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On Jul 19 2008, we released the first ALPHA version of MPX/AudioSource. It is stable and you can use it just fine to listen to your music, what is really alpha about it is the featureset, to use a generic term.
Current release is ALPHA6 (ALPHA6-Mon-Sep-15-2008-1).
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Binaries
Jacek Wolszczak (shutdownrunner) writes:
Hi Adding this to /etc/apt/sources.list will enable SID users to test audiosource without compiling a thing. deb http://shutdownrunner.netiz.pl/audiosource/ binary/ I accidently set audiosource-dbg as a dependency of audiosource package, but since it's still alpha software, I'm not going to fix this. I'll try to keep this as up-to-date as possible. With a bit of tweaking of debian/* files one should be able to create packages for Ubuntu and Debian testing. I'll upload them to ftp later, so that someone else with proper distro could adjust them to their needs. Packages are not signed, but apart from that everything should work ok. Any comments or feedback appreciated.
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.
