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Gmu Music Player 0.9.1 released!

Here is a minor update to the previously released Gmu 0.9.0.

It comes with some new features and bugfixes, including:

• Volume control in gmuc Gmu ncurses interface
• Flush input buffer in gmuc when handling scrolling to allow for more precise scrolling on slower devices
• New Gmu command line option -l: Allows to specify a playlist file to load on start
• Minor update to the default theme with the large font (playback time was a little off-screen on small displays)
• README.txt update (adding some more information about gmuc)
• BUILD.txt update (adding some information about the various Makefile targets)
• Configuring gmuhttp to listen on external interfaces should work reliably now

It's been a long time, but here I am, back with a new Gmu release.



Gmu 0.9.0 comes with the lots of changes (and some bug fixes). Some of the most important ones are:

• A much nicer large font (Pandora default and compo themes, pixeled by hand :)
• Some additional characters in both large and small fonts (including the µ character due to popular request)
• A new ncurses terminal text frontend for Gmu (usable over the network!)
• Experimental WebSocket browser interface (also usable over the network)
• Support for Joystick axis control in SDL frontend (to support devices like the Caanoo, that come with analog controls exposed as a joystick)
• The current playmode is now always visible in playlist view in the SDL frontend
• Gmu has been changed such that it uses UTF-8 encoding internally for all text
• Support for building Gmu statically has been added (in addition to the default configuration where Gmu's frontends and decoders are build as runtime loadable plugins)

Quite some time ago, I have written a blog entry about how to install Arch Linux on the Zipit Z2, but I did not provide an image back then. Now I have prepared a ready-to-use image of Arch Linux ARM for the Z2.



It is based on official up-to-date packages. Only for the kernel I had to build one compatible with the Z2.

Since it has been a little quiet around the Gmu development, I wanted to give short sign of life.

It's been a while since my last entry, so here is a little something. As requested, here is a little Ben NanoNote vs. Zipit Z2 comparison.



The machines have both a very similar shape and size and their specifications are also not too different. While the Ben NanoNote was meant to be Open Source hardware the Zipit Z2 was built as an instant messaging device for teenagers and was then repurposed by the hacker/free software community as a more or less general purpose Linux computer.