[gap-discuss] Announce: MPDCon-1.2

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

MPDCon 1.2

The GAP Team is pleased to announce that MPDCon 1.2 is now available from
the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org).

MPDCon is a graphical MPD client application for querying and playing
music on an MPD Server (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki).

MPDCon was initially written by Daniel Luederwald. The original homepage
is gone, but the old site on SourceForge is still available. He was so
kind to allow us giving this nice tool a new home on GAP.

MPDCon Features:

    * Player, allows you to change repeat and shuffle modes as well as
      crossfade on the server
    * watch and manipulate the current playlist
    * manage playlists
    * browse the whole music collection

Prerequisites to use MPDCon:

    * You need an MPD server running somewhere
    * to build MPDCon, you need a recent libmpdclient library

Changes in the new Version 1.2:

    * This is the first GAP release of MPDCon. Notably changes:
      * do not link MPDCon against old bundled libmpdclient,
        link against recent libmpdclient (due to API changes, a
        complete rewrite of MPDController.m was needed)
      * new preference: Server Timeout
      * have some sane defaults in the preferences
      * show Genre in the playlist, and allow filtering for it
      * automatic update of the Collection Interface in case the
        collection was updated on the server
      * lots of other minor bug fixes and syle nits

Where to get it:

>From the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org) on the
MPDCon page:

http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html
Note: it may take some time until the tarball is synchronized to
a mirror near you.

Enjoy!
The GAP Team