Idle Hacking

I just spent the last 12 hours, really giving xulmusic some love.

Lots of corners rounded and many more roughened up with new features.

I added a first pass options dialog and a simple about dialog box.

By far the coolest feature is support for podcasting. I still have some more work to do with this, like:

1. download progress meter, per stream.
2. updating content timers (configuration option required).
3. fix next and previous to ignore podcast headers.

It doesn’t look like I’ll have a mac version for 0.3, but I will definately have it built for a 0.4 release.

My goals for version 0.3 are:

• podcast rss feed support
• streaming music (shoutcast)
• installer (stand-alone)

I’ve recieved a lot of really great feedback on the 0.2 release. Here’s some of the names suggested by Mike:

• fireplayer
• crossplayer
• icebird
• talon
• shadowfire
• audifox/audibird
• melody

The feature list suggested by Mike:

• support extensions like firefox
• randomize playlists
• include a system tray icon (win32/gnome/kde)
• support for flac/shn/etc.. (maybe format support can be added in extensions)
• make the program stand-alone with an installer
• themes/skins (like xmms/winamp)
• support for streaming music (shoutcast)
• get a cool logo (related to name?)
• podcast rss feed support

Software Pod Cast, RSS, XUL, XULMusic