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Kirocker Music Display

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Kirocker Music Display
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Kirocker Music Display
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Link:  http://
Depends on  KDE 3.x
Downloads:  17580
Submitted:  Feb 7 2007
Updated:  Dec 14 2007

Description:

Make your Kicker (the KDE main panel) rock with your music.

It is a Kicker applet that displays what you listen to in Amarok.
A full-screen display can also be used independently of the applet.

With this panel applet, you always know what you are listening to, and can watch its cover and star rating: it is always visible.
It allows you to rate your music with one click: you can quickly change the number of stars of your musics from anywhere on your desktop.
Finally, it let you remotely control Amarok with one click from anywhere on your desktop: play next or previous track, pause, play, and seek to another position in the current track.

You also have the possibility to show your currently playing music in a beautiful full-screen display. Ideal for parties or to listen to music while doing something else away from the computer.
The full-screen display can be triggered independently of the panel applet. You can start it from the KMenu or from Amarok itself.

To install:
- You need to have automake 1.9 installed for the compilation to work. It should be Ok on modern Linux distributions. You also need Python for the Amarok script to work (optional). This should also be Ok.
- Extract the archive
- Open a konsole in the extracted folder (in Konqueror, go to the extracted folder and press F4)
- Run this set of command: ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) && make && sudo make install
- It will asks your root password to install the applet on your system
- Right click the Kicker, choose "Add an Applet to the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Double-click "Kirocker Music Display"
- Start playing a music. The applet is empty when Amarok is stopped or paused, to not annoy you with useless information when you are working
- If you do not want the panel applet, the full-screen display can be trigerred from the KMenu or from Amarok itself (restart Amarok, enable the "Kirocker Music Display" script, and then right-click the playlist to see the action to show full-screen)

Note: After an upgrade from a previous version, press Alt+F2 and type the command "kicker default restart" to restart the Panel with the new installed version.

How to make the Kicker translucent:
The Kicker translucent white vertical background is also included in the package.
- Your screen resolution need to be 1280*800. If not, you will need some artistic skills and a Gimp experience to modify the given background
- Extract the image "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" located in the Kirocker Music Display archive
- Open your desktop background image with The Gimp
- Drag and drop "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" to the Gimp window of your background image
- Save the image and set it as your desktop background image
- Right click the Kicker and choose "Configure the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Place the panel on the right (click the button on the right)
- Set the size to "Personalized" and enter "96 pixels"
- In the "Appearance" tab, check "Enable transparency"
- Click "Ok" and you're done: ENJOY!




Changelog:

4.0:
- Theme support with wonderful ones provided by default and a graphical editor that is both powerful and surprisingly easy to use
- Have fun karaokees with automatically-scrolling lyrics
- Added a better no-cover image, from Oxygen (sorry guys, but it's the only beautiful and scalable image I found)
- Now using the "Track, Artist, Album" order (instead of "Artist, Album, Track") to be more complient with other displays, such as iPod, Last.fm, and even Amarok.
- Changed the application icon to a better one, using an Oxygen composition. Also show the icon back in the panel big tooltip, as it cannot be confused with an empty cover image anymore
- Removed a lot of bugs
- Enhanced performances

Browse for new themes:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/search.php?search=Search&text=kirocker

Older list of changes:
http://slaout.linux62.org/kirocker/old-changelog.html

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This is the End:
I think I will now return back to Windows, so i'm done with KDE development. I will perhapse help the KDE Windows project in the future, tough.
This project is now abandonned.
I'm afraid it will not be ported to KDE 4, unless new developers pop up.

Why I returned back to Windows:
http://slaout.linux62.org/Why_Windows.html




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 Suggestion

 
 by aaronm67 on: Jul 21 2007  
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It would be pretty cool if rather then a background image the fullscreen mode used visualizations. Is this at all possible? I may look into it, if you can point me in the right direction.


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 Re: Suggestion

 
 by Sebien on: Jul 29 2007  
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Not, this is not possible, because the audio frequencies information needed for the visualisation is nto exported by Amarok, but I will mail Amarok developers to find a solution for Amarok 2.0.

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 Re: Suggestion

 
 by Wezp on: Aug 10 2007  
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be aware that this dcop call has a serious problem: it doesn't call c++ destructors (kicker just exec* itself into its own adressspace) when it shuts down the kicker panel. so applets which changed their settings and call the flush function in their destructors, loose their settings.
i would recommend you to use the killall method. it is much cleaner and call destructors the way they should.

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 Awesome

 
 by NabLa on: Jul 26 2007  
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Didn't know about it, stumbled upon it when idling on kde-apps... it's just excellent!!!

Just a wish... Last.fm :) it would be brilliant to be able to ban/love/skip a track when listening to Last.fm on Amarok, and also to display the cover :)


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 Re: Awesome

 
 by Sebien on: Jul 29 2007  
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Amarok does not have any way for plugin developers to simulate a click on ban/love/skip. So I suppose this feature will be for KDE 4.

And now (version 3.4), the Last.fm cover is working for everybody. There was a little bug in the previous version (version 3.2).

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 crash

 
 by joe81 on: Aug 3 2007  
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Great application, dude!!
anyway, it has just crashed, making kicker crashing too.
This is the backtrace, hope it can help:
#6 0xb754a002 in operator>> () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#7 0xb6ab3ee9 in DCOPProcessMessage (iceConn=0x80820c8,
clientObject=0x8081950, opcode=3, length=43, replyWait=0xbfec1138,
replyWaitRet=0xbfec10c4)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:370
#8 0xb6ac4273 in KDE_IceProcessMessages (iceConn=0x80820c8,
replyWait=0xbfec11c8, replyReadyRet=0xbfec1218)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/KDE-ICE/process.c:326
#9 0xb6aaf669 in DCOPClient::callInternal (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec13f8, remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8,
data=@0xbfec13d0, replyStruct=0xbfec1274, useEventLoop=false, timeout=-1,
minor_opcode=2) at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1931
#10 0xb6aaf94d in DCOPClient::callInternal (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec13f8, remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8,
data=@0xbfec13d0, replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8,
useEventLoop=false, timeout=-1, minor_opcode=2)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1821
#11 0xb6ab4397 in DCOPClient::call (this=0x8080700, remApp=@0xbfec13f8,
remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8, data=@0xbfec13d0,
replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8, useEventLoop=false,
timeout=-1) at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1765
#12 0xb6ab43f7 in DCOPClient::call (this=0x8080700, remApp=@0xbfec13f8,
remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8, data=@0xbfec13d0,
replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8, useEventLoop=false)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1730
#13 0xb6ab611d in DCOPClient::isApplicationRegistered (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec1480)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1225
#14 0xb2f4d176 in DcopInterface::isApplicationRegistered ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#15 0xb2f5071e in InformationPoller::failed ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#16 0xb2f531eb in InformationPoller::poll ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#17 0xb2f53851 in InformationPoller::qt_invoke ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so


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 killall?

 
 by inckie on: Aug 3 2007  
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Great great applet! Just a thought:

Instead of
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killall -sTERM kicker ; kicker

Wouldn't it be better to
Quote:
dcop kicker default restart

to restart kicker?

(My 2¢)

If you can make it look beautiful, just do it.
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 Re: killall?

 
 by Sebien on: Aug 4 2007  
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Thanks very much for this tip.

I've updated the instructions.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Re: Re: killall?

 
 by linmain on: Aug 4 2007  
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be aware that this dcop call has a serious problem: it doesn't call c++ destructors (kicker just exec* itself into its own adressspace) when it shuts down the kicker panel. so applets which changed their settings and call the flush function in their destructors, loose their settings.

i would recommend you to use the killall method. it is much cleaner and call destructors the way they should.


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 Re: Re: killall?

 
 by linmain on: Aug 4 2007  
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i would use this one to wait the right amount of time:

pidkicker=$(pidof kicker)
kill -TERM 0$pidkicker
while [ -f /proc/$pidkicker/environ ]
do
sleep 0.1s
done
kicker


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 Crash on x86_64

 
 by coling on: Aug 4 2007  
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Hi,

Just trying this out and it crashes when I try to run kirocker. I can't generate a backtrace with debug symbols installed as it says it's just all messed up and is probably due to a corrupted stack. I'm guessing something big is trying to be squeezed into a small variable when compiled for x86_64..... Backtrace w/o debugging symbols below may help but if it is a stack thing then it may be a red herring :/

#5 0x00002af2c05db0cf in DcopInterface::getBool ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#6 0x00002af2c05ce89f in AmarokApi::screenSaverEnabled ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#7 0x00002af2c05db9b7 in FullScreen::windowActivationChange ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#8 0x00002af2c2078eb3 in QWidget::event ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#9 0x00002af2c1ff2fd3 in QApplication::internalNotify ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#10 0x00002af2c1ff3abe in QApplication::notify ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#11 0x00002af2c0f85d8d in KApplication::notify ()
from /usr/lib64/libkdecore.so.4
#12 0x00002af2c1ff6c93 in QApplication::setActiveWindow ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#13 0x00002af2c1f9b5cb in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#14 0x00002af2c1faa069 in QEventLoop::processEvents ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0x00002af2c2006b31 in QEventLoop::enterLoop ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0x00002af2c20069e2 in QEventLoop::exec ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#17 0x0000000000402b95 in ?? ()
#18 0x00002af2c6b7dac4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#19 0x0000000000402459 in QPixmap::metric ()
#20 0x00007fffeb731568 in ?? ()
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


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 Re: Crash on x86_64

 
 by Sebien on: Aug 5 2007  
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Is this crash also hapenning when running the Kirocker Music Display applet in the KDE panel?

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 Re: Re: Crash on x86

 
 by coling on: Aug 6 2007  
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TBH I don't know as I generally run a Gnome desktop. I'll try under a pure KDE session soon.


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 Fixed: Crash on x86_

 
 by Sebien on: Aug 19 2007  
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I finnally was able to reproduce that crash.

It was triggered mainly with using a large playlist, isn't it?

Anyway, *I released version 3.4.1 that fix the bug*!
You can download it right now, and it should crash anymore.

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 Re: Fixed: Crash on

 
 by coling on: Aug 19 2007  
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Great. Confirmed working here. Normally my playlists are not that large but I usually have dynamic playlists which may have also triggered problems. Looks good just now tho'. Consider a Mandriva package forthcoming ;)


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 cool

 
 by Superstoned on: Aug 12 2007  
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hey, can I say again I love kirocker? Haven't checked it out in a long time, just updated it. Lovely, all these animations and the improved fullscreen mode ;-)

Suggestion: mnaybe lyrics in the mainmode?!?


Thanx for all the work!


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 Re: cool

 
 by Sebien on: Aug 12 2007  
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Yes, lyrics in full screen display are planned.

Here are all the planned big features:

- Themes (background image, colors)
- Volume slider
- Party Lock
- Lyrics
- Multiple screens support
- Visualisation

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Kirocker Music Display: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52869
Glossyk: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Glossyk?content=40797
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