All, After a several-month lag since the availability of a gtk3 version of Rhythmbox, I'd like to announce that the rbpitch plugin, a third-party plugin for changing pitch/tempo/speed on-the-fly, has been released. The plugin is completely dependent upon the GNOME 3.x stack now, and has no vestiges of GNOME 2.x support. It uses GSettings, GTK+ 3.0, glib-2.28 or later, gstreamer-0.10, and of course libpeas-1.2. For those still running Rhythmbox 0.13.x stable, you can download binaries for older Ubuntu releases, or grab the source from bazaar and revert to an earlier commit to get the 0.13.x code. Starting today, I will no longer be maintaining rbpitch as it existed for GNOME 2.x; the GNOME 3.x / Rhythmbox 2.90.x based rbpitch is the way forward.
rbpitch is a fairly unique plugin (as far as I know), because it satisfies three attributes that take advantage of the very latest improvements to the GNOME stack (it was not possible to write a plugin with this combination of features until very recently): *Third-party, out-of-tree plugin that does not fork the whole Rhythmbox source code; *Uses autotools; *Written in Vala. The "written in Vala" part is particularly important: although it was indeed possible to write a plugin in C satisfying the first two conditions, Vala's improved integration with autotools; ability to read .gir files and generate Vala bindings; and support for the GNOME 3.x platform are all new features to recent Vala releases. No new user-visible features have been included in this release, but considering the amount of code that had to change under the hood to rework the build system and most of the GNOME API calls within the source code, I'd say that it's a fairly great milestone for the rbpitch project. Homepage, which will link you to the source code, Ubuntu binaries, end-user install instructions, and feedback forum on ubuntuforums.org: http://launchpad.net/rbpitch BTW Jonathan, two things: now that third-party plugin support is so outstanding, I no longer feel a pressing need to ask for rbpitch to be included in the main Rhythmbox tree. Now it is really easy to package it up and ship a high-quality plugin as a standalone package in any major distribution that's willing to consider it for inclusion. The other thing is, great work on the GNOME 3.x support and the out-of-tree plugin support! It's really shaped up so well. Considering that none of this would be possible without a great amount of effort in Rhythmbox itself, I honestly think that we are very close to being ready for an actual stable release of Rhythmbox 3.0, based on my testing and a general lack of bugs. But I found this hilarious quote from Jonathan (completely tongue-in-cheek) that explains why it's not yet ready ;-) : [00:44:34] <moch> they're shipping a git snapshot, because there aren't any releases past 0.13.something because I'm a bad person In all seriousness, no you're not a bad person. :) But a release would be awesome, whenever you feel it's ready. Regards, Sean _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
