You’re unfortunately not the first to report this problem. I’ve heard it could happen on Kubuntu and Arch linux, but so far, we’ve not been able to replicate the problem.
What distro/version do you happen to be using?
The cause for the exception was the missing %USERPROFILE%\Pictures folder.
It is not directly a problem with Sononym. Electron framework is trying to determine the Pictures path depending on the platform (see electronApp[‘getPath’] in [Sononym]\resources\out\app\constants.js)
I tend to remove those kind of stock folders. Re-adding it solves the issue.
No entry was written to the log file since the crash happened too early on.
Thanks, that was really helpful.
It is not directly a problem with Sononym.
Ah, but bad enough as it is - we didn’t realize that determining these paths could throw an error. Will fix in the next update!
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You are welcome! 
Kubuntu 22.04.
Is there anything I could do to investigate this? Like enable some debug flags, or search for some system log files? I have tried running the application from the terminal to see if anything useful could be reported, and looked at Sononym specific logs, even wiped out all Sononym related directories including the main one, but nothing useful is ever present other than the vague mainWindow could not be rendered message.
Kubuntu again, that’s interesting!
And indeed, perhaps verbose logging could indeed reveal something of interest.
If we are unable to recreate the problem on a dev machine running Kubuntu, I will create such a build for you.
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Awesome.
Again, thanks for pointing this out. Was an easy fix
Bugfix release (1.4.1):
- Fixed: Apostrophe in path could lead to library not mounting
- Fixed: App crashed when certain paths didn’t exist in OS
- Fixed: Random select/play broken while browsing multiple libraries
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What’s new in Sononym 1.5?
- New audio server with “stream-from-disk”
- Support for embedded metadata (artist, genre, etc.)
- Ability to move, copy and rename files & folders
- Advanced/Batch Renaming (imprint files with all kinds of data)
- Customizable table layout (change column order, size)
- Native Apple Silicon Support
- Additional playback options
And of course, bug fixes and stability improvements
Full release notes:
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Where can we report bugs? I must be blind, but there’s nothing on trello.
Type of Request: Bug Report
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there also is a forum where you can report bugs;
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True, but the Sononym forum is mostly focused on beta releases - and that includes bug reports
But someone kindly mentioned the contact page, which is really the most straight-forward way. All serious/reproducible bugs are listed on the public issue tracker too, btw.
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