Johannes' Blog

Gmu Music Player 0.9.1 released!

Here is a minor update to the previously released Gmu 0.9.0.

It comes with some new features and bugfixes, including:

• Volume control in gmuc Gmu ncurses interface
• Flush input buffer in gmuc when handling scrolling to allow for more precise scrolling on slower devices
• New Gmu command line option -l: Allows to specify a playlist file to load on start
• Minor update to the default theme with the large font (playback time was a little off-screen on small displays)
• README.txt update (adding some more information about gmuc)
• BUILD.txt update (adding some information about the various Makefile targets)
• Configuring gmuhttp to listen on external interfaces should work reliably now

It's been a long time, but here I am, back with a new Gmu release.



Gmu 0.9.0 comes with the lots of changes (and some bug fixes). Some of the most important ones are:

• A much nicer large font (Pandora default and compo themes, pixeled by hand :)
• Some additional characters in both large and small fonts (including the µ character due to popular request)
• A new ncurses terminal text frontend for Gmu (usable over the network!)
• Experimental WebSocket browser interface (also usable over the network)
• Support for Joystick axis control in SDL frontend (to support devices like the Caanoo, that come with analog controls exposed as a joystick)
• The current playmode is now always visible in playlist view in the SDL frontend
• Gmu has been changed such that it uses UTF-8 encoding internally for all text
• Support for building Gmu statically has been added (in addition to the default configuration where Gmu's frontends and decoders are build as runtime loadable plugins)

Since it has been a little quiet around the Gmu development, I wanted to give short sign of life.

Here is a new Gmu release with some new (long awaited) features. The two most notable features are internet streaming audio support and the graphical spectrum analyzer. Just like with the 0.7.0 series I start the 0.8.0 series with a beta release, mostly because there were many changes to the code base.



Changes since the last release include:

• Internet streaming audio support on network-enabled devices (for web radio, currently mp3 only)
• Graphical spectrum analyzer
• Support for PLS playlist files
• Fixed time display bug for very long playtimes
• Window icon for platforms running Gmu in a windowed environment
• By default Gmu's file browser now advances to the next file when adding a file (optional)

Probably less interesing for the ordinary user:

• Configurable verbosity on stdout (with the -v flag)

deeice from the #zipit irc channel has put together a Gmu package for IZ2S among several other things for IZ2S. So for those of you with uboot-less Zipits running IZ2S, go grab that package!