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Changelog¶
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:
- 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 “&” 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.