[Linux-disciples] Jack error

[Stephen R Laniel]

Until recently, when I ran jack, I got the error
"Please install the ID3 module available at
http://id3-py.sourceforge.net"

Upgrading python-id3 out of unstable fixes this, which I find odd; if
upgrading jack out of unstable caused that error -- which I assume is
what happened -- then you'd think that upgrading jack out of unstable
would prompt python-id3 to upgrade as well, non?

Anyway, it works fine now, and gets the ID3 labels just fine, but I get
this nasty sequence of errors when jack starts:

/*
slaniel@JeffTweedy:~$ nice -n 19 jack
/usr/bin/jack:911: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe4' in
file /home/slaniel/.jackrc on line 75, but no encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  execfile(prefs_file)
This is  jack 2.99.9 (C) 2002  Arne Zellentin <zarne@users.sf.net>
Warning: could not open generic device /dev/sgXXX for reading and
writing.
/usr/bin/jack:1443: FutureWarning: x<<y losing bits or changing sign
will return a long in Python 2.4 and up
  return "%08x" % ((n % 0xff) << 24 | (t << 8) | (len(tracks)))
/usr/bin/jack:1443: FutureWarning: %u/%o/%x/%X of negative int will
return a signed string in Python 2.4 and up
  return "%08x" % ((n % 0xff) << 24 | (t << 8) | (len(tracks)))
*/

I assume there's nothing terrible in that sequence of errors, but I
thought I'd check. Should I cower in fear?

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