VERSION 2.6-RC
CHANGES:
* Show all audio and video files in file browser.
* Remove codec install support. It's long ago been implemented in phonon.
* Prevent lags with large Saved playlists.
* Increase minimal required ffmpeg version up to 0.7.
* Use audio-x-generic icon for bit rate, not a generic one.
* Add Amarok.Playlist.playMediaList() script bindings for API symmetry.
* Building the spectrum analyzer applet can now be disabled with a CMake
argument.
VERSION 2.6-Beta 1
FEATURES:
* Amazon store: improved album search
* Support for transcoding when copying tracks to USB Mass Storage devices;
per-device transcoding preference can be saved, too.
* Provide Repopulate and Turn off link in "Dynamic Mode Enabled" bagde.
* Support for setting cover images for albums on USB Mass Storage devices.
* Support for setting and unsetting cover images for iPod albums, can
write back covers to file meta-data too, respects configuration.
* Amazon store: ability to check out an item directly without using the
Amarok shopping cart.
* Amarok now includes the Free Music Charts service by default.
* The maximum dimensions for embedded covers are now configurable.
* Small configuration dialog for iPods that shows troubleshooting
information and allows to change iPod name.
* Improved usability of iPod playlists: iPod collection automatically
transfers tracks dropped to iPod playlists to iPod when it is needed.
* Tracks can now be transcoded when transferring them to iPod.
* A diagnostic dialog reporting versions of Amarok, Qt, KDE and phonon libraries
as well as the used phonon backend and status of plugins and scripts.
Patch by Andrzej Hunt.
* Ability to move track position bookmarks by dragging; patch by
Jasneet Bhatti.
* Amarok can now remember whether and how to transcode tracks when
transferring them to a particular collection.
* "Crop playlist" functionality implemented using drag & drop.
* Added keyboard shortcut for "Edit Track Information..."
Patch by Jasneet Bhatti.
* Support for embedded album covers in non-collection tracks and
in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Hold the Shift key when dragging tracks to collections to move them
instead of copying.
* New search filter for absolute date
* Named UMS collections
* Albums with same name but different album artist are now correctly
separated in USB Mass Storage, iPod and various online service collections.
* Support for detecting compilations in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Support embedded covers for ogg (read only) and flac files.
* Track meta-data can be edited in USB Mass Storage collection.
* Support for album artists in USB Mass Storage collection.
* album artist (if differs from artist), BPM, labels, last played time and
bitrate are now shown in playlist track tooltip (if not already displayed
in playlist)
CHANGES:
* Builds with ffmpeg 0.11.
* Database structure (lyrics table) was updated. Starting Amarok for the
first time after the upgrade may take up to one minute as the data is
migrated.
* Amazon store: try to show a sensible default in the country selection.
* Only offer delete action when Shift key is pressed in Collection context
menu.
* Only offer move action when Shift key is pressed in Collection context
menu.
* Remove context view video applet. Unmaintained and broken.
* Album cover images are written in background to prevent freezes.
* Make keyboard & mouse behaviour of saved playlists browser same as of the
collection browser, including the delete key.
* Delete and Shift + Delete keys now work as expected in collection browser.
* Preserve statistics when copying or moving tracks to Local Collection.
* Common album actions such as Show cover, Show under Various Artists are
now available for all collections that support it, not just Local
collection.
* When copying files to iPod, ensure target directories exist.
* When writing covers to files, all existing covers will be replaced.
* PulseAudio status in diagnostic dialog.
* optional libgpod dependency raised to 0.8.2 to support newest iPods.
* Amarok now prevents accidental unmounting of iPods in (small) time-frames
when iTunes database on iPod is not yet updated.
* Amarok detects when iPod is to be ejected from system and gracefully
disconnects it when it occurs.
* Hitting the eject button on iPod collection ejects it also from the
system.
* iPod collection now detects whether iPod is safe to write and marks iPod
as read-only if not. This prevents "iPod shows 0 tracks" problem.
* Correct progress bar advancement when transferring tracks to iPod.
* iPod Collection supports multiple simultaneous cancellable transfers.
* Improved dialog to initialize iPod.
* Load tracks in playlists asynchronously using proxy tracks.
* It is now possible to transcode tracks when moving them.
* Drag & drop of tracks and playlists to Saved Playlists works in all cases.
* Don't show unmounted USB Mass Storage devices and make it clear when
the device is not "activated" yet.
* "Devices" in Amarok configuration -> Plugins is with other related strings
renamed to "Local Collection Backends" to reduce user confusion.
* Enable keyboard activation of PlaylistBrowser items.
* Don't use `mysql_config --variable=pkgincludedir`, find mysql include
directory manually by looking up mysql.h.
* Album artist is now guessed for tracks that do not belong into any
collection and tracks from USB Mass Storage collection. Guessing uses the
same algorithm as Local Collection.
* When hovering iPod, UMS or MTP collection in collection browser,
"1.2 GB free" is shown instead of "85% used"; thicker capacity bar.
Plus many bugfixes.
As discussed on pkgsrc-users, x11/ftlk (1.1) is no longer maintained,
and 1.3 is believed to be almost entirely compatible.
Patch from Tim Larson, who has build-tested these packages on
NetBSD/amd64.
2011-02-19 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
* Release 0.9.5.1
* Compatible with linux 3.0 kernels
* Compiles now with gcc 4.7
* Added greek translation
* Updated czech translation
* Few small bugfixes
2011-03-15 the hydrogen team <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
* Release 0.9.5
* load playlists at startup
* midi-learn works now with shift-click on some gui elements
* multi-track export
* LADI support
* maximum number of bars is now configurable
* added czech translation
* fixed serveral export song failures
* added ogg, flac, aiff export support
* added some new commandline parameter for no_gui version
* added rubberband-cli support
* several improvements on sample editor
* added NO_GUI_SUPPORT to build a version of hydrogen without a gui
* added support for app bundles on OSX
* non destructive sample editor
* piano roll editor
* instrument midi out
* destructive midi recording
* support for midi "note off" messages
* virtual patterns
* time line to change song tempo and add tags
* director
* and at least several small changes
* Xml handling is now done by QtXml instead of TinyXML
* improved support for non-ascii filenames / strings
* remove direct dependencies to libflac
* Tested on NetBSD/i386 5.1, /i386 6.0, and /amd64 6.99.13
* Also tested on OpenIndiana/i386 151a7, but my environment lacks audio
device, so I cannot check audio output
* Tested with multimedia/mplayer's -ao pulse option, works fine
* Add gm4 to USE_TOOLS for OpenIndiana build
Changelog:
Many changes. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio .
libXext/buildlink3.mk, now that it is included there.
Leave the places where its API version is set or variables from it
are used directly (about 3 packages).
Changes in 0.3.0
----------------
* added replay_gain_mode and replay_gain_status commands
* added mixrampdb and mixrampdelay commands
* added findadd and rescan commands
* added decoders command
* changed license to LGPL
* added sticker commands
* correctly handle errors in command lists (fixes a longstanding bug)
* raise IteratingError instead of breaking horribly when called wrong
* added fileno() to export socket FD (for polling with select et al.)
* asynchronous API (use send_<cmd> to queue, fetch_<cmd> to retrieve)
* support for connecting to unix domain sockets
* added consume and single commands
* added idle and noidle commands
* added listplaylists command
Changes in 0.2.1
----------------
* connect() no longer broken on Windows
Changes in 1.8 final:
Added support for OWNE ID3 frames.
Changed key validation in the new PropertyMap API.
ID3v1::Tag::setStringHandler will no londer delete the previous
handler, the caller is responsible for this.
File objects will also no longer delete the passed IOStream
objects. It should be done in the caller code after the File
object is no longer used.
Added ID3v2::Tag::setLatin1StringHandler for custom handling
of latin1-encoded text in ID3v2 frames.
Fixed validation of ID3v2 frame IDs (IDs with
Changes in 1.8 beta:
New API for accessing tags by name.
New abstract I/O stream layer to allow custom I/O handlers.
Support for writing ID3v2.3 tags.
Support for various module file formats (MOD, S3M, IT, XM).
Support for MP4 and ASF is now enabled by default.
Started using atomic int operations for reference counting.
Added methods for checking if WMA and MP4 files are DRM-protected.
Added taglib_free to the C bindings.
New method to allow removing pictures from FLAC files.
Support for reading audio properties from ALAC and Musepack
SV8 files.
Added replay-gain information to Musepack audio properties.
Support for APEv2 binary tags.
Many AudioProperties subclasses now provide information about
the total number of samples.
Various small bug fixes.
