Michael Wood

I wanted a stop button in rhythmbox as mentioned in these bugs.. #427244 #320047 etc

So I thought hey, instead of just submitting a bug, I might actually be able to do something about it, as i’ve been learning C/C++ recently. So I did (sceenshot) After a while of messing about with the code and learning how it works i’ve managed to impliment it. All credit to the real Rhythmbox devs for keeping the code so well and easy to understand.

Another victory for Open Source.

You can download the modified version here: Download Mirror 1 or Download Mirror 2.

Please Note: This version of Rhythmbox 0.9.8 is modified from the original and therefore is entirely unofficial. Please do not submit any bugs against this version to the official sources ie gnome’s bugzilla or launchpad etc. instead please contact me.

I will be creating a patch for this and possibly if anyone is interested i’ll create a .10 version of Rhythmbox with the stop button. Before anyone says it, yes, I am aware that you can run multiple applications sharing the sound card using a correctly configured sound server (how to) however I like having a stop button.

Update: created the patch and tested against latest version of Rhythmbox. Please see the attached patch http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427244

I’ve also moved the stop button to be next to the “Next” button