Mesk 0.3.2 - Dead Edge of Town
Time for a Mesk release with some useful queue features, bug fixes and more! If you are using Mesk, and I don’t already know you (friends and correspondents) send me a shout, I’d like to get a feel for how many of you there are.
- New features:
- New playlist keybindings ‘Q’ and menuitem for adding tracks to the front of the playlist queue.
- New playlist keybinding Alt+q for clearing the queue.
- Album covers fetched from amazon are now cached
- Better notification using “busy cursor” during large playlist adds
- Gentoo ebuild uses ‘mp3′ instead of the ‘mad’ USE flag.
- Bugs fixes:
- Relative paths in playlist URIs now work.
- Gajim status plugin talks directly with the Gajim DBus service rather than through the shell which fixes the problem encoding ‘♫’
- Playlist name is exported correctly.
- Prefer the latest python version installed instead of the minimal version
- Fix configure options and ebuild USE flags.
Downloads:
tarball - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/mesk-0.3.2.tgz
ebuild - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/mesk-0.3.2.ebuild
Now Playing: Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous
Mesk 0.3.1 - Stoner Jam
- Bugs fixes since 0.3.0:
- Fixed process renaming bug. Removed since it never really worked and was not portable.
- New features since 0.3.0:
- Lyrics plugin that will load a Google search in a web browser.
- Better filtering and selection of album art search results.
- Added Swedish (sv) translation, by Daniel Nylander
Downloads:
tarball - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/mesk-0.3.1.tgz
ebuild - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/mesk-0.3.1.ebuild
Mesk in Swedish:

Now Playing: Modest Mouse - Cowboy Dan
Mesk 0.3.0 - Blood On The Wall
Changes since 0.2.x
- DBus service and interface for remote control (e.g. to bind to multimedia keys)
- CD audio support.
- System tray icon (requires Gtk+ 2.10)
- Playlists can now be exported to any of the supported playlist types.
- Support for read-only playlists and annotations (i.e. comments).
- More feedback for potentially long operations via status bar.
- Improved startup time for large/many playlists.
- Refactored plugin API to ease writing plugins and the ability to add menu items to the View menu.
- XSPF (Spiff) playlists used as internal playlist format.
- PLS playlist support.
- Jump to current (Ctrl+j) is now in the View menu and will display the playlist tab if necessary.
- Toggle compact UI mode with Alt+c
- Many playlist errors which resulted in a dialog are now reported in a message window that can be opened by clicking on the status bar image.
- A new log window (View->Logs) for viewing logs when not started from the command line.
Plugin changes since 0.2.x
- Download album covers from amazon.com with the albumart plugin.
- Gajim status plugin allows customization of the format through the preference dialog.
- Last.FM status and stats shown in plugin configuration dialog and home page link added to view menu.
Top 10 bands rocked during Mesk 0.3.0 development:
- Blood On The Wall
- Modest Mouse
- Melvins
- Tragedy
- Meat Puppets
- The Giraffes
- The Sword
- Hot Snakes
- Film School
- The Roots
Now Playing: Mr. Bungle - Quote Unquote
Older news...
Features
- Formats supported: mp3, ogg vorbis. (Thanks to GStreamer, other formats may work but are not yet officially supported.)
- The basics: play, pause, stop, next, and previous audio tracks.
- CD audio support for all your CD drives. Album information is fetched from freeDB.
- HTTP support, including basic authentication.
- Supported playlist formats: XSPF (spiff) (the default), M3U, PLS.
- Support for multiple playlists with the ability to cut/copy/paste between them.
- Individual tracks can be queued, or reordered with drag-and-drop.
- Files can be added using drag-and-drop from other applications (e.g., file manager or web browser links).
- Playlists can be searched; press CTRL+F or '/'
- Playlist modes shuffle and repeat.
- Playlists can be set read-only.
- Playlist state is automatically saved.
- Playlists can be exported to any of the supported formats.
- System tray icon with menu support for most major audio operations.
- The application and UI can be controlled remotely from the command line or other applications using the per-session DBus interface.
- Album cover art and song information for the currently playing track is displayed.
- The user interface supports both normal and compact mode.
- The audioscrobbler plugin will submit the songs you play to last.fm enabling charts and statistics like this.
- For users of the Jabber/XMPP client Gajim, the gajimstatus plugin will update your IM status with the currently playing song information.
- The albumart plugin will download missing album covers from Amazon.com
Audio:
Playlists:
User Interface:
Plugins:
Screenshots
Download
Current release is 0.3.2 (requires GStreamer 0.10.x):
Gzipped tar archive
| ebuild
Previous release is 0.2.1 (requires GStreamer 0.8.x):
Gzipped tar archive
| ebuild
| Ubuntu (Dapper)
The development repository can be accessed using
subversion:
| Stable branch: | http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/branches/0.3 |
| Development trunk: | http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/trunk |
$ svn co --username anonymous --password '' http://svn.nicfit.net/svn/mesk/trunk mesk-trunk $ cd mesk-trunk $ ./autogen.sh $ make $ make install |
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