Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
VERSION 2.8
FEATURES:
* Tracks from Recently Played List widget can now directly be added to
the playlist.
CHANGES:
* The Jamendo service now uses a higher quality MP3 format instead of
Ogg Vorbis.
* Added an option whether adding tracks to playlist should start playing.
* Amarok now depends on Qt 4.8.3.
* Amarok now uses FindFFMpeg.cmake from kdelibs
BUGFIXES:
Various
VERSION 2.7
CHANGES:
* Files page has been made more intuitive by making Places the root
view and significantly improving breadcrumbs behaviour.
* Make dropping large directories into playlist more responsive by
reading track metadata asynchronously in a background thread.
* Harmonize keyboard, mouse and context menu behaviour of the Files
pane so that it matches Local Music and Saved Playlists panes.
* Last.fm Skip button re-added after being removed in Beta by error.
* Podcast episodes are now loaded asynchronously on startup to reduce
delays.
* Removed alpha state and not really working spectrum analyzer applet.
BUGFIXES:
Various
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
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.
Version 2.5
FEATURES:
* Now It's possible to use formated strings for prefix and suffix in
Playlist's layout items.
BUGFIXES:
* Do not crash when iPod doesn't have a master playlist. (BR 288936)
* Fix Last.fm not finding KDE Wallet. (BR 286741)
* Put a border around bottom toolbars, visually separating them from
browser contents. (BR 277741)
* Align the bottom toolbars.
* Allow albums with empty name but nonempty artist in local collection.
* Fix collection info display (track count, free space) for iPod and MTP
devices. (BR 232093)
* Fix crash at exit with Qt 4.8
* Fix moving applets rightward in the context toolbar.
* Fix breadcrumbs not working properly for the file browser.
* Disable cover fetching action for tracks not in the collection to avoid
crash when trying to "save as" a cover. (BR 287604)
* Show default cover in tag dialog when track is not in the collection.
* Fix directory selection when opening album location in tag dialog.
* Fix crash in CoverFoundDialog if progress dialog is cancelled just
before fetch is done.
* Correctly parse disambiguation pages for songs in the English Wikipedia.
* Fix wrong context view applets sizes on start up in some cases.
* Fix Amarok consuming CPU until main window is shown. (BR 278897)
* Fix last.fm 'scrobble composer' option's fallback to artist (BR 286215)
* Fix volume control from within Amarok.
* Fix slow startup because of imported playlists. (BR 284761)
* Fix audio CD detection on Amarok start. (BR 276032)
* Set a default filename scheme for USB Mass Storage (BR 285900)
* Fixed crash during MusicBrainz search. (BR 277475)
CHANGES:
* Load Last.fm friend/neighbour avatars on demand.
* Update tracks in the recently played widget only when needed.
* Allow editing the SearchWidget during a search animation.
* Update the collection view while UMS is scanning.
* Don't block the UI while scanning UMS device.
* Allow going back and forward in Amazon store. Thanks to GCI student
Nikola Miljkovic.
