Gmpc can now also show artist image, artist biography, album info. A screenshot of artist image+biography: Click here to see And a screenshot of both artist image+text + album text: Click Here To See

last night my new router crashed again. it happens around once a week. So, slightly irritated, I mailed linksys with my problem. Today I got an e-mail asking for aditional information, happy the replied this fast, I mailed then the requested info (allready after 17:00). To my big amazing, I got a reply a few read more »

I’ve been playing yesterday and today with GtkTextView. Trying to make a nice “Song info” page. And I must say the result is impressive: I didn’t know that GtkTextView was capable of it. Next thing todo is add some clickable items, so you can open the “edit cover art” window, or play all the songs read more »

I’ve implemented the changes to the backend as described in my previous blog. It went easier then I thought, and it was done pretty quickly. To get finally stuck on something trivial.. if you increase the size of an array,  you don’t have to forget initializing the “new” part. The speed seems to be improved, read more »

Looking around the house at what low-end hardware I have I could install linux (and gmpc) on withouth much hassle, I came across an old iMac I got 1/2 back: This are the specs: iMac First generation (blue and white) cpu: 740/750 clock : 233MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202) L2cache: 512kb Memory: 160mb read more »

Solving the speed problems drawing the playlist in gmpc, there are big 2 bottlenecks left that spoil that fun. MPD having to list all the id3 data, this is for a 65000 playlist easily more then 15 mb. The data has to travel over the network. Discussing this problem with normalperson he made a patch read more »

Well I can write a long rant b**ing about it. I won’t. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/24/1610220 But just a few things: 1. Get your facts right.f.e. mpd does support mp3 streams just fine. 2. Picking a simple and no longer maintained client for mpd, and saying it’s “rudimentary” is just weak. Are articles like this realy what we read more »