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GMPC Updates

Spend a lot of time today rewriting an important Widget in  GMPC, namely the widget tha...

March 24, 2013

GMPC gets QUEUE support, again

GMPC used to have this before when there was an implementation in MPD a few years back,...

March 17, 2013

Sunday 20 Jan. 2013

Because I have done a lot of little things, I will combine it into one post:GMPCFixed a...

January 20, 2013

Return of the forum

Yes, it is back, its fresh and mostly it is completely clean.But at least there is anot...

January 15, 2013

1309

Gtk+-3.0 can be very very frustrating. I am trying to get a label to ellipsize, sounds ...

January 11, 2013

GMPC Gtk+-3.0

I desired to sit down and finally do it, a first port of GMPC to GTK+-3.0.It still need...

January 09, 2013

GMPC, Stuffkeeper, GPX-Viewer, etc why did the development slow down?

Very simple, I am no longer a student (haven’t been for a while now) and I have a very ...

March 31, 2012

Fun Fact.

51% of the visitors on the GMPC website, visit it from a windows machine.. Curious…..

March 04, 2012

GMPC 12.4 Desktop

I like how this one looks, GLYR does a good job sometimes:Hopefully in MAY will have a ...

February 26, 2012

GMPC 11.8 Win32 Release

Thanks to Avuton, there is now a working windows 32 build of GMPC 11.8.You can download...

December 29, 2011

GMPC Windows Builds

Avuton has done some great work recently on the windows builds. So hopefully we can pro...

December 18, 2011

Users, bug reports and I am at a loss

Maybe I should just stop doing opensource stuff, it seems I am totally unsuited for thi...

December 16, 2011

GMPC Keybinding highlights

This is something I saw a long time ago in microsoft office and I recently discovered t...

November 09, 2011

Gnome Music Player 11.11,

When doing the latest release (11.8) I planned to make another release this month (11.1...

November 06, 2011

GMPC keybinding ‘help’

I have added something to GMPC today I wanted todo for a long time.I have fixed the key...

November 04, 2011

GMPC on tablet.

Today I (took almost no effort, beside compiling it) got GMPC (0.20 and git) to run on ...

October 28, 2011

Idea..

October 12, 2011

GMPC Sidebar work

I have been (Slowly) fiddling with the sidebar.This means the following changes: No mo...

October 11, 2011

GMPC Startup time

On PGO there been discussions about startup time of applications,e.g. here.The people o...

September 14, 2011

GMPC Usability leap

One of the biggest problem for potential GMPC users is setting MPD.People often experie...

August 26, 2011

GMPC 11.8

Gnome Music Player Client 11.8release: All hail the Gregdownload: here ...

August 17, 2011

Some new spit and polish in GMPC

Generated Cover art.  If GMPC cannot find a cover for your album, it will (as a last re...

July 25, 2011

GMPC Help

Most people that offered to help when I added the famous nag-screen, directly vanished ...

July 25, 2011

GMPC release 11.8

The plan is to release GMPC 11.8 at 13 August 2011.(so now I blogged about it, so I can...

July 24, 2011

GMPC Help

ManualOffered Jason is going to convert the existing documentation to docbook. (see he...

June 11, 2011

Nagscreen

I got so frustrated asking/pleading and begging for help, that I added a nagscreen to G...

June 09, 2011

Writing a lyrics provider plugin for GMPC

This is a quick (and dirty) tutorial on how to add provider plugin to GMPC.The plugin i...

May 28, 2011

GMPC startup time

Starting gmpc: ?View Code BASH 1234567891011121314151617181920212...

May 13, 2011

GMPC 11.6: Help Wanted

It almost feels like I am doing nothing else then pleading for help. But here we go aga...

April 30, 2011

GMPC MetaData Provider move

Metadata providers for GMPC are in a constant ‘flux’, today I noticed that lyricsplugin...

April 25, 2011

GMPC: Greyscale backdrops

If you want greyscale backdrops, add/edit the follow entry to your ~/.config/gmpc/gmpc....

April 22, 2011

GMPC, Now with extra bling

This is something I wanted since I saw it on an ARCHOS music player. The implementation...

April 21, 2011

GMPC: Still help required

GMPC will turn 8 years old somewhere in the next few months (I do not know the exact da...

April 17, 2011

GMPC Command line

I integrated the easy-command line into GMPC as a small command line.You can use this c...

April 16, 2011

Changing versioning scheme

I am going to change, gmpc will be the first, the versioning scheme I am using.New sche...

April 15, 2011

GMPC – SoundMenu integration

I had an hour yesterday and another one today on the train and I wrote a small plugins ...

March 28, 2011

GMPC Treeview tooltip

The gmpc treeview tooltip will stay. Greg (who host all gmpc sites and my all the rest ...

February 13, 2011

Cheating the poll

It seems somebody is trying hard to have the treeview tooltip stay in GMPC.The current ...

February 09, 2011

GMPC+MPD+SSH: Listen to your music from home at work

What do you need to get a nice, easy way, to play listen to your music you have at home...

February 06, 2011

GMPC Poll 2: Is the treeview tooltip used, and should we keep it.

On my blog a nice poll will show, allowing you to vote for keeping the treeview tooltip...

February 06, 2011

GMPC advanced settings

I recently, on request, added an advanced settings. This allows you to disable some ext...

February 06, 2011

Poll results

Given the poll result, I removed the rating from GMPC today. I will put up a new poll l...

February 04, 2011

Would you mind if I remove rating from GMPC.

When cirrus added sticker support to MPD, I added a basic ‘rating’ support to GMPC. But...

January 30, 2011

Need clarification

This happened on IRC today: 06:38:00              –> benhe...

January 25, 2011

Gnome Music Player Client – More elegant song list.

Today I have changed the songlist in the metadata browser from a columned list to somet...

January 16, 2011

GTK Question

I have a custom GtkContainer class that nicely  orders widgets in an array, supports he...

January 08, 2011

GMPC albumview slow.

I often get questions why the albumview plugin is slow when you scroll for the first ti...

January 08, 2011

plea for help: GMPC Manual

I am looking for somebody willing to expand and maintain the manual for GMPC.The curren...

December 31, 2010

Distance between developer and users

I had a discussion about this a little while back.  Is the distance between the user an...

December 27, 2010

GMPC what todo2?

What needs still needs to be done with GMPC?For the next release? from the top of my he...

December 20, 2010

GMPC what todo

What do you do to get help with your open-source project? Without it I do not see gmpc ...

December 19, 2010

GMPC Website

With a bit a shame I realized I probably forgot to mention that GMPC now has a website ...

November 11, 2010

Moving GMPC from libglade to GtkBuilder

Everything in gmpc has been moved to GtkBuilder a long time ago, however it was not pos...

November 08, 2010

Gnome Music Player Client updates and more

Because of the newly found drag and drop support (still unfinished) in gmpc, I thought ...

November 08, 2010

GMPC Manual

I put some effort (again) in getting some sort off GMPC Manual off the ground, the firs...

October 23, 2010

Real music and gmpc update

I probably posted this one before, but I just saw it again. This is what music on stage...

October 21, 2010

GMPC, re-instroducing a golden oldy

After having a discussion a while back with Greg, I decided to try to re-implement a go...

October 16, 2010

Does it scale? Yes it does

See this url: http://images.sarine.nl/gmpc-vmpc-1.15%20million%20songs.png

July 04, 2010

Gnome Music Player Client 0.20.0

This release is spit and polish release, on both the gui side: new icon theme (humanity...

April 03, 2010

Abusing gmpc-shout for visualization.

Who sais you need to use gmpc-shout for audio playback?Enter this as command (adjusted ...

February 14, 2010

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-...

February 07, 2010

Improved Now Playing view

October 03, 2009

GMPC 0.19.0

From Gnome Music Player Client </p> ...

September 19, 2009

GMPC 0.19.0 beta 1

GMPC 0.18.96From Gnome Music Player Client </p> ...

August 08, 2009

Sad times

from the lyrics wiki plugin: Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of...

August 03, 2009

New GMPC Feature: Guitar Tabs

With big thanks for syed (he wrote the provider plugin) GMPC now supports Guitar Tabs.A...

May 28, 2009

GMPC plugin: Album View

Several times before I tried to write a plugin that shows a list of all albums covers, ...

May 08, 2009

Corner case crasher that I could hardly imagine

In gmpc I have a function “process_itterate”  this handles (in idle time) the process_q...

May 07, 2009

Is this a real leak or not?

==29453== 338,848 (139,776 direct, 199,072 indirect) bytes in 182 blocks are definitely...

April 20, 2009

Lyric editing in gmpc

I just added this new feature:1. The lyric </p> The lyric is not avai...

April 13, 2009

GMPC Review

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1431400/a_review_of_gmpc_for_mpd_music_player....

April 10, 2009

Finally

Ever since 0.18.0 was released I started working on 2 larger changes in gmpc. GObject ...

March 24, 2009

Can somebody explain this

I am experiencing very very slow network performance.gmpc when trying to fetch from dis...

March 20, 2009

Gnome Music Player Client OsX app.

http://download.sarine.nl/GMPC.app.tar.bz2For intel mac, build on osX 1.05.Please test.

March 16, 2009

GObject based plugins and vala in GMPC

It is something I have been preparing for a while now and today I took the first step t...

March 12, 2009

[Grind my gears] Notification Daemon

The notification daemon nicely, and quietly, changed the api.* Text is now escaped in t...

March 11, 2009

Gnome Music Player Client 0.18.0

GMPC 0.18.0From Gnome Music Player ClientChanges sinceAdded features Global copy/pa...

March 09, 2009

GMPC 0.18.0-alpha 1:

Changes since 0.17.0 Added features Global copy/paste systemYou can now copy songs fr...

February 10, 2009

GMPC Win32 Installer and MP3 player upgrade

This morning I build a nice windows installer for gmpc.You can get it here. (yeah no lo...

February 06, 2009

Gmpc Easy Command

[flashvideo file=http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-easy-command.flv /]

February 03, 2009

Vala goodness in gmpc

I have been working on vala binding for gmpc, so I can use vala to code (new) parts of ...

February 02, 2009

GMPC: Server side rating support

Cirrus (the current mpd developer) started implementing “stickers”. These are tags you ...

January 20, 2009

Dirty hack mania

I got many reports from gmpc users (0.16.x users) that gmpc had a high cpu usage (5-6%)...

January 17, 2009

GMPC Play Audio CD

Commited a few minor changes to the mserver plugin. So you should be able to play an au...

January 16, 2009

Memory leaks and Still reachable

==3169====3169== 132,642 bytes in 172 blocks are still reachable in loss record 242 of ...

January 13, 2009

Gnome Music Player Client Memory usage

A massif profile of gmpc git with all plugins loaded and full database in magnatune and...

January 13, 2009

Database in a large XML file.

I wrote a jamendo plugin for gmpc a while back. To get the data I used the json interfa...

January 13, 2009

IconView slow hell

There was a post about a music client that showed all album covers in a huge list. I th...

December 31, 2008

Gtk On windows and icon theme issue – continued.

A long time ago I blogged about having issues with icon in gtk on windows.It refused to...

December 27, 2008

GMPC 0.17.0: ?? + ?? = ?

My christmas present to you all. GMPC 0.17.0 Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix res...

December 26, 2008

GMPC-git build script.

If you want to use the latest greatest git version, but don’t want the hassle of updati...

December 25, 2008

GMPC 0.17.0 Beta 2

Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a ...

December 14, 2008

GMPC: Mac OsX love

Now that I spend some time on fixing, improving gmpc on windows. It is time to make it ...

December 09, 2008

GMPC advanced playlist filter

Since the last git build, you can do search like:artist=eric clapton album=unpluggedIt ...

December 07, 2008

GMPC Windows

Get the builds:Slow: http://download.qballcow.nl/gmpc-win32/Faster mirror: http://downl...

December 06, 2008

GMPC on windows 32

I finally fixed a long standing crasher in the metadata plugins on windows, and fixed t...

December 05, 2008

Tip and Trick: Play an audio-cd using gmpc + mpd.

You have an audio cd you want to listen, preferable through mpd?This tip&trick will...

December 02, 2008

GMPC 0.17.0-beta 1

Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a f...

November 30, 2008

Selling my soul to the devil.

For years now I always said that I wouldn’t implement certain things. Because 1. I don’...

November 22, 2008

GMPC Last.FM radio support

It is not done, but it seems to be working:The integration is not perfect, but I wanted...

November 17, 2008

Reporting GTK+ bugs

5 months (or something like that) I reported a GtkVolume bug (see here ).The bug still ...

November 12, 2008

GMPC 0.16.5 beta 1: ?? + ?? = ?

Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a f...

November 10, 2008

IRC: GMPC channel

Server: irc.freenode.netChannel: #gmpc

November 06, 2008

GMPC Podcast plugin poll

Fill it in here

November 02, 2008

Sneaky slowness

I noticed, since I added similar song, that gmpc got slowish in the metadata browser.So...

October 28, 2008

GMPC 0.16.1 Hardy packages

I said I would not do it, but I did it anyway out of frustration:You can get packages f...

September 27, 2008

GMPC Tagline.

I haven’t posted a blog/rant in a long time (because of illness). As always I promise t...

September 25, 2008

GMPC 0.16.1: Still 100% gnome free

Bug fix release for 0.16.0.Changes from 0.16.0GMPC Fix lockup when entering wrong pas...

September 24, 2008

GMPC 0.16.0: Still 100% gnome free.

New Features and Fixes Rewritten current playlist backend. Improved playlist validat...

September 19, 2008

Gmpc 0.16.0 Beta 5: Still 100% gnome free.

Sorry about not blogging so long, been ill lately. This is another beta release for you...

September 15, 2008

Gmpc 0.16.0 Beta 2: Still 100% gnome free.

Changes from 0.15.98 Add check for mpd version. If it is to low give an error and dis...

August 12, 2008

Gmpc 0.16.0 Beta 1: Still 100% gnome free.

Gnome Music Player Client 0.16.0 Beta 1: Still 100% Gnome Free New Features Rewritte...

August 09, 2008

GMPC 0.15.5 Gutsy and Hardy packages.

I’ve added gutsy and hardy packages of gmpc 0.15.5 in my ppa. (plugins are still missin...

April 06, 2008

MdCover2, what does it do?

Some of you might have noticed I have added a mdcover2 plugin on my repository.Well mdc...

November 05, 2007

GMPC 0.15.5-rc2

This fixes several issues: Starting RC1 with old config file. Better checking of plug...

November 03, 2007

GMPC 0.15.5-rc1

A quick ‘n dirty Release Candidate 1 of gmpc 0.15.5 and a set of plugins.Some plugins v...

October 30, 2007

Something I didn’t know, but about as useful as it gets.

I needed to detect if the tray icon is embedded, or looses it.There is not a signal for...

October 28, 2007

Gmpc magnatune plugin memory reduction.

Being ill is not fun, but it does give you the time to tackle something that is been bu...

October 25, 2007

Moving gmpc/libmpd source repository

I have moved from svn to git. I will try to keep svn “in sync” but that will stop somew...

October 20, 2007

gmpc and mpd handling allot of music..

Well just playing around, I’ve created a playlist containing around 140.000 songs.The f...

August 03, 2007

GMPC getting better and better.

Alot of small fixes been done since the last release. A small list: Move to GtkStatusI...

July 27, 2007

GMPC on OLPC

It seems people at redhat uses mpd and gmpc, always fun to get these screenshots

July 26, 2007

Metadata Browser updates

http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist3.pnghttp://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist4....

June 17, 2007

gmpc bugfix release 0.15.1

Just a quick bugfix release. I found a memory leak in gmpc that was also available in t...

June 10, 2007

MPD Hack of the week

Well now that mpd 0.13.0 is released. Time to announce my mpd hack of the week.It doesn...

May 28, 2007

gmpc release 0.15.0

Changes: Support for server side playlist search (and has fall back for when it’s no...

May 19, 2007

gmpc 0.15 RC 2

Yet another release candidate. Some smaller fixes, cleanups etc.You can get it here, in...

May 16, 2007

gmpc e-mail

I just got this e-mail:----------------------------------------------------------------...

April 21, 2007

Nokia 770

I am looking for a nokia 770 to test gmpc on. But I don’t have the cash to buy one myse...

April 08, 2007

record my desktop and gmpc

Been playing a bit with recordmydesktop (and the gtk frontend), and this has been one o...

April 05, 2007

GMPC, tango love

Not only gtk got some tango love. But also gmpc got _some_ tango love last week. But un...

March 30, 2007

GMPC – Going Media-Box style

After seeing this screenshot, and a discussion about how to implement it (clutter, or c...

March 03, 2007

GMPC, Custom Treeview

I’ve wrote a small custom treeview implementation (200 lines of gob code), It takes a M...

March 01, 2007

Gnome Music Player Client 0.14.0

After too long, it’s finally here.. gmpc 0.14.0.A small list of some of the changes in ...

February 18, 2007

GMPC 0.14.0 Release Candidate 1

It’s finally here. gmpc 0.14.0 Release Candidate 1.This needs allot of testing, I am no...

February 03, 2007

gmpc

What is gmpc?gmpc, Gnome Music Player Client, is a graphical fronted for the music play...

December 09, 2006

The horror

Fedora core 6 ships gmpc 0.11.2 as latest version.That version is so old, that David (b...

December 08, 2006

Amazon Fun

I use amazon for fetching album info and cover art in gmpc. There been problems with fe...

November 17, 2006

gmpc libmpd version checking runtime

I’ve had alot of “bogus” bug reports lately, almost all caused by people having to libm...

November 13, 2006

gmpc memory usage 4

To make a more “fair” comparison of gmpc vs. f.e. sonate or pympd. I did another memory...

November 10, 2006

gmpc memory usage 2

I know it isn’t 100% fair comparison, bu this is a memory profile of sonate connected t...

November 09, 2006

gmpc memory usage 1

I did a quick memory usage check on gmpc today, and this is the result I got: (I̵...

November 08, 2006

Short HowTo on compiling gmpc from svn

I’ve wrote up a quick ‘n dirty howto on how to compile gmpc on ubuntu edgy. (should wor...

November 06, 2006

GMPC, a nice little addition

I wrote the following plugin for gmpc today, it shows some statistics about the mpd ser...

October 27, 2006

Libcurl bug crushed, I realy should RTFM

I’ve fixed my strange crasher in gmpc, in a tutorial on libcurl there was a hint that w...

October 24, 2006

Weird Crash

I’ve ran in the most weird problem with gmpc.Gmpc uses (and provides for plugins) gmpc_...

October 20, 2006

Libmpd updates

I haven’t done allot on libmpd in the last few month, mostly because it worked fine, bu...

September 28, 2006

MPD 0.12.0

Last week mpd 0.12 finally got released. It took almost 2 years for a new release. We s...

September 26, 2006