Ymuse‣0.14

Strictly according to the (nonexistent) schedule the next version of Ymuse—0.14—has been released. Ymuse is a desktop client application for the Music Player Daemon, which I posted about a while ago.

What’s new in this version?

Album art

The most noteworthy change is the album art display in the player, next to the current track’s title:

It’s on by default and can be disabled in the program’s Preferences.

The album art is fetched with a special MPD command, which I had to implement myself in the gompd library (and also fix a bug in gotk3 along the way).

MPD, in its turn, looks for the cover art in the same directory as the audio file, in the following files:

• cover.png
• cover.jpg
• cover.tiff
• cover.bmp

Delay in Preferences

I’ve also added a delay before the player’s settings are applied. You’ll now see the changed applied only after one second, and not after every letter or click:

Installation

Refer to the application page to learn how to install it. ■