[Old Thread] Towards calibre 0.8

[Manichean]

All right, then. I'll test again in the next release

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by user_none

The SSL error issue will be fixed in the next release. The problem was Qt on Windows was not built with SSL support. Kovid has added SSL support to the Windows build.

OK, that makes sense. I'll wait, impatiently, for a new build...

[kovidgoyal]

I just released 0.7.57 with fixes for all the issues reported in this thread (I hope). Thanks for all the feedback!

This release adds a new metadata download plugin to download from Overdrive. If you customize the Overdrive plugin and enable "Download all metadata", you will get access to the tagging system used by overdrive's libraries, which is great f you want fewer "more genre like" tags.

The Get Books dialog now shows DRM status for the books it finds when that information is available.

There is one outstanding bug where doing a bulk metadata download in windows can sometimes cause a crash after the download finishes, that will be fixed next week.

[Leep]

Will you be adding the capability to do a bulk "download social metadata" like you had in the old version?

By the way, new format is so much easier and faster to use. Great job.

cheers

[kovidgoyal]

No, there is no concept of "social metadata" anymore. Instead you can click the config button and select whatever metadata you want downloaded, exactly.

[DeadMan]

Is it just me, or did the content server stop working? I only use it maybe once a week - and haven't tried it since we started playing with the new rev 8, but tonight I cannot connect to it at all. (Yes, I had changed the port at one point.)

From the error log:

[22/Apr/2011:21:10:55]  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\library\server\base.py", line 78, in start
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\mdns.py", line 76, in publish
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\Zeroconf.py", line 1346, in registerService
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\Zeroconf.py", line 1433, in checkService
NonUniqueNameException

[22/Apr/2011:21:10:55] ENGINE Bus STARTED
[22/Apr/2011:21:10:55] ENGINE Bus STARTED
[22/Apr/2011:21:10:55] ENGINE Bus STARTED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:14] ENGINE Bus STOPPING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:14] ENGINE Bus STOPPING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:14] ENGINE Bus STOPPING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE HTTP Server cherrypy._cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(('::', 7777)) shut down
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE HTTP Server cherrypy._cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(('::', 7777)) shut down
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE HTTP Server cherrypy._cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(('::', 7777)) shut down
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Stopped thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Stopped thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Stopped thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus STOPPED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus STOPPED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus STOPPED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Waiting for child threads to terminate...
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITING
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Waiting for child threads to terminate...
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Waiting for child threads to terminate...
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITED
[22/Apr/2011:21:32:15] ENGINE Bus EXITED
[22/Apr/2011:23:40:02] ENGINE Bus STARTING
[22/Apr/2011:23:40:02] ENGINE Started monitor thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[22/Apr/2011:23:40:03] ENGINE Serving on :::8080
[22/Apr/2011:23:40:03] ENGINE Bus STARTED
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Bus STOPPING
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE HTTP Server cherrypy._cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(('::', 8080)) shut down
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Stopped thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Bus STOPPED
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Bus EXITING
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Waiting for child threads to terminate...
[22/Apr/2011:23:45:55] ENGINE Bus EXITED

Update: Ah I got it.
I played with the tweak "What interfaces should the content server listen on". I changed it to accept IPV4 and IPV6 ('::').
Changed it back to 0.0.0.0 and the server is working again.

Maybe this will be useful to you.

[oldbwl]

[QUOTE=kovidgoyal;1499823]@oldbwl: try the next release, let me know if the problem is still there

Got the latest release, this problem has been fixed completely.

[Manichean]

Works great now, from what I've tested. Loaded two books from Mobileread through the shop interface, tweaked metadata and uploaded to the device, no errors.

[kovidgoyal]

@DeadMan: IPv6 support depends on lots of other things like your OS networking stack, which is why it isn't turned on by default.

@oldbwl: Glad to hear it.

[jgaiser]

While I had no complaints on previous version, everything looks good here with latest one. Looks like it's about time to click on that "Donate" button again.

Thanks for all the work guys...

[Fiacha]

Get Books - I tried linking through to Barnes and Noble and to diesel ebooks. I can get through to the sites but both of them hang when I try to log in. The progress is pretty pointless at this point since it is stuch at 100%. With nothing hapening, I was looking for a refresh button.

My wife has given me a long list of titles to find and I'm looking forward to using this feature to do my comparison shopping for me.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by Fiacha

Get Books - I tried linking through to Barnes and Noble and to diesel ebooks. I can get through to the sites but both of them hang when I try to log in. The progress is pretty pointless at this point since it is stuch at 100%. With nothing hapening, I was looking for a refresh button.

Signing into those sites works correctly for me. Are you using 0.7.57? There was a bug in 0.7.56 that would prevent you from being able to sign in.

Also, the reload button is two buttons to the left of the progress bar at the bottom.

[bulldogmo]

okay, what am I doing wrong? I get the following error messages:

calibre, version 0.7.57
ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata. Click Show Details to see details

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\single_download.py" , line 366, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 415, in identify
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\book\base.py", line 122, in __getattribute__
AttributeError: Metadata object has no attribute named: 'plugin'

[ldolse]

Originally Posted by bulldogmo

okay, what am I doing wrong? I get the following error messages:

calibre, version 0.7.57
ERROR: Download failed: Failed to download metadata. Click Show Details to see details

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\single_download.py" , line 366, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\identify. py", line 415, in identify
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\metadata\book\base.py", line 122, in __getattribute__
AttributeError: Metadata object has no attribute named: 'plugin'

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...03&postcount=3

[lbik]

With 0.8 Testswitch on True, I get no more Book descriptions from Amazon.
With switch on False everything works fine.
Calibre 0.7.57

(Oh, I redirected Amazon.com to Amazon.de in the hosts File, because Amazon.com has no German descriptions.)