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Month: October 2011

Riker 0.1

Riker 0.1

I have now created a distribution file for Riker 0.1. It’s not a music player yet; instead, it’s a proof of concept for two things: Using gstreamer to read tags from files, and using Vala bindings for libmusicbrainz4 to perform a query on the MusicBrainz webservice. Get it from the Github Releases page. If you’re running Linux, I invite you to give this a try! To build, run the standard ./configure; make stanza. Please do not install this package yet,…

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Fall 2011

Fall 2011

Going back to school has really ate into my Anime watching time. I suppose it’s all for the best, but my Anime Tierlist sucks this season, because I haven’t seen very much. So it’s pretty simple: Worth watching even if you’re really busy Fate/Zero Shakugan no Shana Final The second half of Mawaru Penguindrum Tamayura ~Hitotose~ (Underdog show of the season. The OVA was winners.) Not worth watching when you have homework to do Everything else.

Vala Bindings for libmusicbrainz4

Vala Bindings for libmusicbrainz4

When developing Riker, I had a bit of a choice – I could either write (from scratch) a new library to interface with the MusicBrainz XML webservice, or I could create bindings to access the existing libmusicbrainz library from within Vala. Up to today, I’ve gone a little ways down both paths, and both have problems. If I write new bindings from scratch, they’ll have some nice features like integrating into the Glib main loop, and automatically determining proxy settings from the…

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