Log message:
Update to 1.4.1:
VERSION 1.4.1:
FEATURES:
* Support for last.fm streams. (BR 111983)
* New playlist toolbar menu entry for adding streams to the playlist.
(BR 129349)
CHANGES:
* Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.6.
* Inotify support disabled for now, due to stability issues.
* Tag editor is no longer modal.
* Provide warning dialog when deleting items from the playlistbrowser.
(BR 129313)
* GUI layout reverted to the classic Amarok layout.
* The Extended Info panel in the playlistbrowser is now resizeable.
BUGFIXES:
* Pressing return in the search bar of the Collection Browser immediately
after typing a query no longer appends the wrong items to the playlist.
* Fix crash when pressing Back or Forward buttons multiple times quickly
in Artist tab. Patch by Thomas Lindroth
* Fix problems where blanks would be added to data if SQLite was busy.
Patch by Thomas Lindroth
* Automatically refresh stream lyrics on new metadata.
* Set half star ratings on multiple selected tracks when clicking on an
item. (BR 129449)
* Only enable Show Extended Info in the Playlist Browser when information
is available. (BR 126590)
* Disable global shortcut for ratings when ratings are disabled.
(BR 129414)
* Autodetect button in Media Devices configuration dialog would not
properly signal changes, so that new devices were not always saved.
VERSION 1.4.1-beta1:
FEATURES:
* Much improved and completed custom icon theme by Vadim Petrunin
* LibVisual 0.4 supported and required.
* Support for custom scoring algorithms, via scripts.
* Creative Nomad Jukebox support (untested!). Submitted by Andres Oton
* Inotify support. On kernels 2.6.13 and above with Inotify support
compiled in, the collection will automatically be rescanned and
updated as soon as a watched folder has changed.
CHANGES:
* First-run wizard can no longer be restarted from the application menu.
However, it can still be invoked with "amarok --wizard".
* Astraweb lyrics script was removed for being crappy and unmaintained. If
you want to maintain it, grab it from SVN and release on kde-apps.org.
* "Append Count" option of dynamic playlists has been removed. It is
now always one. (BR 120044)
* Context browser can now play/queue specific discs of an album or
compilation.
* Automatically imported playlists go into a separate category.
* Block quitting amaroK until all on-going media device operations have
finished with a consistent state.
* Interface choice in wizard removed.
* MoodBar has been removed. The maintainer has not been updating it, and
it was causing crashes for many people.
* Usability improvements for the Script Manager, including a tree view.
* Use KMimeType for resolving file type for metadata acquisition before
falling back to extension based guessing.
* Removed the "detailed mode" in the playlist-browser.
* Also copy non-local URLs to collection when dropped onto collection
browser.
* Speed up connecting media devices with a lot of tracks to be submitted
to last.fm.
* For media without metadata, try to read metadata after transfer to
the iPod (e.g. when copying an audio CD via KIOslaves).
* Hint at starting a transcode script for transcoding while transferring
to media devices. (BR 127155)
* If a disc number is present, append it to the album's name when
organizing files. (BR 126867)
* Configure, which of fresh podcasts, newest & favorite albums are shown
in context browser home view. Patch by Patrick Muench
(BR 127043)
* Dynamic mode no longer skips to the next song if you press play (via
dcop, for instance) while already playing a track. Instead it restarts
the current one.
* The Actions menu has been renamed the Engage menu. It's way cooler,
right? I mean, Star Trek is really cool, right?
* Multiple podcasts can be configured at once by selecting multiple channels
or by configuring the children of a folder.
BUGFIXES:
* Allow dropping of tracks after non-existant items in the playlist.
* Make changes to the default dynamic playlists persistent.
* Send UTF-8 encoded requests to Wikipedia. Thanks to Thomas Lindroth
for the patch. (BR 127654)
* Correctly restore podcast channel title when fetching fails.
* Show error message when xine mp3 decoder isn't installed, don't just
play next track.
* Properly render and optimise playlist loading icons.
* Properly import and export XSPF playlist formats.
* Optimise addition of playlists to the playlistbrowser.
* In context browser, show localized date for podcasts. (BR 127853)
* Regression in dynamic mode caused it to skip the first track in the
playlist whenever it was started. (BR 127451)
* Stop Playing after Track: remember current track (BR 127312)
* Radio streams were broken for protocols other than HTTP. (BR 127848)
* Collection Browser would not set/unset/burn albums with ', The' in
their name.
* Prevent breakage when xine couldn't initialize the audio device. Patch
from Ilya Konstantinov
* Allow for recognition of the webdav protocol. Patch by Ilya
Konstantinov
* Setting a rating on an unplayed track would affect score generated.
Patch by Patrick Muench
* Stop tags with different capitalisation being treated as the same
when building the collection.
* Make database connections actually get closed when no longer used.
(BR 123113)
* xine engine would truncate the last seconds of a track, if no other
track followed in the playlist.
* Fixed AudioCD playback with xine-engine. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
* If dynamic mode was turned on and then off, the previous random and
repeat modes would be forgotten. (BR 123743)
* Removing the current track through DCOP while editing a field of the
track in the playlist would cause a crash. (BR 119152)
* Make characters encoded with % (such as a forward slash, %2f) display
correctly. (BR 105266)
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Log message:
Update to 1.4.0a:
VERSION 1.4.0:
FEATURES:
* New DCOP call "player: version()". Returns the amaroK version.
* iFP has persistent settings when transferring tracks to the device.
* GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports Audio CDs.
* Context menus for entries in the statistics tool. (BR 124945)
CHANGES:
* Composer, Disc Number and File Size columns in flat collection view.
* 'k' or 'm' suffixes for matching filesize in kibi or respectively mebi
bytes.
* Groupings when transferring files to mediadevices are now persistent.
(BR 127158)
* Transfer contents of smart playlists to media device without adding
them to a playlist. (BR 126997)
* Set %albumartist to Various Artists, but keep %artist as the track's
artist when organizing compilations. (BR 126936)
* Discard empty tokens surrounded by {} in custom organize file format.
(BR 124337)
* GStreamer-0.10 engine was disabled for this release (not yet stable).
* Only pick genres for Smart playlists that exist in your collection.
* VFAT plugin completely rewritten since 1.4beta3. Name is now changed to
"Generic Audio Player" to make it less needlessly technical.
* Don't limit the number of episodes shown with a new podcast, since the
user can limit the number shown afterwards by configuring the channel.
* Automatically populate the playlist with items if it is empty when a
dynamic playlist is loaded. (BR 126594)
* Unplayed/unrated tracks are no longer shown in the statistics dialog.
* Removed the option "Import Playlists". It's now always enabled.
* Show total track time in context browser (BR 126548)
* Derive filename for downloaded podcast episodes from their url in the
rss feed. (BR 125966)
* Only show albums/artists/genres with more than 3 tracks when listing
favourite albums/artists/genres. (BR 126435)
* libtunepimp 0.5 compiles successfully.
* Podcasts are automatically configured to be checked for updates.
* Show only 2 decimal places for scores in the statistics module.
* Replace 'Move to Collection' in file browser context menu by 'Organize
Files' for collection directories. (BR 125702)
* Removed the option "Show Status Bar". It's now always enabled.
* Tracks from a media device scan be submitted to last.fm immediately,
without waiting for tracks to be played in amaroK. Patch by Iain
Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125690)
* Any failed attempts to submit to last.fm are now automatically retried
in the background, without waiting for new tracks to be played.
* Smart playlists can be constructed using mixed ALL and ANY matches
(BR 124483)
* Configure media devices in global settings, disable media browser when
no media device is configured.
* Dynamic Playlist bar made more conspicuous.
* The Konqueror setting to show a 'delete' entry in the menu is now
respected, if the setting exists and KDE is version 3.4 or higher.
* Cover art from m4a files. Updated m4a taglib patch by Jochen Issing
<jochen@isign-softart.de> and patch by Shane King
<kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125414)
VERSION 1.4-beta3:
FEATURES:
* amaroK now supports multiple media devices of varying types (currently
iPods, UMS/vfat, and iFP devices).
* Autodetection of iPods and UMS/vfat devices (if KDE has HAL/DBUS support
compiled in).
* New DCOP call "devices: showDeviceList()" to show the Device \
Manager's
current device knowledge.
* amaroK now has a custom icon theme, and an option to switch back to the
system icons, if preferred (in the General settings section).
* Collection browser view is separated alphabetically. Patch by
Christian Hoenig <list@hoenig.cc>.
* Ease navigation with track slider below playlist window by showing mood.
(BR 121715)
* Show context information for podcasts.
* Filebrowser: toolbar button to change to the directory of the currently
playing song. (BR 115479)
* Added "Play Audio CD" entry to the amaroK menu. (BR 103409)
* GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports visualizations.
* xine-engine: Show metadata for ogg vorbis streams. (BR 122505)
* Drag and drop podcast urls directly onto podcast folders for addition.
* Add media directly into directories for iRiver ifp devices.
* Button to directly edit lyrics from the context browser. (BR 123515)
* Support for SMIL playlists. (BR 121983)
* Support for WAX playlists. (BR 120980)
* Handle the Year tag when playing AudioCDs. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
<M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123428)
* Ignore 'The ' in artist names when sorting in the cover manager, as per
the collection browser. (BR 122858)
* Add autocompletion to the composer field in the tag dialog. (BR 123026)
CHANGES:
* In context browser, show information about recently updated podcasts,
recently added and favourite albums when nothing is playing.
* Ratings can now have half stars: click again on the last star in the
rating to toggle it between a half and a full star.
* Improved handling of embedded cover art, utilizing the database. Patch
by Shane King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 124563)
* Statistics tool has had numerous improvements.
* Optimise: Only rerender the CollectionBrowser when relevant.
* Disable detection of iPod model and thus solve g_object_get related
problems. (BR 121990)
* Don't block GUI when trying to transfer large numbers of items already
on media device. (BR 123570)
* Update playlist items when their location is changed during organizing
files. (BR 123752)
* Recursively add tracks when directories are dropped to the media browser
and the collection browser. (BR 123982)
* Visualizations now receive stereo data from amaroK. (BR 118765)
* Upgraded internal SQLite library to version 3.3.4.
* Podcast information is stored in the database.
* Improved password handling in the PostgreSQL config dialog. Patch by
Peter C. Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 118304)
VERSION 1.4-beta2:
FEATURES:
* Equalizer for the GStreamer-0.10 engine.
* Crossfade in the helix engine!
* The build date is shown in the "About amaroK" dialog.
* Show album covers when dragging playlist items. Patch from Jonas
Hurrelmann <j@outpo.st>.
CHANGES:
* Summarize transfer failures to media devices instead of a message for each.
(BR 122491)
* Don't list the <no engine> entry in the engine selection widget, when
it's not the active engine. Makes no sense to select this dummy engine.
* The aRts and GStreamer-0.8 engines have been removed for being obsolete.
* Automatically skip to the next track in the playlist when a track is
unplayable. (BR 116555)
* Don't check for collection changes on startup if Watch Folders is
disabled. (BR 116173)
VERSION 1.4-beta1:
FEATURES:
* AudioCD (CDDA) support for xine-engine, including CDDB lookup. Patch by
Alberto Griggio <alberto.griggio@gmail.com>. (BR 121647)
* The Helix engine now supports direct alsa playback using Realplayer 10.
* New DCOP call "player: setVolumeRelative(int ticks)".
* Options for Random Mode to favor tracks with a higher rating, score, or
ones less recently played.
* Support for playing entire albums. This works just like normal, except
when choosing the next track, it'll go to the next track from the album
it finds in the playlist, or the first track of another album otherwise.
* Support for plain VFAT devices in the Media Device browser.
* You can now mousewheel over a track's queue label to change its position
in the queue.
* Added a time-filter to the CollectionBrowser. Now you can make it show
only those tracks, which have been added to your collection within the
last day, week, month or year.
* Fit to Width for the playlist columns is now optional (accessible in the
context menu for the column headers).
* On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media devices, provided
that an appropriate transcoding script is running.
* Handle compilations as such on iPods.
* New DCOP calls "mediabrowser: ..." for interfacing with media \
devices.
* Multiple simultaneously connected media devices.
* Lyrics support is now scriptable. This allows to add support for any
lyrics site, and makes it possible to provide upgrades. (BR 94437)
* New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics(string)".
* New 'File Size' column in the playlist.
* Amarok now supports ASX playlist files. (BR 114051)
* New DCOP call "collection: isDirInCollection(const QString& path \
)".
* New DCOP call "playlist: removeByIndex(int)". (BR 119143)
* For mp3, aac/mp4, and ogg vorbis, it's possible to use Disc Number and
Composer tags. (BR 110675) (BR 90503)
* For xine-lib 1.1.1 and greater, xine engine has gapless playback. amaroK
is now "The Wall" compatible. (BR 77766)
* Option for selecting external web browser in amaroK. No longer requires
KDE-Base. (BR 106015)
* Press Enter in the Collection Browser filter to send all the visible
tracks to the playlist.
* Hold Ctrl while pressing Enter in the playlist's filter to apply to all
visible items instead of just the first, and Shift to only queue and not
play them.
* Tags can be edited inline in the playlist by clicking on a single selected
item.
* Switchable Wikipedia locale. (BR 104383)
* Initial port of GStreamer engine to GStreamer 0.10.
* Drag albums and compilations from context browser to media device and
playlist browser.
* Browse your collection and other related artists with context browser.
* Copy artwork to iPods capable of displaying it.
* Show extended podcast info on iPod.
* Optionally update playcount for items played on iPod and submit them
to last.fm and synchronize ratings between amaroK and iPod.
* Tracks can now be rated from 1-5 stars manually, in addition to the score
which amaroK calculates automatically based on your listening habits. You
can use the 'Rating' column and Win+1..5 to change the rating.
* Ability to copy items from iPod and from filebrowser to collection.
* New 'Last Played' column in the playlist, showing when the track was last
played. (Like in the Context Browser.)
* Browsers can be now accessed with keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+1..5.
Also Ctrl+0 to close the current one, and Ctrl+Tab to switch the focus
between the playlist and the active browser.
* Downloaded podcast episodes can be deleted from the context menu.
* New DCOP call "player: osdEnabled".
* Add contents of smart amaroK playlists as playlist to media device.
* Mediabrowser support for the iRiver iFP series!
* New dcop call playlistbrowser loadPlaylist. (BR 110082)
* New Edit Track Information dialog. Lyrics can be edited there, comments
can have more than one line, some statistics and tag guessing from
filename. (BR 93982)
* Show/hide browsers via context menu. (BR 110823)
* Display disk space on media device.
* Copy standard and amaroK playlists to media device.
* Create playlist from items transferred to iPod.
* Edit dumb iPod playlists with media browser.
* Ability to read audible.com .aa file metadata and to transfer audiobooks
to iPod via file browser.
* Optionally add new podcasts to media device transfer queue on download
and remove podcasts already listened to on media device connect.
* Add podcast shows to the Podcast folder on iPods.
* Persistent media device transfer queue.
* Incremental update of media device view.
* Automatic scanning for stale and orphaned iPod items.
* Moodbar!
* configure: report not included extra features (BR 115057)
* Ability to uninstall context-browser themes. (BR 111449)
* More columns available in the Flat View of the Collection Browser.
* New Collection Scanner, running in an external process. No longer can
amaroK crash while scanning the Collection :)
* Statistics tool!
* Dragging external playlists into the playlist browser will add them.
* NMM engine now has a configure dialog.
* Collection scanner now supports WMA, MP4/AAC, and RealMedia (RA,RV,RM).
* You can now Organize Music from the Collection Browser, to move and
rename files to a logical place in your collection folders based on their
tags.
* Option to crossfade only on manual track changes. Useful for listening
to consecutive tracks on a single album.
CHANGES:
* Dynamic Mode is now stateless, meaning there's no Dynamic Mode any more,
only loading and unloading of Dynamic Playlists. There's also now a nice
info bar above the playlist when a Dynamic Playlist is loaded.
* The major huge context menu used for hiding/showing columns in the
playlist has been replaced with a shorter one and a nice dialog.
* Elapsed time / length in the systray tooltip now updates in real time as
the song progresses.
* Tooltips in the playlist for truncated text are now shown directly above
the text, giving the effect of it being expanded to its full length.
* The option for restarting scripts automatically at startup is removed, as
it is now the default behaviour.
* Reduced memory usage for large playlists to under 30% of pre-1.4 versions.
(Measured as the difference in memory usage between an empty playlist and
loading the 'All Collection' smart playlist.)
* Import iTunes album art from directories.
* Media Devices (Apple iPod, iRiver iFP, ...) are now handled with plugins.
* New default image for albums with no cover art.
* When tabbing between cells while editing tags in the playlist, autosave
the contents of the previous tag you edited, so you don't have to
constantly go in and out of editing mode to edit lots of tags.
* When saving playlists, if there's already one with the same name, instead
of complaining about it, smartly append (2), (3), etc. to the end.
* 'Stop Playing After Track' now has a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+V), and a global
shortcut for the currently playing track (Ctrl+Win+V).
* Various keyboard usability and focus tweaks so using amaroK with the
keyboard is nicer.
* Upgraded internal SQLite database library to version 3.2.7.
* Recoding mp3 tags has been removed due to many unjustified
complications.
* Viewing track information of remote media will show the url.
* "Update"-button is now hidden in the collection browser if \
"Watch
folders for changes" is enabled in the options.
* Playlist Browser now remembers which entries were open across startups.
* The tooltip and the menu from the queue icon in the statusbar now shows
the total length of the queued tracks.
* The Home tab has been merged into the Current tab, now called Music.
* New look for the current track marker in the playlist. Pimp my roK!
* When turning either random or dynamic mode on, turn the other off,
instead of completely disabling random mode when dynamic is on.
* libgpod from gtkpod replaces kio based iPod support for improved
compatibility with various iPod models.
* Podcast settings are hierarchical now, meaning you can set settings
for the category's, newly added podcasts take the settings from there \
parent category.
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