Here is another alpha release: 2.5.0-alpha4. It has numerous improvements and bug fixes comparing to the previous unstable version released one and a half year ago. As you can see from the changelog most changes were made by contributors, not me. You can see there most of the patches posted/mentioned on the forum. There is the play queue, lyrics displaying, the equalizer and more.

I've decided to release a new fixed version of MOC because from the reports I get it's even getting hard to compile MOC on newer systems. There are also fixes for common crashes users complain about. I realize that not all bugs were fixed, but 13 fixes were worth a release :) See the changelog for details.

MOC site and FTP are running on a different, much faster server now. If you experience any problems please let me know. For few hours (up to 24h) the DNS may point you to the old server where you can only see an error page.

The moc-lyrics.pl script was updated. It now uses some heuristics method to find lyrics is the exact phrase has not been found. You can download it from contrib THe full list of changes is:

Santiago Gil made a script that displays information from MOC on a Logitech G15 keyboard which has an LCD display. You can find it in the contrib section.

New alpha version is here. The list of new features is not very long although. I've called it "community release' because all changes except one were contributed. I know it's been long time from the last release, but we have it and this proofs that Open Source works and community exist :)

Robin Pronk sent me a script that allows displaying information about currently playing song on an LCD display using LCDd. You can download it from the contrib section.

As some of you probably already noticed there is sometimes spam posted on the forum. Until now there was only mechanism to make automatically account creation harder, but it was bypassed sometimes and we ended up with spam posts and what is worse email notifications about those posts. Today I've enabled a spam filtering module that should help a lot. If there are problems with your posts and you are not a spammer let me know :)

Lately I've received an email from Thorsten Schmidt where he wrote about his wiki article about MOC: http://wiki.ubuntu-forum.de/index.php/MOC (German). I think it's a good opportunity to say that there are more nice articles/HOWTOs about our favorite player, some of them:

Here is the 2.4.3 stable release which fixes few (but not all) bugs. This includes fix for problems with newer curl versions, problems with tags in internet streams with some stations and more. Here is the full list of changes.