Revision 1.19, Wed May 31 17:59:57 2006 UTC (17 years, 10 months ago) by wiz
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: pkgsrc-2006Q2-base, pkgsrc-2006Q2
Changes since 1.18: +4 -4 lines

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.