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.

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

Downloads:

• source package
• intrepid .deb

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