Minirok 2.1

I’ve released Minirok 2.1, which fixes several bugs (including a crash under PyQt 4.6), and drops the dependency on lastfmsubmitd to make Last.fm submissions. Now Minirok it’s able to do submissions without needing any external programs.

Tarball and Debian package are available, NEWS entry follows.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Submissions to Last.fm or a Last.fm-compatible service are performed directly by Minirok now, and the lastfmsubmitd daemon is no longer a dependency. If you were previously using lastfmsubmitd, you will need to provide Minirok with your username and password in the preferences dialog now.

  If listening to music offline, or if the Last.fm server is not responding, submissions are stored on disk by Minirok and submitted later on. For this functionality, the “simplejson” module has been added as a dependency. This module comes already with Python 2.6, see the README file for details.

• Allow to enqueue/dequeue selected tracks with a shortcut (Ctrl+E by default).

• Allow for a global shortcut to be configured to the Stop, Next and Previous actions. (No default shortcut is provided, but one can be set by the user.)

BUGFIXES

• When running from source, correctly show the playlist controls toolbar (was not being displayed at all).

• Fix crash when using File->Open directory if no directory has ever been opened in the tree view.

• Fix the following warning when running with PyQt 4.5 (which becomes a crash under PyQt 4.6):

  WARNING: skipping invalid entry in column config: ‘<PyQt4.QtCore.QVariant object at ...>’

  Also, if you had experienced this warning and saw the columns in the playlist come up in a weird default order, that’s been fixed too.

OTHER NEWS

• Python 2.5 or later is required now.