PyMServ

News

2006-07-25 : a new contributor is born !

And what a contributor : Jason Hildebrand provides pymserv new features and a debian package !

new features detail

queue tracks from browser window
queue albums from browser window

these features are available in the CVS.

Debian package

According to Jason, you can find a debian package for pymserv in his personal repository at http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/debian/unstable/. If you want to apt-get install it, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/debian/ unstable/

2004-11-02 : big commit in the CVS

I made a big commit today in the CVS. It adds to PyMServ a browser window, to browse albums, tracks, and give rates.

I believe some bugs will come to me after this commit, I will make my best to fix them. I am realizing that I need to rewrite large parts of PyMServ to make it a little cleaner. I will try to use more Python properties and to rework the interface.

I also uploaded a few more screenshots, showing the console window and the browser window. See screenshots section

2004-10-08 : pymserv-0.1.1 is out !

One bug has been fixed : PyMServ was hanging when MServ played an unrated track.

See downloads section for instructions or pick it up here :

2004-10-06 : mailing list available

See section about for details.

2004-10-03 : initial publication

Today, PyMServ lands on gna.org, just look at the download section to grab it !

About PyMServ

Presentation

PyMServ is a graphical client for mserv, a music server. It is written in python using pygtk and gconf to store prefs.

It is written by me, Nicolas Roman, from France. You can reach me at gnicolasr (at) gmail (dot) com. The PyMServ icon was made by a friend of mine, Olivier Boyer.

Feedback

PyMServ is the first thing I made and would call "software", so please :

if you are a python/pygtk guru, have a look at the code and tell me what you think about it
if you like it, drop me a line to tell me why
if you don't like it, drop me a line to tell me why too, maybe your reasons are good ;-)
if you would like a feature to be added to PyMServ, either send me mail or, even better, fill in a bug report !

Mailing list

PyMServ has a mailing list. It's called pymserv-users, but you can post a message related to any subject (in touch with PyMserv of course). You can subscribe to this list at the PyMServ users list info page.

Screenshots

(Newest first) Click any image to get it full screen :

	The new browser window introduced on Nov, 1st only in the CVS... Using it, you can browse your albums and tracks, and, most important, rate tracks.
	The new console window available only in CVS too... It allows you to send text commands to mserv, as when using mserv "official" telnet client.
	PyMServ started, but not connected to mserv
	PyMServ started and connected to mserv playing a track
	PyMServ showing preferences window

Downloads

CVS access

You can check out PyMServ via CVS anonymous access. More detailled instructions are available at the PyMServ CVS page

Source tarballs

Source tarballs are available at PyMserv file repository page

TODO

Features / fixes to do on PyMServ before ...

Communication with `MServ`

add handling of server stopping
add handling of server reset/sync

User Interface

use gtk.Action for toolbar and menu items
add tooltips to toolbar and menu items
add all icons to stock
shrink main window, re-do current track organization
include i18n, l10, and atk

Features

browser for all albums and tracks
other users information (who is connected, how they rated current/other tracks, connection/disconnection)
add a command line window to use mserv as the telnet client