Alpha 3
This release upgrades the backend dependencies to ffmpeg-0.8 and gtkdialog-0.7.21. The new equalizer depends on pEqualizer (by 01micko). All these new requirements is not easy to include into your running system. But the latest Spup is ready for you including Pmusic 2 alpha 3 with all its new dependencies. This is my (and hopefully your testbench for the new sound features like equalizer, WebMusic (youtube streaming) and Albumart.... Please test and help developing both Spup and Pmusic.
If things evolves as expected, there will be 1 more alpha before we reach beta stage.
Sigmund
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Alpha 2
This is the second development release targeting Pmusic 2. It should be stable enough for daily use, but still under heavy development.
The headliners for this release:
- Show album art while playing
- WebMusic (play youtube music) is now integrated into most of the Pmusic structure
- Search function is improved
- play/pause button toggles icon
Now you can see how I think the track info should work. BUT, nothing is settled, so feel free to suggest..... Click on the album-art icon (or menu) in main window, and a 'whole world' of extended info is available to you. For Local tracks this require artist and title information (will be saved for next run). The rest should be found by Pmusic on the web.
- meta tags
- Lyrics
- Album list
- Discography
- www links to artist pages
- Album art
- Stream info
![Image](http://i55.tinypic.com/suy13k.png)
The WebMusic db is slowly increasing and counts today around 550 tracks. Add you favorites here. You may find that some youtube tracks don't play. This could be consequence of a slow internet connection or that our ffmpeg-0.6 troubles with the format. ffmpeg-0.7 is on the way, and is expected to handle this. Otherwise I need to make a more selective streaming-code to choose a proper format before start playing the track.
This release require the latest gtkdialog. Change its permission (to executable) and put it into /usr/sbin. You should probably backup the original gtkdialog.