Miscellaneous news

So I finally figured out why arts wasn’t working for me the past few days. Turns out that aeons ago when I setup my single-user KDE account, I forgot to add ${KDEDIR}/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and now arts couldn’t find its libraries. So now the question becomes, how is it that anything at all worked before? I seriously believe that for this entire time I’ve been running KDE CVS on KDE 3.2 libraries, which would explain my sound problems.

Speaking of sound, I can confirm it: aKode kicks ass. It just does, no getting around it. I seriously hope this is default for 3.3 (it might already be, I’m not sure). carewolf deserves a big round of applause for getting arts to perform as well as it does.

Speaking of ass kicking (am I beginning to sound like clee or what? :-D), I’m hoping to help get JuK down to less than 10 bugs (i.e., no wishlist items) in time for RC1. We’re already getting close.

In taglib news, Scott is hoping to release 1.2 tomorrow, and so he has prepared a release candidate. You can find it at http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/files/src/taglib-1.2-rc1.tar.gz, so please try it out!! In case you’re wondering what taglib is, it’s a library to make it easy for applications to read the meta-data on my different types of audio files, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC. It’s used by JuK and amaroK, among others, and 1.2 fixes a few bugs, including a weird comment-clipping bug in MP3 files.

Also, I released v0.80 of kdecvs-build today. The only major change was the addition of an option to set environment variable values so that I can quit creating options to do that specific task. :-D</a>.