Ann: Cynthiune 0.9.2

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Hi all,


This is to let you know that Cynthiune 0.9.2 was just released.

What is Cynthiune?
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Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and
MacOSX. I wrote it originally as a christmas gift to a girl that I liked
because she could not listen to the music on her Mac with a free program.

It is very similar in use to XMMS and Winamp, although it is currrently
far less complete. A plugin architecture is being designed.
For the moment, input and output bundles can easily be written and
Cynthiune is already quite usable for playing Ogg's, MP3's to an OSS
device or an Esound socket.

Changes
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This release is a recommended update:
- fixed two buggy behaviours related to the playlist management, both
  when repeat is on and off;
- unified interface files (nib/gorm);
- fixed a bug related to the resizing of sticked playlist windows;
- the preferences window won't crash the application any longer (thanks
  to Ludovic Marcotte and his ourses);
- the preference dialogs are now localized too;
- the active playlist is synced to the defaults database so that we
  won't lose it anymore when Cynthiune crashes;
- the MP3 bundle now has support for the RIFF encapsulation format as
  well as for the MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 1/2/3 formats;
- Cynthiune can now be launched from its source directory without
  adapting the source code;
- GNUstep and MacOSX releases are again on par with each other (thanks
  to my friend Cynthia for offering me her iMac);
- the windows menu is enabled properly;
- services that can manage filenames are made available in the "Services"
  menu, they will be given the list of selected song filenames as
  parameter;
- the playlist can serve as a dragging source for music files to other
  applications and widget accepting NSFilenamePboardType objects;
- major code cleanup (memleaks, coding conventions, refactoring);
- the timer field can display the time remaining for the current song by
  clicking on it;
- when the selection of songs is changing, the total time taken by those
  songs is displayed in the timer field;
- dropped usage of that crappy Sodipodi piece of voodooware after losing
  an important file (see rant about free software in the README);
- aesthetical details modified;

As you can read, Cynthiune has improved a lot since last release and is
starting to become very stable too.

Downloads
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The current version (0.9.2) can be downloaded from
http://organact.mine.nu/~wolfgang/cynthiune/Cynthiune-0.9.2.tar.gz

Screenshot:
http://organact.mine.nu/~wolfgang/cynthiune/cynthiune-0.9.2.jpg

Cynthiune is my first GNUstep project and my coding style has changed
over the year during which I wrote it. Therefore, if you have any code,
ideas, translations, comments or useful criticism, feel at ease to submit
them to me!

Happy thiuning!


Wolfgang