[PATCH] Re: Audacious 2.2 heads-up

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12/20/2009 12:17 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:55:31 +0100, Hans wrote:
>
>> I really like audacious-2.2 maybe we should also offer it as a
>> Fedora 12 update ? ( It seems more stable then 2.1 to me)
>
> Sounds like a plan. With the -freeworld plugin package upgrades being
> available (and they will also need testing!), eventually there could be a
> last push of 2.1 updates in Fedora 12 and a transition to 2.2 via a
> test-update. Perhaps in January or so, but:
>
> * Does the alsa-gapless output driver work for you? Last time I looked
> (and I did participate in testing the alpha/beta releases of 2.2, too,
> where it still worked), it failed due to:
>
>    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/530521
>
> That one will need a fix -- or a work-around in audacious-plugins.
>

I did not try the alsa plugin, I was pleasantly surprised to see 2.2
defaulted to the pulse plugin and that is working well for me (including
volume control, which did not work well for me with the alsa plugin).

About the need for this to be fixed, I agree and I've added a comment to
the bug, I hope this will help.

> * I was hoping more for a 2.3 release or so, as 2.1/2.2 give the taste of
> a pair of alpha/beta releases in disguise. ;)
>

Yep :)

> There have been further rewrites in upstream source repo after 2.2, also
> affecting the -freeworld plugins. Compared with 2.1, the 2.2 source differs
> so much in several places that upstream cannot tell whether some problems
> are fixed. It seems to me that 2.2 will meet the same fate. Even some of the
> smaller daily diffs are scary. In current devel tree they just renamed the
> ALSA driver once more, from "alsa-gapless" to "alsa", breaking user's
> preferences again.
>

Well, lets hope things stabilize a bit soon, I like audacious (I like having
a music player with a *small* GUI.

Regards,

Hans