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,…
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.
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…