It’s finally here. gmpc 0.14.0 Release Candidate 1.

This needs allot of testing, I am not even 100% sure the generated tar.gz files are correct. I wrote a small script that build them (it removes the GOB2 dependency for example).

A small list of some of the changes in 0.14.0:

• Main Interface change: Moved from a player+playlist to one window with both integrated. ( screenshot )
• Profile support, easily switch between several mpd’s without re-entering connection information. (screenshot, screenshot2 )
• Extended remote-metadata support this now consist off: Album Art, Album information, Lyrics, Artist images, Artist information.
• X-Session support.
• Improved database search and playlist search. ( screenshot )
• Support for column view in playlist.
• Efficient playlist backend. Playlist is now loaded on-demand, improving gmpc speed on slow network, and on slow machines. f.e. 25000 song playlist over a slow wireless network is viewed instantly.
• Full mpd 0.12.1 support. All metadata types are now fully supported (comment tag, performer tag, Disc tag, Composer tag etc).
• Song information viewer ( screenshot )
• Metadata Browser ( screenshot )
• Different views of the main window. From full size to a small player
• The often requested Hide-to-tray on close.
• More keybindings.
• Downloading and parsing of pls, m3u and extm3u files.
• Fullscreen
• Alot more!!!

Gmpc runs on linux, bsd, mac osX, and windows.

But if this isn’t enough there are several plugins to add functionality to gmpc. To name a few:

• Cover Amazon: Fetches album art, and album information from amazon.
• Lyric fetcher: Fetches lyrics from lyric wiki, leolyrics, etc.
• Magnatune: Allow you to browse and listen to albums on magnatune. It also fetches the album/artist art from magnatune.
• Server statistics: shows detailed information about mpd’s database.

You can get the Release Candidate here

Bugs can be reported here, or you can contact via IRC on #mpd on freenode.net

NOTE: To install gmpc you first need to install libmpd.  if you installed libmpd but gmpc cannot find it, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH. (export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib/pkgconfig/ )