This morning I (very belatedly) committed a monster patch from David Schneider which extends the Wikipedia plugin to also be able to query autolyrics.com for the currently playing track. Building upon David’s awesome parsing backend, this makes it integrate well with Banshee. What does this mean for you? No more asking yourself, “What IS (insert favorite artist here) saying?!?!” The answer is a lot closer than you think.
It’s as easy as pie - just download from the Banshee subversion repository. Check out the Banshee Plugin Repository for how to get it!
Now what I’m really looking for is this - I need your feedback. The Wikipedia plugin now does more than just display wikipedia pages, it also does lyrics. Thus, it needs a new name. Anyone have any grand ideas? The winner with the best idea…I dont know…will get…voice on IRC for a day…or something.
Of course, the obligatory screenshot:
Last night the addition of MTP support to Banshee landed in CVS HEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s true! The days of command line interfaces for your snazzy new Creative, iRiver, etc. player are nearly over. All you have to do is TRY IT! Just grab Banshee from CVS and run autogen.sh with the –enable-mtp flag. Oh and yes, be sure you’re running libgphoto2 from SVN trunk with the C# bindings installed. It’s that easy! I’ll be publishing more “how to get started” docs soon.
Yes, your Creative Zen Micro (or other supported MTP player), is ready for use.
Bug reports, feedback, suggestions, hate mail should be either filed on the GNOME Bugzilla under product Banshee, component MTP, or emailed to me.
So I’m pleased to announce that another linux user has had a smooth upgrade to the modular X.org. I’ve spent the last 24 hours making a jump from xorg 6.8.2 to 7.1, and right now I’m in the process of remerging a bunch of packages that depend on X just for sanity’s sake. It’s exciting to see Xorg already on a 7.1 release - the power of the modular system is clearly paying off.
They all still run from the looks of it, but it can’t hurt to rebuild things to recognize any library changes. This was all inspired by a quest of mine the other day to get DRI support working again, which I haven’t had in years on my ugly Radeon 9200. I bought this card ‘cos it was cheap, and I had no idea that ATI had created a separate chip (rv280) just so that developers would spend little time on it and the support would be flaky. Regardless, with the modern invention of MergedFB (and me actually getting it working), I now have dual monitor with full acceleration support, using the xorg drivers. Sweet, I say!
The next step in cooking up some X server changes is to demo up XGL on here. I hear that dual monitor support is in need of some love, and that most Radeon 9200 cards don’t work properly with XGL. Sounds like my kind of daunting quest!
In other tabs open on my browser right now…yes folks, it’s true, THE TOUR DE FRANCE STARTS IN LESS THAN A MONTH! July 1st, to be exact! This will be the first year I ever have to spend these 22 days of bliss without a TV to watch it, so streaming radio applications, don’t fail me now!
I haven’t written any code in a while…seems i’ve got a bit of coder’s block. I don’t know what’s going on…
Finally…the reason I haven’t posted in a while…I’ve moved my web hosting to a new company, 1 and 1. They’ve been pretty good to me (a lot better than my old host, who will remain nameless). It seems that 1and1 is caching my homepage tho, so trick.vanstaveren.us still is borked even tho the files are there. I’ve also had the ability to get sting.vanstaveren.us up and pointing to sting, my router & server box, to host some things like a little subversion repo for my crazier code, and other fun things :). It also seems that Charter is a bunch of bitches and won’t open port 80 for me - they want me to buy their business package ($150/month) for that. Ass holes.
