[gap-discuss] Announce: MPDCon 1.4

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

MPDCon 1.4

The GAP Team is pleased to announce that MPDCon 1.4 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 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
* Lyrics Inspector, connecting to lyrics.wikia.com to retrieve lyrics of
current song
* Song Inspector

Prerequisites to use MPDCon:

* You need an MPD server running somewhere
* to build MPDCon, you need: 
  * a recent libmpdclient library
  * GNUstep SQLClient library, at least with a SQLite3 backend

Changes in version 1.4:
* Its now possible to rate songs in the playlist (give 0-5 stars, Idea stolen 
from Grr)
* New Playlist inspector
  * allows to configure a random feed of songs to the Playlist
  * the random feed may be based on the song ratings
  * idea inspired on the perl scripts mp-dynamic and mpd-rate
* retrieved lyrics from the Web is now cached in SQLite3 database
* new dependency: GNUstep SQLClient library
* other bugfixes and little enhancements

Where to get it:

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

http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html

Enjoy!
The GAP Team