Spend a lot of time today rewriting an important Widget in GMPC, namely the widget tha...
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GMPC gets QUEUE support, again
GMPC used to have this before when there was an implementation in MPD a few years back,...
Because I have done a lot of little things, I will combine it into one post:GMPCFixed a...
Yes, it is back, its fresh and mostly it is completely clean.But at least there is anot...
Gtk+-3.0 can be very very frustrating. I am trying to get a label to ellipsize, sounds ...
I desired to sit down and finally do it, a first port of GMPC to GTK+-3.0.It still need...
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 ...
51% of the visitors on the GMPC website, visit it from a windows machine.. Curious…..
I like how this one looks, GLYR does a good job sometimes:Hopefully in MAY will have a ...
Thanks to Avuton, there is now a working windows 32 build of GMPC 11.8.You can download...
Avuton has done some great work recently on the windows builds. So hopefully we can pro...
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...
This is something I saw a long time ago in microsoft office and I recently discovered t...
When doing the latest release (11.8) I planned to make another release this month (11.1...
I have added something to GMPC today I wanted todo for a long time.I have fixed the key...
Today I (took almost no effort, beside compiling it) got GMPC (0.20 and git) to run on ...
I have been (Slowly) fiddling with the sidebar.This means the following changes: No mo...
On PGO there been discussions about startup time of applications,e.g. here.The people o...
One of the biggest problem for potential GMPC users is setting MPD.People often experie...
Gnome Music Player Client 11.8release: All hail the Gregdownload: here ...
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...
Most people that offered to help when I added the famous nag-screen, directly vanished ...
The plan is to release GMPC 11.8 at 13 August 2011.(so now I blogged about it, so I can...
ManualOffered Jason is going to convert the existing documentation to docbook. (see he...
I got so frustrated asking/pleading and begging for help, that I added a nagscreen to G...
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...
It almost feels like I am doing nothing else then pleading for help. But here we go aga...
Metadata providers for GMPC are in a constant ‘flux’, today I noticed that lyricsplugin...
If you want greyscale backdrops, add/edit the follow entry to your ~/.config/gmpc/gmpc....
This is something I wanted since I saw it on an ARCHOS music player. The implementation...
GMPC will turn 8 years old somewhere in the next few months (I do not know the exact da...
I integrated the easy-command line into GMPC as a small command line.You can use this c...
I am going to change, gmpc will be the first, the versioning scheme I am using.New sche...
I had an hour yesterday and another one today on the train and I wrote a small plugins ...
The gmpc treeview tooltip will stay. Greg (who host all gmpc sites and my all the rest ...
It seems somebody is trying hard to have the treeview tooltip stay in GMPC.The current ...
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...
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...
I recently, on request, added an advanced settings. This allows you to disable some ext...
Given the poll result, I removed the rating from GMPC today. I will put up a new poll l...
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...
Gnome Music Player Client – More elegant song list.
Today I have changed the songlist in the metadata browser from a columned list to somet...
I have a custom GtkContainer class that nicely orders widgets in an array, supports he...
I often get questions why the albumview plugin is slow when you scroll for the first ti...
I am looking for somebody willing to expand and maintain the manual for GMPC.The curren...
Distance between developer and users
I had a discussion about this a little while back. Is the distance between the user an...
What needs still needs to be done with GMPC?For the next release? from the top of my he...
What do you do to get help with your open-source project? Without it I do not see gmpc ...
With a bit a shame I realized I probably forgot to mention that GMPC now has a website ...
Moving GMPC from libglade to GtkBuilder
Everything in gmpc has been moved to GtkBuilder a long time ago, however it was not pos...
Gnome Music Player Client updates and more
Because of the newly found drag and drop support (still unfinished) in gmpc, I thought ...
I put some effort (again) in getting some sort off GMPC Manual off the ground, the firs...
I probably posted this one before, but I just saw it again. This is what music on stage...
GMPC, re-instroducing a golden oldy
After having a discussion a while back with Greg, I decided to try to re-implement a go...
See this url: http://images.sarine.nl/gmpc-vmpc-1.15%20million%20songs.png
Gnome Music Player Client 0.20.0
This release is spit and polish release, on both the gui side: new icon theme (humanity...
Abusing gmpc-shout for visualization.
Who sais you need to use gmpc-shout for audio playback?Enter this as command (adjusted ...
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-...
from the lyrics wiki plugin: Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of...
With big thanks for syed (he wrote the provider plugin) GMPC now supports Guitar Tabs.A...
Several times before I tried to write a plugin that shows a list of all albums covers, ...
Corner case crasher that I could hardly imagine
In gmpc I have a function “process_itterate” this handles (in idle time) the process_q...
==29453== 338,848 (139,776 direct, 199,072 indirect) bytes in 182 blocks are definitely...
I just added this new feature:1. The lyric </p> The lyric is not avai...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1431400/a_review_of_gmpc_for_mpd_music_player....
Ever since 0.18.0 was released I started working on 2 larger changes in gmpc. GObject ...
I am experiencing very very slow network performance.gmpc when trying to fetch from dis...
Gnome Music Player Client OsX app.
http://download.sarine.nl/GMPC.app.tar.bz2For intel mac, build on osX 1.05.Please test.
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...
[Grind my gears] Notification Daemon
The notification daemon nicely, and quietly, changed the api.* Text is now escaped in t...
Gnome Music Player Client 0.18.0
GMPC 0.18.0From Gnome Music Player ClientChanges sinceAdded features Global copy/pa...
Changes since 0.17.0 Added features Global copy/paste systemYou can now copy songs fr...
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...
[flashvideo file=http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-easy-command.flv /]
I have been working on vala binding for gmpc, so I can use vala to code (new) parts of ...
GMPC: Server side rating support
Cirrus (the current mpd developer) started implementing “stickers”. These are tags you ...
I got many reports from gmpc users (0.16.x users) that gmpc had a high cpu usage (5-6%)...
Commited a few minor changes to the mserver plugin. So you should be able to play an au...
Memory leaks and Still reachable
==3169====3169== 132,642 bytes in 172 blocks are still reachable in loss record 242 of ...
Gnome Music Player Client Memory usage
A massif profile of gmpc git with all plugins loaded and full database in magnatune and...
I wrote a jamendo plugin for gmpc a while back. To get the data I used the json interfa...
There was a post about a music client that showed all album covers in a huge list. I th...
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...
My christmas present to you all. GMPC 0.17.0 Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix res...
If you want to use the latest greatest git version, but don’t want the hassle of updati...
Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a ...
Now that I spend some time on fixing, improving gmpc on windows. It is time to make it ...
Since the last git build, you can do search like:artist=eric clapton album=unpluggedIt ...
Get the builds:Slow: http://download.qballcow.nl/gmpc-win32/Faster mirror: http://downl...
I finally fixed a long standing crasher in the metadata plugins on windows, and fixed t...
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...
Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a f...
For years now I always said that I wouldn’t implement certain things. Because 1. I don’...
It is not done, but it seems to be working:The integration is not perfect, but I wanted...
5 months (or something like that) I reported a GtkVolume bug (see here ).The bug still ...
GMPC 0.16.5 beta 1: ?? + ?? = ?
Changes since 0.16.1 GMPC Fix building with NLS disabled. Fix resize issue. Add a f...
I noticed, since I added similar song, that gmpc got slowish in the metadata browser.So...
I said I would not do it, but I did it anyway out of frustration:You can get packages f...
I haven’t posted a blog/rant in a long time (because of illness). As always I promise t...
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...
GMPC 0.16.0: Still 100% gnome free.
New Features and Fixes Rewritten current playlist backend. Improved playlist validat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some of you might have noticed I have added a mdcover2 plugin on my repository.Well mdc...
This fixes several issues: Starting RC1 with old config file. Better checking of plug...
A quick ‘n dirty Release Candidate 1 of gmpc 0.15.5 and a set of plugins.Some plugins v...
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...
Gmpc magnatune plugin memory reduction.
Being ill is not fun, but it does give you the time to tackle something that is been bu...
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...
gmpc and mpd handling allot of music..
Well just playing around, I’ve created a playlist containing around 140.000 songs.The f...
GMPC getting better and better.
Alot of small fixes been done since the last release. A small list: Move to GtkStatusI...
It seems people at redhat uses mpd and gmpc, always fun to get these screenshots
http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist3.pnghttp://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist4....
Just a quick bugfix release. I found a memory leak in gmpc that was also available in t...
Well now that mpd 0.13.0 is released. Time to announce my mpd hack of the week.It doesn...
Changes: Support for server side playlist search (and has fall back for when it’s no...
Yet another release candidate. Some smaller fixes, cleanups etc.You can get it here, in...
I just got this e-mail:----------------------------------------------------------------...
I am looking for a nokia 770 to test gmpc on. But I don’t have the cash to buy one myse...
Been playing a bit with recordmydesktop (and the gtk frontend), and this has been one o...
Not only gtk got some tango love. But also gmpc got _some_ tango love last week. But un...
After seeing this screenshot, and a discussion about how to implement it (clutter, or c...
I’ve wrote a small custom treeview implementation (200 lines of gob code), It takes a M...
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 ...
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...
What is gmpc?gmpc, Gnome Music Player Client, is a graphical fronted for the music play...
Fedora core 6 ships gmpc 0.11.2 as latest version.That version is so old, that David (b...
I use amazon for fetching album info and cover art in gmpc. There been problems with fe...
gmpc libmpd version checking runtime
I’ve had alot of “bogus” bug reports lately, almost all caused by people having to libm...
To make a more “fair” comparison of gmpc vs. f.e. sonate or pympd. I did another memory...
I know it isn’t 100% fair comparison, bu this is a memory profile of sonate connected t...
I did a quick memory usage check on gmpc today, and this is the result I got: (I̵...
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...
I wrote the following plugin for gmpc today, it shows some statistics about the mpd ser...
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...
I’ve ran in the most weird problem with gmpc.Gmpc uses (and provides for plugins) gmpc_...
I haven’t done allot on libmpd in the last few month, mostly because it worked fine, bu...
Last week mpd 0.12 finally got released. It took almost 2 years for a new release. We s...