM). ;-)

Originally posted by @winzkigermany in #12 (comment)

It's hard to figure out that the feedback branch is actually the latest. Maybe the default can be changed from main to feedback?

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-branches-in-your-repository/changing-the-default-branch

That will change the default for pull requests. I'm not sure what it does to the default branch displayed at https://github.com/winzkigermany/hoerbert-software but hopefully that changes, too.

I just got a bigger memory card, so did a backup/restore to move the songs to the new card.

When managing the old card, I could see the artist/title because it was in the file name (as well as the metadata of the files I originally imported).

For the new card, all file names are just replaced with numbers, so it's hard to see what's what.

It would be great if the artist/title were somehow carried over, either in the filename or metadata. I looked and it appears that WAV supports metadata.

Hallo!

Ich wollte gerade eine neue Speicherkarte für den Hörbert beschreiben, allerdings erkennt die Hörbert-Software die Speicherkarte nicht mehr. Ich habe mehrere Speicherkarten ausprobiert, die zuvor alle funktioniert haben, und keine wird von der Software mehr erkannt. Die letzte Speicherkarte habe ich mit MacOS 12 beschrieben, deshalb habe ich die Vermutung, dass es an MacOS 13 liegt. Gibt es mit dieser Version bekannte Probleme? Gibt es einen Workaround? Zugriff auf Speichermedien ist jedenfalls gewährt.

Viele Grüße
Ralph

Guten Tag

Unter meinem Ubuntu 20.04 wird die SD Karte nicht erkannt. Wo / wie sucht die Software nach SD Karten?

Guten Tag

Ich verwende die aktuelle Hörbert Software in Version 2.1.4. Die Software gefällt mir sehr gut, danke für die Verbesserungen gegenüber der alten Adobe AIR-basierten Software!

Ich bitte Sie, folgendes zu prüfen

• eine Option zu ergänzen, mit der völlig auf eine Anpassung der Lautstärke verzichtet wird
• alternativ eine Integration der Software WaveGain für eine bessere Angleichung der Lautheit der verschiedenen Tracks innerhalb der Playlists

Aktuell bietet die Software die folgenden zwei Möglichkeiten, die Lautstärke der Tracks (aneinander) anzupassen:

• Limitierung der maximalen Lautstärke über die Option Maximum volume (-6 dB, -1.5 dB, 0 dB)
• Anheben der Lautstärke über die Option Increase volume up to the limit

Ich habe nun aber (im Dezember mit der damals aktuellen Betaversion der Hörbert-Software) die Erfahrung gemacht, dass auch mit der neuen Software mit den Standardeinstellungen (Maximum volume = -1.5 dB, Increase volume up to the limit = off) immer noch sehr grosse Lautheitsunterschiede innerhalb der Playlists auftreten.

Für die Angleichung der Lautheit scheinen die Optionen derzeit nicht geeignet zu sein.

Eine Anpassung der Lautheit kann nachträglich sehr einfach und zuverlässig über die freie und offene Software WaveGain[1] erledigt werden.

Basis-Befehl: WaveGain --recursive --apply c:\verzeichnis\der\speicherkarte
(unter Windows lohnt es sich, die Speicherkarte dafür in ein Verzeichnis zu mounten)

Der obige Befehl kann immer wieder auf dieselbe Speicherkarte/dieselben Dateien angewendet werden, weil die Lautstärke eines Tracks nur einmal angepasst werden muss.

Vielleicht könnte die bessere Angleichung der Lautheit aber auch gleich in die Hörbert-Software integriert werden?

Freundliche Grüsse,
Oliver Waddell

1: https://github.com/MestreLion/wavegain, funktionierende Windows-Binaries davon können unter https://rarewares.org/others.php heruntergeladen werden, für den Hörbert die Version von John33 ohne SSE2-Optimierung wählen).