Lots of new madman packages unleashed

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!

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Rogue library programmer confounds madman author

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 …

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A mixed bag of items

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 …

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New version of madman unleashed upon unsuspecting planet

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 …

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Somebody else’s problem affects madman

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 …

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A candidate asking for your support

Madman 0.93 release candidate 1 has finally happened, while my thesis is keeping me busy… It’s a pretty massive update, with lots of potential breakage. Please give it a round of testing. Depending on the amount of actual problems, 0.93 will be out very soon.

You can …

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