Giving CVS the boot. Work on 0.94 is continuing nicely, with Guido as a notable addition to the development team. Shawn is considering a rewrite of the criteria language. And you’ll probably miss all this new development if you only check the SourceForge CVS—it is out of …

Package frenzy. Within minutes of each other, both Christian Hammers and Jaako H Kyro made packages available for their respective distributions. So now, if you have Fedora Core 1 or Debian, it’s never been easier to get madman.

Thanks to the packagers!

Greetings from the night shift. Guess what. CVS HEAD madman is now based on Scott Wheeler’s TagLib. I’ve decided to delay many other features planned for 0.94 and release as soon as possible. Hang in there…

libid3tag. If only anybody had told me this: I was just investigating why some ID3 tags just aren’t written for some MP3s. I stumbled upon this piece of code, hidden deeply in the guts of libid3tag:

  /* hard general case: rewrite entire file */

  /* ... */
done:
  return 0;

To those not fluent …

More Slackware. SlackCare has also made Slackware packages, which they claim are more correct than Adam’s. Find the link to their packages on the download page.

Email trouble. Some people have complained that they were unable to get anything posted to the mailing list or sent personally to me …

Adam Ward made Slackware packages for madman. Get them from the download area.

It has finally happened! The madman source has finally reached a state that I deem worthy of being called 0.93. Go grab it while it’s hot!

The most massive changes since the last stable release (which was gasp 0.91.1) include the addition of a very capable …

Is madman randomly crashing on you? The good news: It’s not madman’s fault. :) The bad news: XMMS 1.2.9 has a bug that causes programs controlling it to abort every once in a while. So, before complaining, please upgrade to XMMS 1.2.10, which is available …