[Goodies-dev] xfce4-soundmenu-plugin v0.6.0 released.

[Matias De lellis]

What is xfce4-soundmenu-plugin?
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A very basic xfce4-panel plugin to control any players MPRIS2 compatible.

Basically adds four buttons (The Classics Prev, Play/Pause, Stop, Next) to control any player that use mpris2. Optionally you can add the image of the current album to the panel, and can hide the stop button showing the current song info in a tooltip.

Website:
https://github.com/matiasdelellis/xfce4-soundmenu-plugin
Downloads:
http://code.google.com/p/dissonance/downloads/list (github remove downloads tabs.. :@)

Optional:
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 * Libclastfm (http://liblastfm.sourceforge.net/): Allow Scrobble, Love and Unlove in lastfm. In this way you set up lastfm only in this plugin, and you always have scroble independently of the player you are using.
 * Keybinder: Allow control of players with the multimedia key.
 * Libglyr (https://github.com/sahib/glyr), you will have very easy way to find the lyrics, and artist info of current song.
 * Libnotify, you will get a better information when glyr not found certain information or lastfm fail. The idea is show notifications of change song, and show the same experience regardless of player used, but will in the next versions..

Release notes for 0.6.0
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* Port to GDBus.. This allowed much of the next:
 - Detects if the player is running or not. (The player need has enabled mpris2).
 - Add option to hide controls when not available.
 - Launch player double clicking on the plugin icon. (If it fails, open preferences.)
 - Can control the volume of player with mouse whell over albumart.
* Now xfce4-soundmenu-plugin have their API key of lastfm. =) =) ;)
* Stop building static archive by default using new xfce4-dev-tools. See issue #1 (Sorry the delay)
* Better HIG to preferences.
* Update album art when metadata chage.
* Insensitive lastfm option when not init lastfm.
* Backport a lot of changes from Pragha.
 - Fix get arstist bio with glyr v1.0.0
 - Minimize memory duplication
 - Use lang autodetection to get artist bio.
 - Add SoundmenuAlbumArt Gobject.
 - Remove gdk_threads.. gdk_locks... etc.
 - Better detect of lastfm init fails.
 - Use glib to detect if network is available when glib > 2.32
 - In general better code.

Still has much to improve, but I think the code quality increased dramatically.
Please try it..  If it meets expectations, I would like to add it to the xfce wiki, and translate from Transifex (And perhaps to git). All contributions, criticisms, suggestions and translations are welcomed.

Regards,
Matias.