# \[ANN\] Ruby/GNOME2 music player (initial release)

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-music-player-initial-release/8623>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [25 October 2003 22:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-music-player-initial-release/8623 "2003-10-25T22:54:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Berg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@Matthew\_Berg](https://rubytalk.org/u/Matthew_Berg)\
**Post date:** [25 October 2003 22:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-music-player-initial-release/8623/1 "2003-10-25T22:54:04Z")

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I’m making a first public release of a music player I’ve been working  
on available here:

```
http://www.gothpoodle.com/~galt/player.html

```

As indicated on the page, this isn’t anything to get too excited about,  
since I’m not including the database code yet, but I figured it was  
better to release something than nothing. Please keep in mind that not  
only is this my first try at a GNOME application, it’s my first time  
writing anything in Ruby. Still, I hope the code isn’t too painful to  
look at with more experienced eyes. 😉

It’s only been tested against a CVS checkout of Ruby/GNOME2, but should  
work with the latest release version (0.7.0) as well. The current  
dependencies are on GTK+, GNOME, GStreamer, and Glade. Future versions  
will add a depenency on GConf and  
an optional dependency on Gda.

I just finished with some major refactoring, and as such, there is some  
level of disorganization (e.g. the methods in each class aren’t really  
in any particular order). Some other features are only partially  
implemented (e.g. the .pls reader doesn’t really understand the format).  
Probably the biggest issue I’ve run into in a quick test is that it will  
take a long time to determine that a file lacks metadata.

Anyways, if you give it a try and run into any bugs or have suggestions  
for features or different behaviour, feel free to send me a mail.  
Eventually I’ll probably set up a Rubyforge page as well, but that  
doesn’t help anyone now. 😉

Matt