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)

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

3.0.0 (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

• GStreamer output device selection is no longer supported. (GStreamer 1.0 has removed the property probing interface)
• No multimedia keys support with non-GNOME DEs in some distributions due to missing packaging:
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963476
  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710254
• Animated On-Screen Display plugin is missing transparency support
• No Windows build (work in progress)

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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 libary 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 (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 progess 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 (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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.

0.22 - Man, forget television, books, films, short films, to a lesser extent plays and other theatre, and the remaining popular media!¶

• The tray icon is now an optional plugin.
• A D-BUS interface is available. (thanks to Federico Pelloni)
• Tag editing values are autocompleted.
• Library Browser windows have more useful titles.
• New “~lyrics” synthetic tag.
• Python 2.4 is now required.
• Updated Translations:
  • Galician and Spanish, by Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila.
  • Italian, by Filippo Pappalardo.
  • Hebrew, by Roee Haimovich.
  • Finnish, by Jari Rahkonen.
  • Dutch, by Hans van Dok.
  • Polish, by Tomasz Torcz
  • Portuguese, by Alexandre Passos.
  • French, by Guillaume Ayoub.
  • Bulgarian, by Rostislav Raykov.
  • Hungarian, by SZERVÁC Attila.
  • Korean, by Byung-Hee HWANG and ChangBom Yoon.

0.21.1 - 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 - 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 - Thanks for the eye-opener, dinosaur zombies!¶

• Vorbis/FLAC tag editing works again.

0.20 - 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 - 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 - 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 - “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 - I’d like to have some nightmares, please!¶

• Updated German translation, by Rüdiger Arp.
• Updated Russian translation, by Sergey Fedoseev.

0.17 - 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 - 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 http://www.feedparser.org).
• “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 - 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 - 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 - People will fall for this for sure!¶

• Fix playlist creation.
• Unplay when no song is playing.

0.13 - 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 - 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 - spicy burnsauce with a side of ZING!¶

• Plugins (either appearing in the right-click menu, or triggered on a player event); see http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Plugins.
• 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 - What if I said I’m not really kidding?¶

• The main window stays hidden when the song changes.

0.10 - 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 - 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 - Our story takes a sudden dive...¶

• Fix a crash when encoding information is not available.

0.8 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 (http://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 - 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 invokations.
• 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¶

• Handle mono MP3s correctly.
• Crash less, especially when editing tags.
• Many smaller bug fixes.

0.2¶

• 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¶

• Initial release.