[All] To build a better music player

[Dylan Reilly]

FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org

2009-02-26 - Version 0.5.4-dmr:
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* Fixed many issues with skip and previous. They should behave as expected now.
* Removed dependence on pyalsaaudio. Volume changing is handled via
the back-ends once again.
* Reduced CPU overhead of gstreamer by using a custom pipeline instead
of playbin.

There is not to much more performance I can squeeze out of the program
based on its architecture, I think. The python code itself does very
little and hands off all the heavy lifting to gstreamer and gtk.
(Speaking of GTK, it takes 5% CPU, as reported from top, to simply
redraw the track time in the GUI). Gstreamer and alsa are not the most
efficient ways to get sound to come out of a device, I believe.
However, my goal is to build upon "sane" components thus leaving only
doing the work that needs to be done.

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Dylan Maxwell Reilly