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November 17, 2008 - ncmpc 0.12~alpha1 released

After several years of stalled development, the first alpha version of ncmpc 0.12 has been released. It contains a large number of bug fixes, improved unicode and wide character support, unix domain sockets, LIRC and more.

November 14, 2008 - MPD 0.14~alpha3 released

MPD version 0.14~alpha3 has been released! The third, hopefully final, alpha release for the 0.14 series fixes FreeBSD compilation, mp3 seeking and includes other stability fixes.

November 12, 2008 - MPD 0.14~alpha2 released

MPD version 0.14~alpha2 released! Improvements are in the decoders and general stability. Again, please help find bugs and report them.

November 5, 2008 - MPD 0.14~alpha1 released

MPD version 0.14~alpha1 released! The improvements are numerous. Lots of rewriting/refactoring, code removal, and bug fixes, while continuing to have the same or greater feature set. Help us find bugs and report them!

October 22, 2008 - FlashMPC released

FlashMPC, Amazingly FlashMPC is the only flash based client for MPD, great for MPD running on minimal machines that you want to web serve a client from but don't want a server-side solution. Only 50kb, and extremely lightweight, even comes with a built-in console for direct communication with MPD. Download it from google code.

October 19, 2008 - Njiiri 0.2.0 released

Njiiri, a new GTK+ client written in Ruby, has made its first release. Njiiri has a simple and clean interface that should be comfortable for GNOME users, but would fit just as well in lighter desktop environments. There is intentionally no configuration to mess with. If you have multiple MPDs, it makes switching between them easy.

October 17, 2008 - new MPD maintainer

Max Kellermann is the new maintainer of MPD. The git repository "master/mpd.git" now points to the branch that used to be "mpd-mk".

August 30, 2008 - mpd, libmpdclient, mpc development moved to git

Git is a distributed, fast, and robust source control system, so we've decided to ditch Subversion.

Announcements here: mpd libmpdclient,mpc

Information about the repository here

August 20, 2008 - ncmpcpp 0.2 released

Ncmpcpp is clone of ncmpc rewritten from scratch in C++. It contains some useful features ncmpc doesn't provide, e.g. tag editor, easy to use search screen, lyrics screen or media library browser.

June 17, 2008 - MPD 0.13.2 released

Several bugfixes, faster stored playlists, Bonjour support, .oga suffix support for Ogg containers. For a complete changelog, see:

 svn log -v -r7384:7176 https://svn.musicpd.org/mpd/tags/release-0.13.2

Get it here.

April 14, 2008 - Ario 1.0 released

Ario is a full featured GTK2 client for MPD. It can be used to browse your library by tags, by files or to search for music in your database. The plugins system brings some more advanced features like audioscrobbler submission, lyrics and covers download or multimedia keys support.

March 15, 2008 - RelaXXPlayer 0.5 released

RelaXXPlayer is a web based client using AJAX and PHP. Instead of features like lyrics- and cover-databases, it was designed to present maximum oversight and a easy to use, but fast interface. RelaXXP supports custom skins, localization and user-rights. So it can be used as a Jukebox-Frontend in private homes or public places.