Source
On Jul 19 2008, we released the first ALPHA version of MPX/AudioSource. Current release is ALPHA4 (ALPHA4-Sun-Aug-03-2008-1).
README.1ST
This _IS_ an alpha release so some if not all things are not yet where we want them; stability shouldn't be an issue though. In particular what may be not obvious:
* You should install webkit, and pywebkit to make use of the TrackInfo?-WebKit? plugin; this will be later changed to -- no, not into dropping the WebKit? dependency :P -- have the browser component be not in a plugin, but rather a centralized part of the app, much like in SongBird but not exactly so.
* AudioSource greatly benefits from you having your music tagged with MusicBrainz metadata, so go and grab MusicBrainz Picard, and give your music a spin through it
* The "Last.fm View" in the Music Library is actually just one of many views already finished and/or planned, but we don't have the modular GUI to represent them yet, so for now, one view is statically included
* If you want to use Last.fm, you can, but.. you have to edit the configuration file yourself. Open up an editor, and open (after running and exiting AS at least once): ~/.config/mpx/config.xml. There, find the section <domain id="lastfm">, and enter your username and password into the keys "password" and "username"; this will enable the "I Love this Track!" functionality and allow you to listen to Last.fm radio via AS
* Video works, but support isn't great; just add video files to the playlist and watch them in the "Now Playing" tab.
* The "Playlist Tooltip" plugin should be used with caution as currently it does a synchronous http retrieval of Last.fm tags for the given track, it should be only used for trial purposes and not kept permanently activated.
Source code
Mercurial repository: http://hg.backtrace.info/mpx
You will need Glib 2.16 and taglib-gvfs: http://hg.backtrace.info/taglib-gvfs/trunk , and additionally a lot of other dependencies, be prepared! All should be installable on Ubuntu 8.04 from default package sources.
Documentation
To get started contributing to AudioSource, you can check out:
Screenshots
Screenshot, and yet another screenshot; more screenshots on the AudioSource page.
