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Things are shaping up

here are the latest smart-add dock

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pMusic 4 vs 3

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Since Spotify added playlist-groups the other day, I found best to supports this as well
In pMusic the corresponding feature is called Favorite groups

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Updated the NAD theme, the FAQ and the default frontend for pMusic 4

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Uploaded a fresh index for radio-stations


Sigmund

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Uploaded new versions of the frontends LowPowered and Wings to cooperate with pMusic 4

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Version 4.0.0
See main post

Changelog
- Bump dependencies to gtkdialog-svn_512
- Sourcelist.
. . . .- Right-click menu for Favorites/Music/File/Dir management.
. . . .- Multiple selection.
. . . .- Expand/collapse playlists by doubleclick.
. . . .- Icons for playlist and track (with rating indication).
. . . .- 'Repair playlist' is moved here from main menu.
- Favorites - New module.
. . . .- Replaces Bookmarks, Multiple playlists and Overview.
. . . .- Cooperates with the rating module.
. . . .- New internal playlist file-format (pmd) that contains info from db.
. . . .- Possible to group favorite playlists.
. . . .- Default favorite marks is $HOME and Jamendo Top100
- Moved from single-click to double-click for main actions.
- MyMusic DB
. . . .- Include DB-editor
. . . .- Remove menuitems tracks/collections from Music_sources menu
. . . .- Do not include files from /incomplete/ dir (streamripper).
. . . .- Use album column for pmu-albums (pmusic generated).
. . . .- Improve file locking to avoid db corruption.
. . . .- Save backup of db when doing a full indexing.
- Repair playlist / rebuild album.
. . . .- Moved from main menu to right-click menu in sourcelist
. . . .- Auto-repair when adding tracks from playlists. Searching db for similar info.
. . . .- New dialog to manually set missing source. Right-click in sourcelist or trackinfo - albumtab.
- Radio-Hits
. . . .- Right-click menu to browse and add to favorites.
. . . .- Remove sub-menu in main gui.
. . . .- Add radiohits dir to favorites when preset is saved.
- Browsing.
. . . .- Show icons.
. . . .- Do only search symlinks for directories.
. . . .- Expand/collapse playlists.
. . . .- Bugfix: Add a track from a dir NOT in db should update db with all tracks in dir.
- Search.
. . . .- Separate collections into My Playlists and pMusic albums.
. . . .- Tooltip-markup for search-field
. . . .- Default info-text (instead of $HOME) in search-field.
. . . .- If no 'collections' is found, skip heading(s).
- Playque.
. . . .- Right-click menu: Deactivate also icons for deactivated items.
. . . .- If source isn't found, search alternative source in db.
- Rating.
. . . .- Also provide icon to tracks rating.
- Smartadd.
. . . .- Rating filter.
. . . .- Set source.
- Dialog 'Db mismatch...'
. . . .- Bugfix: Move entire directory failed.
. . . .- Bugfix: Move entire directory could lead to double entries in db.
. . . .- Bugfix: Fix links in trackinfo album-tab.
. . . .- Bugfix: Lock db while updating.
- Webmusic
. . . .- Allow https streams.
. . . .- Bugfix: Jamendo has moved URL and ffmpeg doesn't support the new https location. We pipe it through wget.
- Trackinfo.
. . . .- Bugfix: Album: Update track-list is same artist but different album.
- Playmode has got its own menu.
- All builtin grapichs are now svg.
- Improved CD-audio detection.
- Updated FAQ.
. . . .- Explained rating model.
. . . .- Mostly removed not relevant stuff.
- Updated NAD theme.
- Updated Manager frontend with more accurate placement of volume slider.
- Removed function file box_progress --> not in use.
- Removed frame around now-playing svg in main gui.
- Updated info in about dialog.
- Top Hits plugin.
. . . .- Don't close window after building list.
. . . .- Include in pMusic pet.
. . . .- Option to add new list to favorites.
. . . .- Default date is set today.
- Bugfix: Add playlist externally: show filename default in save-dialog.
- Bugfix: Open pmu from Rox --> play/pause icon fails.
- Bugfix: import m3u list: Use current path if path is invalid
- Bugfix: Add m3u that contains link to non-existing file.
- Bugfix: Statusbar too narrow in Puppy Raring. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Build DB with meta-tags if no mymusic db file doesn't already exist.
- Bugfix: Quick update of DB when adding tracks via a playlist file.
- Bugfix: missing gettext info in pmusic_cd. (thanks to robwoj44)
- Bugfix: open pMusic with all tracks in dir with command 'pmusic /dir' doesn't work (thanks to PaulR)
- Bugfix: About: Link to gtkdialog kept graphical theme of pMusic.

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This post will be used to post extra stuff/info about the 4. generation of pMusic
Main post in this thread is linked here - Release notes.


4.0.x Highlights

• The new Favorites-module replaces bookmarks, multiple playlists and overview.
  
• Right-click menus has given a simplified workflow/gui with enhanced features (like playlist/file management).
  
• Sourcelist now supports multiple selection. In combination with right-click options this makes management much more powerful.
  
• The handling of the dynamic DB is now so good that searching is preferred over browsing.
  
• Tighter integration of RadioHits Grabber and TopHits plugin.
  
• All graphics/themes are now svg.
  
• The rating module is extended to also use graphics, but still lighting fast.
  
• Complete changelog here.

4.0.x Notes

• Version upgrade from version 3.x.x is ok, but not from 2.x.x. For a fresh install, please remove /root/.pmusic/
  
• pMusic 4 does NOT use UTF-8 when internally working with the db (grep). If anyone meets issues regarding this, I really want to hear. There is a global variable to change this in line 15 in /usr/local/pmusic/pmusic.
  
• Some features didn't make it into this release, but things are not stopping here...
  
• This release require an updated gtkdialog - attached.
  
• Note to Precise/Racy/Lucid users; You might think that the builtin ffmpeg-0.8 is too old since pMusic 3/4 requires 0.11. BUT, most will work ok with ffmpeg-0.8. pMusic take advantage of new features in 0.11 (ie. embedding of albumart into audio-files), but core functions are untouched.

Sigmund

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I have attached a gtkdialog pet for Precise in previous post.

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Hello Sigmund,

Been doing a bit of quick testing of pMusic 4.0.0
Looks good in Slacko (except for missing tray app icon - see below).

In Precise (and other Puppies with earlier JWM) the menu icon is missing because of not supporting .svg icons I think. Maybe you need to include a .png icon somewhere to cover this. Files and streams are playing with the libav-0.8.x (ffmpeg substitute).

Not sure if you are intending to support Wary/Racy with pMusic 4.0.0 but I compiled gtkdialog r514 in Racy and installed pMusic. The Hoovers music plays but there is no GUI. Console shows a segmentation fault

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I have added a link in the main post to the 4.0.0 notes



4.0.0 Highlights

• The new Favorites-module replaces bookmarks, multiple playlists and overview.
  
• Right-click menus has given a simplified workflow/gui with enhanced features (like playlist/file management).
  
• Sourcelist now supports multiple selection. In combination with right-click options this makes management much more powerful.
  
• The handling of the dynamic DB is now so good that searching is preferred over browsing.
  
• Tighter integration of RadioHits Grabber and TopHits plugin.
  
• All graphics/themes are now svg.
  
• The rating module is extended to also use graphics, but still lighting fast.
  
• Complete changelog here.

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4.0.0 Release Notes

OscarTalks
Thank you for looking at pMusic!

Missing icon in Precise
Yeah, the version of JWM in Precise is rather old, and does not support svg. Hmmm, what am I gonna do about it? Do we actually support pMusic 4 on Precise, Wary, Lucid and Racy? Hmm... I let it go for now - it is no showstopper.

Sigmund

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4.0.0 Release Notes

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4.0.0 Release Notes

Missing icon in trayapp is noted. I wonder if the trayapp supports svg? (Does it Mick?) Maybe we need a png anyway...
For those wondering , - The trayapp is NOT a part of pMusic 4. It is an external plugin, and can be installed via the 'File' menu.


Sigmund

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4.0.0 Release Notes