BMP is a multimedia player that currently uses a skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins.

The original project name was "beep". Then we discovered that another project of the same name existed, and extended it to "Beep Media Player" to distinguish the two.

This new name is of course cumbersome to type, so it was informally shortened to BMP (or sometimes BeepMP) for everyday usage. Along the way, somehow or another, some of the developers no longer recognize it as an acronym. There is still no official word on whether to drop the original form. But whatever happens, the name BMP is here to stay.

Milosz Derezynski started hacking on XMMS alone in the fall of 2003 and eventually made it compile against GTK+2. He went on to release it to the public under the name 'Beep' and stirred up considerable interest among XMMS users who were eager to move their favourite application to GTK+2. From that moment on, the way was clear.

Requirements:

Build requirements

· Glib >= 2.4
· GTK+ >= 2.4
· libglade >= 2.3.1

Optional requirements

· ID3v2 tag editing support: id3lib >= 3.8
· Vorbis input plugin: libvorbis >= 1.0
· ESD output plugin: esound >= 0.2.3
· ALSA output plugin: alsa-lib >= 1.0
· GNOME VFS support: gnome-vfs >= 2.6.0
· GConf support: GConf >= 2.6.0

Note for *BSD users:
To avoid crashes on exit with some plugins enabled, force linking with the C++ library with LDFLAGS='-lstdc++ -lm'. E.g.:

LDFLAGS='-lstdc++ -lm' ./configure

What's New in This Release:

Enhancements
· New (free) ClearSky skin by Will Reinhart
· New desktop icon
· New GConf schema
· New multi-thread mode for ALSA plugin
· Support for customizable accelerators
· Queue support in Jump to Track
· Partial support for new XMMS 1.2.11 remote control functions
· New translations (Finnish, Georgian, Hindi, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese) and updates

Miscellaneous
· Log file renamed to 'log'
· Minor GUI tweaks

Bugfixes
· Fixed some ALSA playback issues
· Fixed crashes when output plugin returning sound volume for only 1 channel
· Fixed crashes when input plugins do not set title when getting song info
· Fixed infinite recursion in logger
· Fixed bogus values returned by xmms_remote_get_info()
· Fixed general/visualization plugin About dialogs not opening correctly
· Fixed centering of playlist in Playlist Editor
· Fixed incorrect length of 1st track read from .m3u files
· Fixed gcc4 compilation errors
· Fixed 64-bit issues setting/getting ESD volume
· Fixed MimeType value in desktop file
· Fixed text clipping of non-ASCII titles in Playlist Editor



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