Sun Mar  2 21:22:01 EST 2008

I supposed I should at least get around to releasing 3.1.0 final at some point. The -rc4 is looking pretty good. Please test compatibility with different players (I'm only using Audacious these days) --mag

 Mon Nov  7 12:05:25 EST 2005

No, IMMS is not dead. I've just been keeping busy with my new job at Google.

In other news, there's an article in O'Reilly's Linux Multimedia Hacks written by yours truly. --mag

 Mon Mar 21 19:52:59 PST 2005

In an effort to somehow stop having to answer the same questions over and over again, and facilitate user communication, I've created an IMMS Mailing List. Please feel free to subscribe.

In other news, rest assured that 2.1 is being worked on, but in the mean time, I am trying to shake all the bugs out of 2.0.x by making a bunch of maintainance releases. --mag

 Wed Oct 27 19:19:09 EDT 2004

I've sort of neglected updating this page for a while. But lots of things happened since last entry. 2.0 is now out. This is a big step for IMMS because it finally decouples it from XMMS and turns it into a generic adaptive playlist framework. Hopefully plugins for some other cool players will be forthcoming. --mag

 Fri Jul  2 21:01:05 PDT 2004

I did some interesting testing with optimizing SQLite database access. Here's a summary of the results:

for i 0 to 10000 "insert into T (x, y, z) values (i, i, i);"

The bold line is where IMMS is currently. Combining queries into a single transaction only helps with consecutive updates/inserts, not selects (because it avoids locking overhead), but still these tricks should help improve performance a lot. --mag

 Thu Jun  3 21:59:45 UTC 2004

Some of you may be wondering why IMMS development has not been moving forward by leaps and bounds lately. The reason is that I recently started working for Amazon.com, moved to Seattle and have been without a development system at home for the last month or so.

On the bright side, I got a laptop a couple of days ago, so things should be picking up some time soon. Hang in there :) --mag

 Thu Apr  8 21:32:41 EDT 2004

I wanted to warn everybody (especially package maintainers) that as of 1.1 IMMS will switch to using TagLib instead of id3lib and vorbis-tools. TagLib abstracts access mp3, ogg and flac tags with a clean, unified C++ interface, but most importantly it's fast. Way faster than the libraries IMMS relied on previously. The next version will support TagLib, as well as id3lib/vorbis-tools, but the later are now considered deprecated and will likely be dropped shortly thereafter. --mag

 Mon Mar 22 19:46:11 EST 2004

A chap by the name of James 'J.C.' Jones, wrote a fancy utility that lets you generate custom playlists (and simlink all the files in to a given directory) restricted by maximum size/number of songs. This is very useful for filling up CDs/DVDs/Mp3 players with songs you like. Uncanny. Get it here.

 Mon Mar 22 19:31:55 EST 2004

<Professor Farnsworth impression>: Good news, everybody!

It looks like IMMS will be getting a lot less hacky very soon! Thomas Nilsson (one the XMMS developers) was kind enough to sneak in a few plugin interface extensions for me. This means that once XMMS 1.2.11 comes out, IMMS will finally work sensibly with regards to the shuffle mode. All you people that for some reason love sequential mode, rejoice, for you will have it back. Also it will hopefully solve most problems with the Queue/No Playlist Advance options, as well as XOSD, SongChange, and hopefully even CrossFade.

For those who can't wait, IMMS 1.1-pre1 can be found here, but be warned that you will need a CVS version of XMMS to take advantage of the new functionality.

 Fri Nov 21 16:29:31 EST 2003

Everybody, give a warm welcome to the fancy new menu bar!