Release Digest: GNOME, January 28, 2004

gURLChecker 0.7.7

Application

gURLChecker 0.7.7 (unstable branch)

Description

gURLChecker is a graphic web links checker. It can work on a whole site, a single local page or a browser bookmarks file.

Enhancements

• Now using gnet API.
• Begun code documentation with gtk-doc. It can be find at: http://www.nongnu.org/gurlchecker/doc/.

Fixes

• gURLChecker is now very much less CPU consuming.
• Some URL parser debugging.

Download

http://labs.libre-entreprise.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gurlchecker

Muine 0.3.0

Application

Muine 0.3.0

Description

Muine is a new music player using some new UI ideas. The idea is that it will be much easier and comfortable to use than the iTunes model, which is used by both Rhythmbox and Jamboree. It is written in C and C#, using GStreamer for music playback.

Enhancements

• Automatically fetch missing album cover images from Amazon.com
• Multimedia key support
• Tray icon shows playback status
• Use replay gain information from Ogg Vorbis files
• Use performer tags to display performer information when available
• Check imported folders for changes on startup
• Clicking an M3U file in Nautilus will load it into Muine
• Various interface enhancements

Fixes

• Support multiple albums with the same name
• Various other bugfixes

Download

http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Muine/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/muine

Gnomoradio 0.9

Application

Gnomoradio 0.9

Description

Gnomoradio is a peer-to-peer music playing system that can read and understand Creative Commons licenses. In addition to playing local files, it has the ability to recommend, download, and play free music (mp3s and oggs) in a user-friendly way.

Enhancements

• More functionality added to right-click menu for songs
• added IntroDruid
• added PlaylistDruid (Matt)
• added song timer (Matt)

Fixes

• Now compatible with libxml++ 1.0 API
• Improvements to determining an ogg's title
• You can no longer start a second download of a resource while it is checking the checksum
• Other HubClient fixes
• OGG playing fixes
• radio playlist is now saved in configuration
• saves all configuration every 10 minutes in case of crash (and alarm now works finally)
• no longer needs esd running for mp3's to play (as long as the sample rate is standard)
• lots of fixes involving disabling Rainbow
• cancel now works in song path directory selector
• many changes in HttpServer
• changed the way downloads are signaled internally through SongList's
• fixed lots of packing issues
• fixed way state/next song is signaled to UI

Download

http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.9.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomoradio