Snakeoil Gear Isolation Beta Series

[agent_kith]

Spent this past week working from home. That means I have roughly 90 extra minutes every day for the four day week!

That gave me enough time to work on Gear Isolation beta 3. Plus I spent even more time on my my day job! Working from home has turned me into a workaholic and I'll probably stop doing this WFH next week.

I'm doing Angular and python at work and to be honest I don't like Python, while it's easy to use and code, there are some quirkiness that is just plain annoying. Having said that, because Python is so easy, I'll be using Python as the foundation for the future custom kernel generator website, and obviously a beautiful Angular frontend to hide all the Python ugliness. Having only used Python for scripting and quick jobs in the past, I really appreciate and am grateful that I have the chance to improve my Python skills.

Gear Isolation Beta 3 is built. I've only done some quick tests so far. Will probe more tomorrow and hopefully release this as the last beta. I'll work on updating the wiki, and once that that this will be released out into the wild. Thank you guys for taking the time to beta test. Couldn't have done this without you guys spending the time to help me test this.

Some changes:

• myMPD is now upgraded to 7.0.2, and because I had to replace /etc/mympd.conf with a new version because this is a major revision change. In other words, any custom settings you have will be lost. I have also disabled smart playlist by default.
  
• Also updated Spotify install script to always lookup the Spotify webpage and look for the latest public key (required to install their signed packages). This should mean Spotify installation will continue work longer.
  
• Tweaked the "blob installation" to not try and install from the /media/music folder just in case it's mounted as a Read Only share.
  

Not sure what else is new/changed as I didn't put a lot of effort tracking changes in Gitlab. Snakeoil is split into multiple projects in the repo and it's kind of difficult to track them. But there's nothing else left in the 1.2.0 milestone now. Have a look and see here.

Gonna sleep soon, and then with any luck, release beta 3 tomorrow. For those in my time zone, good night . For others, good morning, good evening!!