Monthly Archives: December 2009

Weird pulseaudio issue

When I use pulseaudio I hear a nice distortion (in left speaker.. strangly enough) of a high-pitched noise. The noise level and ‘color’ seems to be influenced by the music itself. So for now, no more pulse.

MPDHOOKER

Ali released today another mpdcron like program, it is more advanced, so it is going to merge with mpdcron or deprecate it. http://alip.github.com/2009/12/18/mpdhooker-initial-version/

MPDCRON – A simple usefull tool

I wrote a very tiny tool yesterday; mpdcron. mpdcron is a ‘cron’ like program for mpd.  It can execute scripts based on mpd’s idle events. You can specify this in a very simple config file.  You first list the event it should react on, then the command it should execute. You can let one script read more »

Speeding up gmpc, async io

Last week I tried to improve gmpc performance in the albumview and metadata browser. I wrote a image-loader that uses async IO to load the image from the hard-disk (and even the internet in the future). Hopefully this will improve performance on large images or many images. The next step is writing a small pixbuf read more »