GMPC, a new release is due. Maybe!

I have been working on and off on the new GMPC release.

Until now there have been 3 pre-releases:

?Beta 1, 2, 3

But I need help!  Help on this release (testing mostly!) and in general.

For this release I need people testing GMPC:

• I have hit several times a rare crash, that I was unable to track back or reproduce.
• Marking bugs “to be tested” as fixed.  Bugtracker.
• Website needs updating. (screenshot, guides etc)
• Plugins need to be verified if they still work.

Most of the work is coordinated via #gmpc @ irc.freenode.net, I also try to announce things on the #gmpc on identi.ca.

You can get the latest (testing) gmpc here:

• ubuntu: GMPC-Trunk PPA
• Archlinux: AUR Package
• Gentoo: The MPD-Overlay.  (right link?)
• Source: Here
• Windows: installer, portable apps
• Mac OsX: unavailable atm. sorry.

Changes in the upcoming release (not complete):

New features

• Humanity icon theme
• A pixbuf cache. Avoid loading image at the same size twice, and reloading images.
• Async loading/scaling off images from the hard-disk.
• Async mpd query handler. Loads data over a separate connection.
• Copy message to clipboard button.
• Use load command to make mpd load remote playlists (mpd 0.16 only)
• Update now playing look.
• Support for showing and setting ‘raw image data’. This makes a plugin that reads embedded image possible.
• Make HTML text correctly display. (Converting to utf8)
• Do no close the popup, when mouse over.
• Remember previous path in file-selectors.
• Add quick-playlist-add menu to favorite button.
• Add ‘search-as-you-type’ option to search.
• Support easy-command via gmpc-remote
• Allow to jump to metadata browser from now playing.

Updates

• A updated hicolor theme.
• Make metadata browser use the style off the new now-playing browser.
• Fix sorting order off the Database browser.
• Speedup filling of directory view in file browser.
• Fixed several smaller and larger memory leaks.
• Sorting bug in metadata.
• Remove unused function.
• metadata browser: Double click opens song, not plays it.

Removed

• Do not load weblinks from the wiki anymore (possible security risk)

Build updates

• Do not include vala generated C code, generate this build time. (in git)