xfce4-squeezebox-plugin update:

Consonance was supported ever since 2006 or so and is about to be replaced by pragha, available in the 4.6 branch.

Ever since xfce 4.8 was released, I was fighting with mysterious crashes when removing the plugin; rewrote it to become a .so to no avail. Now it runs, somewhat, but not yet stable. Available in the trunk.

Hopefully, the MPRIS2 patch I wrote for pragha will prove itself useful. Need to write a generic MPRIS2 backend…

The settings dialog has been upgraded; dynamic attachment to running clients, real configurable media buttons…

Unfortunately, in the last year the Player’s D-Bus APIs changed somewhat so currently only Mpd appears stable.

Consonance seems to be dead. Muine too.

The SqueezeBox plug-in for xfce4 is almost ready for going public.

Left to do is an automatic attach to running players, last one wins style.

Downloads:

• source package
• intrepid .deb

Welcome to my blog. It was about time for a change and coincidentally my provider just quit from my contract – I was plain too small for him.

With the new hosting, new techncial opportunities beyond static HTML arise as you can see by now – having all the possibilities of a linux server at your hands that is online 24/7 is a very pleasant thing for experiments and fun.