Shellac

What is Shellac?

Shellac is an XMMS2 client written in Python with Pygtk.

Goals:

NOTE: This is tested agains the DrDolittle release.
FIX: Error when starting Shellac with xmmsd in 'Stopped' state.
FIX: Typo in settings.py preventing the default settings to be found in /usr/local/share/shellac.
FEATURE: File browser: Option to remember current directory between sessions.
FIX: Preferences: Update advanced config view upon changes.
FIX: File browser: Ignore case when matching extensions.
FEATURE: File browser: Scroll to the directory from where you came when going to the parent dir.

FIX: Various updates to comply with API changes. Because of these changes it's easiest to delete ~/.xmms2/clients/shellac.conf before running Shellac.
FEATURE: A new file browser tab to browse the local filesystem.
FEATURE: Find: When using the incremental search feature, wait a short while before searching. This prevents a lot of unnecessary medialib queries.
FEATURE: The time display is now configurable like e.g. the current song. It has three fields available: %total%, %elapsed% and %remaining%. All the usual pango markup is also available. In simple cases, clicking the time text toggles between elapsed and remaining time.
FIX: General: Three widgets renamed.
- Prev -> Previous
- Progress -> Seek bar
- TimeLabel -> Time
N.B. You need to select these widgets in the preferences for them to show up again.
FIX: General: Playing streams doesn't prevent seeking.

FEATURE: General: The connection window now has an option to start the xmms2 daemon.
FEATURE: Tag info: Escape now closes the window.
FIX: Find: Pressing Ctrl+Enter sometimes adds empty entries to the playlist.

FEATURE: Find: Pressing Ctrl+Enter will append all current matches to the playlist.
FIX: General: When resizing columns, the mouse is never released.
FEATURE: Find: New search field 'Any'. For a song to be considered a match, each word in the query must be found in at least one field.
FEATURE: Preferences: New configuration dialogs for alsa, oss and diskwrite output plugins.
FIX: General: The quit button in the xmms2d server chooser dialog does nothing.
FIX: Playlist: Clicking tracknr column header doesn't trigger sort.

FIX: Library: Browsing by integer metadata fields (like e.g. bitrate) didn't work.
FEATURE: Preferences: Available output plugins detected and selectable.
FIX: Playlist: Hiding the filter didn't cause all entries to be shown.
FEATURE: Playlist: Remember last used filter field between sessions.

FEATURE: Tag window accessible from the Playlist, Find, Library and Playlists windows.
FEATURE: Click playlist columns to sort it.
FEATURE: New reset button in the equalizer.
FIX: Do not try to install the non-existing files random_[on|off].png.

FIX: Drag-and-drop support is a bit better.
FEATURE: Drag-and-dropped directories are now added recursively.
FEATURE: The media library is now browsable in an arbitrary hierarchy with a metadata field at each level.
FIX: 'streambrowser.glade' was not installed. Thanks to Markus Klinik.
FIX: Searching resulted in lockup. This was due to the new threaded design introduced with the stream browser.
FIX: Format the time shown when using %duration% in a custom column. Thanks to Robert Da Campo.
FIX: The equalizer should work again.
FEATURE: New preferences button.

FIX: When adding dir in browse by url mode, sort the songs first.
FIX: Crashed with recent versions of xmms2d. Removed most of the sync communication usage.
FEATURE: Net stream browser. Streams from www.shoutcast.com and dir.xiph.org are available.
FIX: If either gui.row_1 or gui.row_2 was empty, a no-name widget showed up in the preferences.
FIX: Don't show hidden playlists (starting with "_")
FEATURE: New advanced tab in the preferences for editing xmms2d config values.
FIX: When expanding playlists contents, two clicks were required.
FEATURE: Export playlists as m3u, pls or html playlists.
FEATURE: Delete playlist entries within a playlist.

Playlist items can dragged and dropped.
Files can be dragged and dropped on the main window. Only tested with ROX and Nautilus.
Metadata changes to playing song is reflected in status string (eg. when playing streams).
New algorithm for the custom column syntax. Faster but the metadata length limit feature is removed.
Reworked playlists tab.
Fixed display of %duration% metadata field in custom columns.
Using # as escape character didn't work.

Ask for confirmation before overwriting playlists.
New option: auto center playlist at song change.
New keyboard shortcuts.
Resizable columns.
Quicker reload of playlist when sorting or shuffling.
Currently playing item was not marked if the columns was changed from the preferences.
Ctrl-C centers playing item in the playlist.