Changelog

4.7.0 - Unreleased

Packaging Changes

  • Quodlibet now uses gtksourceview4 optionally instead of gtksourceview3 #4377

  • Appdata is now installed into /usr/share/metainfo instead of /usr/share/appdata #4375

  • The tests now use use appstream optionally instead of appstream-util #4376

4.6.0 (2023-08-22) - Ah, perfect, the banner that satisfies everyone

Packaging Changes

  • Quodlibet now requires Python 3.8+

  • It also now supports Python 3.11

  • libsoup3 is now required (up from version 2)

ℹ️ A highlight of the changes in 4.6.0 is below. For full details, see the 4.6 commit log.

General
Developer
Plugins
Translations

  • Thanks to all our translators old and new.

  • These are now listed on the Weblate QL project.

4.5.0 (2022-03-29) - What sort of things would you like to know?

Packaging Changes:

  • Quodlibet should now support Python 3.10

  • This will be the last release supporting Windows 7

General:
Fixes:
Developer:
Docs:
Translations:
  • Galician

    • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (308)

  • Turkish

    • Ömer Faruk Çakmak (3)

    • E-Akcaer (1149)

  • German

    • Till Berger (292)

  • Danish

    • scootergrisen (17)

  • Greek

    • Dimitris Papageorgiou (77)

  • Ukrainian

    • Tymofii Lytvynenko (1)

    • Andrij Mizyk (542)

  • Portuguese

    • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (8)

    • ssantos (111)

  • English (United Kingdom)

    • Nick Boultbee (4)

    • Tom Fryers (4)

  • Indonesian

      1. Musthafa (31)

  • Dutch

    • ikmaak (5)

    • Heimen Stoffels (96)

  • Spanish

    • germe-fur (85)

    • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (1205)

  • French

    • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (1)

    • Jej@github (136)

    • Bundy01 (481)

  • Finnish

    • Kristian Laakkonen (166)

  • Korean

    • Johndoe0153 (419)

  • Slovak

    • menom (75)

    • Marek Felšöci (1527)

  • Chinese (Simplified)

    • stoodvolleyball (1)

    • 梁普行 (5)

    • Pig Fang (19)

    • JER-ry (249)

    • Eric (464)

4.4.0 (2021-02-28) - PERFECTION IS BACK ON THE MENU

Packaging Changes:

  • One quodlibet/ subdirectory has been removed - e.g. quodlibet/tests/ -> tests/ (#3238)

  • Move to Python 3.7 (closing #3433) #3438 (Nick Boultbee)

  • macos: bundle.sh: clone from ../.. rather than .., fixing #3393. (#3394) (Sam Hathaway)

  • win_installer: pass options to build script on env switch #3328 (Gabor Karsay)

  • Depend on musicbrainzngs>=0.6 (Christoph Reiter)

General:
Plugins:
Translations:
Documentation:
Developer:

4.3.0 (2020-02-22) - Smaug-like figures, lurking on our planet filled with hoarded data

Packaging Changes:

  • Various installed files have been renamed (“exfalso” -> “io.github.quodlibet.ExFalso”) to work better with Flatpak

  • zsh completion file installation location changed to site-functions #3300

  • Installs a new bash completion file #3126 #3128

  • Windows: Moved everything from 32 bit to 64 bit. This means QL will no longer work with 32 bit Windows.

Translations:
General:
Plugins:

4.2.1 (2018-12-26) - DO NOT WEAR THE HAT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Translations:
Fixes:

  • Fix freezes when opening the shortcuts window with i3wm #3055 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • xinebe: Fix error when pausing a non-local stream #3057

  • Fix mmkeys error (preventing QL to start) when mate-settings-daemon is running outside of a mate session #3056

  • Fix some panels/docks not being able to match the app with the desktop file #3029

  • Migrate metadata plugin fixes #3070 (Fredrik Strupe)

4.2.0 (2018-10-31) - staffed by the living

Packaging Changes:

  • gettext 0.19.8 required (was 0.15)

  • intltool no longer required

Translations:
Codebase:
General:

  • queue: Add option to keep songs after playing them #2865 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • queue: Add option to not play songs from the queue #2865 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Fix non-deterministic ordering of album list and cover grid browsers #2945 (dpitch40)

  • multimedia keys: add support for forward/rewind/repeat/shuffle keys #2954 (Druette Ludovic)

  • tag editor: Fix a context menu crash #2968 (Eoin O’Neill)

  • Remove GNOME app menu #2846

  • cli: --add-location for adding a file/directory to the library #2970 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • cli: Remove deprecated --song-list option (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Update the big cover window on song changes #2972 (Eoin O’Neill)

  • wayland: Fix the application window icon under Plasma #2974

  • Various man page updates for missing commands etc #2971 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Add support for importing m3u8 playlists (Fredrik Strupe)

  • tags: Don’t show generic Performance role description for ~performer:roles #2994 (zsau)

  • themes: Work around redraw issues with the Breeze gtk theme #2997

  • tag editor: Remember filelist scroll position on tag save #3005 (Olli Helin)

  • Windows: use SetDllDirectoryW to prevent loading clashing DLLs not shipped by us #2817

  • cover display: Fix the cover window size on multi monitor systems #2915 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • session: Add an XSMP session management backend to improve (but not fix) save on shutdown behavior under XFCE #2897

  • monkeysaudio: handle missing bits_per_sample for older format versions #2882

  • Various other fixes and improvements: #2998 (Olli Helin), #2909 (zsau)

Plugins:

4.1.0 (2018-06-03) - Trapped in a holodeck that won’t take commands

Packaging Changes:

  • No dependency changes compared to 4.0

  • Various installed files have been renamed (“quodlibet” -> “io.github.quodlibet.QuodLibet”) to work better with Flatpak

  • We’ve added some new icon resolutions

Translations:

  • Various improvements and fixes to make Quod Libet ready for Flatpak/Flathub #2842 #2851 (Felix Krull)

  • Show confirmation dialog when removing songs from playlists #2667 (zsau)

  • Map bare performer tags to a “Performance” role in ~people:roles #2674 (zsau)

  • Add wildcard support to albumart filename preferences #2814 (zsau)

  • Fix various typos #2786 (luzpaz) #2750 (Tom McCleery)

  • waveformseekbar: Improve hover time indication #2690 (Eyenseo)

  • Add shuffle-by-grouping plugin #2788 (archy3)

  • Album List - sorting by album average playcount #2794 (Uriel Zajaczkovski)

  • Recognize rating/playcount tags in vorbis comments #2761 (Thomas Leberbauer)

  • Handle error when writing empty replaygain tag #2838 (Thomas Leberbauer)

  • waveformseekbar: Clamp seek time to valid range #2729 (Peter Simonyi)

  • tag editor: don’t use inline separators when changing multiple tag values #2684 (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)

  • Improve the lyrics file search #2567 (Pete Beardmore)

  • Added advanded_preferences config for scrollbar visibility #2697 (Meriipu)

  • cli: Allow floating point arguments for volume #2661 (Jonas Platte)

  • code quality: Fix raising NotImplementedError #2772 (Jakub Wilk)

  • paned browser: Add shortcut Ctrl-Return to the searchbar #2745 (Felician Nemeth)

  • Fix translations on systems with translations spread across multiple directories like with NixOS/Flatpak. #2819

  • Fix setting the process name on Linux to “quodlibet” (4.0 regression) #2826

  • Fix a case where a deadlocked QL would prevent new instances from being started #2754

  • Directory browser: fix not showing Gnome bookmarks

  • Various Python 3.7 compatibility fixes

  • id3: always ignore TLEN frames #2758

  • wayland: fix errors when showing the seek popup widget #2644

  • Add cli options for setting repeat and shuffle type #2799 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Queue stop once empty: do check at end of song instead #2801 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • searchbar: Don’t save indeterminate search queries in the history #2871 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • browsers/playlist: Make the side pane take up less space #2765 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Make songs menu key accels work across all browsers #2863 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • shuffle: fix shuffle no longer working after one complete run #2864 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • tag editor: Allow saving tag if present in all songs but value differ #2686 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • iradio: assume http if no protocol specified #2731 (Nick Boultbee)

  • tag split: Allow non-word characters around tag separators #1088 #2678 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Various improvements to the cover source plugin system (Nick Boultbee)

  • gstreamer: Disable gapless for .mod files #2780

  • gstreamer: Store the GStreamer registry/cache in our own cache directory to avoid conflicts with the system cache #2839

  • macOS: Fix cannot re-order playlist songs with DnD #2867 (David Morris)

Plugins:

  • Add a new cover download plugin using the cover sources #2812 (Nick Boultbee)

  • headphonemon: fix headphone detection (4.0 regression) #2868

  • plugin search: handle search for multiple words better

  • importexport: pass a default value for ~#track when sorting. #2694

  • equalizer: Fix scales in the preferences not showing the initial values #2722

  • randomalbum: Various Python3 fixes #2721 #2726

  • trayicon: hide the (useless) scrolling preferences on Windows. #2718

  • Move the app/system/dependency info from the about dialog into a plugin.

  • Tap BPM plugin: Handle non-numeric BPMs #2824 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • plugins: Make random album work on non-album browsers again #2844 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • alarm plugin: Port to Python 3 #2735 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Website search: support ~filename #2762 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Move Browse Files to core (fully) #2835 #1859 (Nick Boultbee)

  • qlscrobble: Fix a potential error when upgrading from 3.9 and older #2768

Windows:

  • Fix sys.argv not being set by exe launchers (4.0 regression) #2781

  • The portable app now uses a local cache directory instead of the system one in more cases.

  • Always show the scrollbars like we do on macOS #2717

4.0.2 (2018-01-17) - So it goes!

Bug fixes: #2723 #2721 #2722 #2726 #2717 #2694

4.0.1 (2018-01-13) - Water as far as the eye can see!

Translation updates by Kirill Romanov and Honza Hejzl

Bug fixes: #2677 #2672 #2671 #2680 #2687 #2669 #2699 #2698 #2704 #2703 #2683 #2706 #2705 #2710 #2718 #2719 #2713 #2668 #2715 (CreamyCookie, Nick Boultbee, …)

4.0.0 (2017-12-26) - Speculative fiction where everything’s the same, except for one chilling difference

Packaging Changes:

  • Python 3.5 required (was 2.7)

    • All Python dependencies need to be switched to their Python 3 variants. In case there is a “py” in the package name it likely needs to be changed.

  • Mutagen 1.34 required (was 1.32)

  • GTK+ 3.18 required (was 3.14)

  • PyGObject 3.18 required (was 3.14)

  • GStreamer 1.8 required (was 1.4)

  • media-player-info no longer required

  • udisks2 no longer required

  • python-futures no longer required

  • python-faulthandler no longer required

Project:

  • Ported from Python 2 to Python 3 #1580 #2467

  • Relicensed all code under “GPLv2 only” to “GPLv2 or later” #2276

Translations:
Various:

  • Allow cover image pop-up to scale up to maximum size #2634 (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)

  • Draw a drag handle for the pane separator with newer GTK+ #2402

  • Soundcloud: Add “my tracks” category (Nick Boultbee)

  • Workaround Ubuntu theme bug which results in drawing artefacts with treeview separators. #2541

  • Added support for custom date column timestamp formats (advanced prefs) #2366 (Meriipu)

  • Fix filter function (e.g. max, min) doesn’t work correctly with lastplayed #2504 (Thomas Leberbauer)

  • Multimeida keys: make “previous” always go to the previous song #2494

  • Prefer userdir in XDG_CONFIG_HOME #138 #2466 (Sauyon Lee)

  • Fix error on start under LXDE with its “org.gnome.SessionManager” re-implementation

  • Improve visibility of the active state of toggle buttons in the bottom bar #2430

  • Remove device support #2415

  • Filesystem browser: Allow selecting multiple folders #2399 (Nick Boultbee)

  • CLI: Allow floating point arguments for --volume #2661 (Jonas Platte)

  • Windows: SIGINT handling support

  • Sentry.io error reporting now available on all platforms

Playback:

  • GStreamer: Fix gain adjustments are not applied during the first split second of a song on macOS/Windows. #1905

  • GStreamer: Seeking performance improvements #2420

Tagging:
Plugins:
CI:

  • Run Windows tests on appveyor #2619

  • Submit coverage reports to codecov.io

  • Move to circleci for Docker tests #2443

  • Dockerize Windows-under-Wine tests #2444

Various improvements, fixes and Python 3 porting fixes, thanks to:

3.9.1 (2017-06-06) - CHECK AND MATE, FAILING BODY AND MIND

3.9.0 (2017-05-24) - If you can whistle, you can do this too

Packaging Changes:

  • python-zeitgeist no longer used

  • python-feedparser required (no longer optional)

  • python-faulthandler required

  • GTK+ 3.14 required (was 3.10)

  • PyGObject 3.14 required (was 3.12)

  • GStreamer 1.4 required (was 1.2)

  • No longer installs icons to “/usr/share/pixmaps”

  • Installs more icons into “/usr/share/icons/hicolor/” theme

Translation Updates:
General:

  • Windows: Use native file choosers #2324

  • operon: add “–all” option for the “tags” command. #2335

  • Queue: Add checkbox to stop after queue is empty #2340 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Opt-in online crash reporting using sentry.io #2313

  • Allow resizing of panes in PanedBrowser #2301 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • Plugins: Add UI for plugin type filtering #2218 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Add accelerators for “Open Browser” Menu #2305 (Uriel Zajaczkovski)

  • replaygain: save selected replaygain profiles to config #2279 (Didier Villevalois)

  • Allow != in queries #2056 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Add ~#channels #1686

  • songlist: make “space” trigger play/pause. See #1288

  • Add --start-hidden and remove visibility restoring from the tray icon #814

  • Add non-python crash reporting on the next start #1853

  • mp3: include lame preset in ~encoding

Fixes:

  • Fix queue height not getting restored in some cases #2330 (Fredrik Strupe)

  • macOS: Fix URL launching from labels #2306

  • Windows: Fix crash when the 65001 code page is used #2333

  • Windows: Fix crash with French locale in some cases. #2364

  • MPRIS: Fix metadata changes not getting emitted #2359 (IBBoard)

  • Tray icon: Fix rating menu #2355 (IBBoard)

  • Player: Fix “previous” not working with radio streams #2198

  • gstbe: increase default buffer duration. #2191

  • macOS: Fix meta key for accelerators not working #2271

  • Fix error in case stdout gets closed before QL #2205

  • Fix icon size of app menu embedded in gnome-shell decoration #2320 #2334 (Vimalan Reddy)

Plugins:
Further Contributions:

#2282 (David Pérez Carmona) #2284 (Jakub Wilk) #2294 #2326 (Fredrik Strupe), #2270 #2302 #2280 #2385 (Didier Villevalois) #2308 #2314 (Uriel Zajaczkovski) #2331 (CreamyCookie)

Development:

  • tests: use xvfbwrapper if available #2287

  • gdist: relicense to modern style MIT

  • Use docker on travis-ci #2269 #2290

3.8.1 (2017-01-23) - LET’S TALK ABOUT BIRDS

Translations:

3.8.0 (2016-12-29) - Maybe it’ll land somewhere cool eventually

Packaging Changes:

  • concurrent.futures required (usually called python-futures, python-concurrent.futures or python2-futures in distros)

  • libgpod4 is no longer used

  • Testing now requires py.test

  • Installs a new zsh completion file

General:
Translation Updates:
Plugins:
Windows:

  • Switch to msys2 #1718

  • Allow opening audio files with quodlibet.exe #1607

  • Enable pitch plugin again #1534

  • Windows regressions: crossfeed plugin missing (will be back in the next version)

macOS:

  • Allow opening audio files with the bundle

  • Really (really..) fix TLS #2108 #2107

Development:

  • Tests: switch to pytest as the main test runner

  • Tests: setup.py quality speedups

  • Tests: All tests pass now on Python 3 under Linux and Windows

  • All magic builtins gone #2044

  • macOS bundle and Windows installer include everything required for running the test suite.

3.7.1 (2016-09-25) - And then you’re doomed. Doomed to to have not ill effects, that is!

  • tests: Use dbus-daemon instead of dbus-launch for creating a session bus. #2022

  • Fix 100% CPU when no song column is expanded. #2030

  • Fix SoundCloud login with Ubuntu 14.04 #2034

  • MP4: Fix crash when saving certain bpm tags #2028 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Windows: Make lastfmsync plugin work #1777

3.7.0 (2016-08-27) - Yeah, this is like one of those scammy “name a star” sites!

Packaging Changes:

  • Mutagen 1.32 required

  • udisks1 support removed

  • PyGObject 3.12 required

  • Add Soundcloud browser #1828 #1990 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Make F11 toggle fullscreen mode

  • Add --refresh to the man page. #1914

  • Add --stop-after. #1909

  • Remove support for loading browsers from ~/.quodlibet/browsers #1919

  • Added shortcut of <Primary>Delete for moving files to trash #1921 (Victoria Hayes)

  • gstbe: always use pulsesink if pulseaudio is running. #1926

  • Remove udisks1 support

  • Add a “Check for Updates” dialog

  • Windows: Port mmkeys support from pyhook to ctypes. Fixes accents not working when QL is running. #1168

  • OSX: Enable multimedia key handling by default #1817

  • Add selection tick (check) for rating(s) that are selected #1891 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Support composersort #1795 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Rework application menu #1598 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Add a ~#playcount equalizer play order plugin #1626 (Ryan Turner)

  • Fix too large cover art border radius with Ubuntu themes

  • songlist columns: handle font size changes at runtime. #1420

  • Fix song list column label fade out in RTL mode

  • Fix seek bar getting stuck when releasing the button outside of the widget. #1953

  • Add default keyboard shortcuts for browsers/views #1540

  • Restore queue state. #1605

  • Add a queue toggle button to the status bar and remove the view menu

  • docs: Clarified function of the queue #2004 (Bernd Wechner)

Translations:
Tagging:

  • AIFF support #1801

  • Support musicbrainz_releasetrackid #1992

  • Support musicbrainz_releasegroupid #1896

  • operon: Fix image-set when passing multiple files. #1729

  • ASF: add WM/AlbumArtistSortOrder #1936

  • MP4: Support saving replaygain tags #1916 (bp0)

  • MP4: support replaygain_reference_loudness. #1928

Plugins:

  • lyricswindow: Restart WebKit when crashed #1923 (CreamyCookie)

  • lyricswindow: Prevent alert windows. #1927 (CreamyCookie)

  • tray icon: Improve unity detection #1999

  • musicbrainz: Add option to write labelid. #1929

  • musicbrainz: Write musicbrainz release track ids #1992

  • Rename Force Write plugin to “update tags in files” #1938 (Nick Boultbee)

  • tray icon: Use App indicator when running under Enlightenment #1941 (Jakob Gahde)

  • replaygain: delete tags written by bs1770gain. #1942

Development:

  • py.test support

  • Some Python 3 porting progress: 47% tests passing #1580

  • OSX: build dmgs

3.6.2 (2016-05-24) - It seemed like there was a lesson here, but nobody was sure what it was

  • Fix queue not expanding with GTK+ 3.20 #1915

  • Tag editor: Fix error message for unrooted patterns #1937

3.6.1 (2016-04-05) - GOOD LUCK OUT THERE

  • Tray icon: Don’t use the app indicator for Ubuntu GNOME and KDE 4. #1904

  • Tray icon: Present the window when showing the window through the app indicator menu item. #1904

  • Paned browser: Fix crash with numeric tags in patterns #1903

  • Paned browser: Fix missing “Unknown” entry for patterns

  • OS X: Fix TLS for real

  • Lyrics window: Also support webkitgtk2 3.0 (for Ubuntu 14.04)

3.6.0 (2016-03-24) - It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this

Packaging Changes:

  • Mutagen 1.30 required

  • GTK+ 3.10 required

  • PyGObject 3.10 required

  • webkitgtk-3.0 → webkit2gtk-4.0 (Lyrics Window plugin)

  • sphinx 1.3 required for building the documentation

  • New optional plugin dependency: libappindicator-gtk3 + typelibs: for the Tray Icon plugin under Ubuntu Unity and KDE Plasma

  • python-musicbrainzngs (>= 0.5) instead of python-musicbrainz2

  • python-cddb no longer needed

  • libsoup (>= 2.44) + typelibs required

  • Add a keyboard shortcut window. #1837

  • Add ~language, which shows the language name for iso639 codes

  • Allow cross-device moves to trash. #1782 #1339 (Andrew Chadwick)

  • CLI: allow backslash-escaped commas in –enqueue-files. #1773 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Fix custom accels read from ~/.quodlibet/accels #1726 #1818

  • Fix determination of tag patterns in songlist #1830 (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)

  • Fix ratings not being stored if they are the same as the default #1461 #1846

  • ID3: read lyrics from USLT frame, make ~lyrics read lyrics and form files #1810 (Ivan Shapovalov)

  • Make test suite run (and fail) under Python 3 #1580

  • MP4: support conductor, discsubtitle, language & mood #323 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Paned browser: Allow filters to be reset by clicking heading. #1284

  • Paned browser: use sort tags #1785, #1796 (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)

  • Patterns: Allow proper escaping in nested queries. (<~filename=/^\/bla\/foo/|match|no-match>)

  • Player controls: use a normal button with two icons instead of a toggle button. #1814

  • Playlist browser: implement scroll to playing song #1426

  • Playlist browser: Make display configurable #1780 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Playlist browser: Improve usability when creating a new playlist #1839 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Playlist browser: Fix bug when deleting playlists #1882 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Remove rounded cover preference and make border radius depend on theme. #1864

  • Search: make “ae” match “æ” and “ss” match “ß” etc.

  • Search: numeric expressions and query plugins #1799

  • Song info display: show delete option to context menu. #1869

  • Songlist: Highlight the current song. See #1809

  • Support sort tags in song list patterns #1783 (Peter F. Patel-Schneider)

  • Various GTK+ 3.20 related fixes

Translations:

  • Updated Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål translation #1784 (Nathan Follens)

  • Updated Polish translation #1898 (Piotr Drąg)

Plugins:

  • Update icons for most plugins: more and (mostly) better chosen. #1894 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Make songsmenu plugins only enabled if it makes sense for them #1858 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Remove cddb plugin; it’s broken

  • Remove Send To plugin, in favour of Browse Folders and k3b plugins.

  • New plugin: Pause on headphone unplug. #1753

  • New events plugin: Shows synchronized lyrics from .lrc file with same name as the track #1723

  • Add a seekbar plugin. See #204

  • lyricwiki: port to WebKit2

  • tray icon: support Ubuntu Unity and KDE Plasma (using libappindicator) #1756

  • musicbrainz: port to musicbrainzngs. This fixes tagging of multi disc releases. #829

  • Make LyricsWindow an events plugin; Add zoom level preference #1709

  • Add authentication for MPDServer plugin #1789

  • Custom Commands: add support for playlist name. #1685 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Playlist Export: convert to being a playlist plugin as well as songsmenu. (Nick Boultbee)

OS X:

  • Add a simple dock menu

  • TLS support (https streams..) #1895

  • Add option to enable experimental mmkeys support in the advanced prefs plugin. #1817

Wayland:

  • Fix seek bar window position (needs gtk+ 3.20)

3.5.3 (2016-01-16) - Uh, I GUESS that’d be good too??

  • Fix crash when opening new windows under some DEs (Linux only) #1788

3.5.2 (2016-01-13) - This is because dates are arbitrary and friendship can be whatever we want it to be!

  • Polish translation update (Piotr Drąg)

  • ID3: don’t write albumartistsort twice #1732

  • Use the stream song for --print-playing. #1742

  • Fix background color of some context menus with the Ubuntu 12.04 theme

  • Fix adding new tags failing in some cases #1757

  • OSX: make cmd+w close windows #1715

  • Fix a crash with numerics in tag pattern conditionals #1762 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Fix tests with newer Perl (through intltool)

3.5.1 (2015-10-14) - HOW TO SUCCEED AT SMALLTALK

  • Fix volume / mute state resetting on song change with some configurations #1703

  • Fix crash when G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set #1699

3.5.0 (2015-10-07) - BETTER ANSWERS TO “HEY HOW ARE YOU?” THAN “I’M FINE”

Packaging Changes:

  • Mutagen 1.27 required

General:

  • Add –print-query-text to get the current query for browsers that support it #1634

  • Support conditional patterns with QL Query syntax #1604 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Playlist content search in the playlist browser #1593 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Disable app menu under Unity #1599

  • Allow users to optionally bypass the trash even if it is available on their operating system (Eric Casteleijn) #1573

  • Try to prevent fifo timeouts for slow operations #1616

  • Fix border drawing with CSD/wayland

  • Use float for ~#length #1483

  • Add a setting to enable/disable rating hotkeys #1625 (Ryan Turner)

  • Display all tags in tag list editor not just the non-default ones #1660

  • Add a new ~codec and ~encoding tag (library reload needed) #9

  • Add ~bitrate tag including the unit

  • Asymmetric search improvements e.g. ‘o’ now matches ‘ø’

  • Various custom column header dialog improvements #1660 (Nick Boultbee)

  • Prefer txxx replaygain over rva2 #1587

  • Support reading RG when ID3 tag key is in uppercase #1502

Playback:

  • Implement direct sink volume control (e.g. for pulsesink, directsoundsink). Changing volume will now control the PA stream volume and result in less delay #1389 #1512

  • Allow muting by middle clicking the volume button. Controls the pulseaudio stream mute property directly.

  • Increased GStreamer pipeline buffer size to reduce CPU usage #1687

  • Hide seek slider when not seekable

OSX:

  • Replace “Ctrl” with “Command” in all keyboard shortcuts #1677

  • (already in 3.4.1-v2 build) HIDPI support

  • (already in 3.4.1-v2 build) Support for more audio formats

Plugins:

  • Add a plugin for editing ~#playcount and ~#skipcount. #1624 (Ryan Turner)

  • Advanced preferences plugin #1050 (Bruno Bergot)

  • Allow to configure cover size in animosd plugin #1049 (Bruno Bergot)

  • Add plugin for removing TLEN frames from ID3 based files. #1655

  • mpd: fix state sync with mpdroid 0.8. #1636

  • Fix screensaver inhibit plugin. #1692

  • qlscrobbler: fix offline mode check box. #1688

  • lyrics window: use mobile wikia version

Translations:

  • Update Dutch translation #1618 (Nathan Follens)

  • Updated greek translation #1684 (Dimitris Papageorgiou)

  • setup.py: add a new create_po command for starting new translations

3.4.1 (2015-05-24) - Apparently, MY problem is a poisonous basement

Fixes:

  • setup.py: respect –install-data #1575

  • Suppress deprecation warnings with newer glib

Regressions:

  • Fix error when invoking a plugin with many songs/albums #1578

  • Fix main window sometimes not showing under Ubuntu 12.04

  • Fix search not working with non-ASCII text in some cases

3.4.0 (2015-04-09) - She knew every of the things

Packaging Changes:

  • The main repo moved from Mercurial (Google Code) to Git (GitHub)

  • The build should now be reproducible

  • gtk-update-icon-cache is no longer a build dependency

  • gettext >= 0.15 is required now at build time

  • A complete icon theme is now required (this was also partly the case with 3.3) and an icon theme including symbolic icons is recommended. adwaita-icon-theme provides both for example.

  • Mutagen 1.22 required, Mutagen 1.27 recommended

  • New files installed to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/

  • quodlibet.desktop now contains a MimeType entry, which means calling update-desktop-database is needed after package installation.

  • Improved Gnome 3.16 compatibility

  • Fixes for the list tooltips in combination with GTK 3.16 scrollbars

  • Include symbolic icons for gnome-shell 3.16

  • Album browser: faster cover loading

  • Devices: fix detection of Sansa Clip+ with some setups #1523

  • Prefs: restore active tab

  • Songlist: support patterns in the filter song list menu

  • New shortcut ctrl+shift+j, like ctrl+j but refilters the browser always

  • Make build reproducible #1524

  • MP4: include codec information in ~format (needs a library reload) #1505

  • GStreamer: fix a deadlock when seeking right at a song change

  • Queue: don’t decide the next song too early #1496

  • Song info widget: provide the full song context menu #1527

  • CLI: --run to make QL start if it isn’t already. Useful for pairing with other commands like --play-file. #67

  • Add supported mime types to desktop file #67

  • CLI: --play-file doesn’t add songs to the library anymore #1537

  • Fix QL starting twice if started in quick succession

  • Tooltips: don’t span multiple monitors #1554

  • MPD-Server: Fix a crash when changing the port number #1559

  • Fix short hang on shutdown with GStreamer plugins active #1567

  • Fix setting an embedded image in case the file doesn’t have tags #1531

  • OSX: add a menu bar for Ex Falso

  • Fifo: Fix commands failing in case QL is busy #1542

  • …

Translations:

  • Use msgctx for message contexts

3.3.1 (2015-01-10) - Reduce, reuse, recycle, RESUBMIT

Regressions:

  • Fix occasional errors when closing menus (with the plugin menu in Ex Falso for example) #1515

  • Fix operon info #1514

  • Fix operon fill error in case a tag doesn’t match #1520

Fixes:

  • Fix HiDPI DnD images when dragging multiple rows

3.3.0 (2014-12-31) - PARALLEL UNIVERSES. Travel there and THEN go back in time, and you can mess things up as much as you want.

Packaging Changes:

  • New optional plugin dependency: webkitgtk-3.0 + typelibs

  • Mutagen 1.27 recommended

General:

  • Support --query with all browsers that have a search entry. #1437

  • Songlist: Scroll to playing song when replacing the list. #568

  • Songlist: Scroll to first selected song and restore selection for it on re-sort. #568

  • Consider all songs in an album for finding (embedded) album art. #924

  • Support month (30 days) in time queries (#(lastplayed < 1 month). #706

  • Support playing a song that is not in the song list. #1358

  • Support numeric date search e.g. #(2004-01 < date < 2004-05) #1455

  • Playlists browser: make delete key remove the selected songs from the current playlist #1481 (Nick Boultbee)

  • File tree: Show XDG desktop/downloads/music folders if available

  • File tree: List mountpoints on linux

  • Show the filter menu in secondary browser windows (filter shortcuts work there as well now)

  • Add alt+[1-9] shortcut for notebook widgets to jump the a specific page

  • Support loading ADTS/ADIF files (*.aac). Needs mutagen 1.27.

  • Search: New regex modifier "d" which makes all letters match variants with diacritic marks (accents etc.). Enabled by default for normal text searches. Sigur Ros will now find songs containing Sigur Rós. For regex and exact searches use /Sigur Ros/d and "Sigur Ros"d to enable. #133

  • New ~people:real tag which filters out “Various Artists” values (Nick Boultbee) #1034

  • Prefer artist over albumartist for single songs in ~people (Nick Boultbee) #1034

Fixes:

  • Update for theming changes in gtk3.15

  • Fix seek slider not working with newer gtk+ and some themes #1477

  • Fix playing song not restoring on start with radio/filesystem browser

Translations:

  • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov) #1441

  • Updated Greek translation (Dimitris Papageorgiou). #1491

Tagger:

  • WMA: support multiple values for producer, conductor, artist, lyricist, albumartist, composer, genre and mood (needs mutagen 1.26)

  • APEv2: Support reading/writing embedded album art for APEv2 based formats (Wavpack, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio)

  • Allow removing and renaming from tag names which not all selected formats support.

  • Allow toggling of programmatic tags in the tagging UI

Plugins:

  • Various translation related fixes (Anton Shestakov) #1442 #1445

  • New simple lyricwiki plugin using a WebKitGtk webview

  • New Rhythmbox import plugin. #1463

  • MPD server: make work again with newer MPDroid (MPDroid crashed on start)

  • Trayicon: add option to quit when closing the main window instead of hiding #619

  • Theme switcher: add option to enable/disable client side decorations

  • ReplayGain: add option to skip albums with existing ReplayGain values (Nick Boultbee) #1471

  • Notifications: Make cover art display work under e19 #1504

Operon:

  • new ‘edit’ command for editing tags with a text editor (VISUAL=vi operon edit song.flac) #1084

  • new ‘fill’ command for filling tags using parts of the file path (operon fill --dry-run "<tracknumber>. <title>" *.flac)

OSX:

  • Multimedia key support (Eric Le Lay)

  • Global menu support / OSX integration. (Eric Le Lay)

  • Various fixes / improvements

Windows:

  • Newer mutagen (1.27)

  • Newer GTK+/Gstreamer (Tumagonx)

  • Fix loading cover art from non-ansi paths

  • Starting QL will now focus the first instance if one exists

  • quodlibet.exe now passes command arguments to the running instance (quodlibet.exe –next) #635

  • New quodlibet-cmd.exe which is the same as quodlibet.exe but can be executed in the Windows console with visible stdout #635

3.2.2 (2014-10-03) - ENJOY, THERE’S NO GOING BACK

Fixes

  • Fix a crash when seeking streams in some cases #1450

  • Fix a crash in case Windows Explorer favourites link to a non ASCII path #1464

  • Fix playback stopping when playing chained ogg streams #1454

  • Fix context menus not showing sometimes with GTK+3.14.1

Translations

  • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov)

3.2.1 (2014-08-16) - BAKE HIM AWAY, TOYS

Fixes

  • Fix Ex Falso not starting in some cases. #1448

  • Album art download plugin: Fix image file extension (Nick Boultbee) #1435

Translations

  • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov) #1441

3.2.0 (2014-08-01) - WHAT KIND OF GOD MADE IT SO LIONS HUG BACK TOO HARD

Packaging Changes:

  • Plugins got merged into Quod Libet. This means the quodlibet-plugins tarball is gone and plugins will be installed by setup.py install. For distros that used to include the plugins in the main package this means all plugin related packaging code can simply be removed. For distros that offered separate packages the installation can be split by packaging quodlibet/ext in a separate package. Quod Libet can run without it.

  • UDisks2 is supported, in addition to UDisks1

  • Python 2.7 required instead of 2.6 (might still work, but not tested)

Tags:

  • ~people and ~performer don’t show roles anymore, which makes them more useful in the paned browser for example. Instead ~people:roles and ~performer:roles will include roles and merge roles like “Artist (Role1, Role2)”. Furthermore composer, lyricist, arranger and conductor will be merged with performer roles in ~people:roles. so “performer:role1=Foo, composer=Foo” will result in “Foo (Role1, Composition)”. (qjh)

  • ~#rating in the song list is now a numeric column, ~rating shows the stars (Jan Path) #1381

UI:

  • HiDPI support (start with GDK_SCALE=2, needs cairo trunk)

  • Various display fixes for GTK+ 3.13 and non-Adwaita based themes

  • Seek slider width scales with song length to some extend

  • Seek slider shows remaining time

  • Play order plugins are now split in random/non-random and the UI was replaced by a toggle button + menu. #1411

  • Removing of songs from a playlist through the context menu (Nick Boultbee)

  • Song list columns now remember their width/state (qjh)

  • Song list columns provide an option to toggle if they expand.

  • The multi sort dialog is gone, instead it’s now possible to sort by multiple tags by holding down ctrl and clicking on multiple columns.

Plugins:

  • New MPD Server plugin to remote control QL, e.g. through MPDroid #1377

  • New acoustid.org fingerprint tagger (basic functionality, but works)

  • “Show File” merged into “Browse Folders”, it will now try to select the files if the interfaces allows it.

  • Exact rating plugin (Jan Path) #1383

Player:

  • Improved GStreamer error reporting.

  • Error recording is gone, since it was just annoying. #1400

Windows:

  • Fix slow startup #1389

  • Windows Explorer folder context menu entry for Ex Falso

Misc:
Developers:

  • Due to the inclusion of the plugins into the core, the symlink from ~/.quodlibet/plugins is no longer needed.

Fixes:

  • Fix tray icon crashing or not showing under Gnome Shell 3.12 #1429

Packaging:

  • UDisks2 supported, in addition to UDisks1

  • Plugins are now included in the main tarball and will be installed by setup.py, the quodlibet-plugins tarball is gone. (Load path switched from quodlibet/plugins to quodlibet/ext for system wide plugins, loading from ~/.quodlibet/plugins is the same) #1396

  • For BSDs: setup.py has a new “–mandir” to select the man page location

  • Packaging guide: https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/packaging.html

3.1.91 [beta] (2014-07-22) - Pumps, powerheads, lights and filters!

See final release

3.1.2 (2014-06-20) - Dang it

  • Fix 3.1.1 regression causing folders in the file browser to show up in reverse order #1390

3.1.1 (2014-04-28) - I’ve shown that you’re dealing with an Alpha here, baby, not some weak Beta!

  • Fix a crash with GTK+ 3.12 #1384

  • Handle invalid flac picture blocks #1385

  • Fix “setup.py install –record” #1373

3.1.0 (2014-04-10) - Olden times, man! NEVER LIVE THERE.

  • Windows is supported again. And it should be in better shape than with 2.6 in many aspects. Embedded images work now, newer GStreamer with more codecs, operon is included etc. The file browser and EF now show the favorite folders from the Windows Explorer. The installer will now uninstall any existing installation first and as with 2.6.3 there is a portable version available.

    There is still an unsolved problem regarding miss-placed context menus with multiple monitors #1319.

    Thanks goes to Bakhtiar Hasmanan for providing a working PyGObject stack.

  • Initial Wayland support is here (only tested under weston). This was mostly fixing weird usage of GTK+ that just happened to work under X11 and not using the screen size for calculations since there is no real screen under Wayland.

  • Piotr Drąg, Rüdiger Arp, Diego Beraldin and Dimitris Papageorgiou worked on improving the translations.

  • Nick Boultbee worked on a plugin system for playlist plugins and moved the duplication/shuffle actions to it. He also moved the rating configuration from the plugin into the core.

  • Simonas Kazlauskas worked on a plugin system for cover art sources currently supporting last.fm and musicbrainz (exposed as two plugins). If active it will fetch covers in case no local cover is found. In the future we might implement the album art downloader on top of that.

  • Thomas Vogt made transparency work again with GTK+3 in the OSD plugin. (fake transparency now also works again, which was the last known regression from the PyGObject port)

  • operon gained new commands (image-extract, image-set, image-clear) for manipulating and extracting embedded images for all formats supporting embedded images in QL (id3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4). See the manpage [0] for examples. There is also a QL plugin which allows removing all embedded images and embed the active one. This should get better integrated into the tag editor at some point.

  • Display patterns now support specifying the markup using square brackets to not need escaping in the common case. “<b><artist></b>” can now be written as “[b]<artist>[/b]” (the old way still works).

  • In the radio browser the radio list now contains icecast and shoutcast2 stations in addition to shoutcast1 ones and only one additional mirror is included for each station. QL now shows ~4100 stations of ~30000 we know about. Use “Update stations” to get the new list.

Other changes:

  • QL now remembers additional open browsers and reopens them on start.

  • The main tool bar is better integrated with GTK+ themes.

  • We use symbolic icons in many places.

  • Added a simple GNOME app menu.

  • ‘albumartist’ is now used for album identification.

  • <shift>space enables “stop after the current song”.

  • Warning before opening too many plugin windows (Nick Boultbee) #1231

  • New –unqueue-all command #1234

Fixes:

  • Config gets saved atomically and handle a corrupted one #1042

  • editing:id3encoding option was ignored #1290

  • album browser: Fix sorting by rating #1352

  • search: Fix results for “&(foo, !bar)” #1327

  • Various crashes caused by code not being ported to PyGObject properly.

Dependencies & Packaging:

  • No dependency changes compared to 3.0

  • We now install appdata.xml files

  • We now install a dbus service file

  • setup.py build_sphinx builds the html user guide

3.0.91 [beta] (2014-02-28) - You’d have to be in space for that to work.

See final release

2.6.3 (2013-09-25) - The one that can’t even go naked into space without dying!

This is a Windows only bug fix release.

Windows:

  • Fix library saving [1230] (Sebastian Thürrschmidt)

3.0.2 (2013-07-22) - LATER, THE OCEANS BOIL AS THE EARTH TURNS TO FIRE

General

  • Device backend: Correctly detect udisks1 if it isn’t running [1200]

  • mmkeys: Really make libkeybinder work again [1203] (Hans Scholze)

  • Fix play button not starting playback if no song is active [863]

  • Don’t forget newly created bookmarks in some cases

  • Fix “Refresh” in the file tree browser [1201]

  • Fix menu separator drawing with PyGObject 3.2 (Ubuntu 12.04)

  • Various fixes

Plugins

  • Forward library events to event plugins again

  • Fix bookmarks plugin, playlist export plugin, HTML export plugin

  • animosd: Handle multiple monitors (Nick Boultbee)

2.6.2 (2013-07-22) - 256 Pictures of Cool Bugs

2.6.1 skipped to keep in sync with the 3.0 branch.

General

  • Device backend: Correctly detect udisks1 if it isn’t running [1200]

  • Fix play button not starting playback if no song is active [863]

  • Don’t forget newly created bookmarks in some cases

  • Various fixes

Plugins

  • Fix HTML export plugin

  • Fix Bookmarks plugin

3.0.1 (2013-07-08) - gasp

  • Fix a crasher with some PyGObject versions [1211]

3.0.0 (2013-06-15) - THE NEMESIS HYPOTHESIS

Requirements & Packaging Changes

  • Python 2.6+

  • GTK+ 3.2+ & GIR (instead of 2.x)

  • GStreamer 1.0+ & GIR (instead of 0.10)

  • PyGObject 3.2+ (3.4 highly recommended) (instead of PyGTK)

  • PyGObject cairo support

  • libgpod 0.5+ (instead of python-gpod)

  • libkeybinder-3.0 & GIR (instead of python-keybinder)

  • HAL support removed

  • New operon script + man page

  • New .ini file for registering QL as a GNOME Shell Search Provider

Translations

  • New: Czech translation (Honza Hejzl)

  • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov)

  • Lithuanian translation update [1079] (Naglis Jonaitis)

  • Swedish translation update [1117] (Daniel Nyberg)

  • Spanish, Basque and Galician translation update (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila)

  • Greek translation update [1175] (Dimitris Papageorgiou)

General

  • Improved rating visibility [1070] (Nick Boultbee)

  • File system view: DnD directories to external targets (Nick Boultbee)

  • Support GNOME Notification Sources

  • Bayesian averaging for set (album) ratings [1085] (Nick Boultbee)

  • New command line tagger: operon (see man operon)

  • Hide songs on not-mounted drives on start without library refresh [984]

  • Preferences UI for managing masked mount points [984]

  • Support all patterns as song list headers [507, 1121] (Nick Boultbee)

  • Save/restore queue position

  • Documentation is now Sphinx/reST based and hosted on readthedocs.org

Fixes

  • Fix unwanted re-filtering of all open browsers if the search history changes

  • Fix crash when re-adding devices while QL is running [1120]

  • Remove EF directory mime type again (too many problems with file managers)

Tagging

  • APEv2: Add disc<->discnumber mapping

Plugins

  • New: Custom Commands plugin (Nick Boultbee)

  • New: GNOME Shell Search Provider plugin [1147]

  • ReplayGain plugin: Parallel processing [807]

  • CD burn plugin: Add Xfburn support [1173]

Known Regressions

2.6.0 (2013-06-15) - Someone’s attacking us from… space?

2.6 is the last PyGTK/GTK+2 based release of Quod Libet / Ex Falso. It contains most of the changes that went into 3.0 and will only receive bugfix releases from here on out.

Requirements & Packaging

  • Python 2.6+

  • PyGTK 2.16+

Everything else

  • See 3.0.0 NEWS with a few exceptions

2.9.92 [beta] (2013-06-05) - alternatetimelinemetarhyme

General

  • Fix the main song list resetting while working with multiple browsers

  • Fix various widget redraw/positioning/jumping problems

  • Various fixes regarding GTK+3.6+ (seek slider, tv hints)

  • Nicer about dialog

  • Fix one-click ratings [1170]

  • Fix various crashes with PyGObject3.2 [1172]

Plugins

  • New GNOME Shell Search Provider plugin [1147]

  • Support Xfburn in the CD burn plugin [1173]

  • viewlyrics plugin: Fix key handling [1171]

  • Fix musicbrainz plugin [1162]

  • Fix replaygain plugin in Ex Falso [1163]

  • Fix fingerprint plugin [1174]

2.9.91 [beta] (2013-05-13) - welcome to a place where incredibly terrible things can happen to you and your friends for no reason!

General

  • Spanish, Basque and Galician translation updates (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila)

  • Tag editor: Fix context menu not showing

  • Album collection: Fix crash with PyGObject 3.2

  • Fix search bar text color

  • Fix DnD to closed queue

  • Fix hangs during unix signal handling

  • Fix 100% CPU in some cases

  • Fix library refresh pause/stop handling

  • Some speed improvements and fixes

Plugins

  • ReplayGain plugin now processes albums in parallel

  • New dark theme option in the theme switcher plugin

  • Fix GStreamer equalizer

  • Fix theme switcher plugin

  • Fix GStreamer mono plugin

2.9.82 [alpha] (2013-05-02) - One day Marty McFly got bit by a werewolf!

PyGObject/Gtk+3.0/Gstreamer1.0 Port - Alpha 2 release:

  • Fix lyricsview plugin (Nick Boultbee)

  • Fix replaygain album gain/peak writing.

  • Fix crash on one-click ratings in the song list.

  • Fix crash when playing a song while editing its tags.

  • gstbe: Increase operation timeouts (for spinning up disks etc.)

2.9.81 [alpha] (2013-04-27) - Because my hypothesis is: it’s rad

PyGObject/Gtk+3.0/Gstreamer1.0 Port - Alpha 1 release

2.5.1 (2013-04-23) - Yes: MY COMPUTER IS A PERSON.

  • Fix various widgets not showing with pygtk/pygobject trunk

  • Fix QL refusing to start in some cases [1131]

  • Improve web browser discovery and fix on Windows

  • Fix various problems with playlists + masked files [1095]

  • Reduce debug output if loading a file fails [1080]

  • Plugins:

    • notify: Don’t set notifications to transient [1103]

    • lastfmsync: Fix loading/saving of cache [1093]

2.5 (2012-12-19) - Reading on the floor: literature!

  • Greek translation update (Dimitris Papageorgiou) [1064]

  • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov) [1072]

  • Lithuanian translation update (Naglis Jonaitis)[1079]

2.4.91 [beta] (2012-11-23) - hello and thank you for installing an internet!

News for packagers

  • setup.py will install png and svg icons into hicolor and a png icon into pixmaps. It will also try to call gtk-update-icon-cache if it’s in the target prefix/root (make sure the icon cache gets updated on package install)

  • C extensions removed. QL is now Python only.

  • PyGTK 2.16+

  • Python 2.6+

  • Support for libudev.so.1 (>= 183)

  • New: python-keybinder needed for multimedia keys

  • New plugin directory: gstreamer

  • Optional plugin dependencies:

    • Removed: python-indicate (Ubuntu sound menu), lastfmsubmitd (old last.fm plugin)

    • New: rygel (DBus UPnP MediaServer), python-zeitgeist (Zeitgeist)

News for translators

  • QUODLIBET_TEST_TRANS=xxx will append/prepend “xxx” to all translations so you see what is translatable and for devs to check how, long translations will affect the UI.

  • “setup.py po_stats” to see how much is translated for each po file.

  • “setup.py check_pot” to see if a file containing translatable strings is missing from POTFILES.in

General

  • Search: Handle non-ascii values for filesystem tags (~filename, ~dirname..) [227]

  • New internal tags: ~originalyear ~#originalyear. [966]

  • New internal tag: ~playlists (Nick Boultbee)

  • Shortcut: alt + left/right -> seek +/- 10 seconds [981]

  • Support startup notification spec

  • Support newest thumbnail spec (v0.8.0)

  • Basic Unity quicklist

  • New –stop switch to stop and release the audio device [1018]

  • List tooltips: work with gnome shell, never shift left, support trees [778]

  • New –no-plugins switch to start without plugins

  • No wakeups if nothing is playing.

  • Directory mimetype for Ex Falso

  • Shortcut: ctrl+left/right, left/right for treeview navigation

  • Some UI cleanup, less padding in the main window

  • Remember window size & position for properties, info, browsers [106]

  • Device selection for the gstreamer back-end

  • Use lyricist for finding lyrics if available

  • Click on default cover icon launches album art plugin [2] (Nick Boultbee)

  • Fix: Work with Compiz window placement plugin [871]

  • Fix: Queue widgets not clickable in some cases

  • Fix: Double-click on album will plays song from queue [231]

  • Fix: Filter on album in album browser now uses the album key

  • New: PluginConfigMixin added to core to simplify plugin prefs (Nick Boultbee)

  • Fix: –status (carlo.teubner) [1045]

Formats

  • New: Monkey’s Audio

  • New: Ogg Opus (needs mutagen 0.21) [1012]

  • New: MIDI

  • Basic SPC tag parsing [282] (David Schneider)

  • Add m4v to valid mp4 extensions

Tagging

  • Limit path sections to 255 chars instead of tags to 100 [915]

  • ID3: Write foobar style replaygain tags. [1027]

  • VORBISCOMMENT: Write totaltracks/totaldiscs [929] (Michael Ball)

  • Shortcut: ctrl-s for saving changes, and configurable standard accels per locale [697] (alex.geoffrey.smith, Nick Boultbee)

  • Updates to tag splitting (originalartist, performer) (Nick Boultbee)

Translations

  • New: Greek translation (Dimitris Papageorgiou)

  • German translation update (Rüdiger Arp)

  • British English translation update (Nick Boultbee)

  • French translation partial update (Nick Boultbee)

Plugins

  • Removed: lastfmsubmitd

  • Removed: DBus mmkeys (moved to core)

  • Removed: Ubuntu Sound Menu (no longer needed)

  • New: UPnP AV Media Server plugin (needs rygel)

  • New: ViewLyrics plugin (Vasiliy Faronov)

  • New: Filter on directory [922]

  • New: Zeitgeist plugin [717]

  • New: Mac OS X mmkeys plugin (Martijn Pieters) [967]

  • New: Telepathy/Empathy status plugin [478] (Nick Boultbee)

  • New GStreamer plugins: Compressor, Crossfeed, Pitch, Mono

  • New: Filter on multiple tags [1014]

  • New: Squeezebox Playlist Export (Nick Boultbee)

  • Browse Folders: Use the default file browser [983]

  • Equalizer: add presets

  • MPRIS: various fixes (for the GS plugin)

  • Notify: Dismiss notifications after some time

  • Duplicate Browser: expand/unexpand all button

  • CD burn: now menu-based

  • Updated: Auto Library Updater (Nick Boultbee)

Browsers

  • New: Album Collection - provides a tree-like view of albums similar to Paned.

  • Playlists:

    • Delete shortcut [942] (Johannes Marbach)

    • Shuffle playlist (Nick Boultbee)

    • Remove duplicates [685] (Nick Boultbee)

  • Album list: more filters

Windows

  • Make Browse folder plugin work [993]

  • Multimedia keys support

2.4.1 (2012-07-27) - Man! If I were a robot, a lot of things would be different

  • Fixes:

    • Fix skipping one song during a song change [987] (This also broke the random album plugin in some cases)

    • Windows: Crash in file system view if ‘My Music’ folder is missing [1008]

    • Fix –quit [958]

    • Fix playing of files that don’t match the file system encoding [989]

    • Workaround for mutagen ID3v2.3 update bug [mutagen 97]

    • Various fixes [1013, 1002, 962]

  • Plugin fixes:

    • lastfmsync crashes [957]

    • Various Duplicate browser fixes [999, 954]

    • Notification crash [975]

2.4 (2012-03-18) - He decides he must become… Abe Atman!

  • Fixes:

    • Support xinelib 1.2 [904]

    • MP3/ID3: fix some rare crashes; prefer main embedded cover

    • Vorbiscomment:

      • Ignore coverart and use it as cover art source [910]

      • Fix deletion of metadata_block_picture

    • album art: update coverparadise, disable discogs (API changed)

    • squeezebox fixes (Nick Boultbee)

    • German translation update (Rüdiger Arp)

    • Various fixes [890, 909, 899]

  • Fixed regressions:

    • Python 2.5 / PyGTK 2.12 compatibility

    • Restore saved play order [891]

2.3.91/92 [beta] (2012-01-16) - Players only love you when they’re playing

  • Fixes:

    • Don’t remove periods from tag values in patterns [368]

    • Don’t jump to playing song on stream changes

    • Fix wrong path encoding in the exfalso file selector under Windows

    • Fix error when controlling playback during startup [810]

    • Handle invalid header patterns

    • Don’t lose the radio library randomly [645]

    • Handle non utf-8 and invalid filenames in the song list [798]

    • Fix a crash when the song list changed during a gapless transition [799]

    • Tray icon doesn’t appear in KDE panel [881]

    • xine backend: Fix equalizer value range

  • Plugin Fixes:

    • Fix “&amp;” in notifications (xfce4-notifyd) (Anton Shestakov)

    • Fix animosd config again

    • Fix Amazon cover search (API change)

  • General

    • Improved startup speed

    • GNOME session shutdown fixes

    • Hide all windows on shutdown

    • Handle signals during startup

    • Correctly push signals into the gtk+ mainloop (no more segfaults)

    • Cyclic saving of all libraries not just the main one

    • Rename the process to “quodlibet” or “exfalso” [736] (Nick Boultbee)

    • Queue keyboard shortcut is now Ctrl+Return not just Q [747]

    • Add new songs that match the active filter to the song list

    • Focus search entry with ctrl+l [666]

    • Fix reverse sort (sort by album first)

    • Custom sort dialog [820] (Philipp Müller, Joschka Fischer)

    • Make the paned browser the default one

    • Focus the first row in all automatic list selections [835]

    • Select next song in the song list after song removal [785]

    • Speed up song removal in long lists [785]

    • Delete keyboard shurtcut in the queue

    • Add menu entry to rate current playing song (Nick Boultbee)

    • Make it possible to override quodlibet/exfalso icon, by placing an icon in the current icon theme [614]

    • Close buttons in all dialogs (since GNOME 3 has no close button in the window decorations for dialogs by default) [772]

    • Make main window resizeable with only the queue showing [657] (Florian Demmer)

    • Make the paned browser prefs resizable

    • Search bar: No delays for any keyboard/mouse actions except typing

    • Estimate FLAC bitrate using the filesize [342] (Nick Boultbee)

    • New ~#filesize tag: requires library reload (Nick Boultbee)

    • Enhancements to the ways album art is detected (Nick Boultbee): new tab in prefs, new option for forcing art filename [328], new option for preferring embedded image over external ones

    • Allow numeric ~#replaygain_xxx tags (Nick Boultbee)

    • album browser: Restore search on start

    • album browser: Move sort order in the preference button sub menu

    • album browser: Load all visible covers before showing the album list

    • album browser: Fewer redraws after filtering

    • album browser: Add sort by genre option [340]

    • radio browser: Genre filter list

    • radio browser: Use the default search bar (with history)

    • radio browser: Remote station list with 4000 stations

    • radio browser: Properly sync the song list play icon with song changes

    • radio browser: Prefill new station dialog with last URL in the clipboard

    • radio browser: title falls back to organization and artist to website (for the song list)

    • radio browser: Buffer process shown in status bar

    • search: Stricter numeric value parsing (only allow valid units)

    • search: Don’t require a space between number and unit: #(added<1day)

    • search: Support GB/KB/MB/B units for ~#filesize

  • Gstreamer:

    • Fully support playbin1 again (QUODLIBET_PLAYBIN1 env var)

    • Allow setting of stream buffer duration [696]

    • Sync replaygain volume change with track change [652] (use track-changed signal in newer gstreamer) this needed the removal of the 500ms queue. Can be enabled if there are problems with gapless (QUODLIBET_GSTBE_QUEUE env var)

    • Don’t add equalizer if the plugin is disabled: No unnecessary conversions to float (flac, mp3 decoder), less CPU

    • Don’t use the fluendo mp3 decoder if mad is available, less CPU

    • No video decoding/playing (mp4 files for example)

    • Properly emit song-started/ended for radio stream songs (so they get counted as auto started by the new notify plugin)

    • Add button in the prefs to print the currently used pipeline including format conversions (only in –debug mode)

    • No more jumping of the position slider during song changes

    • Better parsing of stream metadata [750]

  • Translations:

    • Russian translation update (Anton Shestakov)

    • German translation update (Rüdiger Arp)

    • Italian translation update (Luca Baraldi)

  • Tagging/Ex Falso:

    • Improve support for language tag, with ISO 639-2 suggestions (Nick Boultbee)

    • ID3: handle TLAN [439] (Nick Boultbee)

    • Ignore zero TLEN id3 frame [222]

    • Allow performer to be split out of title (Nick Boultbee)

    • Ogg Theora support

    • Ex Falso about dialog

  • CLI:

    • –debug (colored output, yay)

    • –enqueue-files=file,file [716] (Nick Boultbee)

    • –print-query=query [716] (Nick Boultbee)

    • –force-previous [441] (go to previous not depending on the current position)

  • Plugins:

    • Removed old plugin import fallback code: In case loading a third party plugin fails, set the QUODLIBET_OLDIMPORT env var.

    • Show an error message instead of the stack trace for common plugin loading errors (import errors)

    • Improved notification plugin [588] (Felix Krull)

    • Improved scrobbler preferences with account data verification

    • Trayicon: Use custom theme icons [614] Prevent the main window from showing on startup

    • Musicbrainz: Only write sort tags that are different

    • Titlecase: New prefs switch to allow all caps in tags (Nick Boultbee)

    • NEW: Website Search (Nick Boultbee)

    • NEW: Inhibit Screensaver while playing (GNOME)

    • NEW: Pause while the screensaver is active (GNOME)

    • NEW: Acoustid.org fingerprint plugin (only for submitting atm)

    • NEW: Duplicates browser (Nick Boultbee)

    • NEW: Mute radio advertisements (di.fm only atm)

    • NEW: Watch directories for file changes (using pyinotify) [270] (Nick Boultbee, Joe Higton)

    • NEW: Theme switcher plugin

    • NEW: Squeezebox plugin (Nick Boultbee)

2.3.2 (2011-10-17) - It doesn’t matter! My beats are great!

  • Fix crash in album browser [781]

  • Plugins:

    • DBus multimedia keys: Make it work with gnome-settings-daemon 3.x

    • Album art: Remove darktown, fix discogs.

    • MPRIS: Various fixes [776, 817, 827]

  • Translation Updates:

    • Lithuanian (Naglis Jonaitis)

2.3.1 (2011-07-16) - YES It works in BOTH temporal directions

  • Absolute path renaming on Windows [506]

  • Fix dynamic song removal of songs not matching the query [713]

  • Fix “–print-playing <~#rating>” [730]

  • Fix search not working with an active pattern column

  • Fix hang with newer GStreamer versions and sinkless pipelines

  • Some minor fixes [682, 724, 704]

  • Plugins:

    • Fix MPRIS not handling invalid dates (Nick Boultbee)

    • Some OSD fixes (Nick Boultbee)

  • Translations:

    • German (Rüdiger Arp)

    • Italian (Luca Baraldi)

    • Lithuanian (Naglis Jonaitis)

2.3 (2011-04-01) - I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY CLEAR

  • Various minor bug fixes

  • Some small translation updates (Anton Shestakov)

  • Update of the 2.2.99 news entry

2.2.99 [beta] (2011-03-13) - I can imagine that one day there could be aperson who would read that

  • Quod Libet now needs Python >=2.5

  • Drag and drop in paned browser

  • Speed up adding many songs to the queue

  • Smaller volume, seek controls

  • Ask for playlist name on creation

  • Output playing progress when using –status

  • Use current icon theme icons everywhere (for DAPs etc.)

  • Floating point custom tags

  • Audio streaming fixes (buffering etc.) (Andreas Bombe)

  • Treeview hints in paned browser

  • Cover art now only uses the available space

  • Support embedded covers art in WMA/Vorbis files

  • Set composer, albumartist, sort tags when copying to an iPod

  • Natural sorting in the song list

  • Many song list speedups (sorting, filling, scrolling)

  • Split up pattern results in paned browser with multi-value tags

  • Only consider a song played after half has elapsed

  • Undo/Redo support for all text entries

  • New framework for showing running tasks, notifications in the status bar

  • Text markup in the paned browser

  • Restore maximized state

  • Restore window position (Felix Krull)

  • Make size of the queue adjustable (Florian Demmer)

  • Mouse scrolling over the play button now changes songs

  • Support alternate home directory using $QUODLIBET_USERDIR (jkohen)

  • Make the default rating changeable (library reload needed)

  • Drag and scroll in the song list

  • Faster context menu opening

  • Display playlist size (library reload needed) (Nick Boultbee)

  • Support queries without specifying a tag name

  • All queries in the album browser use a standard operation (avg, sum etc.)

  • Support ~rating, ~#bitrate in the album pattern

  • Support separate song collection patterns in the paned browser

  • Don’t jump to a playing song if it was selected from the songlist

  • Faster local cover search

  • Support FreeDesktop trash spec

  • Lower case option for file renaming (Nick Boultbee)

  • Various bug fixes, speed improvements (Jacob Lee, Johannes Rohrer, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe)

  • Bug fixes:

    • Treeview hints now work with GTK+ >= 2.20

    • Search history now gets properly shared between browsers

    • Fix udev crashes

    • Paned browser leaks

    • Respect global filter in all browsers/filters

    • Don’t lose tag values with differently cased tag names (APEv2)

    • Fix –set-browser (Carlo Teubner)

    • Properly handle the case where a playing song gets deleted

    • Fix redraw errors using compiz

    • FSync on library save

    • Fix crash when ~/.gtk-bookmarks contains empty lines (Felix Krull)

    • Correctly identify rockboxed iPods

  • Windows (Uninstall any previously installed version!):

    • Fix translation under Win 7

    • Fix cover art plugin saving

    • Add all partitions to the file selector

    • Fix various crashes with wide char user names

    • Fix icon under Win 7

    • Support multi-user installations

    • Fix freezes after opening certain folders

  • New plugins:

    • Follow cursor play order plugin

    • Equalizer plugin

    • MPRIS 1.0/2.0 plugin

    • Ubuntu sound menu plugin

    • Rating reset plugin

    • Track repeat plugin (Nick Boultbee)

  • Plugins:

    • Go to bookmark plugin now menu based

    • Fix some album art plugin backends (Aymeric Mansoux, ..)

    • Improved “human” title casing (Nick Boultbee)

    • Fix queue only plugin stopping the current song.

    • Only use allowed HTML in the notify plugin.

    • musicbrainz: allow writing sort tags (Michaël Ball)

  • Translations:

    • new Latvian translation (Einars Sprugis)

    • new Basque translation (Piarres Beobide)

    • French translation updates (Nick Boultbee)

    • Brazilian/Portuguese translation updates (Djavan Fagundes)

    • Russian translation updates (Anton Shestakov)

2.2.1 (2010-03-27) - Fewer than four out of ten people respect my promises – and possibly more!

  • Fix for importing some mp3 files. [220]

  • More fixes for the device backend (iPod, multi partition DAPs). [410, 412]

  • Fix editing keys with multiple values. [440]

  • Fix weighted playorder algorithm.

  • Save songlist column patterns. [447]

  • Some small fixes here and there.

  • Plugin fixes:

    • Title case: Improved title casing for English text. (Nick Boultbee)

    • Random Album: Algorithm improvements.

    • QLScrobbler: Fix preference pane ordering.

    • Album art: Some images weren’t displayed. (Tomasz Miasko) [429]

    • Last.fm Sync, Musicbrainz: Minor fixes.

  • Translations:

    • Galician, Spanish (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila).

    • German (Rüdiger Arp).

2.2 (2010-02-02) - I know you are enjoying that song but a woman DIED

  • Saved searches extended to Album and Paned browsers [41].

  • Human sorting is now used in Album and Paned browsers [190].

  • Windows is now supported (for real this time).

  • foobar2000’s broken TXXX:DATE now supported [220].

  • Warnings are now printed for many missing dependencies.

  • Fixes for device backends.

  • Lyric downloading disabled until it can be fixed [273].

  • Editing both key and value with multiple keys fixed (extruded) [393].

  • Plugin changes:

    • AnimOSD: major update (Andreas Bombe, Christine Spang) [387].

    • MusicBrainz: major update.

    • Random Album: Changed algorithm to increase fairness.

    • QLScrobbler: Custom patterns for title and artist.

    • Last.fm Sync: new plugin to sync stats from Last.fm.

    • Notify OSD, Album Art: Minor fixes.

  • Translations:

    • Galician, Spanish (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila).

    • French (Bastien Gorissen).

2.1.98 [beta] (2010-01-04) - How are you going to convince people to use it?

  • Christoph Reiter is now a maintainer.

  • The GStreamer backend is now gapless [49].

  • Win32 is once again supported [248].

  • ID3 tags are removed from FLAC files upon saving [124].

  • File extensions are converted to lowercase upon renaming [66].

  • Thumbnails are now generated for artwork [140].

  • Inline searches in the album list can now match people [239].

  • Embedded album art is now supported in FLAC files [255].

  • Bitrates are now reported in kbps. Library reload required [79].

  • Additional ReplayGain settings (Nick Boultbee) [132].

  • Tag splitting setting is now order-sensitive [74].

  • Paned browser now supports patterns for panes [45].

  • Numeric columns have been given a few tweaks (Johan Hovold) [81].

  • New ratings column options (Johan Hovold, Bastien Gorissen) [82, 83].

  • Renaming when symlinks present no longer raises error (Philipp Weis) [353].

  • Xine backend uses software volume control (Markus Koller) [370].

  • Song positions are now saved and restored when quitting [218].

  • DeviceKit-Disks (UDisks) supported for device discovery [252].

  • Plugin changes:

    • New playlist export plugin [30].

    • New queue only playorder plugin [43].

    • New Python console plugin. [229]

    • Updated trayicon plugin [158].

    • Updated album art plugin (Eduardo Gonzalez) [139].

    • Updated qlscrobbler plugin (Nicholas J. Michalek) [376].

    • Updated lastfmsubmit plugin [292].

  • Translations:

    • Russian (Anton Shestakov) [274].

    • Turkish (Türerkan İnce).

    • German (Rüdiger Arp).

  • Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

2.1 (2009-07-04) - My God, Utahraptor, that’s THE PERFECT SOLUTION.

  • Bug fixes:

    • Installer fixes [15, 27, 88]

    • Right-click on menu causes crash [14]

    • Removing a pane from the paned browser causes segfault [131]

    • Null bytes in tags are now stripped on load [177, 242]

    • zh_CN translation updated [156]

  • Support .oga file extension for Ogg Vorbis files [52]

  • Support libre.fm scrobbling in qlscrobbler plugin

  • Get Internet Radio channel listing from yp.icecast.org [18]

  • Ignore errors during playback for ~#skipcount [37]

  • URIs supported for –play-file and –enqueue [17]

  • Many minor fixes and enhancements.

2.0 (2008-09-14) - Once upon a time there was a radical guy!

  • Make Escape a synonym for Ctrl+W in QLTK Windows. (I#8)

  • Actually fix playlist error.

  • Fix Xine backend “Stop” behavior.

1.999 [beta] (2008-09-09) - It has been a memorable day

  • Fix playlist error when loading songs.

  • Unlock device when “stop” mmkey is pressed. (Javier Kohen, I#6)

  • Restart song when rewinding and > 0.5s in. (Javier Kohen, I#7)

  • Updated Galician and Spanish translations. (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila)

  • Make requirements consistent across all documentation.

1.99 [beta] (2008-09-08) - It is impossible to know if my dream came true

  • New distutils-based build/test/install system.

  • Multiple audio backend support.

    • Xine-based audio backend.

    • “Null” backend for Ex Falso.

  • Tag Editing:

    • Tags From Path: “<~>” will eat a string but not save it.

    • Track Numbers: Allow numbering up to 999.

  • Show image files in Ex Falso.

  • Direct output to console and to a debugging window.

    • Functions are accessible to plugins as print_d, print_e, and print_w.

  • default_rating configuration option. (Robert Muth)

  • Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

1.0 (2007-05-05) - Yeah they just showed up one day – staring.

  • Use Mutagen for ASF/WMA and MP4 support.

  • Add IsPlaying and GetPosition to the D-Bus API. (Mickael Royer)

  • Default “No Cover” image. (Jakub Steiner)

  • Add –unfilter to reset browser filters.

  • Sort –enqueued files, and add –unqueue.

  • Basic SPC (SNES ROM audio) support.

  • Paned Browser speed improvements. (Robert Muth)

  • Errors when playing a song are now logged to a special ~errors tag. It is visible from the Information screen, and can be reset.

  • APEv2 tags can now override Musepack stream Replay Gain settings.

  • Numerous bug fixes, especially in media device handling.

  • Translation Updates:

    • Hungarian. (SZERVÁC Attila)

    • Finnish. (Jari Rahkonen)

    • Galician and Spanish. (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila)

    • French. (Guillaume Ayoub)

    • Dutch. (Hans van Dok)

    • Japanese. (Yasushi Iwata)

0.24 (2006-11-19) - One wonders if our conversation today would be an appropriate epitaph.

  • Media device (iPod and UMS so far) support. (Markus Koller)

  • Delete removes songs from the queue. (sciyoshi)

  • Per-browser window memory.

  • Use Mutagen for WavPack and Musepack support.

  • Keep filenames when given invalid patterns. (Markus Koller)

  • Don’t duplicate performers in ~performers. (Martin Bergström)

  • Python 2.5 and GTK+ 2.10 compatibility.

  • Fix Rename Files support on MP4 files.

  • New Romanian translation, by Mugurel Tudor.

  • New Slovak translation, by Lukáš Lalinský.

  • Updated translations:

    • Traditional Chinese, by Hsin-lin Cheng.

    • Japanese, by Yasushi Iwata.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz

    • French, by Guillaume Ayoub.

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

0.23.1 (2006-08-28) - UNPOPULAR LIFE GOALS

  • Multivalued tag renaming.

  • Fix crash when ~/.gtk-bookmarks is not present.

  • Disable ‘title’ completion. (hopefully temporarily)

  • Parse “performer:role” tags and offer a ~performers synthetic tag.

  • Updated Swedish translation, by Erik Christiansson.

0.23 (2006-08-14) - THE NARRATIVE OF LIFE.

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Updated files no longer incorrectly appear in the paned browser.

    • Disambiguate ‘filename’ string for translation.

    • Hide unreadable files in Ex Falso.

    • Avoid (harmless) race condition when filling album list.

  • “Select All Subfolders” menu item when browsing directories. (thanks to Alexandre Passos).

  • Scan the library in the background when starting.

  • Ogg FLAC and Speex files can be loaded.

  • Plugin configuration IDs can be different from their names.

  • Rewritten library code, many resulting UI improvements.

  • Scan directories are used as File System roots.

  • Replay Gain mode is chosen based on browser/play order.

  • Internet Radio M3U support.

  • Ex Falso runs on Win32 (thanks to Ben Zeigler).

  • Song list headers can be changed via a context menu.

  • True Audio (TTA) support.

  • New Japanese translation, by Yasushi Iwata.

  • New Traditional Chinese translation, by Hsin-lin Cheng.

  • Updated Translations:

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz

    • French, by Guillaume Ayoub.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila and Javier Kohen.

    • Korean, by Byung-Hee HWANG and ChangBom Yoon.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • Portuguese, by Alexandre Passos.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • Hungarian, by SZERVÁC Attila.

    • Swedish, by Fredrik Olofsson.

0.21.1 (2006-07-02) - Dude! It’s not like you can’t just make your own!

  • MP3s with POPM can be loaded again (Thanks, Hans van Dok)

0.21 (2006-06-10) - Faith, AND the possibility of weaponized kissing??

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Queue behaves correctly when randomizing two songs.

    • GStreamer error messages are properly localized.

    • Tray icon is more resiliant to panel crashes.

    • “Jump…” distinguishes between identically-named albums.

    • application/ogg is recognized in audio feeds.

    • .pyo files are removed on clean.

    • util.unexpand caches the value of $HOME.

    • Fix plugin function call ordering.

  • UI Changes:

    • Improved tooltips in Preferences.

    • The Paned Browser shows song totals, and has a button to reset all selections.

    • Saving play count / rating tags can be turned off, or adjusted to a different email address.

    • The last-entered directory is used for Scan Directories configuration.

  • pyvorbis is no longer required if you use Mutagen 1.3.

  • Event plugins were redesigned, incompatibly.

  • Test coverage data can be generated using trace.py.

  • New Simplified Chinese translation by Emfox Zhou.

  • New Hungarian translation by SZERVÁC Attila.

  • Updated translations:

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Korean, by Byung-Hee HWANG and ChangBom Yoon.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Norwegian Bokmål, by Andreas Bertheussen.

    • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz

    • Lithuanian, by Jonas Slivka.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

0.20.1 (2006-05-02) - Thanks for the eye-opener, dinosaur zombies!

  • Vorbis/FLAC tag editing works again.

0.20 (2006-05-01) - Feelings are boring. Kissing is awesome!

  • Bug Fixes:

    • –play-file will use the queue.

    • Audio Feeds remember download locations.

    • Song changes don’t revert tag edits.

    • Browser song activation takes precedence over the queue.

    • Albums drag-and-drop in listed order.

    • Only reset relevant parts of Information windows on song change.

    • Deleting files not in the library removes them.

    • Non-numeric disc/track numbers sort properly.

    • Paned Browser no longer adds incorrect entries. (Debian bug )

    • Ex Falso no longer loads WAV or MOD files.

    • Allow more headers in Internet Radio and Audio Feeds.

    • New process launching method, util.spawn.

  • UI Changes:

    • Indicator to show when songs come from the queue.

    • Rating submenu always appears in the song list.

    • Album covers hide when clicked again.

    • Select current song when jumping to it.

  • New translations:

    • Norwegian Bokmål, by Andreas Bertheussen.

    • Swedish, by Erik Christiansson.

  • Updated translations:

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • French, by Olivier Gambier.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • Portuguese, by Alexandre Passos.

0.19.1 (2006-04-04) - It’s our secret! Our secret IDENTITY!

  • Work around broken Fedora/Mandrive GNOME bindings.

  • Fix global plugin directory scanning.

  • Add originalartist to ~people.

  • Updated Italian translation, by Filippo Pappalardo.

  • Updated Korean translation, by Byung-Hee HWANG and ChangBom Yoon.

0.19 (2006-04-01) - i’m really thirsty you guys

  • Simple X session management.

  • Require Mutagen 1.0; drops Pymad.

  • WAV support.

  • New plugin types can be enabled/disabled.

  • Album List can search and display any tags.

  • “Bookmark” time offsets within songs.

  • Song menu plugins require minor but incompatible updates.

  • Searches, tagging patterns, and file renaming patterns can be given aliases and saved.

  • Tag Editing:

    • MusicBrainz TXXX, artist/album/albumartist support.

    • Added albumartist, originalartist, originalalbum, originaldate, recordingdate.

    • Ratings, playcount Ogg Vorbis format changed.

    • COMM tags in Ex Falso are deleted properly.

  • UI Changes:

    • Drops from e.g. Nautilus add to playlists/queue.

    • Clear button in Album List.

    • Horizontal scrollbar when absolutely necessary for the song list.

    • “Random” options use filtered lists.

    • Album sort is once again and forever default.

    • ‘Add to Playlist’ resorts playlist properly.

    • Enter in ‘Add a Tag’ moves from tag to value. (Debian bug )

    • Standard context menu for all browsers.

    • ‘Delete’ key works in Edit Tags.

    • Type-ahead search works in the Album List.

  • Bug fixes:

    • Double-appearances in the filesystem view.

    • FIFO misses some commands.

    • Stupid ‘refresh’ signal finally gone.

    • Error when seeking and keyboard can’t be grabbed.

  • Updated translations:

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

    • Lithuanian, by Jonas Slivka.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

0.18 (2006-03-03) - “Babies Sporting Monocles”?

  • MP4 iTunes metadata can be written.

  • Alt+s switches between search entry and song list.

  • GStreamer 0.10 port.

  • Album covers can be switched off in the Album List.

  • The Album List text can be changed with a pattern.

  • “Limit” in the Search view can take ratings into account.

  • UI Changes:

    • Alt+Enter / Ctrl+I shows tags/information for selected songs.

    • DnD to playlists/the queue from the File System view.

    • F2 renames playlists.

    • “Add a Tag” autocompletes tag names.

    • RSS links can be dragged to the Audio Feeds sidebar.

  • Bug Fixes:

    • ID3v1 tags no longer interfere with APEv2 tags.

    • Playing albums with one song no longer skips forwards.

    • ‘totaltracks’ Vorbis tags are read properly.

    • Adding songs to a playlist doesn’t unsort it.

    • “Tags From Path” patterns are no longer greedy. (thanks to Decklin Foster)

    • Internet Radio supports the ~people tag.

    • Word-wrap in lyrics pane works properly.

    • Ex Falso properly opens an initial directory. (thanks to ch.trassl)

    • ‘~format’ is usable from –print-playing. ([2810])

  • Plugin errors are captured in a dialog. ([2817])

  • New synthetic numeric tags, ~#tracks and ~#discs. ([2828])

  • Ex Falso no longer depends on GStreamer. ([2837])

  • New Lithuanian translation by Jonas Slivka. ([2780])

  • Updated translations:

    • Bulgarian, by Rostislav Raykov.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Korean, by Byung-Hee HWANG and ChangBom Yoon.

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • Russian, by Sergey Fedoseev.

    • French, by Joshua Kwan.

0.17.1 (2006-01-19) - I’d like to have some nightmares, please!

  • Updated German translation, by Rüdiger Arp.

  • Updated Russian translation, by Sergey Fedoseev.

0.17 (2006-01-18) - the grizzly icing on the prospector cake!

  • Lyrics plugin merged into Information dialog.

  • “Edit Tags” now correctly removes all copies of multiple values, and displays “(missing from…)” for all missing values.

  • More FIFO commands (song list and queue visibility).

  • FLAC support no longer depends on pyflac.

  • Load audio feeds without author information.

  • ~#year, ~year internal tags.

  • Numeric searches are rounded to two decimal places.

  • New plugin architecture for tag editing dialogs.

  • Korean translation, by ChangBom Yoon and Byung-Hee HWANG.

  • Updated translations:

    • Russian, by Sergey Fedoseev.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Portuguese, by Alexandre Passos.

    • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • Galician, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • French, by Joshua Kwan.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

0.16 (2005-12-19) - would it make a difference if it never really came up often?

  • Context menu plugins can make themselves insensitive.

  • More command-line and FIFO options.

  • Read-only M4A support. (thanks to Alexey Bobyakov)

  • Wavpack support.

  • Audio Feed (Podcast) support (requires https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/).

  • “One Song” (and repeat) play mode.

  • Improved and configurable tray icon.

  • New install system that is more FHS-compliant.

  • ~laststarted internal tag.

  • Accents are stripped when renaming to ASCII filenames.

  • UI improvements:

    • Ex Falso lists are searchable in GTK 2.8.8+.

    • ^W closes transient windows.

    • More DnD support.

    • HIG-compliance for strings.

    • Double-click files in browsers to enqueue them.

    • Rename Files error dialog has a “Continue” button.

    • Ctrl-Left/Right changed to Ctrl-,/..

    • Playlist imports have a progress bar.

    • New icon that is not all black. (thanks to Tobias and Fabien)

    • Paned Browser entries have context menus.

    • Volume icons follow GTK+/GNOME theme.

  • More memory and CPU optimizations.

  • GStreamer error handling. (thanks to Zack Weinberg and Bastian Kleineidam)

  • Musepack, MOD support migrated to Mutagen/ctypes modules.

  • Updated translations:

    • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Portuguese, by Alexandre Passos.

    • French, by Joshua Kwan.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

0.15 (2005-11-14) - Maybe I will.

  • An ‘artist’ tag can be stored in the library for MODs.

  • ‘All Albums’ remains on the album list after a search.

  • The Play Queue displays its total time and has a clear button.

  • Songs can be enqueued multiple times.

  • ‘~people’ includes more people.

  • Files can be added from remote URIs (e.g. HTTP).

  • “Dumb” searches match any visible tags.

  • Ratings are now searched with values of 0.0 to 1.0, and the number of visible notes is configurable.

  • Useless columns are not displayed in Internet Radio.

  • A single album cover can be refreshed in the Album List.

  • Playlists have been rewritten:

    • Songs may now be in a playlist multiple times.

    • Playlists can be reordered directly, without a special window.

    • Songs can be added to playlists directly from the context menu.

    • M3U and PLS playlists (along with their songs) can be imported.

    • The interface is much more attractive.

  • Drag-and-drop is generally more usable, faster, and attractive.

  • Many optimizations, especially during startup.

  • Updated translations:

    • Russian, by Sergey Fedoseev.

    • Galician, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • French, by Joshua Kwan and Fabien Devaux.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.

  • New translations:

    • Spanish and Portuguese, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

0.14 (2005-10-22) - I’m almost certain!

  • Internet radio / Shoutcast browser.

  • Album List separates albums with different labelids.

  • Ex Falso displays all available plugins in its menu.

  • Useful ~#lastplayed/~#added/~#mtime display thanks to Lalo Martins.

  • New Album List search keys and sorting options.

  • New translations:

    • Galician, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.

    • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.

  • Updated translations:

    • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.

    • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz.

    • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.

    • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.

    • German, by Rüdiger Arp.

    • Russian, by Nikolai Prokoschenko.

  • Many bug fixes.

0.13.1 (2005-09-15) - People will fall for this for sure!

  • Fix playlist creation.

  • Unplay when no song is playing.

0.13 (2005-09-11) - So, um… let’s- fletcherize?

  • The GStreamer backend is cleaned up, and is now the only backend. This results in lower background CPU usage and many fixes to our audio processing. Gapless playback is gone.

  • A play queue was added.

  • A file system browser has been added. This can view, edit, and play files outside of your library.

  • The Paned Browser has a search entry.

  • Search Library lets you limit the number of results.

  • ~/.quodlibet/browsers is now scanned for custom browsers.

  • Synthetic tags (‘’’~dirname’’’, ‘’’~basename’’’, &c.) can be searched.

  • Similarly, synthetic tags can be used in the Paned Browser.

  • New synthetic tags, ‘’’~people’’’ and ‘’’~playlist’’’.

  • If the tray icon is visible, closing QL’s main window will minimize it. To actually quit, choose ‘’’Quit’’’ from the Music menu or icon.

  • Search Library and the Album List search entry have tag completion.

  • Ex Falso supports plugins.

  • Updated Russian translation by Nikolai Prokoschenko and Sergey Fedoseev.

  • Updated French translation by Joshua Kwan.

  • Updated Finnish translation by Jari Rahkonen.

  • Updated Dutch translation by Hans van Dok.

  • Updated Hebrew translation by Roee Haimovich.

0.12 (2005-07-31) - focus ENTIRELY on the sexy bits.

  • New Mutagen ID3 reader/writer.

  • Experimental GStreamer backend.

  • Drag-and-drop to playlists.

  • Weighted random playback.

  • MP3 and Musepack ReplayGain support.

  • Larger plugin manager window.

  • Automatic mount point detection.

  • Support for multiple soundcards.

  • Localization enhancements.

  • Translation updates:

    • Dutch, thanks to Hans van Dok.

    • Finnish, thanks to Jari Rahkonen.

    • French, thanks to Joshua Kwan.

    • German, thanks to Rüdiger Arp.

    • Hebrew, thanks to Roee Haimovich.

    • Russian, thanks to Sergey Fedoseev and Nikolai Prokoschenko.

    • Polish, thanks to Witold Kieraś.

  • The usual round of interface tweaks and bug fixes.

0.11 (2005-05-10) - spicy burnsauce with a side of ZING!

  • Plugins (either appearing in the right-click menu, or triggered on a player event)

  • Browse songs by album, with a cover display.

  • “Library Browser” added to search/edit files without disturbing your playlist.

  • Played songs are automatically removed from dynamic playlists.

  • “Background filters” for the paned browser and search entry.

  • Create/remove empty folders from within Ex Falso.

  • ‘0’ to ‘4’ keys or mouse clicks can set song ratings.

  • Depends on PyGTK 2.6 (as well as GTK 2.6).

  • –status to print the player’s status.

  • Russian translation, thanks to Sergey and Andrey Fedoseev.

  • Partial French translation, thanks to Joshua Kwan.

  • OSD moved to a plugin.

0.10.1 (2005-04-04) - What if I said I’m not really kidding?

  • The main window stays hidden when the song changes.

0.10 (2005-04-02) - As it turns out, my life is NOT THAT INTERESTING!

  • –seek supports +/- prefix to seek relative to the current position.

  • Added Ex Falso, a tag editor based on QL (without audio playback).

  • Switched MP3 genres from TIT1 to TCON.

  • The library is saved automatically every 15 minutes.

  • Tag by Pattern/Rename Files save patterns used.

  • Adding tags with specific formats (‘date’) is less prone to error.

  • Several display bugs and non-HIG windows were fixed.

  • Pane-based (Rhythmbox/iTunes-style) library browser.

  • Tag by Pattern/Rename Files previews can be manually edited before saving.

  • Kind of browser (none, search, playlists, paned), song list sort order, and what you were browsing are remembered when you exit.

  • At least one lockup-causing bug was fixed.

  • Song ratings, on a 0 to 4 scale.

  • Masked directories work again.

  • No more dependency on Glade.

  • A new icon and website.

0.9 (2005-03-04) - I don’t want any trouble, cephalopods!

  • Major updates to the Properties dialog:

    • A new detailed ‘Information’ tab was added.

    • Middle click pastes current PRIMARY clipboard text in ‘Edit Tags’.

    • Text in the ‘Rename Files’ dialog can be conditionalized.

  • Non-UTF-8 filesystem encodings support (via CHARSET/G_BROKEN_FILENAMES).

  • New numeric keys “added” and “skipcount” can be searched on.

  • The –print-playing format string syntax has changed to match the one now used in ‘Rename Files’.

  • New query language enhancements (ternary relation operators, string comparisons, and Lynx-like case-sensitivity).

  • The tray icon now pauses/unpauses on middle click, adjusts volume with the scroll wheel, and skips forward/backward on buttons 6/7.

  • This release depends on GTK 2.6 for its new media icons.

  • PMP support was removed.

  • Updated German translation (thanks, Bastian!)

0.8.1 (2005-02-06) - Our story takes a sudden dive…

  • Fix a crash when encoding information is not available.

0.8 (2005-02-04) - I make jokes about whomever I please!

  • New/reloaded libraries take 20% less disk space.

  • Double-clicking an album cover displays it in a larger window.

  • –shuffle, –repeat, and –volume (–volume-up and –volume-down are deprecated and will be removed).

  • Any tag name can be written to (and read from) an MP3 file.

  • Playlists containing arbitrary songs can be created.

  • The libmodplug Python wrapper must be downloaded separately.

  • The MPC/MP+ format is supported (with a separate wrapper).

  • FLAC supports ReplayGain.

  • Internal changes made some things faster and others slower.

  • Polish translation, thanks to Michal Nowikowski.

  • German translation, thanks to Bastian Kleineidam.

0.7 (2004-12-18) - I’m going to ho-ho-hoard all these nuts!

  • Default to proper ‘alsa09’ driver (rather than ‘alsa’).

  • “Random Foo” searches are now anchored with ^…$.

  • Tag By Pattern values can be edited before being saved.

  • Right-clicking on the status icon brings up a menu.

  • –play, –pause, –seek-to, –query, –play-file.

  • OSD (gosd) support, thanks to Iñigo Serna and Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro. A library reload is needed to use it.

  • FreeDesktop-style .folder.png files supported for album covers.

  • Playlist/search UI elements can be hidden.

  • Dragging playlist columns reorders them.

  • Library rebuilds no longer lose play counts.

  • Configurable menu accelerators when gtk-can-change-accels is set.

  • Delete songs (or move them to the trash) from the player.

0.6 (204-12-02) - People laugh at typos in heaven?!

  • Many new filtering options (top 40, not played in X days).

  • Mass-set track numbers.

  • Tag by Pattern can replace or add new tags.

  • Maskable mount points. This lets you add files from an NFS share or portable device and not have to readd them if you unmount and remount it.

  • Support for sending files to PMPs from the context menu.

  • –next, –previous, –play-pause, –volume-up, –volume-down.

  • MOD/IT/XM/etc. support, using libmodplug and an included C extension.

  • Right-clicking the status icon will pause/unpause.

  • Seeking in FLACs.

  • Bug fixes (including at least one crash).

0.5 (2004-11-18) - Everything’s fine, CEPT YOU GOT NO LEGS!

  • The ao audio backend is back; see the “AUDIO BACKENDS” section in the manual page for instructions on using it. This should let ALSA users use software mixing.

  • ID3 APIC (embedded picture) support.

  • VorbisGain (https://sjeng.org/vorbisgain.html) support.

  • A context menu for common operations was added to the properties dialog.

  • Tag values can be set from filename patterns, or vice-versa.

  • Dates can be saved in MP3s now.

  • –print-playing option, with a format string.

  • More UI tweaks.

  • Translation template update.

  • Many bug fixes; please reload your library. You can now reload your library from the “Music” menu.

0.4 (2004-11-09) - The Power of Language

  • Many bug fixes, primarily due to unit testing.

  • Tweaks to cover detection to pick ‘frontcover’ over ‘backcover’.

  • Tweaks to song display, including proper support for the ‘author’ tag.

  • Remember size between invocations.

  • A freedesktop.org-compatible system tray icon, using the Egg status icon code by Anders Carlsson and Sun.

  • Multimedia key support, provided they’re mapped (e.g. by Acme), using the MmKeys object from Muine by Lee Willis and Jan Arne Petersen.

  • UI tweaks to the main window.

  • Button to link to a song’s website, or a Google search.

  • Infrastructure is in place for i18n/l10n, but I’m totally new to this, so I could’ve done something horribly wrong.

0.3 (2004-11-01)

  • Handle mono MP3s correctly.

  • Crash less, especially when editing tags.

  • Many smaller bug fixes.

0.2 (2004-10-30)

  • Song properties dialog, featuring mass tag editing/addition/removal.

  • Build/installation scripts.

  • Interface tweaks for HIG compliance and accessibility.

  • Try to save the library when ^C is pressed.

  • ~/.quodlibet/current interface to currently-playing song.

  • Save current query and song on exit.

  • An icon.

  • FLAC support. Writing to FLAC tags could be very buggy, so if you value your tags, please back them up.

0.1 (2004-10-30)

  • Initial release.