gtkpod V0.99.14
NEW FEATURE: Help system, still very preliminary.
NEW FEATURE: Video thumbnail generation, thanks to M. Sean Finney
NEW FEATURE: Lyrics may be viewed and edited via the Details window
for a track. Only mp3 files are supported currently (patches welcome
to remove this limitation). Writing lyric tags may still have
compatibility issues on some iPod's. Thanks to Dudy Kohen.
NEW FEATURE: Add a search bar, to quickly filter tracks.
UPDATE: New application icon.
UPDATE: Preferences dialog redesigned from the ground up for GNOME
HIG compliance.
UPDATE: Hebrew translation. Thanks to Assaf Gillat.
UPDATE: Italian translation. Thanks to Daniele Forsi.
UPDATE: Romanian translation. Thanks to Alex Eftimie.
UPDATE: Spanish translation. Thanks to Alejandro Lamas Daviña.
UPDATE: Swedish translation. Thanks to Stefan Asserhäll.
NEW FEATURE: Added simple Chinese translation. Thanks to Tan Zhixin.
IMPROVEMENT: Numerous UI cleanups
IMPROVEMENT: Support for chapter data, thanks to Michael Tiffany
IMPROVEMENT: Use cairo for coverart display effects. This allows the
dependency on libgnomecanvas to be dropped.
IMPROVEMENT: Coverart display performance has been improved.
IMPROVEMENT: Better support for Windows compilation in Cygwin,
thanks to Éric Lassauge.
IMPROVEMENT: Set track->lyrics_flag for mp4 files in addition to mp3
files.
IMPROVEMENT: Use the Artist tag for the Artist and fall back to the
Album Artist tag only when the former does not exist. For Album
Artist, use the Album Artist tag, but only if the Artist tag does
exist. Thanks to Dudy Kohen.
BUGFIX: The Photo "playlist" is now a separate object in the
Playlist view.
BUGFIX: Numerous memory leaks fixed, thanks to Andrea, Tomas
Carnecky, and others.
Many other bug fixes and cleanups, see the ChangeLog for more detail.
Other changes:
gtkpod V0.99.12
NEW FEATURE: Import and management of photographs on ipods that support
them. Update of README to include photo management.
UPDATE: Application requires libgpod version 0.6.0 or higher.
UPDATE: Better icon theme specification compliance.
BUGFIX: Fixes to tomboy script. Thanks to Javier Kohen.
BUGFIX: Issues with display of track length. Inconsistent units used in
conjunction with libgpod (Jorg).
UPDATE: Cover art preview window either displays an album cover to its
full size or to a size consistent with the user's desktop.
UPDATE: Download of Album Art from the net feature modified to the ability
of dragging-and-dropping a .jpg image from a web browser. This has been
changed due to licensing concerns over album art. Drag and Drop section of
README updated accordingly (Paul).
BUGFIX: Issues on detecting changed local / podcast database. Thanks to
Mario Rossi.
BUGFIX: Issues addressed on Details Window.
BUGFIX: Crash avoided when auto-detecting an iTunes database that cannot
be read.
UPDATE: Display of error output of scripts (Jorg).
IMPROVEMENT: Configuring and Compilation support (Todd).
UPDATE: New scripts for flac, ogg, mp3, m4a, wav conversion to mp3 and
m4a. Thanks to Peter van de Does.
BUGFIX: Model number identified and written to ipod upon loading to ensure
libgpod can read the ipod's artwork.
UPDATE: Updates and bug fixes to gapless playback. Thanks to Michael
Tiffany.
BUGFIX: When Cover Art Display is widened, covers space out rather than
stretch.
BUGFIX: Fixed memory leaks in CoverArt Display and Details window. Thanks
to Daniele Forsi.
UPDATE: French translation. Thanks to Ã#ric Lassauge.
UPDATE: Italian translation. Thanks to Daniele Forsi.
UPDATE: Hebrew translation. Thanks to Assaf Gillat.
UPDATE: Swedish translation. Thanks to Stefan Asserhäll.
NEW FEATURE: Added Romanian translation support. Thanks to Alex Eftimie.
NEW FEATURE: Added Russian translation support. Thanks to Matvey Kozhev.
gtkpod V0.99.10
NEW FEATURE: on-the-fly conversion of WAV, FLAC and OGG (as well as MP3
and M4A). Thanks to Marc d[readlock], Simon Naunton and Peter Edwards!
Multi-threaded background conversion was added by Jorg Schuler.
NEW FEATURE: editing of TV show metadata and track media type. Thanks to
Mario Rossi.
NEW FEATURE: Display of Album Art. Thanks to P.G. Richardson.
NEW FEATURE: Download of Album Art from the net. Thanks to P.G.
Richardson.
NEW FEATURE: copy playlists and tracks from within the context menu
without DND can simplify life with many playlists. Thanks to Andrzej
Palejko for his patch.
NEW FEATURE: preliminary support for calculating gapless playback
information (lame encoded mp3 files only). Thanks to Michael Tiffany.
UPDATE: Smart playlists now support the following new fields: album
artist, tv show, last skipped, season number, skipcount and video kind.
IMPROVEMENT: Clicking on an item with the right mouse button will select
and open the context menu, which is the intended behavior. As a
consequence, the interface will remain blocked while the selection is
being updated and displayed.
BUGFIX: dragging tracks between two iPods would sometimes not actually
copy the file.
UPDATED: Italian translation (thanks to Daniele Forsi)
PACKAGING: Install a .desktop file and icons according to the
freedesktop.org specification.
