I had holiday between Christmas and New Years, and pulled myself together and finshed up the Digitally Imported streaming music plugin for XBMC, finally hitting version 1.0.

This was actually quite lucky I had started work on it again as XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta got release – which works great – and as Digitally Imported changed their website design at New Years, meaning: the plugin broke.

Version 1.0 means I’ve implemented all the functionality I originally set out to do:

• Streaming of 96k public streams
• The option to choose A-Z sorting or let the streams be displayed in the order they are at di.fm
• A configurable cache function of stream URLs, for faster loading of the streamlist when using cached version + to not hammer DIs webserver (6 hours cache by default)
• Unique channel icons for every channel – thank you to Ari Shohat from Digitally Imported for permission to use them
• Premium login and premium streams
• Premium users have the option to choose between 256k and 128k streams
• Premium users may choose to use their ‘My Favorites’ playlist, only showing the streams they want

Download Digitally Imported XBMC plugin v1.0

What you need to do:

• Make sure you have at least XBMC 10.1 – codename Dharma (XBMC 10.0 should work too)
• Download Digitally Imported XBMC plugin v1.0
• Unpack the archive, inside the archive is a folder called plugin.audio.di.fm, move it to one of the following locations, depending on your OS. Some unpacking programs extracts to a folder with the same name as the file it extracted from, meaning you could end up with a plugin.audio.di.fm folder within the plugin.audio.di.fm folder – Inception style – and that could screw things up.
• Linux/Ubuntu – ~/.xbmc/addons/
• Windows – C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\
• OS X – ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/
• From XBMC, the plugin is configured by left clicking or pressing C on the Digitally Imported folder in the music add-ons category and choosing Add-on settings.

Around New Years Eve, di.fm changed it’s design, and thereby the plugin “broke”, or at least couldn’t find what it was looking for anymore.

Irony would have it that I had already started working on implementing the Premium settings the day before New Years, so I was made aware of the changes the day after.

I expect version 1.0 of the plugin to be out next weekend, around the 8th of January, with Premium, stream quality (premium has 256k and 128k) support and the option to use your ‘My Favorites’ playlist.

Download the updated Digitally Imported XBMC plugin v1.0 here

Another month = another bunch of high quality DRM free, native Linux games.

The Humble Indie Bundle 4 includes:

• Gratuitous Space Battles
• Cave Story+
• Jamestown
• Bit.Trip Runner
• Super Meat Boy
• Shank
• Nightsky HD

Download The Humble Indie Bundle 4 DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label

A new bundle hit the web a couple of days ago, of course I bought it and made a cover for it.

• Uplink
• Darwinia
• DEFCON
• Multiwinia
• Aquaria
• Crayon Physics Deluxe

Download The Humble Introversion Bundle DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label.

The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle was released about a month ago, but I didn’t get around to finishing the cover for it before now.

The bundle includes:

• Frozen Synapse
• SpaceChem
• Trauma
• Splot

Download The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label.

It’s been a week now since my friend and I returned from CCC2011, and what a trip!

We’ve kept a danish blog at camp.hacker.dk, but Google translate might help out people who’s danish skills aren’t up to par and those who thinks the pictures don’t cut it

Recently, everyone who bought the Humble Indie Bundle 3 for $25 or more, was given the Humble Indie Bundle 2 as well.

The Humble Indie Bundle 2 includes:

• Braid
• Cortex Command
• Machinarium
• Osmos
• Revenge of the Titans

So I decided to whip up a cover for that as well. Download The Humble Indie Bundle 2 DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label

The Humble Indie Bundle #3 recently got “updated” and two more games was added to the package:

• Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
• Atom Zombie Smasher

So of course I’ve updated the DVD cover to included these games as well.

Download The Humble Indie Bundle 3 DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label v2

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 got released the other day, and as the previous bundles you can pay what you want, and decide how much of the amount should be split between the developers, Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

And also like it’s predecessors, this bundle is also Cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac) and DRM free!

This bundle contains 5 games:

• Crayon Physics Deluxe
• Cogs
• VVVVVV
• Hammerfight
• And Yet It Moves

As I have an obsession with having a physical copy of games I buy and this packaged being download only and DRM free at the same time, I decided to try to whip up a DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label for it, and thought I’d share it, as there may be 1-2 other crazy people out there like me, who wants to be able to have a physical copy of this awesome bundle on their shelf.

Download the covers here in .png format The Humble Indie Bundle 3 DVD cover, disc label and a LightScribe label

The bundle was recently updated with two more games, new cover available here.

Preview pics in .jpg format, don’t print from these.

I found a bug that made it so the plugin diden’t really respect it if you had set it to never refresh the cache, which gives a significant speedboost when accessing the channellist.

Download Digitally Imported XBMC plugin v0.71

Download the updated Digitally Imported XBMC plugin v1.0 instead

Instructions for installing the plugin can be found at http://qualisoft.dk/2011/07/di-fm-digitally-imported-xbmc-plugin-v0-7/