FLAC spotlight importer problems

[felix26591]

I tried installing both importers on my system, the ogg importer installer worked perfectly. But the FLAC importer has no installer and when i place the .mdimporter file in the spotlight components and still it doesn't work. can anybody help me with this.

Thanks
Felix

[sbooth]

Did you place the item in either /Library/Spotlight or ~/Library/Spotlight? If so, can you try running mdimport -L in Terminal and see if the importer is being found?

[felix26591]

Thanks for your help, I had already placed it in library/spotlight when i run mdimport -L it recognizes the FLAC plugin but I still can't see FLAC information in spotlight.

Thanks
Felix

[sbooth]

If you type mdimport -d 1 /path/to/a/flac what information is output?

[felix26591]

When I write mdimport -d 1 /path/to/a/flac in terminal nothing comes up no info nothing.

[sbooth]

When I write mdimport -d 1 /path/to/a/flac in terminal nothing comes up no info nothing.

I should have elaborated a bit- please substitute in the path to an actual FLAC file for /path/to/a/flac.

[felix26591]

OK, now i did that I wrote this path to the flac file mdimport -d 1 /Users/felixperez/Desktop/01 - City Gate.flac and still nothing came up.

[sbooth]

You get no output at all? That is strange- as a minimum you should see something that says "Imported 'xxxx' of type 'yyy' with ZZZ plugIn.

[RonaldPR]

There are spaces in the path. In Terminal spaces (and several other characters) need to be preceded by a backslash:

mdimport -d 1 /Users/felixperez/Desktop/01\ -\ City\ Gate.flac

and, of course, you must hit enter (or return) after typing that line.

[felix26591]

After typing this mdimport -d 1 /Users/felixperez/Desktop/01\ -\ City\ Gate.flac i get this in terminal.

2009-04-30 09:58:04.600 mdimport[236] CFLog (21): Error loading /Library/Spotlight/FLAC Spotlight Importer.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/FLAC Spotlight Importer: error code 4, error number 0 (Symbol not found: _chmod$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /Library/Spotlight/FLAC Spotlight Importer.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/FLAC Spotlight Importer
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
)
2009-04-30 09:58:04.605 mdimport[236] CFLog (22): Cannot find function pointer MetadataImporterPluginFactory for factory E6122CC3-0318-4188-A11E-107035E84EF8 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x423650 </Library/Spotlight/FLAC Spotlight Importer.mdimporter> (bundle, not loaded)
2009-04-30 09:58:04.607 mdimport[236] Import '/Users/felixperez/Desktop/01 - City Gate.flac' type 'org.xiph.flac' no mdimporter

Thanks for the Help Ronald same Sbooth

[sbooth]

Are you running on Leopard or Tiger?

[felix26591]

Tiger

[sbooth]

I just uploaded a version built for Tiger on http://files.sbooth.org- I may have mistakenly linked to 10.5 libraries in the current posted version. Please try the one labeled FLACImporter-Tiger and let me know how it works for you.

[felix26591]

Well this worked but it has a bug, all FLAC files already created in the system before you install the plugin aren't recognized. I had to move each song in each album to another location and then put it back for the plugin to recognize it. But when i create a new FLAC file it recognizes it without a problem.

Thanks Sbooth
Felix

[dglow]

First and foremost, thank you for the FLAC Importer, Stephen. I very much look forward to using it, hence this question. I've run through the steps and suggestions in this thread and am currently seeing the following in response to mdimport -d 1:

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2010-02-21 10:31:24.233 mdimport[32498:10b] Imported '/Users/dglow/Music/Help.flac' of type 'org.perian.flac' with no plugIn.

Which leads me to believe Perian owns the UTI association for FLAC. Is that diagnosis accurate? What is the best way to correct this?