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netRhythmbox 0.4.8 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2003-05-07 21:41. GStreamer

Colin Walters wrote:
netRhythmbox is a free music player and organizer for GNOME.

This should hopefully be the last bugfix release before the next major
version, 0.5.0, which will be released from CVS head. Incidentally, if you
have had crashing problems with netRhythmbox, I'd be interested to know
whether this release fixes them or not for you.
Overview of Changes in netRhythmbox 0.4.8
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* Fix some thread safety issues [Colin Walters]
* Attempt to work around some GStreamer bugs [Colin Walters]
* New GConf key to change XOSD color [Alex,Colin Walters]
* Popup menu for iradio [Colin Walters]
* "Add Location..." menu entry [Colin Walters]
* Some menu cleanups [Colin Walters]
* Better date display [Dave Rigby]
* Try to handle non-UTF-8 data in Internet Radio [Colin Walters]

Download
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http://web.verbum.org/net-rhythmbox/

Screenshot
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http://web.verbum.org/~walters/files/shots/42.html

Re: ALSA

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-05-09 06:44.

ALSA support in the GStreamer 0.6 series is broken. It does not work.That's why I told people to remove ALSA RPM support for 0.6.1.

I did a new ALSA output plugin in the 0.7 series (currently only available as cvs HEAD) that is pretty stable and that I plan to backport to 0.6 when I know that it works reliably.

Colin, me and some others are using it quite nicely, so you have pretty good chances for GStreamer 0.6.2

Some other things:

- If you are using ALSAs OSS simulation and have hickups while doing CPU intensive stuff: This will not go away by using ALSA directly. It will go away by using a low-latency kernel.

- Using ALSA directly is more buggy than ALSAs OSS emulation and not noticably of lower latency.

- The output plugin selection is availabe in GConf at /system/gstreamer/default. Some people might want to change this from "osssink", which is the default, to "esdsink", because they have Gnome's sound output enabled.

Your friendly GStreamer hacker ;)

Benjamin

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