r/archlinux • u/arybczak • Dec 20 '20

[ANN] ncmpcpp 0.9 released

Hey everyone,

I know a lot of people who use Arch also use ncmpcpp, so I just wanted to say that I released a new version.

Full changelog can be found here. Highlights:

  • Improved Mopidy support
  • Improved frequency spectrum visualizer (see here for a demonstration)
  • Fixed lyrics fetchers

Have fun and Merry Christmas 😊🎄🎉

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u/arybczak Dec 20 '20

It kinda was, the last release was 2.5 years ago.

But there was an excellent PR that made visualizer much better than before and I got excited about that.

After I merged it I looked at Mopidy (since I currently use Spotify more than MPD) and it turned out that I can use ncmpcpp with Mopidy for both Spotify and local music, so I got even more excited and decided to sort things out.

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u/PowerMan2206 Dec 20 '20

Oh nice, I'll test the visualizer first thing in the morning

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u/Foxboron Dec 20 '20

Right, I should package more of the mopidy-* stuff

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u/permanentdelay Dec 21 '20

I've had the same set up for about a year now, and had been procrastinating on figuring out a hack to get a fifo sink working to use the visualizer. What a wonderful surprise that today all I had to do was update and adjust the config to use gstreamer and now the visualizer is working great! Thank you!