Wednesday, September 23, 2009
XMMS2 Conference 2010 announced
We are planning to do a XMMS2 Con next year. Please visit this page to announce your interest: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/XMMS2Con2010
Saturday, May 9, 2009
XMMS2's GSoC '09: 3 exciting projects!
Flowers blossom, birds sing and the sun is starting to shine higher and brighter and later every day. You know what it means: time to go out and find a nice spot in the shade, unfold your laptop and start hacking for it's summer — Summer of Code!
This year again, we were lucky to be accepted as an organization for the Google Summer of Code. Due to some logistic and organizational hazards, we're only running 3 slots this year, but it's more like a concentrate of amazing projects!
See for yourself:
cippo will tackle the almost mythical New Medialib Backend (AKA S4) project (GSoC entry), which aims at replacing our SQLite backend with a more suitable solution adapted to what we use it for, namely a key-value store for media (see the wikipage). Our very own and very bearded anders will be his mentor to make sure it all turns out even smarter than we expected.
Although the latest iteration of collections has seen a lot of performance optimizations, we still hope that this could bring even better performance. However, we're also interested in improving the memory footprint (incl. reducing duplicate data), alleviate locking problems (BUSY EVENT!), allow smart/dynamic hierarchy of metadata (e.g. attach a cover image to the album entity rather than each individual media) and wrap it all together using collections as a query mechanism. It's all very new and experimental, and that's why it's so cool!
Our second student, CaffineeHacker, will work on Cross Fade (GSoC entry), by making the xform chain persistent. A refactoring of the xform infrastructure is indeed needed to carry effects across song changes; optionally, the rework might allow "xforms to transmit data in the frequency domain instead of having each xform that uses frequency domain do an FFT". The project has been around for a while and we're happy to run it this year, mentored by rafl!
Finally, we're happy to get greafine back for another round of GSoC this year. He'd done a great job on nycli last year (freshly released in DrMattDestruction!), and his application left no doubt that he was The Man to work on a very exciting, long-awaited project: a grand new GUI client for XMMS2 (GSoC entry)!
The basic idea is, quite simply, to build the most awesome music player known to mankind, and while it might not be suitable for everyone, we're committed to make it follow a strong and original vision aligned with that of XMMS2. You can read more about that on the Planet, and more specifically on tru's and theefer's blogs. Incidentally, theefer will be mentoring this project.
We look forward to working with the students on all those great projects!
And meanwhile, works continue to merge nesciens' Collections 2.0 for the next release, and get GenIPC and Service Clients in as well!
This year again, we were lucky to be accepted as an organization for the Google Summer of Code. Due to some logistic and organizational hazards, we're only running 3 slots this year, but it's more like a concentrate of amazing projects!
See for yourself:
cippo will tackle the almost mythical New Medialib Backend (AKA S4) project (GSoC entry), which aims at replacing our SQLite backend with a more suitable solution adapted to what we use it for, namely a key-value store for media (see the wikipage). Our very own and very bearded anders will be his mentor to make sure it all turns out even smarter than we expected.
Although the latest iteration of collections has seen a lot of performance optimizations, we still hope that this could bring even better performance. However, we're also interested in improving the memory footprint (incl. reducing duplicate data), alleviate locking problems (BUSY EVENT!), allow smart/dynamic hierarchy of metadata (e.g. attach a cover image to the album entity rather than each individual media) and wrap it all together using collections as a query mechanism. It's all very new and experimental, and that's why it's so cool!
Our second student, CaffineeHacker, will work on Cross Fade (GSoC entry), by making the xform chain persistent. A refactoring of the xform infrastructure is indeed needed to carry effects across song changes; optionally, the rework might allow "xforms to transmit data in the frequency domain instead of having each xform that uses frequency domain do an FFT". The project has been around for a while and we're happy to run it this year, mentored by rafl!
Finally, we're happy to get greafine back for another round of GSoC this year. He'd done a great job on nycli last year (freshly released in DrMattDestruction!), and his application left no doubt that he was The Man to work on a very exciting, long-awaited project: a grand new GUI client for XMMS2 (GSoC entry)!
The basic idea is, quite simply, to build the most awesome music player known to mankind, and while it might not be suitable for everyone, we're committed to make it follow a strong and original vision aligned with that of XMMS2. You can read more about that on the Planet, and more specifically on tru's and theefer's blogs. Incidentally, theefer will be mentoring this project.
We look forward to working with the students on all those great projects!
And meanwhile, works continue to merge nesciens' Collections 2.0 for the next release, and get GenIPC and Service Clients in as well!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
DrMattDestruction released
Slightly delayed, but...
After XMMS2 Team's tussles in Brussels; Here we go again!
XMMS2 Team is proud to present a new release, as late as always. This time there has been huge changes "under the hook" with the new "xmmsv".
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes:
http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Release:DrMattDestruction
Source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
The XMMS2 Team would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all who have helped out with this release, and an extra thanks to especially to those 10 persons that made the AUTHORS file grow
After XMMS2 Team's tussles in Brussels; Here we go again!
XMMS2 Team is proud to present a new release, as late as always. This time there has been huge changes "under the hook" with the new "xmmsv".
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes:
http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Release:DrMattDestruction
Source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
The XMMS2 Team would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all who have helped out with this release, and an extra thanks to especially to those 10 persons that made the AUTHORS file grow
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Accepted ... again!
Good news! We have been accepted into this 2009's Google Summer of Code! Head over to the GSoC page at Google and apply as mentors / students.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Google Summer of Code 2009
We have just applied for Google Summer of Code 2009. Hopefully we will be included in the program for the fourth year in a row. Get involved in our ideas and community now! See our GSoC 2009 portal here!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
XMMS2 Developers at FOSDEM 09
We had a blast at FOSDEM as usual. Here is the obligatory group-photo:
From the left: Erik Massop, Alexander Botero-Lowry, Auke Schrijnen, Daniel Svensson, Tilman Sauerbeck, Tobias Rundström, Sébastien Cevey, Kate and Sebastian Noack.
Update: Fixed spelling of Tilman's name, Sebastian's name and changed "from the right" to "from the left".
From the left: Erik Massop, Alexander Botero-Lowry, Auke Schrijnen, Daniel Svensson, Tilman Sauerbeck, Tobias Rundström, Sébastien Cevey, Kate and Sebastian Noack.
Update: Fixed spelling of Tilman's name, Sebastian's name and changed "from the right" to "from the left".
Sunday, June 15, 2008
DrLecter escaped!
Good evening, Clarice.
Finally a new XMMS2 release has arrived. This time it contains even finer meat, such as a whole bunch of new plugins and support for ruby 1.9. The XMMS2 Team would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all who have helped out with this release. Hope you will have as good time eating it as we had cooking it!
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Release:DrLecter
Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
Finally a new XMMS2 release has arrived. This time it contains even finer meat, such as a whole bunch of new plugins and support for ruby 1.9. The XMMS2 Team would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all who have helped out with this release. Hope you will have as good time eating it as we had cooking it!
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Release:DrLecter
Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
Monday, April 21, 2008
Google Summer of Code™- students accepted
Google was kind enough to allocate 6 (yes six!) slots to XMMS2 for this year's Summer of Code. We received many high quality applications and the selection was harder than ever.
The selected projects are all very exciting and span all over the xmms2 codebase: from deep down the medialib, with an experimental new database backend (S4), through an upgraded iteration of collections (Coll 2.0), all the way up to service clients. In the realm of clients, we will see a new powerful command-line interface (nycli) and an innovative GUI client focused on social metadata (Cloudstream). On top of that, the last project will revolutionarize our IPC layer (GenIPC).
Note that most of the projects build on top of last year's GSoC. See the full list of accepted projects (and students) if you want all the details!
So, to the accepted students: congratulations and may there be lots of good code written!
The selected projects are all very exciting and span all over the xmms2 codebase: from deep down the medialib, with an experimental new database backend (S4), through an upgraded iteration of collections (Coll 2.0), all the way up to service clients. In the realm of clients, we will see a new powerful command-line interface (nycli) and an innovative GUI client focused on social metadata (Cloudstream). On top of that, the last project will revolutionarize our IPC layer (GenIPC).
Note that most of the projects build on top of last year's GSoC. See the full list of accepted projects (and students) if you want all the details!
So, to the accepted students: congratulations and may there be lots of good code written!
Monday, March 17, 2008
XMMS2 is accepted to Google: Summer of Code
Google has just announced the mentor organizations for Summer of Code 2008 and we are happy to announce that XMMS2 was selected to participate this year as well.
Go to our Summer of Code 2008 portal to get more information.
Go to our Summer of Code 2008 portal to get more information.
Monday, February 25, 2008
FOSDEM 08 - aftermath
FOSDEM is over. 10 XMMS2 developers meet up at the conference and had a mini XMMS2 conference at the same time. It was very interesting and everybody seemed to enjoy and get a lot of energy out of it. We had some very interesting discussions about future features of XMMS2.
Obligatory group-shot below.
First row, from left to right: Tobias Rundström, Sébastien Cevey, Anders Waldenborg, Auke Schrijnen, Sebastian Woetzel, Florian Ragwitz, Sebastian Noack
Second row, from left to right: Daniel Svensson, Tilman Saurbeck, Erik Massop
Obligatory group-shot below.
First row, from left to right: Tobias Rundström, Sébastien Cevey, Anders Waldenborg, Auke Schrijnen, Sebastian Woetzel, Florian Ragwitz, Sebastian Noack
Second row, from left to right: Daniel Svensson, Tilman Saurbeck, Erik Massop
FOSDEM presentation and XMMS2 mediacasts
We have posted our FOSDEM presentation on our new XMMS2 Media Cast blog. Head over there and subscribe to it to get more audio/video casts in the future.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
XMMS2 Lightning Talk at FOSDEM
The FOSDEM'08 conference gets closer and the organisation crew has just confirmed a Lightning Talk slot for us. It will be held Saturday 18:00. Join us if you want to know about XMMS2 background, future, and what help we need, all this in just 15 minutes!
See you all at FOSDEM!
See you all at FOSDEM!
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
XMMS2 developers at FOSDEM '08
We have also decided to use some of our well earned cash on the hotel cost for people who have contributed to XMMS2. We will sponsor up to 600 euro in total on Hotel for people in the AUTHORS file. We will also spend some additional euros on beer and sauna for the same people.
If your are interested please get in contact with Tobias Rundström (tru) via email or IRC.
Hope to see you all at FOSDEM!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
DrKosmos OUT
15th of November 1997 was a great day. This was the day when the first public release of X11Amp (later renamed to XMMS) was made. Now ten years later we celebrate this with a release of XMMS2.
XMMS2 0.4 DrKosmos contains the new official XMMS2 logo, a few new plugins such as a PulseAudio output plugin and lots of bugfixes. Hope you will have as much fun downloading, compiling and using it as we had making it.
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Release:DrKosmos
Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
Thanks to everyone involved in this release. Especially the 10 people who made the AUTHORS file grow.
XMMS2 0.4 DrKosmos contains the new official XMMS2 logo, a few new plugins such as a PulseAudio output plugin and lots of bugfixes. Hope you will have as much fun downloading, compiling and using it as we had making it.
You can obtain XMMS2 here:
Release notes: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Release:DrKosmos
Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmms2
Thanks to everyone involved in this release. Especially the 10 people who made the AUTHORS file grow.
Monday, August 20, 2007
T-shirts available!
Hello!
It's been on it's way for a long time, but we finally got our thumbs out and did the XMMS2 tshirts. You can buy the from http://www.zazzle.com/tobiasr/
There are four different t-shirts, all have the same design: text on the front and our logo on the back. I have uploaded four different texts:
If you don't get "vastly ..." just do "!waf" on our ircchannel. If you don't get the "when the music is end..." you just haven't been around for too long :-) If you would like another text, just send me a line and I will publish more t-shirts. There is also a "xmms2/user" for women uploaded.
The shirts start from $22,95 + shipping. We earn 10% of that, it will be put to good use.
We did a early trial with the shirt that you probably seen puzzles pictures on here: http://exodus.xmms.se/~puzzles/t-korv/ the shirts now will look more or less the same, except that I have made the logo a bit brighter.
It's been on it's way for a long time, but we finally got our thumbs out and did the XMMS2 tshirts. You can buy the from http://www.zazzle.com/tobiasr/
There are four different t-shirts, all have the same design: text on the front and our logo on the back. I have uploaded four different texts:
- "xmms2/user"
- "xmms2 - vastly superior musicplayer known to mankind"
- "when the music is end xmms power of the pc"
- "xmms2/developer"
If you don't get "vastly ..." just do "!waf" on our ircchannel. If you don't get the "when the music is end..." you just haven't been around for too long :-) If you would like another text, just send me a line and I will publish more t-shirts. There is also a "xmms2/user" for women uploaded.
The shirts start from $22,95 + shipping. We earn 10% of that, it will be put to good use.
We did a early trial with the shirt that you probably seen puzzles pictures on here: http://exodus.xmms.se/~puzzles/t-korv/ the shirts now will look more or less the same, except that I have made the logo a bit brighter.
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