[rox-devel] MusicBox 0.0.12

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

Big Changes!

MusicBox is now very useable for both large playists and ad-hoc listening (IMHO).  It works like a cross between XMMS and Rythmbox/iTunes.  If you only want to play a few mp3/ogg files at a time just associate these files w/MusicBox.  If you have large lists load them up and then save them in one or more xml files (with the tag info all saved) so they load up fast later.  You can even apply a filter (needs more work/options) and save the filtered list.

Drag-n-drop works for all the above.  MusicBox now uses xmlrpc client/server code to find an already running instance and pass new songs/commands to that instead of loading another window.  This can/will probably be expanded to support pause/play/stop/next/prev and other commands; maybe even from another machine since it is using http as a transport.  Suggestions welcome.

If you install pyid3lib and id3lib support you will now get ID3v2 tag support.  Otherwise the previous ID3v1 support still exists.

Lots of code cleanup and crash/hang fixing.  It seems really stable here, but let me know if you have any problems.  I believe python 2.2 will still be enough to run MusicBox, but again, let me know if you have problems.

Try it, I think you'll like it :)


Translators: The UI should be quite stable now.

Ken

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Ken Hayber (kh...@so...)
Huntington Beach, CA