plank freezes when ripping CD with audex

[mbod]

When I rip a CD with audex 0.78 the plank dock becomes unresponsive. As soon as the actual ripping process starts plank is showing no reaction on mouse clicks or mouse movements. audex uses lame 3.99.5 to rip the CD. plank is not recovering when audex is terminated. plank has to be restarted.

Tested with plank 0.10.9.1467 and 0.10.9.1475.

"plank -d" throws the same error message several hundred times:
...
[CRITICAL 08:41:49.451845] [GLib] g_variant_get_int64: assertion 'g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64)' failed
[CRITICAL 08:41:49.459766] [GLib] g_variant_get_int64: assertion 'g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64)' failed
[CRITICAL 08:41:49.467921] [GLib] g_variant_get_int64: assertion 'g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64)' failed
[CRITICAL 08:41:49.476023] [GLib] g_variant_get_int64: assertion 'g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64)' failed
[CRITICAL 08:41:49.484255] [GLib] g_variant_get_int64: assertion 'g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64)' failed
...

I am using Linux Mint LMDE2 with cinnamon 2.8.6+betsy.

Matthias

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

This a dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/plank/+bug/1514201 for which I have some changes trying to cope with the massive update requests coming from audex.

Regarding the warnings this is simply audex not implemented the LauncherAPI correctly.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Low_level_DBus_API:_com.canonical.Unity.LauncherEntry
The value of "count" is suppose to be a INT64 not just INT