As some of you may know, I’m going to move to London in one month, with my girlfriend. Of course I’m also changing job, I’ve found a great company, where I’ll do advanced perl programming, refactoring, and so on, something I really like 🙂 I’ll tell you more once I’m there.
As a side effect, I’m not really active these days, hopefully this will change once we have moved.
*Back home* ! we had a nice time this week at the “LSM 2006”:http://www.rmll.info/?lang=en. It’s over now, but I’ve taken some pictures, among them the Gentoo booth we held to sell 2006.0 livecds. It worked pretty well, even if all the costs are not coverd.
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I went last weekend to Toulouse with friends of mine, to take some rest, and do some outdoor climbing. Pictures here
Voil
Looks like I’m evil !
I’m using mpd for a long time, several years now. At the time, I quickly understood that the mpd clients GUI were buggy, badly features or non-ergonomic. So I use the fantastic ncmpc ncurses client. But lately I checked pympd again, and decided to give a try to the 0.06 version. I only tested the 0.05 which was still buggy with mp3 radio streams and had other minor problems. But pympd > 0.06 just rocks ! it is as usable as the ncurses based ncmpc, and adds nifty features, like displaying covers of the current song, a powerful database search, and being able to save playlists. I have tested every single GUI mpd clients available on the mpd wiki page (both stable and experimental clients) that run on linux, and don’t use java (I don’t like java). pympd is the best imho.
A music player is something very sensitive. It should do the job well and quickly, and not stay in your way. If you’re looking for a decentralized persistent music player system with a lightweight powerful ergonomic GUI, I recommend using mpd+pympc 🙂
So, kudos to the pympd developpers !