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On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce another release of the 0.11 development series. This release includes automatic GStreamer plugin installation, better podcast feed support (including OPML and Atom) and the usual collection of minor features and bug fixes. Rhythmbox 0.11.4 now requires totem-plparser 2.21.4.

Summary of changes

• Support automatic GStreamer plugin installation
• Improved cross-fading backend
• Improved Podcast feed support, including Atom and APML
• Add optional mozilla plugin to handle itms:// links
• Fade volume when pausing and unpausing
• Improve performance and stability of MTP device support
• Stop putting deleted tracks on iPods in the Garbage Bin
• Support PSPs with newer firmware
• Improvements to the Coherence-based UPnP support
• Minor improvements to Python bindings for plugins

Updated translations

• be@latin - Ihar Hrachyshka
• de - Andre Klapper
• es - Jorge Gonzalez
• fr - Robert-André Mauchin
• ga - Seán de Búrca
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• it - Luca Ferretti
• ja - Takeshi AIHANA
• ka - Namhyung Kim
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nb - Espen Stefansen
• pt - Filipe Gomes
• sv - Daniel Nylander

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the fourth release of the 0.11 development series. This release includes support for FM radio tuners, improved playlist handling for generic audio player devices, and the usual assortment of bug fixes and improvements.

Summary of changes

• Allow drag-and-drop of images to the cover art display
• Allow DAAP shares to be connected to manually
• Support DAAP smart playlists and radio streams
• Handle file names being passed on the command line again
• Add "donate to artist" action to Jamendo plugin
• Support some more lyric sites
• Improvements and fixes to the cross-fading player
• Improve UPnP support
• Improve track importing, especially on generic audio players
• Allow python plugins to use threads
• Enable music store plugins by default
• Support playback from fm radio tuner cards

Updated translations

• ar - Djihed Afifi
• be@latin - Ihar Hrachyshka
• ca - Francesc Vilches
• cs - Martin Picek
• en_CA - Adam Weinberger
• es - Jorge Gonzalez
• eu - Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela
• fr - Stéphane Raimbault
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Iván Méndez López
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• it - Luca Ferretti
• ja - Takeshi Aihana
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka, Gintautas Miliauskas
• lv - Raivis Dejus
• mk - Jovan Naumovski
• nb - Kjartan Maraas, Espen Stefansen
• nl - Tino Meinen
• pl - Artur Flinta
• pt_BR - Og Maciel, Pedro de Medeiros
• ro - Alex Eftimie
• sk - Peter Tuharsky
• sv - Daniel Nylander

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the third release of the new 0.11 development series. This release includes partial support for UPnP A/V using Coherence, the ability to send tracks played on your ipod to last.fm and a heap of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Summary of changes

• add partial support for UPnP A/V using Coherence
• large memory usage reductions for the Jamendo plugin
• read some keys from .is_audio_player files, like Banshee
• handle playlist-paths given to us by HAL better
• allow plugins to add new play orders
• notify last.fm about songs played on iPods

Updated translations

• dz - Pema Geyleg
• eu - Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela
• fr - Claude Paroz
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• it - Luca Ferretti, Giuseppe M
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• lv - Raivis Dejus
• pl - Artur Flinta
• pt_BR - Vladimir Melo, Evandro F. Giovani, Og Maciel
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• vi - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the second release of the new 0.11 development series. This release includes support for MTP portable audio players, more lyric sites, and the usual variety of bug fixes and improvements.

Summary of changes

• more new icons
• make gapless/xfade playback and visualisations work together better
• handle lastfm:// URIs
• make Magnatune/Jamendo loading intro saner on small screens
• fix last.fm streaming
• allow the user of Magnatune gift cards
• do iPod DB saving in the background, not blocking the UI
• vastly reduce the Jamendo plugin's memory usage
• add support for MTP audio players
• clean up the playback preferences UI
• update play count, rating and last played on iPods
• add support for multiple lyrics sites, and allow editing of lyrics

Plus the usual other bug fixes and minor improvements.

Updated translations

• es - Maria Majadas
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• nl - Reinout van Schouwen
• pl - Artur Flinta
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• vi - Phạm Thành Long
• zh_CN - Funda Wang

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the first release of the new 0.11.0 development series. Rhythmbox 0.11.0 "Rough in the diamond" has several new features, both user-visible and in the back end.

Rhythmbox now has a gapless-playback / crossfading playback backend, although it is not currently enabled by default, due to some known issues (particularly with visualisation). Thanks to Andreas Nilsson and Hylke Bons we have some shiny new Tango-style icons, which make Rhythmbox look better.

We have also fixed a number of issues which were causing the application to wake up the CPU while idle, allow plugins to add GStreamer filters/tee'd elements and write modified playlists back to iPods.

Summary of changes:

• Add gapless/cross-fading playback backend (130426)
• Add awesome Tango-style icons (388648, 380896, 388650, 314608)
• Don't wake up the CPU all the time while doing nothing (399012)
• Allow plugins to add filer and tee elements/sub-piplines to the gstreamer pipeline (345181)
• Group sources together (359740)
• Add DB support for keywords (324540)
• Save modified iPod playlists (436744), and marks podcasts as such (424086)
• Fix Unicode normalisation, which also makes searching ignore diacritical marks (421253, 338824)
• Use xdg-user-dirs, and kill the druid (yay!) (411247)
• Write art out to the DB on iPods (357400)
• Parse last.fm group radio URLs too (407320)
• Add support for MusicBrainz id tags (410681)
• Minor improvements to the cover-art plugin
• Retrieve cover art from last.fm (414065) and Magnatune (411622)
• Add some more useful options to rhythmbox-client (414648)
• Add preliminary support for Vala plugins
• Use GSequence instead of EggSequence (419599)
• plus a heap of bug fixes and minor improvements

Dependency changes

For this development series, we have dropped support for old versions of a few libraries. If you need to build Rhythmbox against any of these, you will need to use the 0.10 stable series, or update the libraries. The library versions no longer supported are:

• GStreamer 0.8 (0.10 required)
• GTK+ 2.6 (2.8 required)
• DBus 0.3x before 0.35
• HAL 0.2 (0.5 required)

Updated Translations

• ar - Djihed Afifi, Ahmad Farghal
• ca - Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó
• de - Hendrik Brandt, Sven Herzberg
• fi - Tommi Vainikainen
• fr - Stéphane Raimbault
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nl - Reinout van Schouwen
• pt - Filipe Gomes
• pt_BR - Washington Lins
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• zh_CN - Funda Wang

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the second release in the 0.10 stable series. Rhythmbox 0.10.1 "Diamond in the rough" has no additional features over 0.10.0, only bug fixes and updated translations, so we suggest that everyone using 0.10.0 (or 0.9.8) upgrade to 0.10.1.

Bug Fixes:

• fix saving of db on iPod shuffles (386662)
• fix some crashes on Solaris (418886)
• fix crasher due to python logging (429687)
• fix crash when MusicBrainz returns nothing (414864)
• prefer id3v2 over v1, even when they arrive later (428276)
• fix crash when doing entry.get() from python (432949)
• cancel async gnomevfs transfers correctly (434003)
• fix query model reorder issues (436329)
• remove timeout correctly (436355)
• don't remove items from list being iterated (404169)
• build against totem-plparser 2.19's new API

Updated Translations

• ar - Ahmad Farghal, Ehab
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• ja - Takeshi AIHANA
• pt - Filipe Gomes
• pt_BR - Washington Lins
• zh_CN - Funda Wang

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the first[0] release in our new stable series is out. Rhythmbox 0.10.0 "The City Above" has no additional features over 0.9.8, only bug fixes and updated translations, so we suggest that everyone using 0.9.8 upgrade to 0.10.0.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix assorted crashers (410601, 411783, 411558, 411189, 413206, 393642, 416024)
• fix build issues (411141, 380411, 411145, 413301, 419874)
• Fix typos (411584, 413640)
• stop some critical warnings (411703)
• Improve Jamendo error handling (411038)
• Make compatible with libsoup other than 2.2.99 (410940)
• Italisise Magnatune text correctly (412931)
• Fix some memory leaks
• Use AudioScobbler logo properly (409164)
• Don't cause gnome-power-manager to start (416213)
• Fix some threading issues (420444)
• Don't add files starting with a period (395124)
• Improve Magnatune error handling (414980)
• Fix sizing of playlist format combo box (419153)
• Copy MP3s to audio players without lame installed

Updated Translations

• ar - Ahmad Farghal
• da - Peter Bach
• dz - Pema Geyleg
• en_GB - David Lodge
• fr - Claude Peroz and Stéphane Raimbault
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• pt_BR - Lucas Mazzardo Veloso, Og Maciel and Raul Pereira
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• zh_CN - Funda Wang

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the newest release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features.

Notable new features include:

• Visualisations.
• Ability to transfer tracks to "generic" MP3 players.
• A browser for the Jamendo online catalogue of free music.
• Improved album-art support, including art in song-change notifications and tray-icon tooltips

Updated Translations

• ca - Jordi Mallach
• da - Peter Bach
• de - Hendrik Brandt
• en_CA - Adam Weinberger
• en_GB - David Lodge
• fr - Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• hi - Gaurav Mishra (NEW)
• it - Luca Ferretti
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nl - Tino Meinen
• pl - Artur Flinta and the Gnome Polish Team
• pt_BR - Guilherme de S. Pastore
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• vi - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the newest release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features.

Notable new features include:

• Support for the MagnaTune online music store
• Streaming online radio from last.fm

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.6

• fix DAAP seeking (Jonathan Matthew: #330410)

Updated Translations

• ar - Djihed Afifi
• ca - Jordi Mallach, Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó
• dz - Pema Geyleg (New)
• el - Nikos Charonitakis
• en_CA - Adam Weinberger
• es - Francisco Javier F. Serrador
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• it - Luca Ferretti
• ja - Takeshi AIHANA
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nb - Kjartan Maraas
• nl - Vincent van Adrighem
• sv - Fredrik Tuomas
• vi - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the newest release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features.

Notable new features include:

• Further improvements to plugin infrastructure and more plugins
• Tag writing and ipod-write support turned on by default. Note that gst-plugins-good 0.10.4 is recommended for ID3 tag editing, and Ogg Vorbis tag editing requires a plugin from the cvs version of gst-plugins-base
• Local file support for album art plugin
• Gnome-keyring support for storing DAAP password
• and many, many more improvements, bug fixes and new minor features. See below for more details.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.6

• fix DAAP seeking (Jonathan Matthew: #330410)
• display track numbers in playlists too (Alex Lancaster: #329986)
• retrieve playlsit and audio folder information from HAL (Jonathan Matthew: #333845)
• make search box coloured when active (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy: #344416)
• improve ID3 tag writing (Jonathan Matthew, James Livingston)
• load local cover art, and large improvements to plugin (Ed Catmur, Peter: #345688)
• build fixes: Solaris (Brian Cameron: #345673)
• Store MusicBrainz track IDs in the DB (Ståle Lyngaas: 343491)
• fix some i18n issues (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy: #345286)
• add gnome-keyring support to DAAP (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew: #330346)
• allow hiding of plugins and disabler per-user plugins (James Livingston: #349395)
• plugin improvements (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)
• HTTP proxy-related fixes/improvements (Jonathan Matthew: #345712, #345895)
• drag-and-drop improvements (James Livingston: #337657)
• importing fixes (Ed Catmur, Jonathan Matthew)
• add "property changed" signal for dbus clients (Jonathan Matthew: #332461)
• turn CD burning into a plugin (William Jon McCann: #344300)
• turn audio CD support into a plugin (James Livingston: #349415)
• LIRC plugin fixes (Jonathan Matthew)
• improve database thread usage
• make DB handle unknown entry-types (Jonathan Matthew: #330226
• improve plugin debug output, and bindings (James Livingston)
• improve "import errors" and "missing files" source (William Jon McCann: #346800)
• fix many memory leaks (William Jon McCann: #347446, #347446, #347446, #347446)
• use GMapperFiles for DAAP transfers, fixing some iTunes clients (Jonathan Matthew: #330410)
• add support for alternate playlists files (Alex Lancaster: #343659)
• handle transparent panels correctly (DanWinship: #348208)
• fix playlists subset searching (Jonathan Matthew: #348617)
• make iradio playlists handling better (Jonathan Matthew: #347097)
• use GOption instead og popt (William Jon McCann: #346930)
• remember visibility for remote files, as well as local ones (James Livingston)
• be smarter about creating podcast file names (Jonathan Matthew: #330766, #321991)
• allow multiple selections in the Import Folder dialog (Christian Becke: #351414)
• Plus the usual assortment of bug fixes, performance and memory improvements, and minor features.

Updated Translations

• bg - Rostislav Raykov
• ca - Jordi Mallach
• de - Daniel Schindler, Hendrik Brandt
• el - Kostas Papadimas, Dimitris Glezos
• en_GB - David Lodge
• es - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, María Majadas
• eu - Inaki Larranaga
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela, Tommi Vainikainen
• fr - Haïkel Guémar, Damien Durand
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• it - Guilherme de S. Pastore
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• lv - Raivis Dejus
• mk - Jovan Naumovski
• ne - Pawan Chitrakar
• nl - Tino Meinen
• sv - Fredrik Tuomas
• th - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
• vi - Clytie Siddall
• zh_CN Funda Wang
• zn_HK Abel Cheung
• zn_TW Abel Cheung

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the sixth release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features.

Notable new features include:

• Improved plugin support, and several features converted to plugins
• An album art viewing and download plugin
• A song lyric viewing and download plugin
• Ogg Vorbis tag editing (requires a GStreamer plugin not yet in cvs, see bug 335635)
• Partial iPod write support (off by default, pass --enable-ipod-writing to enable.)
• Improved audio player and DAAP support
• CD ripping and track transfer enabled by default
• updated documentation
• and many, many more improvements, bug fixes and new minor features.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.5

• fix icon themability (Steve Frécinaux)
• handle iPods that have been repartitioned (Christophe Fergeau: 325034)
• allow ipod renaming, ejection, deletion and transfer (Christophe Fergeau)
• make iradio handling work much better (Jonathan Matthew: 320336, 324402)
• improve out-of-process metadata loader (Jonathan Matthew: 338062)
• update documentation (Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
• pluginise iPod and Generic players (Christophe Fergeau, Jonathan Matthew)
• support saving playlists as M3U (Gavin Stewart: 316295)
• remember browser visibility when changing sources (Alex Lancaster: 118862)
• handle media unmounts better (Jonathan Matthew: 339023)
• make entry types be a structure, and add support for extended data, and various method implementations (Christophe Fergeau, James Livingston)
• album art view and download plugin (Alex Lancaster, James Livingston, Gareth Murphy, William Jon McCann, Martin Szulecki)
• update the FSF's address (Gunnar Steinn Magnusson)
• much improved Python bindings (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)
• fix some translation issues (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, James Livingston: 339380, 343081)
• improve startup time (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)
• fix audioscrobbler submission, and allow viewing of info (Jonathan Matthew: 325848)
• improve DBus interface (Jonathan Matthew, Tim Moloney)
• allow transcoding during track transfer (Alessandro Decina: 322268)
• cd burning fixes and improvements (William Jon McCann)
• podcast feed parsing and download fixes (James Livingston: 339728)
• turn the playback backend into a full GObject interface (James Livingston: 338667)
• add more API documentation (Jonathan Mattjew)
• add vorbis tag editing (James Livingston: 339878)
• fix various threading insanities (Jonathan Matthew)
• display "child libraries" with multiple library locations (James Livingston: 100552)
• improve drag-and-drop from browsers (Jonathan Matthew: 327540)
• support Motorola ROKR phones (Joe Barnett)
• make query model limits saner (Janes Livingston)
• source cleanup and API improvement (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)
• improve status feedback for DAAP (Jonathan Matthew: 322020 and 338978)
• memory improvement and leak fixed (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)
• kill Bonobo support, require DBus, support DBus 0.3.0 (Jonathan Matthew: 339720)
• add lyric download and view plugin (Jonathan Matthew: 319320)
• add "add to playlist" menu (James Livingston: 323364)
• allow changing of audio cd metadata (James Livingston)
• improve DAAP handling (William Jon McCann: 342643)
• update and write new unit tests (James Livingston)
• group sources (Jonathan Matthew)
• add new "rhythmbox-client" program (Jonathan Matthew: 340863, 155763)
• assorted build fixes (Brian Cameron, Paul Drain, Elijah Newren, Hendrik Richter, Ryan P Skadberg, Götz Waschk, Pawel Worach, FreeBSD GNOME project, others)
• HIG and UI improvements (Dennis Cranston, Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
• many other bug fixed (Christophe Fergeau, Jaap A. Haitsma, James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew, Mikael Olenfalk, Roozbeh Pournader)

Updated Translations

• ca - Jordi Mallach
• de - Hendrik Richter
• cs - Miloslav Trmac
• es - Francisco Javier F. Serrador
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nb - Øivind Hoel, Kjartan Maraas
• nl - Vincent van Adrighem, Wouter Bolsterlee
• sv - Fredrik Tuomas
• vi - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Clytie Siddall
• zh_CN - Funda Wang

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the fifth release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features. Notable new features include support for plugins (written in C or Python), making GStreamer crashing during importing not take Rhythmbox down, several UI improvements, a few significant performance improvements.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.4

• add support for source-specific toolbar items (James Livingston: 329041)
• make the status column blank for undownloaded podcasts (Jonathan Matthew)
• make iradio station connect asynchronous (James Livingston: 128106)
• break mDNS class into backend-specific classes (William Jon McCann)
• add support for password-protected DAAP shares (William Jon McCann: 322966)
• have per-client DAAP session (William Jon McCann: 329814)
• make DAAP source icon show authentication status (William Jon McCann: 330291)
• turn of paranoia when playing audio cds (James Livingston: 322270)
• use network byte-order for DAAP, fixes some issues with Banshee (Jonathan Matthew)
• fold RBSimpleView back into RBPropertyView (James Livingston: 327500)
• store hidden state of entries in on-disk db (James Livingston: 325215)
• add dbus methods for static playlist control (Jonathan Matthew: 329958)
• force URI canonicalisation when first upgrading (James Livingston: 329988)
• add browsers to playlists (James Livingston: 118862)
• don't put drag-n-drop URIs in reverse order (Jonathan Matthew: 330283)
• notification bubble fixed (Jonathan Matthew: 330876)
• RhythmDB API cleanup (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew: 330226)
• add auto-completion to tag-editing (Sven Herzberg: )
• add action to clear entire queue (Jonathan Matthew: 330014, 331392)
• don't display entry notify bubble when containing "&" (Jonathan Matthew: 330784)
• don't block UI when reading audio cd TOC (James Livingston: 329942)
• stop polling cd drive when playing from it (James Livingston: 330716)
• add Party Mode (William Jon McCann: 323933)
• don't stop when playing track is deleted (James Livingston: 131150, 331712)
• add quality column (James Livingston: 167659)
• add "queue playlist" action (James Livingston: 330490, 330490)
• update documentation to not be completely out-of-date (Baptiste Mille-Mathias: 314001)
• add support for out-of-process metadata service (Jonathan Matthew: 329597)
• port to using gnome-doc-utils (Luca Ferretti)
• indicate pre-empted source when playing from queue (Jonathan Matthew: 330819)
• add "starts with" and "ends with" string criteria (James Livingston)
• don't choke on podcast feeds which use timezone names (Alex Lancaster: 331691)
• make auto playlist editor non-modal (James Livingston: 320030)
• add "missing files" and "import errors" sources (Jonathan Matthew: 167763, 142322)
• use entry and button for Library Location preference (James Livingston: 328414)
• remember window visibility between sessions (James Livingston: 127320)
• don't import known non-audio files (James Livingston: 323179)
• read more metadata from iPod dbs (Gunnar Steinn Magnusson: 324648)
• support sources with no entry view (James Livingston: 331673, 331673)
• add read-only PSP support (James Livingston, Bastien Nocera: 332337)
• add read-only Nokia 770 support (James Livingston)
• restore browser selections after browser change (James Livingston)
• add "download location" to podcast info window (Jonathan Matthew: 330696)
• fix issues with new totem-plparser recursion (James Livingston: 331508)
• use drive rather than volume name for removable media (James Henstridge: 333080)
• add gst 0.10 id3 tag editing (James Livingston: 309609)
• add filtering support to debug output (Jonathan Matthew)
• add plugin support (James Livingston: 330523)
• add search bar (William Jon McCann: 328618, 334407)
• filter browsers with search terms (Jonathan Matthew: 322787)
• remove non-libnotify notifications (James Livingston: 331721)
• update documentation (Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
• add Increase and Decrease volume menu items (James Livingston: 123383)
• add Python Console plugin (Steve Frécinaux)
• add HTTP proxy support (Jonathan Matthew: 335091)
• do all gnomevfs stats in one batch (Jonathan Matthew: 334106)
• build properly on Solaris (Brian Cameron: 335318)
• borrow Banshee's Eject icon, because g-i-t doesn't have one
• have better "no GStreamer plugin found" messages (James Livingston: 128109)
• add LIRC plugin (Jonathan Matthew)
• use libsexy to add a clear button to the search box (James Livingston: 128109)
• allow overriding of the toolbar button style (James Livingston: 336797)
• add profiling hooks (William Jon McCann: 337387, 338114)
• and a whole heap of other bugs fixes and minor improvements (too many to list...)

Updated Translations

• cs - Miloslav Trmac
• el - Nikos Charonitakis, vyruss
• es - Francisco Javier F. Serrador
• eu - Inaki Larranaga
• fi - Ilkka Tuohela
• gl - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
• hu - Gabor Kelemen
• it - Luca Ferretti
• ja - Takeshi AIHANA
• lt - Žygimantas Beručka
• nb - Øivind Hoel, Kjartan Maraas
• nl - Tino Meinen, Reinout en Tino
• no - Kjartan Maraas
• pt_BR - Raphael Higino
• ru - Nickolay V. Shmyrev
• sv - Daniel Nylander
• th - Isriya Paireepairit
• vi - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Clytie Siddall
• zh_HK - Abel Cheung
• zh_TW - Abel Cheung, Lin-Chieh Shangkuan

This is a brown-paper-bag release, to fix a bug which would prevent the "first run" druid from working correctly.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1

• fix the first-run druid and generic player support [James Livingston: 329723]
• allow watches library to be in non-local places [James Livingston]
• give better error messages for missing gstreamer [James Livingston]
• emit normal warnings instead of critical ones [Jonathan Matthew: 329398]
• fix crasher if gstreamer gives us NULL strings [Jan Schmidt]
• use network byte order for DAAP content codes [Jonathan Matthew]

Updated Translations

• ca (Jordi Mallach)

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the fourth release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series,which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features. Notable new features include a play queue, GStreamer 0.10 support, full remote gnome-vfs support, much improved DAAP support, library "watching" and support for mass-storage audio players.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.3

• disable column auto-sizing, improves speed [Jonathan Matthew: 312122]
• resort in a faster way [James Livingston: 315389]
• don't try to burn long playlists [William Jon McCann: 321753]
• other cd-burning fixes and HIG improvements [William Jon McCann: 321754]
• fix "Post" and "Episode" wording [James Livingston: 321653]
• display tag-writing errors to the user [James Livingston]
• make the podcast dialog look like the song one [William Jon McCann]
• use glib class private data everywhere [William Jon McCann: 313688]
• add "Move to trash" command [Bastien Nocera: 315389]
• support DBus 0.6 [William Jon McCann]
• add support for "Watched Libraries] [James Livigston: 160159]
• add support for remote gnome-vfs [James Livingston: 140355]
• select source when hovering with drag [Thomas de Grenier de Latour: 323044]
• fix parsing of some RSS feeds [Ryan P Skadberg: 323153]
• use toolbar [William Jon McCann, James Livingston: 316238]
• always hide rather than remove db entries until old [James Livingston]
• ellipsise source names, instead of adding scroll bar [James Livingston]
• allow year to be changed on multiple songs [Alex Lancaster]
• refactor playlist classes [Jonathan Matthew]
• add gstreamer 0.10 support [Jan Schmidt, James Livingston]
• fix drag-and-drop of URLs [Jonathan Matthew:323610]
• save metadata when forward/next are pressed [James Livingston: 320952]
• fix complaints about deprecated libnautilusburn API in 2.13 [James Livingston]
• make entry-views just a display, and fix play orders [Jonathan Matthew:323612]
• remove distro-packaging stuff [James Livingston]
• fix 5 sec pause when finding non-audio files with gst 0.10 [James Livingston]
• fix playlist saving and shutdown [William Jon McCann: 322940]
• submit songs longer than 30 mins to AudioScrobbler [Ståle Lyngaas: 323639]
• make iradio dialog look like song one [William Jon McCann: 323306]
• make genre tag-writing not use artist [Alex Lancaster: 323642]
• more entry-view cleanup and refactoring [Jonathan Matthew: 323640]
• fix problem with dropping artist/album into an entry view [James Livingston]
• add play queue [Jonathan Matthew: 107787]
• about dialog fixes and update AUTHORS and MAINTAINERS [William Jon McCann]
• remove use of GMemChunks [James Livingston]
• remove unused podcast feed column [William Jon McCann: 322961]
• add support for the search box to playlists. [James Livingston]
• add support for more date formats in podcast feeds [William Jon McCann]
• use "friendly time" for properties display [William Jon McCann]
• add fulscreen mode [William Jon McCann: 324075]
• allow iradio stations to be stream URLs [Jonathan Matthew]
• fix parsing of itunes:image element in podcasts [William Jon McCann]
• allow podcasts with no pubication date [Jonathan Matthew]
• add disc number to multiple-track properties window [Jonathan Matthew: 324777]
• read playcount and year from ipod db [Gunnar Steinn Magnusson]
• add 'last episode' field to the podcast feed dialog [Jonathan Matthew]
• assorted DAAP fixes [James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew, William Jon McCann]
• add libnotify support [Jonathan Matthew]
• use G_DEFINE_TYPE [James Livingston, Lubomir Marinovm, William Jon McCann]
• many play-order fixes [Jonathan Matthew]
• add default playlists [William Jon McCann: 323004]
• add support for Year criteria in auto playlists [Alex Lancaster: 321341]
• give names to playlists created via drag-n-drop [William Jon McCann: 326116]
• allow dbus to chaneg volume [Jonathan Matthew]
• stop playback after a podcast finished [James Livingston: 322077]
• fill in multi-track property window fields [James Livingston: 326054]
• don't lose hidden entries from playlists [James Livingston: 319278]
• add support for generic mass-storage audio players [James Livingston: 325602]
• don't get stuck on recursive symlinks [James Livingston: 125452]
• don't crash on hybrid audio+data cds [Jonathan Matthew]
• make startup faster [James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew: 323348 and others]
• display number of tracks in browsers [William Jon McCann: 327372]
• add support for Year metadata from DAAP shares [Alex Lancaster: 327700]
• support chunked-encoding for DAAP [Jonathan Matthew: 326738, 318852]
• change default rating back to 0 [James Livingston]
• sort URIs when artist/album is dragged [Jonathan Matthew: 327494]
• remove items from browsers when tracks are hidden [James Livingston: 327061]
• don't spin when all tracks are unplayable [Jnonathan Matthew: 329329]
• minor UI and HIG fixes [Dennis Cranston, Jaap A. Haitsma, James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew, William Jon McCann, Bastien Nocera]
• assorted other bug fixes and minor improvements

Updated Translations

• de (Hendrik Brandt)
• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
• fr (Christophe Bliard)
• gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
• hu (Gabor Kelemen)
• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)
• nb (Kjartan Maraas)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem, Tino Meinen)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini, Raphael Higino)
• vi (pclouds, Clytie Siddall)
• zh_CH (Funda Wang)
• zh_TW (Abel Cheung)

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm proud to announce the third release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 development series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features. Notable new features include Podcast support, audio CD playback and native AudioScrobbler song submission.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.2

• Add podcast support (Renato Araujo:309372)
• Podcast fixes and improvements (Renato Araujo, Dennis Cransto, James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew, William Jon McCann)
• Add support for audioscrobbler/last.fm submission (Ruben Vermeersch:106669)
• Add audio CD support (James Livingston:110928)
• Use libgpod, add support for ipod playlists (Christophe Fergeau)
• Make more strings translatable (Funda Wang)
• Stop when reaching end of playlist in linear mode (Caio Marcelo)
• Fix lots of window-state weirdness (James Livingston:122806)
• Remember window position (Caio Marcelo:315289)
• Fix memory leaks (Christopher Aillon)
• Make hidden/shown window policy better (Caio Marcelo:308053)
• DBus interface improvements (Paul Kuliniewicz)
• Use natural sorting order (James Livingston:158599)
• Fix "show window" in tray icon menu to toggle correctly (Caio Marcelo:318053)
• Don't share hidden tracks with DAAP (James Livingston)
• Make connecting to DAAP shares asynchronous (Jonathan Matthew:316225)
• Make DAAP work on 64 bit systems (Jonathan Matthew:319304)
• Make tag-writing safer (Artem Baguinski, James Livingston)
• Fix memory leaks (Christopher Aillon)
• Make default stations actually show up (James Livingston)
• Make dragging playlists copy not move files (James Livingston:319817)
• Fix re-ordering problems (Jonathan Matthew:319718)
• Save the database regularly (James Livingston:155306)
• Show disc number in info window (Jonathan Matthew:311199)
• UI and HIG fixes (Dennis Cranston:313158, 320184, 320579)
• Allow search box to match multiple properties (139196)
• Report iradio errors better (James Livingston)
• Make date formats correct in all locales (James Livingston)
• Fix drag-and-drop of URLs (Jonathan Matthew)
• Mork better with autofs mounts (Shun-ichi Tahara:320571)
• Don't wedge gnome-vfs-daemon (Shun-ichi Tahara:320570)
• Use chunked loading/sending of daap files (Jonathan Matthew)
• Allow Anjuta to import the source tree (Artem Baguinski)
• Add support for year/date metadata (Christophe Fergeau:166093)
• Display errors in the radio properties (Jonathan Matthew:320749)
• Add file-overwrite dialogs for GTK 2.8 (Jaap A. Haitsma)
• Add "Edit Playlist" item to main menu (James Livingston:311470)
• Make new radio station use the properties dialog (Jonathan Matthew)
• Display the count in the "All" line of browsers (James Livingston)
• Fix query-model refcount and polling problems (Jonathan Matthew:321410)
• Fix emission of entry-changed signals on startip (Jonathan Matthew)
• Support gzip encoded DAAP (Jonathan Matthew:321157)
• Allow pause by middle-clicking on the tray icon (James Livingston)
• Start some RhythmDB API docs (James Livingston)
• Don't display error if Avahi daemon isn't running (James Livingston)
• Emit single "icon missing" warning (Jonathan Matthew:321698)
• Store the bitrate for radio streams (Jonathan Matthew:321702)
• Bring back per-source search box text (James Livingston:321593)
• GObject-ify rb-daap-connection.c (James Livingston:321930 and 322007)
• Make disabling and re-enabling daap work (James Livingston:321748)
• Give playlists and entry-type (Jonathan Matthew)
• Use g_list_prepend to make things not O(n^2) (James Livingston:321696)
• Don't hang with broken DAAP servers (Jonathan Matthew:321919)
• Update quick-reference to have right keys (Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
• Fix libsoup tests for DAAP (Tom Parker)
• Don't have date-added column for cds and ipods (James Livingston:322269)
• Support Avahi 0.6 (Daniel S. Haischt)
• Disable saving, renaming, and deletion of DAAP playlists (Jonathan Matthew)
• Assorted other bug fixes
• Disable the close button's minimise-to-tray action

Updated Translations

• bg (Rostislav Raykov)
• cs (Miloslav Trmac)
• de (Hendrik Brandt)
• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
• fr (Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
• gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
• hu (Gabor Kelemen)
• ja (Takeshi Aihama)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)
• mk (Arangel Angov)
• nb (Kjartan Maraas)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• sk (Marcel Telka)
• vi (pclouds)
• zh_CN (Funda Wang)

This is a belated announcement of Rhythmbox 0.9.1, which was released on the 16th of October 2005.

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.1

• Add DAAP (iTunes' music sharing) support [Charles Schmidt]
• Notification bubble from tray icon [Colin Walters]
• Minimise to tray rather than exiting when close is used [Colin Walters]
• Allow sources to form a tree, for child playlists [Charles Schmidt]
• Add removable media framework and port ipod code [James Livingston]
• Support HAL >= 0.5 as well as > 0.2 [Ronald Bultje]
• Much improved automatic playlists, including more criteria options and sorting [James Livingston:132566]
• Use a proper GTK status bar [William Jon McCann]
• Better drag-n-drop support: drag from browsers to source list, from browsers or track list to other apps and re-order playlists [Jonathan Matthew: 147337]
• Update DBus support to version 0.35, general DBUS improvements and drop command-line arguments for DBus [Colin Walters]
• Add "limit by time" option to playlists [James Livingston: 159227]
• Display hours if a song is longer than 60 minutes [Jonathan Matthew: 313311]
• Use new volume widget, same as in Totem [Ronald S. Bultje: 300867]
• Focus entry view when enter is pressed in search box [Paolo Borelli: 128110]
• Show source list when playlist os created [James Livingston: 161935]
• Disable rather then hide seek bar [James Livingston: 139102]
• Improved error handling in RBPlayer [Colin Walters]
• Remove dashboard support [Colin Walters]
• Many HIG and UI improvements [Dennis Cranston and Paolo Borelli]
• Use last.fm instead of allofmusic.com for links [Colin Walters]
• Remove autorating of tracks [Colin Walters]
• Fix header synchronisation [Raphael Slinckx]
• Fix some window state issues [James Livingston: 313893 and 137068]
• Add "Date Added" column [Ernst Persson]
• Better playlist loading [James Livingston, Bastien Nocera, Colin Walters]
• Make playing source bold, rather than using an icon [Colin Walters]
• Allow library-derived sources to override behaviour [James Livingston]
• Correctly update status bar and don't use useless info [James Livingston]
• Add support for building API docs with gnome-doc-utils [Raphael Slinckx]
• Update the default radio stations [Ali Akcaagac:129285]
• Remove a heap of old code, and use stock art instead of custom art
• Many rhythmdb improvements
• Fix more memory leaks
• Many bug fixes and minor improvements

Updated Translations

• ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó)
• cs (Miloslav Trmac)
• da (Morten Brix Pedersen, Ole Laursen)
• de (Hendrik Brandt)
• el (Kostas Papadimas)
• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
• fr (Stephane Raimbault)
• gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
• hu (Gabor Kelemen)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)
• ne (Pawan Chitrakar)
• nl (Tino Meinen)
• pt_BR (Raphael Higino, Afonso Celso Medina)
• vi (Clytie Siddall)
• zh_CN (Funda Wang)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.0

The changes are too numerous to list here, but the main focuses have been on stability and memory usage. So your Rhythmbox should be even more stable, and less resource hungry.

Rhythmbox has moved its development tree back to GNOME's CVS servers, which means it's easier to get a hold of it for people who want to live on the cutting-edge. It also means that development has picked up again (the last release was nearly 10 months ago), and that new features will be coming thick and fast!

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.8

• Flip playing icon in RTL locale [Colin Walters]
• Don't include x-directory/normal in MimeType [Colin Walters]
• Save playlists after first start even if nothing's loaded [Colin Walters]
• Don't include nautilus menu item by default [Colin Walters]

Updated Translations

• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.7

• Fix periodic crasher in shuffle code [Colin Walters]
• Make documentation valid DocBook [John Fleck]
• Compile fix for ipod source [Grzegorz Golawski]
• Save order of playlists [Colin Walters]
• Enable support for typeahead in property views [Colin Walters]

Updated Translations

• ko (Changwoo Ryu)
• tr (Baris Cicek)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.6

• Updated documentation [Jens Schittenhelm]
• Japanese help translation [SATOH Satoru]
• Fix .pc file to use correct path variables [bugzilla@c0decafe.net]
• Add MimeType to .desktop file [Colin Walters]
• More extensive Bonobo interface [eskil heyn olsen]
• Read disc number tags from ipod [Christophe Fergeau]

New Translations

• he (Shoshannah Forbes, Gil Osher)
• eu (Iñaki Larrañaga)
• nb (Kjartan Maraas)

Updated Translations

• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• ko (Changwoo Ryu)
• fi (Tommi Vainikainen)
• tr (Baris Cicek)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.5

• Metadata loading via Xine [Bastien Nocera]
• Don't crash on duplicate database entries [Colin Walters]
• Fix random crasher when using commandline args [Colin Walters]
• Fix small display, sourcelist, and browser keybindings to not conflict with HIG [Colin Walters]
• Actually include sk translation

New Translations

• is (Gunnar Steinn Magnússon)
• sk (Ivan Noris)

Updated translations

• az (Metin Amiroff)
• bg (Peter Slavov)
• el (Nikos Charonitakis)
• fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
• fr (Christophe Fergeau)
• it (Luca Ferretti)

Overview of changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.4

• Many memory leak during playback fixes [Colin Walters]
• Fix initial sorting [Colin Walters]
• Make size-limited automatic playlists work [Colin Walters]
• Make editing automatic playlists with size/count limits work [Colin Walters]
• Fix seeking on short tracks [Juergen Kreileder]
• Sync play/forward/back buttons after play order change [Colin Walters]
• Make supported media type tests dynamic, add audio/x-m4a if faad plugin is available [Colin Walters]
• Play even 0-rated songs sometimes in weighted random mode [Nils Philippsen]

New translations

• sk (Ivan Noris)

Updated translations

• et (Priit Laes)
• ca (Jordi Mallach)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• de (Christian Neumair)
• pt (Duarte Loreto)
• sv (Christian Rose)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.3

• Revert change to use authentication callbacks, it broke too much [Colin Walters]
• Don't crash on gnome-panel restart [Bastien Nocera]
• Plug a memory leak [Colin Walters]

Updated translations

• et (Priit Laes)
• nl (Tino Meinen)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.2

• Fixed Rhythmbox GUI when using an RTL locale [Christophe Fergeau]
• Require GStreamer 0.8.1 [Colin Walters]
• Fix issue with previous button in playlists [Colin Walters]
• Allow playback of untagged mp3s [Benjamin Otte]
• Don't crash on passing directory on cmdline [Colin Walters]
• Convert more filenames to UTF-8 [Colin Walters]
• Show errors during initial import too [Colin Walters]
• Set up GnomeVFS authentication callbacks [Colin Walters]
• Avoid ReplayGain setup delay [Juergen Kreileder]
• Add DOCTYPE to docs [Mariano Suárez-Alvarez]
• Prevent crash when the GConf schema wasn't properly installed [Colin Walters]
• Make auto rating work much better [Jacques Fortier]
• Squash a major memory leak with size-limited automatic playlists [Colin Walters]
• Don't spew (harmless) warnings in small-mode playback [Colin Walters]

Updated translations

• ru (Russian team)

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.1

• Really fix playlist saving [Colin Walters]
• Include completely untagged files too [Christophe Fergeau]
• Fix .applications file to handle any gnome-vfs location [Christophe Fergeau]
• Fix iPod compilation on big-endian machines [Christophe Fergeau]
• Find iradio-initial.pls correctly [Colin Walters]
• Fix a prototype [Ben Liblit]
• Make saving playlists dialog work with GTK+2.4 [Colin Walters]
• Squash a few small memleaks [Benjamin Otte]

Updated translations

• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• pl (Artur Flinta)
• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)

If I had to summarize the development since 0.6, I would say it's just like Rhythmbox, only better :) From stuff like Ogg support for internet radio, ReplayGain support, and automatic playlists based on rating, what we've done is just generally try to flesh everything out. We are also showcasing GStreamer's cool features like metadata reading.

However, we are set for some major changes in 0.9 (working to 1.0). File monitoring is already done, we have work going on for a SQLite backend, there's code to implement an Icecast source, and with software like HAL, the (still experimental) iPod support should start shaping up. And with luck we'll get metadata writing via GStreamer done :)

Here are the changes since 0.7.2:

• Fix playlist saving [Colin Walters]
• Memory leak fixes [Benjamin Otte]
• Ignore .Trash directories [Jonathan Blandford]
• Add audio/x-mod to known music types [Colin Walters]
• Several drag and drop fixes [Colin Walters]
• Fix usage of GtkFileSelection [Colin Walters]
• Revert back to using "Music Player" as Name [Colin Walters]
• Add code to guard against some GConf errors [Colin Walters]
• Display error on missing help files [Colin Walters]
• Some station properties dialog UI tweaks [Colin Walters]
• Remove quality column for now, it doesn't work [Colin Walters]
• Require GStreamer 0.8 [Colin Walters]
• Handle invalid UTF-8 when parsing playlists [Colin Walters]
• Fixes to bonobo interface [Colin Walters]
• Quote names with spaces for allmusic.com URIs [Colin Walters]
• Disable GTK+ sounds just for Rhythmbox [Miguel Coca]
• Better error message on missing plugin [Colin Walters]
• Fix GConf schema default for selected source [Colin Walters]
• A really major crasher bug fixed [Colin Walters]
• Allow player to release audio sink when GStreamer supports it [Benjamin Otte]
• Fix several crashers in multiple selection dialog [Colin Walters]

New translations:

• en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
• en_GB (David Lodge)
• pa (Punjab Linux Technology)

Updated translations:

• id (Mohammad DAMT)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)
• cs (Miloslav Trmac)
• ca (Jordi Mallach)
• pt_BR (Raphael Higino)
• es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• sv (Christian Rose)
• pl (Artur Flinta)
• da (Ole Laursen)
• pt (Duarte Loreto)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• sr (Danilo Šegan)
• hr (Andras Timar)

Here's a new version in the Rhythmbox development series. We're rapidly approaching 0.8.0. A lot of bugs have been fixed.

I'd like to take this space to explain what's going on with tag editing. The situation is that almost all the work that needs to be done for this inside Rhythmbox is already done. What needs to be done now is for the underlying media library like GStreamer or Xine to support it. GStreamer's actually getting pretty close, and you may even see it in the GStreamer 0.8.0 series.

• Many crasher bugfixes [Ben Liblit, Colin Walters]
• Initial work on saving database and playlists while running [David Dollar]
• Fix mime type detection [Colin Walters]
• Fix import of non-UTF8 filenames [Colin Walters]
• Actually respect Cancel in import dialog [Colin Walters]
• Several fixes for GTK+ 2.4 file dialogs [Colin Walters]
• Display buffering progress for Xine backend [David Dollar]
• iPod fixes [Christophe Fergeau]
• Remove deprecated casting usage [Christophe Fergeau]
• New --shuffle argument [James Willcox]
• Use automake 1.8 if available [Christian Schaller, Colin Walters]
• Fix for GTK+ 2.4 detection [Christophe Fergeau]
• Nicer iPod icon [Jakub Steiner]
• Actually distribute README.iPod [Colin Walters]
• Xine player fixes [David Dollar]
• Add MonkeysAudio to known music MIME types [Jérémy SIMON]
• Canonicalize filenames into URLS when loading playlists [Colin Walters]
• Fix race condition in database load [Colin Walters]
• Remove some unused functions [Bastien Nocera]

Updated translations:

• el (Kostas Papadimas)
• hu (Andras Timar)
• hr (Robert Sedak)
• tr (Enver Altin)
• ga (Alastair McKinstry)
• ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• da (Morten Brix Pedersen)
• lt (Žygimantas Beručka)