sometime last night, the Songbird-developers hatched released version 0.2 Test Flight, therefor lifting the Mozilla-based opensource audio-player officialy into Beta. Songbird comes with a built-in Wikipedia-plugin, a cool example of what the integration of browser & player can do: browsing artist-pages in Wikipedia, Songbird automatically offers all linked audio-tracks/samples for playback. the new Audioscrobbler-extension connects [...]
while packing & carrying boxes all day long (I’m currently moving to my new apartement), I used the time listening to some SXSW 2006 panels. [I started listening to this great podcast a few months ago - there's more than 90 hours of high-class content, though at some panels audio-quality sucks]. it was on “consumer [...]
preview 0.0.1 of Elisa – an opensource media-center developed by fluendo – was just released yesterday. Elisa currently offers a basic feature-set – playback of audio, photos and video using the GStreamer multimedia framwork, support for infrared remote-controls and support for DLNA-compliant upnp-devices. integration of TV-adapters and PVR-functionality (personal [digital] video recorder is planned but [...]
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from wednesday (may, 31st) to friday (jun, 1st), the linuxwochen 2006 (“linuxweeks”) are taking place in vienna. the schedule offers a plethora of panels and talks on linux, security and opensource-software in general. if you are in the area, be sure to drop by!