What's new, pussycat...

Here I am, sitting on the train, again, trying to think about finally using the status bar in Sound Juicer. But I'm tired and I hurt: my back is disagreeing with sitting down after just having got up, and a few days ago I managed to bruise the tendons in my right hand. Oh joy.

Yesterday I totally rewrote sj-extracting., the cause of many bugs in Sound Juicer. I'll test and commit it today (after resisting the urge to commit without testing last night), and will then do a new release, which will truly rule, of course.

A few days ago Helix released the first beta of their media player. I have fond memories of Bastien building their SDK on this iBook, muttering away, before cursing and taking his iBook to the Helix stand to poke them about the latest stupidity he found. There were plans to try and get Helix to use Totem as a front end for their player, as it has a pluggable backend (currently it can use Xine or GStreamer) and a totally sweet interface, but they didn't in the end. Turns out they've written a poor Totem clone, really. Totem doesn't have to start [image] worrying [image] yet [image].

In Debian news, we've managed to get GNOME 2.2 into testing and GNOME 2.4 into unstable, a feat which only took a week. Many thanks to Sebastien Bacher who did most of the initial work!

09:16 Friday, 24 Oct 2003 [#] [computers] (1 comments)

Posted by anon at Fri Oct 24 16:36:18 2003:
I can't believe Helix glossed over Totem in favour of their own gui (which isn't all that impressive).  Oddly, the Helix player seems to have created quite a stir and I'm not quite sure if it's because of it being backed by Real, it being a pain to download due to its licensing and registration requirement, or on a positive note, it including a browser plugin.

Totem is the nicest media player I've used (and wonderfully, crack-free) - a browser plugin would be nice though :)

A proper media player and a nice lightweight, integrated, CD ripper are really essentials for a home desktop - Totem and Sound Juicer are headed in a better direction than any other candidates I've seen.

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