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New Muine Extensions

Submitted by knipknap on Wed, 2005-11-30 16:05. Gnome Multimedia
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Muine is a music player for the GNOME desktop that focuses on being very easy to use. Two new versions of cool plugins for Muine have just been released.

Muinescrobbler

A new version of Muine's Audioscrobbler plugin Muinescrobbler has just been released. This version features a complete new GUI that tries to integrate better with GNOME and to follow the GNOME HIG.

The homepage is here.
Screenshots are here.
Download here.

McReceiver

McReceiver is a project attempting to create better support for using GNOME multimedia players with a remote control. It is different from MPD in that it integrates better with GNOME and remains in sync with the application on the server. So if you press the start button in Muine, the client will also reflect that change in it's user interface. If you add a song to the playlist on the client, the playlist in Muine will also be updated.

McReceiver comes with a server that is currently implemented as a Muine plugin, but was written with portability in mind. Development snapshot 0.3 has just been released, you can also look at a screenshot.

The announcement of the server is also a call for help - a generic client library is needed, and McReceiver will also feature an easy-to-use client for the Nokia 770. If you are a developer and would like to hack on some code, leave a comment or drop me an email and I am going to hand out SVN access.
If you would like to port the server to another application, also let me know.

RB & Muine

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-12-01 02:55.

I agree - it's like spatial vs browser Nautilus. I use both, each for different things.

Personally, I think Muine is a better model overall, though. If Muine got an additional music browsing feature and a "party shuffle" feature like iTunes, I think it'd cover its weaknesses against RB.

On the other hand, RB could stop presenting that extremely fragile "live search query" as the "playlist" (ICKY ICKY POO!), and develop something like a traditional XMMS playlist in which items are manually added and removed (but with a nice search feature for adding songs), that'd steal much of Muine's thunder.

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