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GMPC, a new release is due. Maybe!

February 07, 2010

Tags General gmpc Grind My Gears

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:

Changes in the upcoming release (not complete):

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.