Fri, 11/05/2012 - 11:25 | 
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The Ubuntu Sound Menu can get very crowded because many applications are automatically added the first time you run them. Here's a quick way to remove / blacklist applications from the Ubuntu Sound Menu (for Ubuntu 12.04 only).
To get a list of all the applications added to the Ubuntu Sound Menu, use this command:
gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-playersExample output:
And here's how the Ubuntu Sound Menu looks like:
Tags: Fri, 04/05/2012 - 12:43 | webupd8.org
Audience, a Gstreamer-based media player for Linux written in Vala is getting closer to its first public release. But firstly, it needs testing so if you want to help, install Audience and submit any bugs you find @ Launchpad (before you do, try the videos in Totem to make sure the bugs are Audience-specific).
Audience uses a minimalistic interface based on a mockup made by Daniel Fore (and since it follows the elementary HIGs, Audience might be used as the default media player in elementary OS) and comes with almost no settings: you can only set the subtitles and language.
Wed, 04/04/2012 - 11:20 | webupd8.org
Xnoise, a simple and fast media player for Linux, has reached version 0.2.0, getting a refreshed layout, support for dockable media sources, a redone application button and more.
- support for dockable media sources (Categories: Playlists, Media Collection, Stores)
- automatic thumbnail generation for videos
- onboard dbus service (not bound to mpris)
- redone application button for compact layout
- new azlyrics plugin
- refreshed Xnoise layout
- merge cyclic-save-state plugin into Xnoise
- added possibility to name streams on import
- added keybinding for increasing/decreasing playback volume
- options to show track in file manager or trash it
- suport for tag embedded images
- optimizations and bug fixes
Mon, 20/02/2012 - 11:55 | webupd8.org
VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released with faster decoding, support for more video formats, a reworked web interface, experimental BluRay Discs support (without menus) and more.
Sat, 05/11/2011 - 14:23 | webupd8.org
The official Linux Mint GNOME Shell (more about Linux Mint 12 here) extensions can be downloaded via GitHub. However, since some of them are forks of the official GNOME Shell extensions, it's not a good idea to install and activate all of them because of possible conflicts with the original extensions.
If you want to manually install some of the MGSE extensions, get the Git branch, open the "test" script and remove any extensions you don't want to install. And finally, run the "test" script (./test).
For Arch Linux, you can find all the MGSE extensions in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53742
Thu, 20/10/2011 - 11:17 | webupd8.org
Mediaplayer GNOME Shell extension is now available in the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA. This extension can control MPRIS capable media players from the GNOME Shell top bar.
Currently it supports the following players: full support (meaning seek works too) for Clementine, Banshee, Rhythmbox, QuodLibet and Amarok and without seek support: Clementine, MPD, Pragha, Guayadeque, Google Music Frame, XBMC.
GNOME Shell Mediaplayer Extension automatically detects your music player when you run it so you don't have to select it from the preferences or anything like that. However, if your music player is not on the supported players list, you can force the extension to support it by editing the metadata.json file under /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ and adding it to the "players" list (but obviously, it will only work if it supports MPRIS).
