[LAU] Re: [LAA] [ANN] New AlsaPlayer releases

[Dragan Noveski]

Dominique Michel wrote:
> AlsaPlayer license is changed to GPL-v3. In consequence, all the AlsaPlayer
> related packages are updated.
>
> AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries
> to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very
> interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players.
>
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>  
> AlsaPlayer-0.99.80-rc2 is the new GTK2 release of this versatile audio player. 
>  
> A lot of debugging and improvements has been made on the GTK2 interface (and
> under the surface too). The GTK1 interface was removed in the process. 
> GTK2 is now fully internationalized and a few languages are provided. 
>  
> Extended header support in mp3 file is added, so the console will not complain
> anymore about this, and the user's experience is improved. 
> Every user is encouraged to upgrade AlsaPlayer and help with development, bug
> reports, feature requests, translations... 
> We need your help with a few things:  
> * Bug reports  
> * Feature requests  
> * Artwork contributions  
> * Translation for more languages and improvement of the existing ones. 
>  
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>  
> FftSope-1.0.6 
>  
> FftScope is a nice visualization plugin for AlsaPlayer. 
>  
> It is now under GPL-v3 and the GTK1 interface is removed from the package. 
>  
> The GTK2 interface provide the same level of functionality as before. 
>  
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>  
> python-alsaplayer-0.3.1 
>  
> These are python bindings for the AlsaPlayer library. The intent is to provide
> a set of bindings that closely mirror the C library, leaving more complex
> functionality for purely python modules. This release update the license to
> GPL-v3 or later. 
>
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>  
> This is the initial release of this midi input plugin for alsaplayer. 
>  
> It is derived from Tuukka Toivonen's TiMidity and reflects the work of a number
> of other people (see AUTHORS). 
> Compile and install it in alsaplayer's input/ plugin directory, install a
> soundfont, then you can play midi files with alsaplayer. 
>
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>  
> I hope you will enjoy those releases and AlsaPlayer's very nice GTK2 interface!
>
>
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dominique, very much thanks for the new rc!

as i see, alsaplayer does not starts automatically anymore - really good.

listening to some music right now!

cheers,
doc