3 (C) 2002-2007 the Amarok authors.
10 * The custom color theme options have been removed.
11 * The player window (small XMMS like thingie) was removed.
12 * Dependencies lifted to KDE 4 and Qt 4.2. Refer to the README.
19 * Added support for custom song labels. Labels can be managed
20 through the GUI or using new DCOP functions. (BR 89314)
21 * New DCOP functions to make it easier for scripts to use Amarok's
22 Dynamic Collection feature.
23 * Download songs from Shared Music (DAAP) directly into the collection.
24 * Fadeout for Helix engine when pressing Stop.
25 * Guided editing of the collection/playlist/devices filters. Patch by
26 Giovanni Venturi <giovanni@kde-it.org>. (BR 139292)
27 * Added GUI options for fadeout and fadeout on exit. Both are now enabled
29 * Support for Speex (.spx), WavPack (.wv) and TrueAudio (.tta) files in
30 the collection thanks to taglib plugins by Lukáš Lalinský
32 * Search inside of lyrics, by using "/" on Context Browser. Patch by
33 Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>. (BR 139210)
34 * "Automatically show context browser" feature makes a return, as per
35 popular request. It is however disabled by default.
36 * Improved keyboard navigation: Space key is now a shortcut for Play/Pause,
37 and cursor left/right seeks forward/backward.
38 * Cover images are shown in collection browser. Patch by Trever Fischer
39 <wm161@wm161.net>. (BR 91044)
40 * Send cover art to MTP media devices if they support it.
41 * Elapsed time can be shown in OSD. Patch by Christian Engels
42 <s9chenge@stud.uni-sb.de>. (BR 120051)
43 * New redownload manager for the Magnatune.com store. Allows re-download
44 of any previous purchase free of charge (in any format).
45 * New items in the playlist are colorized, as a visual cue.
46 * Show rating as stars in flat collection view. Patch by Daniel Faust
47 <hessijames@gmail.com>. (BR 133797)
48 * Synchronize play count, last played time and date of modification to
49 iPods. Patch by Michael <michael003@gmail.com>. (BR 136759)
50 * Propose list of composers in collection when editing the composer tag
51 from the playlist. (BR 137775)
52 * Greatly improved sound quality for the xine equalizer. Patch by Tobias
53 Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 127307)
54 * Fancy graphical volume slider for the OSD. Patch by Alexander Bechikov
56 * Shoutcast stream directory. Contributed by Adam Pigg <adam@piggz.co.uk>.
57 * Support for %composer and %genre when guessing tags from filenames.
58 * Cached lyrics are now AFT-enabled, and will follow your files around as
59 you move and rename them.
62 * Added configure option to build without DAAP support.
63 * Album covers are now downloaded and added to album directory when
64 purchasing from the Magnatune.com store. (BR 136680)
65 * Update context browser when a change in the collection has been detected.
67 * Ignore leading 'The ' when sorting playlist by artist. (BR 139829)
68 * Smart Playlists now have 'does not start with' and 'does not end with'
69 options, as well as a dropdown for mount points. (BR 139552)
70 * Support for cue files not matching audio files' name. Patch by Dawid
71 Wróbel <dawid@klej.net>. (BR 128046)
72 * Script Manager now remembers if categories were open or closed.
73 * Restart collection scanner as long as not more than 5 % of the files
74 make it crash. (BR 106474)
75 * Ensure the first selected item in the Collection Browser stays visible
76 when the search field is cleared using the clear button.
77 * Duplicate filenames are now allowed on MTP media devices if the files are
79 * Save media device transfer queue when adding items or after transfers.
81 * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.12.
82 * MTP media devices are not automatically connected on start-up. This
83 should solve slow loading times for those with large collections on an
84 MTP media device. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
85 * Internationalize unknown artist/album/genre strings. Contributed by Mikko
87 * Don't assume that a device returning 0 tracks is invalid. It could just
88 have no tracks on. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
89 * Magnatune store look now matches rest of Amarok much better.
90 * Album art is displayed on the Magnatune purchase dialog.
91 * Generic media device now has an option to force VFAT-safe filenames even
92 on non-VFAT filesystems.
93 * Double-clicked items in sidebar and urls passed on the command line
94 are treated equally: append them to playlist if not yet there and start
95 playing the first if nothing is playing.
96 * "Scan Changes" button was replaced with "Update Collection" menu entry.
97 * Consistent double-click behavior in sidebar. (BR 138125)
98 * Propose name of currently loaded playlist when saving current one.
99 * Remove support for older libmtp versions. We now require 0.0.15 or
101 * Deleting a playlist item on an MTP media device now results in it being
102 removed from the playlist.
103 * Magnatune store is lazy loaded to improve startup times.
104 * Dynamic mode logic has been rethought to provide a faster and better
106 * When checking for duplicate files on a Rio Karma media device, use
107 track number in addition to artist, album & title. (BR 137152)
108 * The XMMS visualization interface has been removed. LibVisual supersedes
110 * It is now possible to select the time unit for length-based smart
111 playlists. (BR 136841)
112 * Show shadowed cover images in the system tray tooltip. (BR 136589)
113 * Amarok won't crossfade if it was paused, and user started another
114 track. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>.
116 * Amarok now saves playlists with relative paths by default.
119 * Disable seeking in streams. (BR 140364)
120 * With the default theme, the playlist browser info pane would not show
121 the horizontal scrollbar if necessary. (BR 134221)
122 * Some .rm files would make Amarok crash. (BR 137695)
123 * Remember 'User Cover Art for Folder Icons' when organizing files.
125 * "Listening since..." has been changed to the more clear "First
126 Played..." Patch by Andrew Ash <ash211@gmail.com>. (BR 131727)
127 * Fixed regression: the DEL key no longer worked in the
128 playlist after opening the File Browser context menu. (BR 140197)
129 * Smart playlists now work correctly with "is not" filters containing
130 numbers. Patch by Felix Rotthowe <felix.rotthowe@cs.uni-dortmund.de>.
131 * Context browser would not display updated covers correctly. (BR 130518)
132 * The select custom cover dialog no longer starts in the wrong directory
133 for compilations. (BR 131776)
134 * Amarok's xine engine would cut off approximately the last second of an
135 audio file. (BR 135190)
136 * Cue sheet would remain enabled when switching to a stream. Patch
137 by Ted Percival <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 127683)
138 * Length of tracks wouldn't be shown correctly for some cue files.
139 Patch by Dawid Wróbel <dawid@klej.net> (BR 139707)
140 * Assume that all dots but the last in script executable files belong to
141 the script name. (BR 139460)
142 * Don't crash when quitting while initially loading the playlist.
144 * The same track could be queued multiple times for transferring to a
145 media device. (BR 129136)
146 * Migrate statistics for files moved from outside to the collection.
148 * Select All/Copy action would not copy from context browser. (BR 138635)
149 * Xine-engine: When a track was fading out (after pressing Stop), and you
150 started another track, Amarok could become unresponsive.
151 * Improved seeking with xine-engine. No longer jumps to 0 when you seek
152 too quickly. Patch by Alexander Bechikov <goo@t72.ru>. (BR 99808)
153 * Improved cover images handling for Various Artists. Patch by Tobias
154 Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 136833)
155 * Don't enable a mount point for devices that can't support them (mtp,
157 * With SQLite, the search in the collection browser was case-sensitive
158 with UTF-8. Patch by Stanislav Nikolov <stanley_87@mail.ru>. (BR 138482)
159 * (Don't) Show Under Various Artists would not work when multiple albums
160 are selected. Patch by Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>.
162 * Changed temp download location for Magnatune purchases. (BR 137912)
163 * Fixed potential double payment issues in the Magnatune store.
164 * Only synchronize already set values to media devices. (BR 138150)
165 * Correctly update total playlist play time when removing last.fm
166 streams. Patch by Modestas Vainius <geromanas@mailas.com>. (BR 134333)
167 * File organization jobs could not be canceled. Patch by Wenli Liu
168 <wenlil@xandros.com>. (BR 136527)
169 * Sending filenames to MTP media devices as UTF-8 caused problems, use
171 * It's now possible to delete a file from an MTP media device and
172 re-upload it without having to reconnect the device.
173 * Wikipedia links to edit sections are no longer shown.
174 * Metadata is read from Rio Karma media devices as UTF-8.
175 * Last.fm streams could be paused with DCOP or global shortcuts.
177 * Dynamic mode can still be used after a collection rescan. (BR 133269)
178 * Dynamic mode will repopulate from all available sources. (BR 137212)
179 * Dynamic mode no longer repeats songs often. (BR 107693)
180 * When transferring files to a Generic media device, having certain
181 characters (such as '#') in a tag field could cause a directory based on
182 that field to not be created.
183 * Editing lyrics from within the context browser no longer removes all
185 * Read metadata from MTP media devices as UTF-8.
186 * Some shoutcast streams would show an empty title. (BR 127741)
187 * Pause would act as Play/Pause. (BR 116101)
188 * The same track would sometimes be shown twice in suggested songs.
190 * Detect VFAT partitioned devices on FreeBSD. Patch by Daniel
191 O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>.
192 * Favorite Tracks wouldn't be shown on Context Browser, and
193 Statistics Panel would be empty for SQLite users. (BR 136791)
194 * Volume slider in the player window would not react correctly to
195 the mouse wheel. (BR 136714)
196 * When using a proxy set by script, context browser wouldn't work
197 properly, and the application would crash when closing. (BR 112437)
198 * Proxy settings wouldn't be respected when downloading podcast
199 episodes. (BR 134028)
200 * Xine engine could hang when skipping through tracks quickly with
202 * Fix crash when an MTP media device returned a playlist with an
203 invalid track ID. (BR 136552)
204 * The Install MP3 support script would be run regardless of what the
205 user answered to the shown dialog. (BR 136294)
206 * OSD wouldn't always show up-to-date ratings. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
207 <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 125612)
212 * Transfer .wav-files to iPods. (BR 131130)
213 * Xine and Helix engines now support three different crossfading modes:
214 always, on manual track changes only, or on automatic track changes
216 * Manually specify local file for podcast episodes via right-click menu.
217 * Action menu entry for adding podcasts to Amarok. Based on .desktop files
218 by Harald Sitter and Fabio Bacigalupo <kde-apps.org@open-haus.de>.
219 * Open podcast items with external application from right-click menu.
220 * Synchronize listened flag for podcast between Amarok and iPods.
221 * Added integrated Magnatune.com music store. Includes artist and album
222 info and full previews of all tracks.
223 * Fade-out for xine-engine when pressing Stop. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
224 <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 127316)
225 * Support downloading of files from an MTP device.
226 * Purged podcast episodes can be readded by increasing the purge number.
227 * Added rudimentary support for the Rio Karma. (BR 132713)
228 * Support creation and editing of playlists on MTP media devices.
229 * Undo/Redo functionality is now available over sessions. (BR 131072)
230 * Allow the creation of empty playlists in the playlist browser. Available
231 either from the Add button in the toolbar or the context menu of a
232 playlist folder. (BR 133543)
235 * Ignore leading "The " when sorting artists on media devices. (BR 136233)
236 * Improved handling of VFAT/ASCII files and paths when organizing the
237 collection and using the Generic media device.
238 * Enable playing audio CDs on CD insert. Patch by Will Stephenson
239 <wstephenson@kde.org>. (BR 136106)
240 * Bring Amarok main window to front when starting amarok again without
241 arguments. Patch by Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>. (BR 135396)
242 * Don't switch to playlist browser after saving a playlist from files tab.
244 * Add .ape and .mpc to possible file types supported by a generic media
246 * Move button for saving current playlist from playlist browser toolbar to
247 playlist toolbar. (BR 129300)
248 * Run 'kdeeject -q devicenode' when no post-disconnect command has been
249 configured for media devices.
250 * Reduced memory usage for MTP media devices. (BR 134663)
251 * Faster searching on playlist and startup, due to some optimizing in
252 string usage. Patch by Ovidiu Gheorghioiu <ovidiug@gmail.com>.
253 * Correctly translate media:, home:, ... style urls on KDE 3.5 and newer.
254 * When tracks are added to the collection and Playlist entries already
255 exist (as determined by the file tracking code), the corresponding
256 Playlist entries are updated to the new location and enabled if they
257 were previously disabled.
258 * When file tracking is updating Playlist entries, multiple entries of the
259 same song will now all be updated, instead of just one.
260 * When tracks are removed from the collection (deleted on disk or moved
261 outside of a collection folder) any corresponding entry in the Playlist
263 * Dragging podcasts to to playlist will insert them in a chronological
264 order, so you can listen to the oldest first automatically!
265 * Improve application startup times dramaticaly by lazy loading podcast
267 * Transferring tracks to an MTP device now shows a progress bar and
268 doesn't hang the rest of the UI. (only available for libmtp >= 0.0.15)
269 * Show a proper tag dialog when viewing information for DAAP music shares.
272 * Ipod Mode on Collection Browser would have duplicated headers.
273 * Multiple problems related to Amarok using wrong playlists on Dynamic Mode
275 * Deleting files from generic media devices would not update the progress
276 bar, resulting in the progress staying at 0%. (BR 130009)
277 * If nothing at all existed on a generic device, the first item
278 transferred would incorrectly show that an error had occured during
279 transfer. (BR 133528)
280 * Synchronising a smart playlist to a device when it didn't exist before
281 would crash Amarok. (BR 135956)
282 * Proxies would not take into account certain settings in KDE's Proxy
283 control center modules for PAC files and more. (BR 123021)
284 * Generic media devices would not accept files with an extension that only
285 differs in case from a supported extension. (BR 135261)
286 * Xine-engine: Pausing during crossfade would not work properly. Patches by
287 Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 122514 & 135285)
288 * Stop a running cross-fading operation before starting another one. Patch
289 by Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 128629)
290 * Queuing again would dequeue. (BR 121206)
291 * In some cases, the Removal and Enqueue buttons in the queue manager would
292 have no icons. (BR 115895)
293 * Don't change length of position slider when navigating within a track.
295 * Direct copying of non-local items would result in wrong properties on
297 * Honor setting to show Amarok's menu in main toolbar.
298 * "Burn this album" would burn all albums of the same name. (BR 121963)
299 * Ignore double-clicks on tree item openers. (BR 125121)
300 * Visibility of sidebar tabs would depend on the current locale. (BR 135316)
301 * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work when selected
302 with the mouse. (BR 123327)
303 * Check for some integral data types for improved DAAP portability.
305 * Take disc number into account when checking if a song is already on an
307 * Editing metadata in the playlist itself now matches possible alternatives
308 case-insensitively. (BR 135683)
309 * Fix loading directory in external browser in the tag editor when the path
310 contains parentheses. (BR 132961)
311 * Stop scripts using a proxy when it's disabled in KDE. Patch by Felix Geyer
312 <sniperbeamer_disc1@fobos.de>.
313 * While playing Last.fm Streams, sometimes metadata wouldn't be updated
314 on track changes. Patch by Tom Kaitchuck <tkaitchuck@comcast.net>.
315 * Speed patch to load playlist columns from statistic tables on population
316 of the playlist, makes adding to the playlist and starting up faster.
317 Thanks Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>! (BR 135324)
318 * Save MTP playlists when they are renamed so we don't lose changes.
319 * Prevent new podcastepisodes from showing up in the playlistbrowser twice
320 by opening it's parent before adding. (BR 134108)
321 * New iPods would not get initialized.
322 * Files that were detected as being added back to the collection would not
323 always be re-enabled in the Playlist. (BR 130359)
324 * Fix some spelling and layout issues. Part of a patch by Malcolm Parsons
325 <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>.
326 * Correctly handle horizontal wheel events in position slider. (BR 119254)
327 * Don't rescan collection while transcoding. (BR 133423)
328 * Don't try to copy to collection from urls without kio slaves.
329 * Don't quit immediately if amarokrc was removed. (BR 134439)
330 * The DAAP client would crash Amarok under certain conditions when
331 kdelibs was compiled with asserts on. (BR 132851)
332 * Configuring the toolbar would disable the stop button. Patch by
333 Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 132477)
334 * Changed tags of songs on iPods would not propagate to its database.
336 * Fixed playlist encoding problems. (BR 133613)
337 * Cover images for compilation albums can now be displayed full size in
339 * Dragging compilation albums from the collection browser or the playlist
340 would show multiple cover images in the tooltip. (BR 133916)
341 * Don't crash when calling repopulate dynamic mode from dcop. (BR 133716)
342 * Last.fm streams work with proxies. (BR 131137)
343 * Don't try to read m4a tags from apparently invalid files. (BR 133288)
344 * Some podcasts would insert line breaks in author/title information and
345 cause graphical errors. (BR 133591)
346 * File tracking could fail on files that were copies of each other but
347 with different ID3v1 or APE tags.
352 * New DCOP: player trackCurrentTimeMs, returns the current track position
354 * Amarok File Tracking (formerly ATF) goes public! See
355 http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok_File_Tracking for more information.
356 * DAAP client now supports Zeroconf. With mDNSResponder properly setup
357 Amarok automatically shows local DAAP servers.
358 * DAAP client saves manually added computers between sessions.
361 * Performance with big playlists has been improved by a magnitude. This
362 also makes application shutdown faster.
363 * Remove the option to enable/disable history in dynamic mode. (BR 133076)
364 * Reduce the minimum available tracks to show to 0. (BR 131223)
365 * Change in file tracking behavior: IDs are no longer embedded into tags
366 but are calculated from a portion of the file data instead, letting
367 users with read-only music stores take advantage of it.
368 * Don't report "/dev/hd" style devices as new media devices. (BR 127831)
369 * Smart Playlists only load media from currently mounted devices.
372 * Dequeuing tracks whilst in dynamic mode might not work. (BR 133449)
373 * When marking podcast episodes as listened, update the channel icon if
374 necessary. (BR 133497)
375 * Don't always mark podcast channel icon as "listened" on rescan if.
377 * User added streams were not editable once saved. (BR 133483)
378 * Cover images were not displayed in some cases. (BR 133174)
379 * Fixed bug which prevented Amarok from creating the collection database
380 in rare circumstances using SQLite. (BR 133072)
381 * Collection scanner would only restart a maximum of 2 times instead of
382 20. (fixed in SVN revision 578922)
383 * MTP media device support would not compile against libmtp versions >=
384 0.0.12. (fixed in SVN revision 576121)
385 * AudioCD playback would stutter and sometimes freeze Amarok. (BR 133015)
386 * Dynamic Collection broke flat collection view when the Filename column
387 was added (BR 132874)
388 * DAAP client shows connection errors to the user and no longer says
389 "Loading" perpetually. After a failed connection, the user can now
391 * Don't empty media device transfer queue when canceling a transfer.
392 * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work. (BR 123327)
393 * Delete covers from the filesystem when requested.
394 * Show context menu on right-click in empty area of media device
396 * Sort numeric columns in flat collection view numerically. (BR 130667)
401 * Handle itpc:// and pcast:// url protocols for adding podcast feeds.
403 * New DCOP call "collection: totalComposers" returns the number of
404 different composers in your collection.
405 * Synchronize playlists to media devices.
406 * Support for MTP/PlaysForSure media devices. (BR 128532)
407 * iPod plugin usable with iTunes phones. (BR 131487)
408 * Browse collection by composer. (BR 122452)
409 * New DCOP call "playlist: filenames" returns the filenames of the songs
410 currently in the playlist. Patch by Arash Abedinzadeh
411 <arash@netcologne.de>
412 * Lyrics can be edited directly on Context Browser's Lyrics tab.
413 * Collection browse mode similar to that used by some portable players.
414 Patch by Joe Rabinoff <bobqwatson@yahoo.com>. (BR 130586)
415 * BPM field. Patch by Alf B Lervåg <alfborge@gmail.com> and Aaron
416 VonderHaar <gruen0aermel@gmail.com>. (BR 123142)
417 * Improved crossfading for xine-engine: Honours the 'Crossfade Length'
418 setting precisely, and uses a better mixing style profile. Patch by
419 Enrico Ros <koral@email.it>.
420 * Media and collection browser tabs now support dropping.
421 * Allow for deleting all the tracks on a playlist from iPods. (BR 127855)
422 * Ability to create custom last.fm station from the GUI.
423 * Ability to mark podcasts as listened.
424 * Show error messages when connecting to last.fm streams fails.
425 * A new media device implements a DAAP client. So Amarok can connect
426 to iTunes, Firefly Media Server etc. (BR 100513)
427 * Dynamic Collection: improved support for songs on removable external
428 harddisks, SMB and NFS shares
431 * Skip tracks that failed to transfer to media devices instead of stopping
432 transfer process. (BR 130008)
433 * libtunepimp 0.5.0 actually compiles successfully now.
434 * Lift size limit on pathnames and comments in collection databases not
435 managed by MySQL. (BR 130585)
436 * Generic media device plugin is improved. Users can configure supported
437 filetypes and get more control over the location of songs and podcasts
438 on disk (Patch by eute).
439 * Move composer tag to its own database table.
440 * Re-enable adding videos to iPods with recent libgpod-cvs. (BR 130117)
441 * Include Skip, Love and Ban in playlist right-click menu for last.fm
443 * Advanced Tag Features (ATF) deferred to 1.4.3: Public release delayed
444 pending some bug fixes in both Amarok and a dependency. It will be
445 automatically disabled the first time you run 1.4.2 if you had it enabled
446 from 1.4.2-beta1. (It will still be available in subversion snapshots.)
447 * Optionally finish transferring all queued tracks to media device after
448 pressing disconnect button. (BR 129716)
449 * It's now possible to edit scores and ratings for multiple tracks in
451 * TagDialog won't make Amarok unresponsive while committing tags changes
453 * Exact playtime as tooltip in statusbar. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
454 <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 130463)
455 * Suspend collection rescanning while organizing files. (BR 129885)
456 * Always use metadata from original file for transcoded files transfered
457 to media devices. (BR 131171)
458 * Enhancements to ATF/statistics to allow for better tracking of stats as
460 * Tag Editing Dialog is now ATF-enabled.
461 * In-line tag editing is now ATF-enabled.
462 * Previously, using ATF with MP3 files would wipe out existing UFID frames
463 from other applications. Now Amarok plays nicely and only touches its
465 * ATF no longer requires a restart to enable or disable it.
466 * ATF read-only functions are always enabled if a UID is found in the
467 file. Option in the configuration dialog now only controls whether new
468 UIDs are written to new files.
469 * ATF will now automatically run the rescan and clear the Playlist only on
470 the first time it is enabled. After that it will simply display an info
471 reminding users that they may need a rescan if their library has changed
472 since the last time it was enabled.
475 * DCOP calls to add and remove ATF tags are no longer allowed to run while
476 the collection is being scanned.
477 * Last.fm streams no longer freeze Amarok's GUI with xine-engine.
478 * Sometimes metadata wasn't updated with Last.fm streams.
479 * Update context browser on score and rating changes. (BR 132496)
480 * Double colons in the collection filter would lead to invalid queries.
482 * Handle changed semantics of MySQL 5.0.23+ (BR 132114)
483 * Do not try to detach() KURLs, as this would not work for non-ascii urls.
485 * Adding songs while at end of playlist could crash in dynamic mode.
486 Patch by Joe Rabinoff <rabinoff@post.harvard.edu>. (BR 128340)
487 * Don't update accessdate when setting songs rating or score. (BR 132274)
488 * Increasing or decreasing volume while muted would not correctly unmute.
490 * Better resize behavior in iPod collection view mode. Patch by Joe Rabinoff
491 <bobqwatson@yahoo.com> (BR 132016)
492 * Make sure a track's compilation status is returned properly when running
494 * Check directory structure on iPods of unknown type in order to detect
495 iTunes phones. (BR 131910)
496 * Make 'Clear' individually translatable for playlists. (BR 131521)
497 * Retain column visibility for flat collection view. (BR 126685)
498 * Honour proxy exceptions for MusicBrainz lookups. Patch by N. Cat
499 <trisk-bug@quasarnet.org>. (BR 131377)
500 * Correctly pass links containing parentheses to external browsers. Patch
501 by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131307)
502 * iPods would not show podcast descriptions. (BR 129824)
503 * Carry over rounding increments to next larger unit for fuzzy time
505 * If disabled, don't show splash screen - even on Kubuntu. (BR 125210)
506 * Correctly request last.fm similar artist information for artists
507 containing non-ASCII characters. Patch by Thomas Lindroth
508 <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131254)
509 * Support non-chronologically ordered podcast feeds. (BR 119911)
510 * Support for libvisual 0.4.0 was fixed. Patch by Dennis Smit.
511 * Adding songs already on a media device to playlists would not work.
512 * Fix adding smart playlists to media devices. (BR 130540)
513 * Reverse check for mount point and device node when connecting to iPods
514 for better handling of device nodes pointed to by symlinks. (BR 129965)
515 * Make handling of filenames on iPods case-insensitive and thus fix
516 fix problems with too many orphaned and stale items. (BR 126431)
517 * Correct action of queueing current item in dynamic mode. (BR 130313)
518 * Double clicking in the filebrowser will append to playlist. (BR 117465)
519 * Fixed problems with last.fm streams containing spaces, e.g. "Hip Hop".
520 * When generic media devices were specified manually, transferred files
521 would not always get converted to VFAT-friendly names if they were on a
523 * When using ATF, tags in MP3 files would be written as ID3v2 only and
524 existing ID3v1 tags would be stripped, which could lead to media devices
525 and tagging libraries that were not ID3v2.4-aware to report that no tag
526 existed. Now both tags are written with identical data.
527 * Correct handling of filenames with special characters. (BR 132243)
532 * Support for last.fm streams. (BR 111983)
533 * New playlist toolbar menu entry for adding streams to the playlist.
537 * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.6.
538 * Inotify support disabled for now, due to stability issues.
539 * Tag editor is no longer modal.
540 * Provide warning dialog when deleting items from the playlistbrowser.
542 * GUI layout reverted to the classic Amarok layout.
543 * The Extended Info panel in the playlistbrowser is now resizeable.
546 * Pressing return in the search bar of the Collection Browser immediately
547 after typing a query no longer appends the wrong items to the playlist.
548 * Fix crash when pressing Back or Forward buttons multiple times quickly
549 in Artist tab. Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>.
550 * Fix problems where blanks would be added to data if SQLite was busy.
551 Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 127608)
552 * Automatically refresh stream lyrics on new metadata.
553 * Set half star ratings on multiple selected tracks when clicking on an
555 * Only enable Show Extended Info in the Playlist Browser when information
556 is available. (BR 126590)
557 * Disable global shortcut for ratings when ratings are disabled.
559 * Autodetect button in Media Devices configuration dialog would not
560 properly signal changes, so that new devices were not always saved.
565 * Much improved and completed custom icon theme by Vadim Petrunin
567 * LibVisual 0.4 supported and required.
568 * Support for custom scoring algorithms, via scripts.
569 * Creative Nomad Jukebox support (untested!). Submitted by Andres Oton
570 <andres.oton@gmail.com>. (BR 103185)
571 * Inotify support. On kernels 2.6.13 and above with Inotify support
572 compiled in, the collection will automatically be rescanned and
573 updated as soon as a watched folder has changed.
576 * First-run wizard can no longer be restarted from the application menu.
577 However, it can still be invoked with "amarok --wizard".
578 * Astraweb lyrics script was removed for being crappy and unmaintained. If
579 you want to maintain it, grab it from SVN and release on kde-apps.org.
580 * "Append Count" option of dynamic playlists has been removed. It is
581 now always one. (BR 120044)
582 * Context browser can now play/queue specific discs of an album or
584 * Automatically imported playlists go into a separate category.
585 * Block quitting amaroK until all on-going media device operations have
586 finished with a consistent state.
587 * Interface choice in wizard removed.
588 * MoodBar has been removed. The maintainer has not been updating it, and
589 it was causing crashes for many people.
590 * Usability improvements for the Script Manager, including a tree view.
591 * Use KMimeType for resolving file type for metadata acquisition before
592 falling back to extension based guessing.
593 * Removed the "detailed mode" in the playlist-browser.
594 * Also copy non-local URLs to collection when dropped onto collection
596 * Speed up connecting media devices with a lot of tracks to be submitted
598 * For media without metadata, try to read metadata after transfer to
599 the iPod (e.g. when copying an audio CD via KIOslaves).
600 * Hint at starting a transcode script for transcoding while transferring
601 to media devices. (BR 127155)
602 * If a disc number is present, append it to the album's name when
603 organizing files. (BR 126867)
604 * Configure, which of fresh podcasts, newest & favorite albums are shown
605 in context browser home view. Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>.
607 * Dynamic mode no longer skips to the next song if you press play (via
608 dcop, for instance) while already playing a track. Instead it restarts
610 * The Actions menu has been renamed the Engage menu. It's way cooler,
611 right? I mean, Star Trek is really cool, right?
612 * Multiple podcasts can be configured at once by selecting multiple channels
613 or by configuring the children of a folder.
616 * Allow dropping of tracks after non-existant items in the playlist.
617 * Make changes to the default dynamic playlists persistent.
618 * Send UTF-8 encoded requests to Wikipedia. Thanks to Thomas Lindroth
619 <tholi945@student.liu.se> for the patch. (BR 127654)
620 * Correctly restore podcast channel title when fetching fails.
621 * Show error message when xine mp3 decoder isn't installed, don't just
623 * Properly render and optimise playlist loading icons.
624 * Properly import and export XSPF playlist formats.
625 * Optimise addition of playlists to the playlistbrowser.
626 * In context browser, show localized date for podcasts. (BR 127853)
627 * Regression in dynamic mode caused it to skip the first track in the
628 playlist whenever it was started. (BR 127451)
629 * Stop Playing after Track: remember current track (BR 127312)
630 * Radio streams were broken for protocols other than HTTP. (BR 127848)
631 * Collection Browser would not set/unset/burn albums with ', The' in
633 * Prevent breakage when xine couldn't initialize the audio device. Patch
634 from Ilya Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 115960)
635 * Allow for recognition of the webdav protocol. Patch by Ilya
636 Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 126847)
637 * Setting a rating on an unplayed track would affect score generated.
638 Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>. (BR 127475)
639 * Stop tags with different capitalisation being treated as the same
640 when building the collection.
641 * Make database connections actually get closed when no longer used.
643 * xine engine would truncate the last seconds of a track, if no other
644 track followed in the playlist.
645 * Fixed AudioCD playback with xine-engine. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
646 <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 127388)
647 * If dynamic mode was turned on and then off, the previous random and
648 repeat modes would be forgotten. (BR 123743)
649 * Removing the current track through DCOP while editing a field of the
650 track in the playlist would cause a crash. (BR 119152)
651 * Make characters encoded with % (such as a forward slash, %2f) display
652 correctly. (BR 105266)
657 * New DCOP call "player: version()". Returns the amaroK version.
658 * iFP has persistent settings when transferring tracks to the device.
659 * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports Audio CDs.
660 * Context menus for entries in the statistics tool. (BR 124945)
663 * Composer, Disc Number and File Size columns in flat collection view.
664 * 'k' or 'm' suffixes for matching filesize in kibi or respectively mebi
666 * Groupings when transferring files to media devices are now persistent.
668 * Transfer contents of smart playlists to media device without adding
669 them to a playlist. (BR 126997)
670 * Set %albumartist to Various Artists, but keep %artist as the track's
671 artist when organizing compilations. (BR 126936)
672 * Discard empty tokens surrounded by {} in custom organize file format.
674 * GStreamer-0.10 engine was disabled for this release (not yet stable).
675 * Only pick genres for Smart playlists that exist in your collection.
676 * VFAT plugin completely rewritten since 1.4beta3. Name is now changed to
677 "Generic Audio Player" to make it less needlessly technical.
678 * Don't limit the number of episodes shown with a new podcast, since the
679 user can limit the number shown afterwards by configuring the channel.
680 * Automatically populate the playlist with items if it is empty when a
681 dynamic playlist is loaded. (BR 126594)
682 * Unplayed/unrated tracks are no longer shown in the statistics dialog.
683 * Removed the option "Import Playlists". It's now always enabled.
684 * Show total track time in context browser (BR 126548)
685 * Derive filename for downloaded podcast episodes from their url in the
686 rss feed. (BR 125966)
687 * Only show albums/artists/genres with more than 3 tracks when listing
688 favourite albums/artists/genres. (BR 126435)
689 * libtunepimp 0.5 compiles successfully.
690 * Podcasts are automatically configured to be checked for updates.
691 * Show only 2 decimal places for scores in the statistics module.
692 * Replace 'Move to Collection' in file browser context menu by 'Organize
693 Files' for collection directories. (BR 125702)
694 * Removed the option "Show Status Bar". It's now always enabled.
695 * Tracks from a media device scan be submitted to last.fm immediately,
696 without waiting for tracks to be played in amaroK. Patch by Iain
697 Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125690)
698 * Any failed attempts to submit to last.fm are now automatically retried
699 in the background, without waiting for new tracks to be played.
700 * Smart playlists can be constructed using mixed ALL and ANY matches
702 * Configure media devices in global settings, disable media browser when
703 no media device is configured.
704 * Dynamic Playlist bar made more conspicuous.
705 * The Konqueror setting to show a 'delete' entry in the menu is now
706 respected, if the setting exists and KDE is version 3.4 or higher.
707 * Cover art from m4a files. Updated m4a taglib patch by Jochen Issing
708 <jochen@isign-softart.de> and patch by Shane King
709 <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125414)
712 * The playlist would incorrectly sort after using the queue manager in
714 * Sort disc numbers numerically (BR 127114)
715 * Smart Playlists using 'last played time' now filter correctly.
717 * If "Transcode Whenever Possible" was selected for transferring to media
718 devices, if the file was in the device's preferred format, transcoding
719 would not take place. Thanks to Ants Aasma for the patch. (BR 127109)
720 * Fix possible loss of database after changing settings. (BR 126880)
721 * Only include audio files when expanding directories. (BR 126765)
722 * Correctly handle 'Cancel' in confirmation dialog for deleting items
723 from media devices. (BR 126989)
724 * Smart-Playlist random mode was not 'sticking'. (BR 126877)
725 * Statusbar log files would only ever write to the first log after all
726 four logs had been filled.
727 * iFP: Don't pretend to add newly transferred files to wrong folders.
728 * Set a podcast as listened only when it really has been listened to.
729 * All tracks from a cuesheet will now submit correctly to last.fm.
731 * xine-engine will now correctly detect a change when only one of the
732 artist or album metadata changes. Patch by Kim Rasmussen
733 <kml@elreki.net>. (BR 126648)
734 * Less than and between criteria in a smart playlist for playcount, rating
735 or score of 0 now work. (BR 97046)
736 * Empty genres are no longer displayed in the collection browser.
738 * Fix regression causing drag and drop of playlist track items in the
739 playlistbrowser to be functionless. (BR 126387)
740 * Fix regression causing podcast purge property to be ignored. (BR 126194)
741 * Automatically convert MySql/PostgreSql passwords from 1.3 to 1.4 state.
742 * Popup Messages would flicker when being shown.
743 * Some 1.3 podcasts wouldn't get transferred to 1.4 settings.
744 * New podcasts didn't get a default save location. (BR 126196)
745 * Fixed encoding problems with lyrics scripts.
746 * Mark/unmark as compilation is now stored in the file tag so it is
747 remembered when the colection is rescanned. (BR 120428)
748 * Submissions from media devices are timestamped so as to be less likely
749 to conflict with submissions from another last.fm client. (BR 125367)
750 * The MySQL connection will no longer time out when idle. (BR 120198)
751 * Load manually configured media devices even after failed DCOP queries.
752 Patch by Iain Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125692)
753 * Copy/move to collection recurses into directories. (BR 125334)
754 * Amazon no longer tries to refetch invalid entries. (BR 125168)
755 * Skip hidden directories while scanning the collection. (BR 115478)
756 * Instead of cancelling collection organiziation operations when starting
757 new one append to running one.
758 * Correctly show & in playlist 'Burn' right-click submenu. Patch by
759 Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2@gmail.com>. (BR 125117)
760 * Disable option to delete remote items in playlist right-click menu.
762 * Reload playlist browser podcasts when switching database engines.
763 * Podcast tables recreated on startup if they don't exist.
768 * amaroK now supports multiple media devices of varying types (currently
769 iPods, UMS/VFAT, and iFP devices).
770 * Autodetection of iPods and UMS/VFAT devices (if KDE has HAL/DBUS support
772 * New DCOP call "devices: showDeviceList()" to show the Device Manager's
773 current device knowledge.
774 * amaroK now has a custom icon theme, and an option to switch back to the
775 system icons, if preferred (in the General settings section).
776 * Collection browser view is separated alphabetically. Patch by
777 Christian Hoenig <list@hoenig.cc>.
778 * Ease navigation with track slider below playlist window by showing mood.
780 * Show context information for podcasts.
781 * Filebrowser: toolbar button to change to the directory of the currently
782 playing song. (BR 115479)
783 * Added "Play Audio CD" entry to the amaroK menu. (BR 103409)
784 * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports visualizations.
785 * xine-engine: Show metadata for ogg vorbis streams. (BR 122505)
786 * Drag and drop podcast urls directly onto podcast folders for addition.
787 * Add media directly into directories for iRiver ifp devices.
788 * Button to directly edit lyrics from the context browser. (BR 123515)
789 * Support for SMIL playlists. (BR 121983)
790 * Support for WAX playlists. (BR 120980)
791 * Handle the Year tag when playing AudioCDs. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
792 <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123428)
793 * Ignore 'The ' in artist names when sorting in the cover manager, as per
794 the collection browser. (BR 122858)
795 * Add autocompletion to the composer field in the tag dialog. (BR 123026)
798 * In context browser, show information about recently updated podcasts,
799 recently added and favourite albums when nothing is playing.
800 * Ratings can now have half stars: click again on the last star in the
801 rating to toggle it between a half and a full star.
802 * Improved handling of embedded cover art, utilizing the database. Patch
803 by Shane King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 124563)
804 * Statistics tool has had numerous improvements.
805 * Optimise: Only rerender the CollectionBrowser when relevant.
806 * Disable detection of iPod model and thus solve g_object_get related
807 problems. (BR 121990)
808 * Don't block GUI when trying to transfer large numbers of items already
809 on media device. (BR 123570)
810 * Update playlist items when their location is changed during organizing
812 * Recursively add tracks when directories are dropped to the media browser
813 and the collection browser. (BR 123982)
814 * Visualizations now receive stereo data from amaroK. (BR 118765)
815 * Upgraded internal SQLite library to version 3.3.4.
816 * Podcast information is stored in the database.
817 * Improved password handling in the PostgreSQL config dialog. Patch by
818 Peter C. Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 118304)
821 * Expand-By smart playlists were returning the wrong number of values.
822 * Fix display of media device transfer queues larger than 4 GB. (BR 125247)
823 * Fix duplicate detection when transferring to media device for tracks having
824 empty album tags. (BR 125203)
825 * Fix spuriously garbled collection scans. Patch by Shane King
826 <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125114)
827 * Fix error with 'Back' link when browsing related artists. (BR 123227)
828 * Files with names containing '#' or '?' from smart playlists would not
829 get transferred to media device. (BR 122488)
830 * Stop Playing After Track option wouldn't be shown for the right tracks,
831 when there were queued tracks. Patch by Marcelo Penna Guerra
832 <eu@marcelopenna.org>. (BR 124297)
833 * Don't submit podcast episodes to last.fm. (BR 118987)
834 * Accept system:/media/ urls into the playlist. (BR 120249)
835 * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
836 King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
837 * Stop collection folders being automatically removed. Instead, allow
838 user to remove non-existent folders by deselecting parent. (BR 123745)
839 * Stop delete key in playlist deleting last deselected item. (BR 123265)
840 * xine-engine: Show bitrate and samplerate for CD-Audio and WAV. Patch by
841 Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123625)
842 * Some podcasts would cause amaroK to hang.
843 * Check if directories still exist when showing Collection directories.
845 * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
846 earlier versions of Plastik.
847 * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
849 * Sometimes iRiver devices would crash upon disconnecting. (BR 123416)
850 * Adjust the Astraweb lyrics script for a layout change on the site. Patch
851 by Andrew Turner <andrewturner512+kdebugs googlemail com>. (BR 123636)
852 * Directory selection would incorrectly highlight a directory in a
853 corner case. (BR 123635)
854 * Don't pretend to be able to uninstall default ContextBrowser themes.
856 * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
857 Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
858 * OSD text would not be stripped of empty lines.
859 * Playlist couldn't be shuffled if queued items existed. (BR 120221)
860 * Fixed renaming of Smart Playlists. (BR 122509)
861 * Fixed some bugs with PostgreSQL and Smart Playlists. Patch by Peter C.
862 Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 123317)
863 * Escape invalid characters when transferring files to IFP devices.
865 * Escape newline characters when showing detailed information for podcast
866 items in the playlistbrowser. (BR 123109)
871 * Equalizer for the GStreamer-0.10 engine.
872 * Crossfade in the helix engine!
873 * The build date is shown in the "About amaroK" dialog.
874 * Show album covers when dragging playlist items. Patch from Jonas
875 Hurrelmann <j@outpo.st>.
878 * Summarize transfer failures to media devices instead of a message for each.
880 * Don't list the <no engine> entry in the engine selection widget, when
881 it's not the active engine. Makes no sense to select this dummy engine.
882 * The aRts and GStreamer-0.8 engines have been removed for being obsolete.
883 * Automatically skip to the next track in the playlist when a track is
884 unplayable. (BR 116555)
885 * Don't check for collection changes on startup if Watch Folders is
886 disabled. (BR 116173)
889 * Handle .m4a files as audio when transferring to iPod video. (BR 122492)
890 * Smart playlists would not transfer to media devices. (BR 122838)
891 * Assume that .mp4 files are audio only when transferring to iPod. (BR 122591)
892 * Dereference symbolic links when transferring to iPod. (BR 123206)
893 * Correct domain for japanese wikipedia locale. (BR 122319)
894 * When deleting a downloaded podcast, the icon wouldn't be updated.
896 * Manage Files would create duplicates on collection. (BR 122519)
897 * On Statistics Dialog, Compilations would be shown with a random artist,
898 and dragging to playlist would add only the tracks by that artist.
900 * When editing current dynamic playlist, the adjusting of upcoming tracks
901 could be faulty. (BR 122401)
902 * Changing database on First-Run Wizard wouldn't work.
903 * When loading M3U playlists containing "." or "..", amaroK failed to
904 detect that the files are in the collection. Patch by Ted Percival
905 <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 121046)
906 * Konqueror sidebar would show garbage for people not using UTF-8 locales.
908 * "Open in External Browser" in the lyrics tab works now.
909 * Lyrc lyrics script handles tick characters correctly.
910 * Crash on startup when upgrading from 1.3, using MySQL. (BR 122042)
911 * No more crash on exit or deleting podcast.
912 * Handle metadata for .aac files as mpeg instead of mp4. (BR 121852)
917 * AudioCD (CDDA) support for xine-engine, including CDDB lookup. Patch by
918 Alberto Griggio <alberto.griggio@gmail.com>. (BR 121647)
919 * The Helix engine now supports direct alsa playback using Realplayer 10.
920 * New DCOP call "player: setVolumeRelative(int ticks)".
921 * Options for Random Mode to favor tracks with a higher rating, score, or
922 ones less recently played.
923 * Support for playing entire albums. This works just like normal, except
924 when choosing the next track, it'll go to the next track from the album
925 it finds in the playlist, or the first track of another album otherwise.
926 * Support for plain VFAT devices in the Media Device browser.
927 * You can now mousewheel over a track's queue label to change its position
929 * Added a time-filter to the CollectionBrowser. Now you can make it show
930 only those tracks, which have been added to your collection within the
931 last day, week, month or year.
932 * Fit to Width for the playlist columns is now optional (accessible in the
933 context menu for the column headers).
934 * On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media devices, provided
935 that an appropriate transcoding script is running.
936 * Handle compilations as such on iPods.
937 * New DCOP calls "mediabrowser: ..." for interfacing with media devices.
938 * Multiple simultaneously connected media devices.
939 * Lyrics support is now scriptable. This allows to add support for any
940 lyrics site, and makes it possible to provide upgrades. (BR 94437)
941 * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics(string)".
942 * New 'File Size' column in the playlist.
943 * Amarok now supports ASX playlist files. (BR 114051)
944 * New DCOP call "collection: isDirInCollection(const QString& path )".
945 * New DCOP call "playlist: removeByIndex(int)". (BR 119143)
946 * For mp3, aac/mp4, and ogg vorbis, it's possible to use Disc Number and
947 Composer tags. (BR 110675) (BR 90503)
948 * For xine-lib 1.1.1 and greater, xine engine has gapless playback. amaroK
949 is now "The Wall" compatible. (BR 77766)
950 * Option for selecting external web browser in amaroK. No longer requires
951 KDE-Base. (BR 106015)
952 * Press Enter in the Collection Browser filter to send all the visible
953 tracks to the playlist.
954 * Hold Ctrl while pressing Enter in the playlist's filter to apply to all
955 visible items instead of just the first, and Shift to only queue and not
957 * Tags can be edited inline in the playlist by clicking on a single selected
959 * Switchable Wikipedia locale. (BR 104383)
960 * Initial port of GStreamer engine to GStreamer 0.10.
961 * Drag albums and compilations from context browser to media device and
963 * Browse your collection and other related artists with context browser.
964 * Copy artwork to iPods capable of displaying it.
965 * Show extended podcast info on iPod.
966 * Optionally update playcount for items played on iPod and submit them
967 to last.fm and synchronize ratings between amaroK and iPod.
968 * Tracks can now be rated from 1-5 stars manually, in addition to the score
969 which amaroK calculates automatically based on your listening habits. You
970 can use the 'Rating' column and Win+1..5 to change the rating.
971 * Ability to copy items from iPod and from filebrowser to collection.
972 * New 'Last Played' column in the playlist, showing when the track was last
973 played. (Like in the Context Browser.)
974 * Browsers can be now accessed with keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+1..5.
975 Also Ctrl+0 to close the current one, and Ctrl+Tab to switch the focus
976 between the playlist and the active browser.
977 * Downloaded podcast episodes can be deleted from the context menu.
978 * New DCOP call "player: osdEnabled".
979 * Add contents of smart amaroK playlists as playlist to media device.
980 * Mediabrowser support for the iRiver iFP series!
981 * New dcop call playlistbrowser loadPlaylist. (BR 110082)
982 * New Edit Track Information dialog. Lyrics can be edited there, comments
983 can have more than one line, some statistics and tag guessing from
985 * Show/hide browsers via context menu. (BR 110823)
986 * Display disk space on media device.
987 * Copy standard and amaroK playlists to media device.
988 * Create playlist from items transferred to iPod.
989 * Edit dumb iPod playlists with media browser.
990 * Ability to read audible.com .aa file metadata and to transfer audiobooks
991 to iPod via file browser.
992 * Optionally add new podcasts to media device transfer queue on download
993 and remove podcasts already listened to on media device connect.
994 * Add podcast shows to the Podcast folder on iPods.
995 * Persistent media device transfer queue.
996 * Incremental update of media device view.
997 * Automatic scanning for stale and orphaned iPod items.
999 * configure: report not included extra features (BR 115057)
1000 * Ability to uninstall context-browser themes. (BR 111449)
1001 * More columns available in the Flat View of the Collection Browser.
1002 * New Collection Scanner, running in an external process. No longer can
1003 amaroK crash while scanning the Collection :)
1005 * Dragging external playlists into the playlist browser will add them.
1006 * NMM engine now has a configure dialog.
1007 * Collection scanner now supports WMA, MP4/AAC, and RealMedia (RA,RV,RM).
1008 * You can now Organize Music from the Collection Browser, to move and
1009 rename files to a logical place in your collection folders based on their
1011 * Option to crossfade only on manual track changes. Useful for listening
1012 to consecutive tracks on a single album.
1015 * Dynamic Mode is now stateless, meaning there's no Dynamic Mode any more,
1016 only loading and unloading of Dynamic Playlists. There's also now a nice
1017 info bar above the playlist when a Dynamic Playlist is loaded.
1018 * The major huge context menu used for hiding/showing columns in the
1019 playlist has been replaced with a shorter one and a nice dialog.
1020 * Elapsed time / length in the systray tooltip now updates in real time as
1021 the song progresses.
1022 * Tooltips in the playlist for truncated text are now shown directly above
1023 the text, giving the effect of it being expanded to its full length.
1024 * The option for restarting scripts automatically at startup is removed, as
1025 it is now the default behaviour.
1026 * Reduced memory usage for large playlists to under 30% of pre-1.4 versions.
1027 (Measured as the difference in memory usage between an empty playlist and
1028 loading the 'All Collection' smart playlist.)
1029 * Import iTunes album art from directories.
1030 * Media Devices (Apple iPod, iRiver iFP, ...) are now handled with plugins.
1031 * New default image for albums with no cover art.
1032 * When tabbing between cells while editing tags in the playlist, autosave
1033 the contents of the previous tag you edited, so you don't have to
1034 constantly go in and out of editing mode to edit lots of tags.
1035 * When saving playlists, if there's already one with the same name, instead
1036 of complaining about it, smartly append (2), (3), etc. to the end.
1037 * 'Stop Playing After Track' now has a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+V), and a global
1038 shortcut for the currently playing track (Ctrl+Win+V).
1039 * Various keyboard usability and focus tweaks so using amaroK with the
1041 * Upgraded internal SQLite database library to version 3.2.7.
1042 * Recoding mp3 tags has been removed due to many unjustified
1044 * Viewing track information of remote media will show the url.
1045 * "Update"-button is now hidden in the collection browser if "Watch
1046 folders for changes" is enabled in the options.
1047 * Playlist Browser now remembers which entries were open across startups.
1048 * The tooltip and the menu from the queue icon in the statusbar now shows
1049 the total length of the queued tracks.
1050 * The Home tab has been merged into the Current tab, now called Music.
1051 * New look for the current track marker in the playlist. Pimp my roK!
1052 * When turning either random or dynamic mode on, turn the other off,
1053 instead of completely disabling random mode when dynamic is on.
1054 * libgpod from gtkpod replaces kio based iPod support for improved
1055 compatibility with various iPod models.
1056 * Podcast settings are hierarchical now, meaning you can set settings
1057 for the category's, newly added podcasts take the settings from there parent category.
1060 * Dragging text to a filter line edit would still show the "Filter
1061 Here..." text in the background. (BR 108876)
1062 * Don't show an empty playlist length holder in the statusbar.
1063 * Allow for % and _ in tags, and filter them correctly.
1064 * Do not copy files of types an iPod is not capable of playing to the
1066 * Also take track number into account when comparing tags for checking
1067 if a track is already present on iPod. (BR 117380)
1068 * iPod nanos would not switch off during playing songs added with amaroK
1069 because of their file size not being set.
1070 * "Show Fullsize" now works for ID3 embedded cover images. (BR 114517)
1071 * Fix possible bug when saving unencoded podcasts to strange file systems.
1072 * OSD Preview did not update colours when toggling 'Use custom colours'
1074 * Cached lyrics are not erased when rescanning. (BR 110489)
1075 * No more "can't create amazon table" warnings. (BR 113930)
1076 * Creating a new playlist via drag-and-drop no longer shows duplicates
1077 of each song until amaroK is restarted.
1082 * Support for libtunepimp 0.4. (BR 94988)
1085 * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
1086 King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
1087 * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
1088 earlier versions of Plastik.
1089 * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
1090 Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
1091 * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
1093 * Fix memory leak in the helix engine when the player and playlist are
1095 * Stream with URLs containing "&" wouldn't be correctly saved.
1097 * Playlist Browser would save invalid PLS Playlists. (BR 122875)
1098 * Refresh All Podcasts wouldn't consider subfolders. (BR 122783)
1099 * When using a folder as playlist, deleting the playlist would delete
1100 the folder and all files inside it. (BR 122480)
1101 * OSD was showing "No track playing" for tracks without metadata.
1102 * Smart Playlists with playcount or score related conditions wouldn't
1103 match all songs properly. (BR 97046)
1104 * With enormous queues, stop menu would take a lot of time to show up.
1110 * NMM engine would crash when seeking after the playlist finished,
1111 state Empty wasn't emitted.
1112 * Fixed URL of the Nectarine radio stream.
1113 * Fix crash after changing the alsa device in the helix configuration
1115 * When amaroK exits, send SIGTERM to running scripts. (BR 119159)
1116 * Old error messages could be shown instead of current track lyrics.
1117 * The equalizer in the helix engine now works properly at low sample
1119 * Fixed some threading issues in loading XML playlists.
1120 * Lyrics that are available on lyrc would be shown as "not found".
1121 * The helix engine now includes protection so that misbehaving streams
1122 do not cause the visualizations to leak memory.
1127 * In the tree view, sort tracks alphabetically first, unless one of the
1128 categories is by album, then sort by track number first. (BR 112830)
1129 * No longer delete Amazon covers every 90 days, instead relying on
1130 RefreshImages to re-download covers every 80 days to comply with
1131 the TOS of the Amazon web service.
1134 * Fix weirdness when overwriting a playlist by dragging a file to the
1136 * When using Year - Album on Collection Browser, if two albums had the
1137 same year, the order would be pseudo-random. Patch by Xepo
1138 <xepo@trifault.net>. (BR 115584)
1139 * Fix build issue on PCLinuxOS with "cpu_set undeclared".
1140 * Fix crash in helix engine caused by improper reference counting
1141 of the audiostreamresponse object.
1142 * Helix engine no longer declares it is "empty" on a track change
1143 (caused problems with context browser).
1144 * Tag dialog doesn't delete year tags any more when editing multiple
1146 * amaroK would crash or hang when fetching similar artists information
1147 from last.fm (BR 116399)
1148 * Fix memory leak in the helix engine. (BR 116223)
1149 * When changing the database type, the apply button wouldn't be enabled,
1150 and it would be necessary to restart amaroK for it to work properly.
1151 * Fix for regression in Qt 3.3.5, causing amaroK to crash when clearing
1152 the playlist. (BR 116004)
1153 * Zombie directories are removed automatically from the collection
1154 scanner. (BR 115779)
1155 * Dates wouldn't be properly loaded when editing Smart Playlists.
1156 * Number of songs to add when using dynamic mode wouldn't be respected,
1157 if the smartplaylist didn't have a ORDER BY statement. (BR 115860)
1158 * Fix visibility related build problem on some distros.
1163 * Fix autoscan with PostgreSQL. (BR 111209)
1164 * Fix problem with sequences in PostgreSQL support. (BR 115075)
1165 * Fix potential crash at startup while accessing amazon.com. (BR 115838)
1166 * Potential crash when loading media from the Collection. (BR 115234)
1167 * Podcast apply to all button was faulty.
1168 * last.fm queue wouldn't be saved to disk. Patch by John Patterson
1169 <kde-bugs@ninecats.org>. (BR 115212)
1170 * Podcast download directory would only be effective next time the
1171 application started.
1172 * Don't crash when attempting to save an empty playlist from the Playlist
1174 * Loading dynamic playlists with sources did not work properly.
1175 * Fix build issue on some Linux kernel 2.4 distros. (BR 115068)
1180 * Fixed a build issue.
1181 * Fixed potential crash at startup. (BR 114983)
1186 * Helix-engine supports ALSA (using RealPlayer 11). (BR 113909)
1187 * Atom feed compatibility for podcasts.
1188 * Statusbar messages are logged to a file, statusbar.log. (BR 99899)
1189 * Podcast configuration now provides the ability to set the values for
1190 all podcasts. (BR 114371)
1191 * Downloading multiple podcasts will throw them into a queue, and
1192 each will be downloaded sequentially. (BR 114370)
1193 * Playlistbrowser items can be dragged into folders.
1196 * Categories in the playlist browser are now always in the order of:
1197 Playlists, Smart Playlists, Dynamic Playlists, Radio Streams, then
1198 Podcasts, regardless of sorting options. (Items in the categories
1199 are still sorted normally.)
1200 * Reworked systray icon handling -- mostly under the hood, but it'll
1201 now update properly - eg. when you change the cover. (BR 111014)
1202 * Tooltip for the queue icon in the statusbar will now show the album
1203 cover of the upcoming track.
1204 * Totals in the collection browser will now reflect the visible items
1205 if you set a filter.
1206 * Podcast settings "download on request" and "stream on request" have
1208 * About button in script manager now uses a KAboutDialog and supports
1209 rich text format in the README file. (BR 110961)
1210 * After filtering the collection browser, if only a single item is left
1211 visible, it will automatically be expanded.
1212 * Added items for the Equalizer, Visualizations, and Queue Manager to
1213 the context menus of the volume slider, analyzer, and statusbar queue
1217 * If you queue an album from the context browser and then undo, the
1218 queue icon in the statusbar is now updated properly (and hence
1219 doesn't crash if you click on it).
1220 * helix-engine no longer emits new metaData if only the bitrate of a
1221 stream changes. (BR 114348)
1222 * Fix amaroK attempting to destroy your computer, reach through the
1223 monitor and violently strangle you if you attempt to exit while the
1224 collection is being scanned. (BR 114597) (BR 114859)
1225 * Postgresql code cleanup and fixed regression for manual collection
1226 scanning. Autoscan still does not work. (BR 111209)
1227 * File browser now sets to home if it was on a remote directory to prevent
1228 annoying error messages. (BR 114498)
1229 * Podcast settings would not add a trailing slash to podcast save
1230 locations. (BR 114712)
1231 * Workaround for stability issues with HyperThreading on Linux.
1232 Added a configure check to deal with buggy GLIBC's. (BR 99199)
1233 * xine-engine: Equalizer became inactive on trackchange when crossfading
1234 was enabled. (BR 114492)
1235 * Pausing a track would abort lyrics and wiki fetch jobs. (BR 114576)
1236 * Dynamic mode did not respect repeat track mode. (BR 114585)
1237 * The Script Manager no longer captures the script's stdout.
1238 * Enqueuing files with amarok -e would not work for relative paths if the
1239 working directories of the new and the running instance of amarok differ.
1240 * Visualizations would only work when amarok was run as amarokapp.
1242 * The number of podcasts items would be limited even when the user didn't
1244 * Switching system language wouldn't affect the root folder names on
1246 * On Context Browser, when showing a cached lyric, "add", "search", and
1247 "open in external browser" buttons wouldn't work. "Open in External
1248 Browser" is now disabled for cached lyrics. (BR 110812)
1249 * Refreshing all podcasts when folder existed caused a crash.
1250 * Multiple job statusbar widget was broken. (BR 114278)
1251 * HTML in tags was getting interpreted in the context browser.
1252 * Changing the podcast purge count could sometimes cause amaroK to hang.
1253 * NMM-engine: Fixed crash after playing a song to the end, the trackEnd
1254 signal was not emitted from the GUI thread.
1255 * With Random Mode enabled and Repeat Playlist disabled, when it got to
1256 the last track, it would play it a second time and then keep on playing
1257 other tracks, instead of just stopping.
1258 * Smart-Playlists were broken with PostgreSQL. Patch by Michael Landin
1259 Hostbaek <mich@freebsd.org>. (BR 114269)
1260 * Collection scanner ignored files with non-ascii characters. (BR 114195)
1261 * Don't show "Change Collection Setup"-box for non-local files.
1262 * Fixed issue with loading playlists containing remote URL's.
1263 * Dynamic mode history tracks would be forgotten if there was no current
1264 track on startup. (BR 110160)
1265 * Fixed problems with "Retrieve Similar Artists" feature in combination
1266 with SQLite, which could lead to 100% CPU usage. (BR 104447)
1267 * Tabbing between items and cells in the playlist while editing them now
1268 works much nicer (goes in order and doesn't tab to invisible columns),
1269 and you can also now use Alt+Up, Down, Left, Right to navigate between
1271 * Podcast settings failed to remember the save location. (BR 114128)
1272 * Tray icon would stop filling up and showing play/pause icon if show
1273 player window was toggled. (BR 93711)
1274 * If player window is toggled during playback, playlist window's caption
1275 now correctly shows the current track's name.
1276 * Crossfade length would be enabled in Playback options when "No
1277 crossfading" was selected.
1278 * If an engine does not support crossfading, "No crossfading" is now
1279 selected in Playback options.
1284 * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showHome".
1285 * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showCurrentTrack".
1286 * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics".
1287 * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showWiki".
1288 * Saving a playlist will cleverly pick a default name if possible.
1289 * Dragging an album cover into the playlist from the context browser
1290 will append the album.
1291 * Middle mouse button on the current track will toggle play/pause.
1292 * Ctrl-Right click on a selection of tracks will queue all of them, not
1293 just the track below the cursor. (BR 112841)
1294 * CoverManager allows for downloads from Amazon Canada. (BR 113238)
1295 * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPlaylist".
1296 * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: scanPodcasts". Will check all podcasts
1298 * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPodcast".
1299 * New DCOP call "player: type". Returns the current track's file type.
1300 * New DCOP call "collection: migrateFile". Updates the collection db for
1301 changes made to filenames, keeping stats intact.
1302 * Smartplaylist has Length property. (BR 113039)
1303 * Added a mouse-over effect for the volume slider.
1306 * Adding a playlistbrowser folder will automatically focus the lineedit
1307 for renaming the item.
1308 * Removing podcasts will delete all downloaded media.
1309 * Playlists in the playlistbrowser can no longer be removed, only deleted.
1310 * Removing tracks when in dynamic mode will only replace up to the minimum
1311 upcoming tracks requirement.
1312 * Playlist columns are automatically resized when adding or removing
1314 * Added a warning dialog when HyperThreading is enabled. (BR 99199)
1315 * Blacklisted GStreamer's autoaudiosink, which is really a crapsink.
1316 * Added a context menu to the volume slider.
1317 * When viewing covers in fullsize, the window has a maximum size, and
1318 scrollbars are shown if necessary. The user can also scroll the cover
1319 by dragging it. Patch by Eyal Lotem <eyal.lotem@gmail.com>. (BR 103990)
1322 * Patch fixing an almost-infinite directory-scanning problem while
1323 building the Collection. Patch by Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>.
1324 * Cover Manager: Album view setting became out of sync. Patch by Michael
1325 Pujos <pujos.michael@laposte.net>. (BR 113370)
1326 * Starting the first track in the playlist when in dynamic mode would skip
1328 * Position slider in player-window disappeared after 2 hours. (BR 97128)
1329 * PlaylistBrowser duplicated items when overwriting playlists. (BR 108693)
1330 * Podcast settings would forget about the purge items checkbox.
1331 * The Stop button in the toolbar was always enabled at startup.
1332 * GStreamer-Engine: Could not seek to position 00:00:00. (BR 106483)
1333 * Don't crossfade the last track in the playlist. (BR 96478)
1334 * If files were in the transfer queue before connecting the iPod they
1335 would be uploaded without checking if they already exist on the device.
1336 * Using dynamic mode's playlist shuffle would result in repeated tracks
1337 tracks during a populate operation.
1338 * Fixed Xine config options were disappearing on ESC key. (BR 113225)
1339 * Fixed problems with visibility enabled compilers. Patch by Unai Garro
1340 <ugarro@telefonica.net>. (BR 113056)
1341 * Fix regression causing dynamic mode playlist shuffle to break for
1342 smart playlists which relied on ordering and limits. (BR 113121)
1343 * Automatic podcast downloads did not do anything. (BR 113129)
1344 * Playlist browser items were not properly saved on quit (with Qt 3.3.5).
1345 Patch by Matthieu Bedouet <mbedouet@no-log.org>. (BR 113020)
1346 * amaroK could crash on startup, if on last exit sorting was enabled in
1347 the playlist. (BR 113042)
1348 * Adding entries to a playlist and saving it could duplicate some tracks,
1349 if the playlist hadn't been expanded before. (BR 111579)
1354 * Tabs will open automatically when dragging files between tabs.
1355 Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
1356 * Two new dcop calls which allow scripts to read many of amaroK's
1357 configuration options. script readConfig(key) for strings, integers and
1358 bools. script readListConfig(key) for lists. Note that these functions
1359 aren't guaranteed to always return the latest settings (though many do).
1360 * Added a right click menu for blank areas of the playlist, with options
1361 to save, clear or shuffle the playlist and to "enable the dynamic
1363 * Playcount is shown in the tag dialog.
1364 * New volume slider, both better looking and better working than
1366 * Podcasts can be saved to any location. (BR 111059)
1367 * Added "Save as Playlist" option to the collection and file browser
1368 context menus as well.
1369 * Allow removing of items in the Media Device browser transfer
1373 * Scroll wheel to switch tabs in context browser.
1374 * Repopulate button is enabled or disabled together with dynamic mode.
1375 * No warning dialog when starting if the directory File Browser is on
1376 doesn't exist anymore. It just reverts to home. (BR 99208)
1377 * Sorting on Collection Browser now shows "Unknown" items first, and
1378 "Various Artists" last. Years are sorted descending now.
1379 * When selecting 'Play' from the context menu on multiple items,
1380 it'll now play the first and queue the rest.
1383 * The Equalizer and QueueManager widgets were broken on window managers
1385 * "Year - Album" category in the Collection Browser didn't allow for
1386 dragging tracks or fetching cover images.
1387 * Xine engine no longer adds images to the playlist.
1388 * The delete key for removing playlist items works even if the file
1389 browser is open. (BR 100145)
1390 * Filenames with XML entity codes were not playable in dynamic mode
1391 and caused it to stop. (BR 108783)
1392 * If the album or artist contained "&", cover fetching wouldn't work
1394 * When restarting, Playlist Browser items used for playlist shuffle
1395 wouldn't be properly marked, though they would be taken into account.
1396 * Don't crash after changing Podcast options, or after manually deleting
1398 * When renaming a playlist, the "." would be removed from the filename.
1399 Paych by Elliot Pahl <elliot.pahl@gmail.com>. (BR 112204)
1400 * When using next and previous on Tagdialog, after passing by a stream,
1401 the fields would be always disabled. (BR 112060)
1402 * Restarting track when in dynamic mode didn't work.
1403 * Fix issues with the GStreamer engine and alsasink, and reenable it.
1404 Patch by Vincent Tondellier <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 112103)
1405 * Dynamic playlist shuffle had some incorrect smart playlist handling.
1406 * Robustified the code for handling the '# of tracks in the playlist'
1407 part of the statusbar, it should not ever get out of sync with
1408 reality now. Nice side effect is you can see the track count
1409 increase while a playlist is loading.
1410 * "Last played - not in the last" smart playlists would only work for
1412 * Podcast and Dynamic subfolders are correctly restored on application
1414 * Dropping tracks onto playlist browser folders will work correctly.
1415 * Invalid podcasts are no longer discarded on quit. (BR 112116)
1416 * Fixed playing of files that have special characters like '#' in
1418 * Fixed issue where selecting multiple items after filtering the
1419 playlist would cause all the other items 'between' them (but
1420 invisible due to the filter) to also get selected.
1425 * Added 'Set as Playlist (Crop)' and 'Save as Playlist' options in the
1426 playlist context menu. (BR 99932)
1427 * Support for iPod shuffle devices. Patch by Guenter Schwann
1429 * Media Device browser now has a connect button for connecting
1430 your iPod after amaroK has already been started. Also includes
1431 configurable mounting/unmounting options.
1432 * Holding down the stop button (as opposed to just clicking it) pops
1433 up a menu letting you stop either now, after the current track, or
1434 after the end of the queue.
1435 * Collection browser filter now fully supports the same Google-esque
1436 syntax as the playlist filter, plus one extra: lyrics:"stuff to search
1437 for" to search in cached lyrics.
1438 * Pressing Shift+Enter after filtering the playlist will now queue
1439 the first track. (BR 111054)
1440 * Display short statistics in the collection browser depending on the
1441 categorisation method.
1442 * New DCOP call "collection: totalTracks". Returns the total number of
1443 tracks in the collection.
1444 * New DCOP call "collection: totalGenres". Returns the total number of
1445 genres in the collection.
1446 * New DCOP call "collection: totalCompilations". Returns the total number
1447 of compilations in the collection.
1448 * New DCOP call "collection: totalArtists". Returns the total number of
1449 artists in the collection.
1450 * New DCOP call "collection: totalAlbums". Returns the total number of
1451 tracks in the collection.
1452 * New DCOP call "collection: similarArtists(int artists)". Returns the
1453 similar artists of the current track, results are limited by 'artists'.
1454 * New DCOP call "playlist: repopulate". Repopulates the playlist with
1455 tracks from dynamic mode.
1456 * New DCOP call "player: showBrowser". Allows for showing of playlist
1457 window browser, see the handbook for useage.
1458 * New DCOP call "player: setLyricsByPath". Allows adding custom lyrics
1460 * Add an icon in the statusbar displaying the number of queued tracks;
1461 click on it to pop up a menu letting you jump to their locations in
1465 * New "Blue Danna" splash screen. Created by Nenad Grujicic, modified by
1467 * 'Stop after track' is now saved (and so remembered across amaroK
1469 * Ported playlist + filter-lineedit behaviour to collection browser as
1470 well: you can move between the view and the filter with the up/down
1471 buttons, and just typing into the view will set the filter. (BR 108656)
1472 * Wiki Tab links use the color set for links, instead of "Selected
1473 Background". Style Authors can use "AMAROK_LINKCOLOR" if they want that
1475 * The Equalizer widget has been pimped.
1476 * Pressing 'up' in the playlist filter will now take you to the end of
1477 the playlist, in addition to down going to the beginning, as before.
1478 * When jumping to the current track, it now gets centered instead of only
1480 * GStreamer-engine was rewritten. The crossfading feature was removed for
1481 now (it didn't work right with recent GStreamer versions). Improvements:
1482 1) Reduced CPU usage 2) Reduced latency 3) Increased stability
1483 * No need to restart amaroK to use your iPod!
1484 * Improved Konqueror Sidebar.
1485 * The bundled "Shouter" AmarokScript (for radio stream serving) has been
1486 updated and improved.
1489 * amaroK wouldn't remember current track when restarting. (BR 110282)
1490 * Some memory leaks found and fixed.
1491 * Fix buzz and subsequent clicking when equalizer enabled in Helix and
1492 GStreamer engines compiled with GCC 4.0.1.
1493 * Burn option wouldn't show up for "Year - Album" items on Collection
1495 * Tray's tooltip would show things like 69:40 of 1:12:01.
1496 * Wiki Tab wouldn't work for names that contained "/". (BR 111634)
1497 * With KDE 3.4, the proper context menu wouldn't be shown for File
1498 Browser. Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
1500 * Playcounter and Access Date wouldn't be updated properly for PostgreSQL.
1501 Patch by Tonton <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 111519)
1502 * Clicking twice on the uninstall button for the same script, would make
1504 * Fixed an obscure crash when you emptied the playlist, had the focus on
1506 * No longer show dynamic info popup on application startup. Patch by
1507 Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
1508 * Sometimes the system tray tooltip did not update on song change.
1509 * Polishing for the collection browser and expanded item states. Patch
1510 by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
1511 * With xine-engine amaroK always treated remote media like radio streams.
1512 * Selecting Classical equalizer preset prompted for name.
1513 * Fixed konqueror sidebar compilation with kde <= 3.3 and gcc patched for
1515 * Konqueror sidebar can switch again between tabs.
1516 * Fixed playing of oggs in helix engine.
1517 * Fixed crash in helix engine when switching engines if helix/realplayer
1519 * Undo/Redo for the playlist was broken in some cases.
1520 * On Collection Browser, when grouping by Genre/Artist/Year-Album it
1521 wouldn't show the tracks. (BR 110890)
1522 * SmartPlaylist Editor would reset "Match Any" to "Match All" when
1523 editing. Patch by Kevin Henderson <pyspud@hotmail.com> (BR 110918).
1524 * Podcasts and playlist tracks would be sorted lexicographically
1526 * Saved dynamic playlists were not removable.
1527 * xine-engine: amaroK would get stuck on exit if the Equalizer was enabled
1528 and the engine playing. (BR 110791)
1529 * Dequeued items sometimes weren't being repainted properly.
1534 * The tyranny of deleting covers every 90 days is over. Instead, amaroK now
1535 automatically downloads the covers every 80 days to comply with
1536 Amazon.com requirements.
1539 * Removed 'Apply' button from dynamic config, all config options are now
1540 hot! (Automatically applied on alteration)
1541 * Minimum score changed from 1 to 0. (BR 107944)
1542 * Playlist item lengths now shown with hours when necessary.
1545 * M3U playlists would be broken after editing. (BR 109774)
1546 * When there's no artist tag, don't show tons of unrelated songs and
1547 albums in Context Browser. (BR 110319)
1548 * Advertisements were showing up in Lyrics Tab for some songs.
1549 * When editing tags in Playlist Window, only try to write the new tag if
1550 it's different from the old one. (BR 110299)
1551 * Changes to the score in the Edit Track Information dialog should only be
1552 applied after clicking on the "Save and Close" button.
1553 * When only the score is changed, amaroK shouldn't complain if the file is
1554 read-only. (BR 109054)
1555 * Mark/Unmark as compilation wouldn't work with SQLite. (BR 109275)
1556 * Album Covers whose name or artist contained "'" wouldn't show up when
1557 fetched from Amazon. (BR 109700)
1558 * Edit Track Information dialog wouldn't update collection database if
1559 filename contained non latin1 characters. Patch by Andrey Yasniy
1560 <yasniy@gmail.com> (BR 110030)
1561 * SmartPlaylist category created in the PlaylistBrowser once the
1562 collection has been built for the first time.
1563 * Refresh the context browser as appropriate when editing tags. (BR 108884)
1564 * Cover image shown if track has no title.
1565 * Statusbar cancel button will terminate a podcast download.
1566 * Don't show multiple popup messages when retrieving podcast information.
1567 * Don't crash when adding podcasts. (BR 109982)
1568 * Tracks with urls containg apostrophes would not cache lyrics.
1569 * PostgreSQL compile problem (BR 110033)
1574 * New "not in the last" option for the date fields in Smart Playlists.
1576 * New OSD tokens: %directory and %type (shows whether it's a stream, or
1577 otherwise the extension).
1578 * New DCOP call "player: lyrics" (BR 100306) and Lyrics Caching. (BR 97961)
1579 * New DCOP call "player: transferDeviceFiles". Transfers queued files to
1581 * New DCOP call "player: queueForTransfer". Queues files for transfer to
1583 * Download your favourite podcasts and let amaroK manage them for you!
1584 * 17 Equalizer presets. (BR 96302)
1585 * xine-engine supports crossfading. Note: Your audio device must support
1586 mixing. SBLive, dmix or ALSA 1.0.9 will do the trick.
1587 * Shuffle the queue list in the queue manager. (BR 108861)
1588 * The audio plugin (autodetect, ALSA, esd etc.) for xine-engine is now
1590 * Playlist-Browser now remembers the state and layout of its tree view.
1591 * Show a stop icon next to the track to stop playing after.
1592 * Miniature player window for the minimalists out there! (BR 85876)
1593 * "Stop Playing After Track" now also works for queued tracks.
1594 * "Open in External Browser" button for Lyrics Tab, patch from Nick
1595 Tryon (Dhraakellian). <dhraak@gmail.com>
1596 * Funky shadow effect for the album cover @ Context-Browser and OSD.
1598 * Create playlists by dragging tracks onto the Playlist Category in the
1599 PlaylistBrowser. (BR 75029)
1600 * Show OSD when pausing and unpausing. (BR 104508)
1601 * Make 'The' prefix of artists be transparent in the collection
1602 browser and sort accordingly. (BR 85959)
1605 * TagLib version 1.4 is required.
1606 * Renamed "Track Name" column to "Filename", "Extension" to "Type".
1607 * "Use hardware volume mixer" option has been removed.
1608 * "Play AudioCD" gets disabled for engines that don't support KIO.
1609 * The OSD (by default) and systray tooltip now show the same infos in
1610 the same order as the columns in the playlist.
1611 * xine-engine's configuration dialog has been reworked and simplified.
1612 * xine-engine has been given the highest engine plugin rank.
1613 * Systray tooltip now shows "elapsed time / total time" for the length.
1616 * When playing, the text in the current track's columns wouldn't get
1617 ellipsii added if the column was too short.
1618 * Dragging 'All Collection' smart playlist made amaroK hang.
1619 * Compilations reported incorrect number of tracks in the Context
1620 Browser. (BR 109651)
1621 * Track play icon remains even when stopped playing. (BR 107284)
1622 * Sometimes valid tracks were not submitted to AudioScrobbler. (BR 100278)
1623 * Current playlist is now being remembered when amaroK crashes. (BR 98689)
1624 * Playlist-Browser saves its state after each change, so that no data
1625 is lost when amaroK crashes. (BR 108814)
1626 * Crash when trying to save Smart Playlists after creating a Collection
1628 * Context menu of compilations was empty in context browser.
1629 * Don't append albums and compilations when clicking on text in the
1630 context browser. (BR 98797)
1631 * xine-engine: pre-amp for the equalizer works now. (BR 104882)
1632 * Crash when changing the number of minimum upcoming tracks right after
1633 starting amaroK. (BR 108251)
1638 * New DCOP call "collection: scanCollectionChanges" Scans for changes made
1640 * Support for "media:" URLs. Patch by Sergio Cambra <sergio@ensanjose.net>
1642 * Support for visualizations in the Helix engine.
1643 * Queue manager to help organise your queued tracks. (BR 90594)
1644 * Ability to create Smart Playlists based on file path. (BR 92467)
1645 * Per track scripting via custom playlist context menu items.
1646 * Added advanced, Google-esque syntax to the playlist filter. Lets you do
1647 things like artist:sirenia, "pink floyd", artist:"pink floyd", or even
1648 score:>50. When just typing words, it works as before. (BR 99312)
1651 * Upgraded included SQLite library to version 3.2.2.
1652 * Bumped GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins dependency to version 0.8.6.
1653 * aKode-engine has been disabled (too buggy/incomplete).
1654 * Repopulate upcoming tracks on demand when using dynamic mode.
1655 * Remodel the playlist browser to incorporate dynamic mode more fully.
1658 * Don't show textual URLs in Wikipedia Tab. (BR 108031)
1659 * Don't refresh the collection view on update scans, if nothing changed.
1660 * xine-engine: Don't pop up hundreds of error messages when something
1661 goes wrong. Patch from John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net> (BR 101646)
1662 * Automatic theme download with KNewStuff works now. (BR 107313)
1663 * Clicking on "Lookup track at musicbrainz" use %2520 for spaces in URL.
1665 * Crash when loading dynamic playlists without a collection.
1666 * Crash when saving smart playlist without a collection.
1667 * Do not call TagLib::MPEG::File for non-mpeg files - some FLAC files
1668 would cause the CPU to start running in circles. (BR 107029)
1669 * Many Helix engine improvements.
1670 * Crash when dragging playlist items into Playlist Browser. (BR 107709)
1671 * Improved context display when playing radio streams with xine-engine.
1672 * Number of album tracks was incorrect when showing statistics by album.
1674 * Massive performance speedup for the default analyzer (BlockAnalyzer).
1675 * Dynamic mode will grab tracks from closed playlists.
1676 * Covermanager tooltips were persistent even when window closed. Tooltips
1677 have now been replaced with statusbar text. (BR 106976)
1678 * Turning off dynamic mode when items were filtered only 're-enabled' the
1680 * Disable random mode on startup if dynamic mode is on. (BR 107311)
1681 * The user is warned if saving tags failed. (BR 91568)
1682 * Sub-Folders in Playlist Browser are correctly saved and restored.
1683 * Crash after clicking on remove playlists in dynamic mode.
1684 * Crash on Context Menu in dynamic mode.
1689 * Add Media dialog allows for multiple file selection. (BR 105903)
1690 * The browser-sidebar has been redesigned for improved usability.
1691 * Cue file sheet support. Patch from Martin Ehmke <ehmke@gmx.de>.
1693 * New OSD text token, %playcount, will write the playcount.
1694 * SmartPlaylists are editable. (BR 91036)
1695 * PlaylistBrowser gets a makeover!
1696 * New playlist column "Playcount" for track play counts.
1697 * New playlist column "Extension" allows easy sorting of playlist for
1698 compatible file types for portable media players.
1699 * Ability to save streams to the PlaylistBrowser (BR 91075, BR 104139)
1700 * New DCOP call "playlist: popupMessage" Displays a popup message box
1701 in the playlist window..
1702 * New "year - album" - group by mode for collection browser. (BR 94845)
1703 * New DCOP call "player: setScoreByPath(url, int)". Sets score of a track
1704 specified by it's path.
1705 * New DCOP call "player: setScore(int)". Sets score of the current track.
1706 * New DCOP call "player: path()". Returns the path of the current track.
1707 * New DCOP call "playlist: saveM3u(path, relativePaths)".
1708 * New ScriptManager notification: "volumeChange: int".
1709 * Tooltips for album covers in the CoverManager. (BR 103996)
1710 * Automatic download of themes and scripts via KNewStuff.
1711 * Different analyzers available for the playlist window.
1712 * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatTrack" sets repeat track on or
1714 * HelixPlayer-engine.
1715 * 'Load' and 'Append' entries for smart playlist context menus. (BR 99213)
1716 * Support for reading embedded images from ID3 tags. (BR 88492)
1717 * Wikipedia tab in ContextBrowser allows for artist biography retrieval
1718 and more, supporting 9 different languages! (BR 98050) (BR 104383)
1719 * Show "title by artist" on playlists titlebar and taskbar. (BR 97670)
1720 * Option to show stats in the Home tab by album. Patch from Cédric
1721 Brégardis <cedric.bregardis@free.fr>.
1722 * New DCOP call "script: listRunningScripts()". Returns a list of all
1723 currently running scripts. (BR 102649)
1724 * New DCOP call "script: stopScript(name)". Stops a script. (BR 102649)
1725 * New DCOP call "script: runScript(name)". Runs a script. (BR 102649)
1726 * New form of playlist manipulation - Dynamic Mode.
1727 * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatPlaylist" sets repeat playlist on or
1729 * Add Score widget into the tag editor. (BR 100084)
1730 * Support for PostgreSQL as database backend. (BR 99863)
1733 * "amarokscript" filename extension is now mandatory for script packages.
1734 * Append Suggestions has been superceded by Dynamic Mode.
1735 * Add a label (with shortcut) to the Playlist filter.
1738 * Message box when saving of playlist failed (BR 105520)
1739 * Avoid weird results when fetching lyrics with slow connections.
1740 (BR 103561) (BR 101327)
1741 * Compensate for reversed slider widget in reverse layout locales, such as
1742 Hebrew and Arabic. Patch from Assaf Gillat <gillata@gmail.com>.
1744 * Playlist playMedia now works with streams.
1745 * Context Browser is updated when current track's tags are changed.
1747 * Clearing the playlist while playing a track does not lead to a confusing
1748 interface anymore. (BR 103510)
1751 ==BEGIN KDE 3.3 DEPENDENCY==
1755 * Queue selected tracks shortcut, Ctrl+D. (BR 83675)
1758 * The first engine entry in the config dialog was always blank.
1759 * If you filtered by more than one word in Collection Browser, adding
1760 expandable items (eg: artists or albums) wouldn't work. (BR 100150)
1761 * Updating the collection without any changes being made to it kept
1762 the Update button disabled forever.
1763 * Application freezes when switching shoutcast streams. (BR 103890)
1764 * MusicBrainz lookup was not escaping quote characters. (BR 103740)
1765 * Fixed crash when clicking the "clear" button in CoverManager's filter
1767 * Update lyrics page on new radio stream metadata. (BR 99725)
1768 * xine-engine was reporting bogus tracklengths for ogg vorbis. (BR 102547)
1773 * Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
1774 * New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not
1775 the equalizer is enabled.
1776 * OSD notification for mute.
1777 * Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
1778 * Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
1779 * View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and
1781 * You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's
1782 right-click contextmenu.
1783 * New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)".
1784 Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
1785 * New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)
1788 * Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser
1790 * Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
1791 * DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.
1794 * Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple
1796 * Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
1797 * 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
1798 * When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the
1799 real track, not the whole album.
1800 * Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
1801 * The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
1802 * Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
1803 * GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without
1805 * GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when
1806 Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
1807 * Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog.
1809 * "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
1810 * Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
1811 * amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524)
1812 (a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)
1817 * Context Browser CSS styles can now be installed and selected from the
1818 appearance settings.
1819 * Append Suggestions now has an icon in the statusbar.
1820 * When selecting multiple files, the "View/Edit Meta Information" dialog
1821 will show the tags that are common to all of them. (BR 100423)
1822 * A line graph equalizer added as a script "graphequalizer."
1825 * Add 25-track and 50-track smart-playlists.
1826 * Update current-track icons to include greater padding.
1827 * The contextbrowser now uses data:-URLs instead of temp image files, so
1828 they cannot be left on disk when amaroK terminates unexpectedly, and the
1829 Konqueror/Universal sidebar can show them when amaroK is not running.
1832 * escape '&' char in contextmenu entry (BR 101276)
1833 * Track is set as a number in the database, so shouldn't be added rounded
1834 by quotes. (BR 101208)
1835 * Rewrote the broken .pls playlist parser.
1836 * Handle delay gap between songs properly with aRts engine. (BR 90404)
1837 * Switched order of "Make playlist" and "Queue after current track" menus
1838 to avoid playlist destruction. (BR 96164 part 1)
1839 * Visualizations with LibVisual didn't work in some cases. (BR 99627)
1840 * amaroK could fail to build if the whole kdeextragear-1 module was
1841 compiled, due to conflicts with K3B on the MusicBrainz check. (BR 100906)
1842 * Images shown on OSD where incorrect for action notifications.
1843 * The handbook translations were not built when amaroK was installed from
1844 the tarball. I've written a new release script in Ruby, which can
1845 handle the new structure of kde-i18n. (BR 100498)
1846 * GStreamer-engine can now play vorbis radio streams properly, with
1847 full metadata support. (BR 89821)
1848 * GStreamer-engine now uses the "decodebin" autoplugger, which fixes
1849 the lag issues that some users had during crossfading. (BR 99570)
1853 FIX: Made the Tag-Editor only operate on visible items. (BR 100268)
1854 ADD: Database settings added to the first-run wizard.
1855 FIX: playlist2html generates UTF-8 output now. (BR 100140)
1856 FIX: Bitrate/length showed random values for untagged mp3 files. (BR 100200)
1857 FIX: Crash when recoding stream MetaData without CODEC selected. (BR 100077)
1858 CHG: Show an additional "Compilations with Artist" box in ContextBrowser.
1859 ADD: Remember collapse-state of boxes in ContextBrowser. (BR 98664)
1860 ADD: Display an error when unable to connect to MySQL.
1861 ADD: Konqueror Sidebar now has full drag and drop support.
1862 CHG: Replaced "Blue Wolf" icon with Nenad Grujicic's amaroK 1.1
1863 icon, due to legal issues.
1864 ADD: Parameter "%score" shows the current song's score in OSD.
1865 CHG: When you delete a song within amaroK, it gets removed from
1866 the Collection automatically.
1867 FIX: Directory column in the playlist was eating the first letter.
1868 ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: setStopAfterCurrent(bool)". (BR 99944)
1869 FIX: Coverfetcher: Do not crash when no cover was found. (BR 99942)
1870 ADD: Support for amazon.co.jp cover fetching
1871 CHG: Toolbar items reordered for optimal usability, as suggested by
1872 Aaron "Tom Green" Seigo.
1873 FIX: Show covers for albums containing chars '#' or '?'. (BR 96971 99780)
1874 ADD: Help file for the playlist2html script.
1875 ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: int getActiveIndex()".
1876 ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: playByIndex(int)".
1877 CHG: Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.1.3.
1878 FIX: Update the database after editing tags in playlist. (BR 99593)
1879 ADD: New DCOP function "player: trackPlayCounter". (BR 99575)
1880 ADD: .ram playlist support with code from Kaffeine. (BR 96101)
1881 FIX: amaroK can now determine the correct track-length even for formats
1882 unknown to TagLib. Makes it possible to seek e.g. in m4a tracks.
1883 ADD: Can now pick from multiple Musicbrainz results. Patch from
1884 Jonathan Halcrow <gte899j@prism.gatech.edu>. (BR 89701)
1885 ADD: May now set a custom cover on multiple albums in the Cover-Manager.
1886 ADD: Support relative path of tracks in writing playlists. (BR 91053)
1887 FIX: Don't inline-edit tags for the whole playlist's selection.
1888 FIX: Fix "Recode Tags" crash issues. (BR 95041)
1889 ADD: "Set Custom Cover" can fetch remote images. (BR 90499)
1892 ADD: "Repeat Track" status is reflected by an icon in the playlist.
1893 ADD: New icons from tightcode for statusbar and repeatTrack.
1894 ADD: New Smart-Playlist "Ever Played".
1895 CHG: Bumped GStreamer version requirement to 0.8.4.
1896 CHG: Made it possible to use artsdsink with GStreamer again.
1897 CHG: Don't read m3u files recursively when dropping a folder on the
1898 playlist. No more doubled entries.
1899 FIX: Shoutcast radio with GStreamer is improved, no more dropouts when
1901 ADD: The "Similar Artists" feature (using Audioscrobbler) can now be
1902 switched off. (BR 95280)
1903 FIX: Error in Shoutcast http-request, which made it impossible to play
1904 many radio streams with GStreamer and aRts. (BR 97211, 98569)
1905 CHG: Better default directory for selecting a custom cover.
1906 FIX: ContextBrowser reloads after setting a custom cover. (BR 96548)
1907 FIX: Cover-Manager's full-screen view works with Bughira (brushed metal).
1908 ADD: Script-Manager can auto-run scripts on application startup.
1909 ADD: aKode engine, depends on KDE 3.4. No configure check yet.
1910 FIX: Don't add non-audio files to the Collection.
1911 CHG: We now use the SqlLoader, which greatly improves the performance of
1912 adding stuff to the playlist from SmartPlaylists and the Collection.
1915 ADD: It is now possible to select the right image if there are multiple
1916 results from Amazon. Patch from Gregory Isabelli <g_isabelli@yahoo.fr>.
1918 CHG: Reorganized the DCOP interface. We used to have all DCOP functions in the
1919 "player" group. Now it's splitted up into several categories. Attention
1920 script writers: Adjust your DCOP calls!
1921 FIX: The loader is now more robust and should always find amarokapp.
1922 CHG: The search-browser has been integrated into the file-browser.
1923 CHG: OSD can have fake transparency and new fancy shadow.
1924 ADD: DCOP function "shortStatusMessage", shows a temporary message on the
1925 application's statusbar.
1926 FIX: Frequent crashes when writing tags. (BR 95344)
1927 FIX: CoverManager updates its status display correctly.
1928 FIX: "isPlaying" DCOP function now works correctly. (BR 90894)
1929 ADD: Automatic crash report generator, sends backtraces to amaroK HQ.
1930 ADD: DCOP function "saveCurrentPlaylist". Writes the playlist to current.xml,
1931 for scripts that need to access the playlist contents.
1932 ADD: Playlist2html, a script for playlist exporting. (BR 96199)
1933 ADD: Improved statusbar, with animated error notification widget.
1934 ADD: New progress display system, can show multiple expandable progress
1935 widgets in the statusbar.
1936 ADD: Alarm script, starts playing music at specified alarm time.
1937 ADD: Script-Manager for DCOP script extensions is now functional. Refer to the
1938 amaroK Wiki for information on script writing.
1939 ADD: Collection-Browser shows a help message in flat-mode when filter is
1941 CHG: It is possible to select the Database Engine (SQLite, MySQL) runtime,
1942 without amaroK restart. New Database Engines can be added, they need to
1943 inherit DbConnection and implement its' virtual methods (see
1944 SqliteConnection and MySqlConnection).
1945 CHG: New amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by Da-Flow.
1946 FIX: Possible crash when enabling Player-Window. (BR 94668)
1949 ADD: Smart Playlists can have a random order or a score weighted random order
1951 ADD: Show total length of selected songs in statusbar. (BR 90284)
1952 ADD: Context-Browser now caches the tab widgets. Patch from Matias Costa
1953 <mcc3@alu.um.es>. (BR 95999)
1954 FIX: RAND and REP buttons were always enabled at startup. (BR 95861)
1955 ADD: Implemented "Append Suggestions" functionality. It means that when
1956 enabled, amaroK will append a couple of suggested songs to playlist when
1957 you play a track. This produces a continuous playlist, something similar
1958 to listening to radio.
1959 ADD: Implemented "Play Media..." functionality.
1960 FIX: Playlist-Browser was appending to playlist when clicking "Load". Now it
1961 replaces the current playlist again, as intended.
1962 ADD: Profile for KDELIRC (Remote Controls). Patch by Dirk Ziegelmeier
1964 ADD: Remove Duplicates now also removes dead entries from playlist.
1965 FIX: Accept album-dragging from the ContextBrowser. (BR 86020)
1966 FIX: Configure check was missing for the Konqueror Sidebar (depends on
1968 FIX: Browser splitter was drawn incorrectly with some styles. (BR 95333)
1969 ADD: DCOP call for relative seek. Patch by Andreas Pfaller. (BR 84989)
1970 CHG: Bumped TagLib dependency to 1.3.1. (1.3 is too damn buggy)
1971 FIX: CTRL-M can show the menubar again after hiding. (BR 94139)
1972 ADD: Support for last.fm streams.
1973 FIX: amaroK icon shows correctly in window decoration under GNOME.
1974 ADD: Support for ID3v2 cover images. (Thanks to M. Thiesen!) (BR 88492)
1975 ADD: DCOP calls for the status of Random Mode, Repeat Playlist and Repeat
1977 ADD: DCOP call to return the sample rate.
1978 ADD: DCOP call to return the track number. (BR 94825)
1979 FIX: GStreamer-engine provides better scope synchronisation.
1980 ADD: Save current track position and play queue on exit. (BR 90379)
1981 FIX: Fix Directory column on playlist, show absolute directory path instead of
1982 empty string. (BR 90361)
1983 ADD: DCOP call to scan your collection. (BR 84621)
1984 FIX: When an engine fails to load, respect the rank while choosing the next
1988 FIX: Classic amaroK theme looks better.
1989 ADD: Context Browser has CSS styling.
1990 FIX: Cover fetching improvements/fixes.
1991 ADD: Last played: yesterday, etc. in ContextBrowser.
1992 FIX: Big speedup for PlaylistLoader, when adding many items.
1993 ADD: Show songs you once played, but didn't play for the longest time on
1994 ContextBrowser's Home-page. (least played) (BR 89479)
1995 FIX: Don't crash on song switch, when there's only one visible playlist item
1996 and repeat-list is activated. (BR 94030)
1997 CHG: Add and queue tracks after the current track. (BR 94121)
1998 ADD: DCOP call to raise the equalizer configuration dialog.
1999 ADD: Konqueror sidebar to view playing info and control amaroK.
2000 ADD: DCOP call to clear the playlist. (BR 90149)
2001 ADD: DCOP call to enable/disable the equalizer.
2002 ADD: DCOP call to return the score of the currently playing track.
2003 ADD: Audioscrobbler submit queue stored on disk. Tracks that are listened when
2004 offline will be available for submitting later.
2005 CHG: "Start Scan" button was renamed to "Update". Now it starts an incremental
2006 scan instead of a full rescan.
2007 FIX: Lyrics parsing failed for certain songs. (BR 94269)
2008 ADD: xine-engine saves config, and implements crossfade, bug fixed too.
2009 ADD: Player-Window can also show the BlockAnalyzer.
2010 CHG: Run incremental scanning once a minute instead of every 30 seconds.
2011 FIX: When collection scanning was interrupted with Cancel, incremental
2012 scanning didn't work any longer.
2013 CHG: Handle incremental file scanning in a thread. Now the GUI doesn't get
2014 blocked every 30 seconds, anymore. (BR 93564)
2015 ADD: CollectionBrowser now offers two operation modes:
2016 The classical TreeView and a new FlatView (like the WinAmp Library).
2017 FIX: Caching of local cover images was broken for non-unique filenames.
2019 FIX: "Visualizations" menu entry was always disabled.
2020 FIX: Play button was sometimes stuck in disabled state.
2021 FIX: OSD was showing "%artist - %track" instead of "%artist - %title".
2022 FIX: Forward command line option --engine to amarokapp.
2023 FIX: CoverFetcher was always looking for "album - album".
2026 ADD: Full support for Audioscrobbler, including submission of tracks.
2027 FIX: Arts engine resumes from position when session is restored.
2028 ADD: Vorbis stream metadata support (GStreamer-engine). (BR 82378)
2029 ADD: Cover image and lyric fetchers include filters for common extensions,
2030 such as (Disc 1). (BR 90630)
2031 ADD: Ability to choose from four different Amazon locales. (BR 90664)
2032 ADD: OSD now draws gradient instead of solid colour.
2033 ADD: 'Stop after current song' functionality. (BR 88652)
2034 FIX: Queue function from context/collection browsers actually properly queues
2036 ADD: MySQL database support. Patch by Andreas Mair <am_ml@linogate.com>.
2037 Please refer to mailing list for detailed instructions.
2038 ADD: Metadata history for streams in Context-Browser. (BR 89839)
2039 ADD: Command line option --engine.
2040 ADD: OSD text is now configurable, and it displays the album cover.
2041 FIX: Remote folders are read recursively when dropped on the playlist.
2042 FIX: Audiocd protocol in filebrowser had empty folders.
2043 ADD: Cache system for current-track animation in playlist. Reduces CPU load
2044 when the playlist is visible.
2045 ADD: 10-band IIR equalizer for GStreamer and xine engines.
2046 FIX: The background gradient effect in Context-Browser is now much faster. The
2047 gradient also looks nicer. (BR 91276)
2048 FIX: Password-protected streams did not work correctly. (BR 91184). Patch by
2049 <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
2050 ADD: NMM-engine was rewritten and updated for the latest NMM release. Supports
2051 audio and video playback.
2052 ADD: Cover-Manager supports drag-and-drop.
2053 ADD: Tags are now read from the Collection database if they are already
2054 stored. This speeds up adding items to the playlist. (BR 90137)
2055 ADD: Context-browser shows "Suggested Tracks", utilizing audioscrobbler.
2056 FIX: Configure does no longer print "Good - Configure has finished" when a
2057 dependency is missing.
2058 ADD: Intelligent automatic resize for playlist columns
2059 ADD: Shaded current-track marker in playlist.
2060 ADD: Automatic song lyrics display.
2061 CHG: Internal SQLite upgraded to 3.0.8.
2064 FIX: Crash when using GStreamer-engine on 64bit. (BR 90869)
2065 CHG: New splash screen by Nenad Grujicic <mchitman@neobee.net>.
2066 FIX: Crash when fetching 1 missing cover using the fetch button. (BR 90673)
2067 REM: Unsupported option "Show Metadata in Playlist".
2068 ADD: Menubar (optional).
2069 FIX: GStreamer-engine now resumes playback at correct position.
2070 ADD: iCandy for Context-Browser: Background gradient and toolbar.
2071 CHG: Collection-Browser now has a toolbar instead of menubar.
2072 FIX: With "Title Streaming" disabled GStreamer could not play streams.
2073 FIX: Osssink is now the default sink for GStreamer. If sink initialization
2074 fails, a dialog will ask to select another sink.
2075 FIX: Pausing failed on some systems with GStreamer-engine. (BR 90417)
2076 FIX: Never scan the same directory twice.
2077 FIX: Disable CD-burning menu for streams. (BR 90336)
2078 ADD: Open Cover-Manager from Context-Browser popup-menu and main menu.
2079 FIX: Made amaroK build with --disable-amazon flag.
2080 FIX: Docs translations were not installed correctly. (BR 90307)
2081 FIX: GStreamer-engine refused to play some mp3 files. (BR 90317)
2084 FIX: Huge speedup for Context-Browser, makes changing tracks faster.
2085 ADD: Progress display for Cover-Manager.
2086 CHG: Systray animation is now optional.
2087 CHG: Updated included sqlite to 3.0.7 (stable).
2088 ADD: Tag editor can operate on multiple files (mass tagging).
2089 FIX: Collection encoding broken for non-latin1 characters. (BR 89747)
2090 ADD: Popup-menu for cover images in Context-Browser.
2091 FIX: The first track to play is now random for random-mode. (BR 77055)
2092 FIX: Show systray on startup. (BR 89661)
2093 FIX: Let xine recognise tracks that have non lower-case extensions.
2096 ADD: K3B integration for burning CDs. (BR 88052)
2097 ADD: Third category for Collection-Browser. (BR 83609)
2098 ADD: Playlist search now supports categories. (BR 86296)
2099 ADD: Support for MAS (Media Application Server). MAS-engine
2100 is in experimental state.
2101 ADD: Context-Browser shows information about radio streams.
2102 ADD: Custom Smart Playlists with built-in editor.
2103 ADD: Systray icon shows track progress and play status.
2104 CHG: Imported SQLite3 and ported CollectionDB.
2105 ADD: "Cool-Streams", a list of amaroK Squad recommended streams for
2107 ADD: Detecting Sampler/VA discs in CollectionBrowser (shown as
2108 "Various Artists"). (BR 81683)
2109 ADD: Configuration GUI for xine-engine.
2110 ADD: Next and previous track buttons for Tag-Editor.
2111 ADD: Player-window adapts to current color scheme.
2112 ADD: Crossfading and fade-in/out function for GStreamer-Engine.
2113 ADD: Genre and Favorite Tracks by Artist smart playlist in the
2115 ADD: IMMS-like rating system for songs.
2116 FIX: aRts-engine has been ported to the new engine interface and is
2117 available again (but not recommended).
2118 FIX: Try to autodetect Sampler-Discs and show them properly in the
2119 Contextbrowser. (BR 87182)
2120 FIX: Multiple items can now be selected in the CoverManager.
2121 Thanks John Hughes (BR 87584)
2122 FIX: Various fixes for certain Artist/Album names, which had problems
2124 FIX: Sorting the collection is now case-insensitive. (BR 84141)
2125 CHG: Symlink infinite recursion check for collection scan.
2126 FIX: Show all accessible cover images in the tooltip. (BR 87283)
2127 FIX: Clicking an album in the ContextBrowser adds items in the correct
2128 order, now. (BR 87733)
2131 ADD: Wizard for configuring amaroK on first startup.
2132 CHG: Made it possible to use the next/previous buttons when amaroK is
2134 ADD: DCOP call to switch Random Mode on or off. (BR 84460)
2135 ADD: DCOP call to retrieve current track's cover image. (BR 85364)
2136 FIX: Problem with cover-saving for certain artist/album names. (BR 84171)
2137 FIX: Show contextual information for songs, even if they are not in the
2138 current collection instead of an ugly empty box.
2139 ADD: GstEngine: Support for custom output plugin parameters. (BR 83949)
2140 ADD: CoverManager - for downloading and managing album cover images.
2141 CHG: Refactored engine plugin interface. Each engine can now provide specific
2143 ADD: As-you-type search for FileBrowser.
2144 ADD: Seeking with mousewheel in playerwindow.
2145 REM: Stream-Browser.
2146 ADD: New meta-info dialog, with editable tags and MusicBrainz support.
2147 ADD: Inline-tag editing auto-completion based on the Collection Database.
2148 ADD: Deleting files physically from playlist context menu. (BR 75208)
2149 ADD: Fadeouts for GStreamer-Engine.
2150 ADD: New Playlist Browser, organizes multiple playlists, and offers smart
2151 playlist functionality.
2152 ADD: Support for redirected streams and streams with no specified port.
2153 ADD: KIO support for GStreamer engine. Allows playing media via all
2154 protocols supported by KIO (ftp, audiocd, fish, etc).
2155 ADD: SearchBrowser operation can now be aborted.
2156 ADD: Progressbar in CollectionBrowser informs about scan progress, and a
2157 button was added for aborting the scan. (BR 83019)
2158 ADD: Playlist sliders (volume and position) now move directly when clicked
2159 outside of the handle. (BR 83611)
2160 ADD: Untagged tracks now go into Collection too, listed as "unknown".
2161 ADD: Automatic album cover fetching is back and improved.
2162 ADD: Option for automatically switching to Context when playback is started.
2163 CHG: Stream timeout value is now determined from KDE user settings.
2164 ADD: Support for password-protected streams, by wef <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
2165 FIX: GStreamer engine must not allow non-audio filetypes in playlist.
2166 ADD: Icon for "Menu" button in toolbar. Improves Usability.
2169 ADD: xine-engine plugin, audio only.
2170 FIX: aRts-engine: Compatibility with newer aRts versions improved.
2171 FIX: aRts-engine: Streams sometimes stopping shortly after playback was
2173 CHG: Increased stream connect timeout to 12 seconds.
2176 FIX: Short dropouts after starting a stream with GStreamer.
2177 FIX: amaroK starting invisible when systray icon is disabled.
2178 FIX: Playlist analyzer looks freaky on some systems. (BR 83671)
2179 FIX: Display filename in title column for wav files. (BR 83650)
2180 FIX: Don't show crash dialog when no engine plugins are found.
2181 FIX: Compile issue for KDE < 3.2.1 users. Sorry :(
2184 FIX: Plugin versions are validated. Prevents crashes with ancient plugins.
2185 FIX: Configure now checks for gtk/gdk headers for the XMMSwrapper.
2186 REM: Removed cover download feature for this release.
2187 FIX: Do not crash if an unreadable dir is added to the collection.
2188 FIX: Check database-sanity on startup and recreate broken tables (BR 83205).
2189 FIX: CollectionBrowser was broken, when amaroK was running "localized".
2190 FIX: TitleProxy hogging 100% CPU when unable to connect to server.
2191 CHG: Bumped GStreamer requirement to 0.8.1.
2192 ADD: Glowing player window icons.
2193 ADD: amaroK finally remembers if it was hidden on exit.
2194 ADD: OSDPreview now has snap to regions.
2195 FIX: Newly shown columns in playlist can now be resized.
2196 FIX: BR 82020: next/prev buttons disabled when they shouldn't be.
2197 ADD: ToolbarAnalyzer remembers it's framerate, allowed fps: {50, 40, 30, 20}.
2198 ADD: Full streaming audio support for GStreamer engine.
2199 FIX: Don't allow user to get into a situation where there is no Menu.
2200 ADD: Using Welcome-page power-links you can switch between XMMS and amaroK mode.
2201 CHG: New icons and splash screen, by Roman Becker <roman@formmorf.de>.
2202 ADD: Allow the current GL analyzer to be detached/attached from the
2203 main window with the 'd' key.
2204 FIX: Filtering the collection now searches the second category, too (BR 81681).
2205 FIX: Filter in playlist was only working for the first argument.
2206 CHG: Collection-Monitor now processes removed dirs in a thread.
2207 ADD: Added a switch to toggle OSD's text-shadow. (BR 82011).
2208 ADD: More detailed track information dialog for Collection Browser.
2209 FIX: Track length was always 0 for certain filetypes (e.g. mod, wav) (BR 82673).
2210 FIX: Gst engine refusing to add certain filetypes to the playlist, when
2211 the engine was idle (BR 82713).
2212 FIX: Rare playlist redraw bug, which resulted in messed up items.
2215 ADD: CollectionDB now caches and rescales images. This binds cover art usage
2216 in amaroK to the collection, but offers greatly improved speed for cover
2217 retrieval and uses less memory.
2218 FIX: Cover not shown in ContextBrowser, when song gets played for the first
2219 time ever (BR 81241).
2220 ADD: Cover art fetcher, downloads album cover images from amazon.com.
2221 ADD: Configure->Playback->Device && default device option for audiosinks.
2222 ADD: ContextBrowser now also shows your overall-favorites and the newest tracks
2223 in your collection. Therefor I had to reset the statistics, sorry.
2224 FIX: Decode %-encoded characters in filenames, like %2f for a slash. (BR 74576).
2225 CHG: Songs you click in ContextBrowser will now directly start to play and won't
2226 be added to the playlist, if they already are there.
2227 FIX: "Start Scan" menu-entry gets disabled while scanning. (BR 81619).
2228 FIX: Directories with non-ascii chars don't get scanned (CB) in multibyte locales.
2229 CHG: Enhanced "Fill-Down" feature for track column (auto-increment) (BR 81194).
2230 FIX: Closing xmms-visualizations freezes amaroK (BR 81326).
2231 FIX: CollectionBrowser does not sort by tracknumber (BR 79600).
2232 FIX: ContextBrowser's URLRequests need to be escaped.
2233 FIX: Always show OSD (if enabled) on volume changes.
2234 FIX: Filtering the collection using tokens with number(s) at the beginning
2235 or end failed. (BR 81621).
2236 FIX: FileBrowser didn't remember its current folder (BR 81816).
2237 ADD: Expand/collapse items by doubleclicking in Collection (BR 81710).
2238 FIX: Allow OSD still to be shown via shortcut when disabled (BR 80388).
2239 FIX: Collection: live-monitoring dirs for changes works again.
2240 FIX: Changing volume by mousewheel on systray icon works again.
2241 ADD: Collection automatically rescans itself on startup.
2242 ADD: "Add to Playlist" feature in CollectionBrowser, appends tracks to playlist.
2243 ADD: Clear button for CollectionBrowser search.
2244 FIX: Problem with invisible "Play next" marker in playlist.
2245 FIX: Don't try to create sql-tables on every startup, but only on
2246 sql-scheme (DATABASE_VERSION) changes.
2247 FIX: Display splash screen on correct desktop with Xinerama.
2248 CHG: CollectionBrowser filter now works in "search-as-you-type" mode.
2249 FIX: Prevent TitleProxy from showing the same metadata over and over.
2250 FIX: Compatibility bugfixes to TitleProxy, thanks to Daniel Molkentin
2251 <danimo@kde.org>. I think we've now got 100% Shoutcast compatibility.
2252 ADD: Allow changing volume by using the mousewheel anywhere on the toolbar.
2253 FIX: Wheel-scrolling toolbar's volume slider doesn't change volume (BR 81155).
2254 FIX: ContextBrowser is now shown in proper colors for every scheme.
2255 CHG: Added track's physical location to the Meta Information dialog.
2256 FIX: Show last playtime in localtime instead of UTC.
2257 FIX: ContextBrowser not showing all items for current album.
2258 FIX: Not all SQL queries were "string-escaped".
2259 ADD: Added statistics database, which keeps track of how often and when you play
2263 ADD: Additional volume slider for playlist window.
2264 ADD: ContextBrowser shows you images and information to the current song/artist.
2265 It depends on the collection and is presented as an HTML widget.
2266 CHG: Improved color handling and visual feedback in the GUI.
2267 ADD: Global shortcut for play/pause action, as requested by multimedia-keyboard
2269 CHG: Small player-window can be switched off now.
2270 FIX: CollectionBrowser out of order after scanning.
2271 FIX: TitleProxy partly rewritten. Should be more compatible with many streams
2272 and not be able to freeze the app any longer.
2273 FIX: When playing a stream with title streaming activated, the track is not
2274 marked as playing (BR 79999).
2275 FIX: Invoking "Track Information" in Collection Browser sometimes crashed
2276 the application (BR 80266).
2277 FIX: In CollectionBrowser's folder setup dialog pressing cancel did not abort
2278 (BR 80451). Thanks to Michael Pyne <pynm0001@comcast.net> for patch.
2279 ADD: Option for selecting sound output system (OSS/Alsa). Currently only
2280 used with GStreamer engine.
2281 CHG: Extended and updated handbook, thanks to Mike Diehl <madpenguin8@yahoo.com>.
2282 ADD: Context menu item "Make Playlist" in Collection Browser generates new
2283 playlists on the fly, without the need for drag-and-drop.
2284 CHG: Renamed several files and folders in the source code tree, resulting in
2285 improved code accessibility.
2288 FIX: Crash on AMD64 due to assumption about pointer size.
2289 CHG: SQLite library sourcecode now included with amaroK.
2290 CHG: The collection-thread now inserts its data in a temporary database while
2291 scanning, which allows us to safely use the collection in the meantime.
2292 This is done by two concurrent sqlite-connections (thread-safe). Wrote a
2293 new class named CollectionDB, which handles the database communication
2295 ADD: URLDrag from Playlist, so you can drag and drop to xmms. Doesn't work with
2296 the FileBrowser yet, but it will!
2297 CHG: CollectionBrowser now fills the database inside of a thread, resulting in
2298 improved performance.
2299 ADD: Mini track-position slider in statusbar.
2300 FIX: Don't try to crossfade with engines that do not support this feature.
2301 ADD: XMMS visualization plugins can be configured with their GUI.
2302 FIX: Collection filtering had some regressions
2303 FIX: Loader on some systems not able to start amaroK.
2304 FIX: Switching engines at runtime breaking volume control.
2305 FIX: GstEngine skipping tracks directly after starting, when crossfading enabled.
2306 CHG: Database system now works with linked tables. Saves hdd-space and cpu-time.
2307 CHG: If you remove the current song from the playlist, we don't define the next
2308 song anymore, but let it be randomly selected (only when random mode is on!)
2309 CHG: Random Mode now respects the playlist filter and only picks items, which are
2310 currently visible in the playlist. Also removed a crash situation.
2311 CHG: Removed the search-token index. Searching now iterates through the playlist,
2312 offering direct and specific access to the metadata.
2313 FIX: Bug where fill-down would cause lots of extra tags to be written when a search is
2314 in progress (BR 79482).
2315 FIX: Defect in plugin framework code, leading to a crash on some systems
2316 during engine plugin initialization.
2317 FIX: Restoring current playlist on startup (BR 79436, BR 79439).
2318 ADD: Searching the Collection with a filter.
2319 FIX: BrowserWin's QLabels are painted white in amaroK's own color scheme.
2322 ADD: Search Browser - search stuff on your hdd
2323 ADD: song count on playlist statusbar
2324 ADD: support for XMMS visualization plugins
2325 ADD: Collection Browser - a database powered music collection manager
2326 ADD: Playlist toolbar is now configurable
2327 ADD: toolbar analyzer in playlist window
2328 ADD: use XML playlists internally within amaroK so tags don't have to be
2329 loaded/reloaded all the time. Makes undo/redo much quicker.
2330 FIX: non latin1 locale issues with loading directories and tags (thanks Leo Zhu)
2331 ADD: clicking shuffle will sort the playlist by the nextQueue first, and
2333 ADD: Play Next can now handle several songs through a queue. The queue can be
2334 manipulated by using the context menu or by CTRL+right clicking.
2335 ADD: much improved gstreamer engine, now working with visualizations
2336 CHG: GstEngine requires gstreamer-0.8
2337 FIX: Show move pointer instead of hand when moving preview OSD.
2338 ADD: sorting by artist subsorts by album and track, sorting by album subsorts
2340 ADD: browserTabs float over the playlist when in set to not overlap
2341 FIX: communication loader<-->amarok failing on FreeBSD
2342 FIX: loader forgetting to close socket descriptors
2343 FIX: FileBrowser remembers that state of its view between sessions
2344 CHG: converted engines to plugins. they are now dynamically loaded at runtime
2345 ADD: plugin framework
2346 CHG: made amaroK aRts-independent. with the --without-arts configure switch
2347 it's possible to build the app without aRts support, using only NMM or GST
2348 ADD: Shift drag appends items to the end of the playlist.
2349 FIX: startup notification icon staying on screen when amaroK started by loader
2350 FIX: amaroK showing the "X" icon instead of the correct one
2353 CHG: playlistBrowser removed until next release
2354 FIX: playerWidget font is now configurable, you need to start new track for the
2355 scrolling marquee to get updated. Default font is used by default.
2356 FIX: fixed several stability issues concerning stream-playback
2357 ADD: whatsthis for all configurable options.
2358 FIX: amaroK registering with dcop as "amarok-PID". it's back to just "amarok" now.
2359 FIX: OSD not updating correctly when changing volume
2362 ADD: "Show Current Track" button in playlist.
2363 ADD: Volume OSD when changing with mousewheel over trayicon.
2364 CHG: software volume mixer uses a logarithmic function to make the scale more natural
2365 ADD: Global shortcuts to display OSD and increase/decrease volume.
2366 (Win+o and Win+KP_Add/KP_Subtract by default, respectively)
2367 ADD: DCOP calls to control OSD and playback volume
2368 ADD: ported config-GUI for audio decoders to new engine (works currently with
2370 FIX: show correct track-length when playing .mod or .sid with aRts-engine
2371 ADD: loader application, starts and controls amaroK. it reduces the lag when handing
2372 command line arguments to amaroK and makes the splash load faster
2373 ADD: playlist items, which couldn't be opened / read (for some reason) will be marked
2374 with a grey background color
2375 ADD: pasting clipboard selection into playlist with MidButton, X11-style
2376 CHG: refined on-screen-display with more polished look
2377 FIX: skipping broken/non-existant tracks
2378 CHG: If the current song is paused, the Play Button will resume, not restart it.
2379 FIX: respect "hide playlist with main window" and playlist minimize/hide behaviour.
2380 ADD: new OSD configuration options: bgcolor, screen position
2383 CHG: some look-and-feel polishing in the main player window
2384 ADD: option to turn off analyzers
2385 ADD: splash-screen shown during program startup (optional)
2386 FIX: made stream playback with TitleProxy more stable (by using an unbuffered socket)
2387 ADD: show stream metadata in on-screen-display
2388 CHG: transformed "EQ" button into a togglebutton, which can also hide the effect browser
2389 ADD: new OpenGL analyzer, contributed by Enrico Ros <eros.kde@email.it>
2390 FIX: FreeBSD compile fixes, contributed by Markus Brueffer <brueffer@phoenix-systems.de>
2391 FIX: rewritten configure: checks properly for kdemultimedia presence,
2392 and adds --without-opengl and --without-gstreamer arguments
2395 ADD: display warning when artsd is not running with realtime priority
2396 ADD: Audioproperties are loaded as you scroll the playlist and get saved to playlist files
2397 ADD: If trackname column is hidden, the title column will show the trackname until a title
2398 tag can replace it. If no title tag is found the trackname stays.
2399 CHG: Pressing "back" in Random Mode now works as expected and walks backwards
2400 through the list of recently played songs.
2401 ADD: TitleProxy searches for a free local port (contributed by Stefan Gehn)
2402 CHG: Random Mode now stores the recently played songs in a buffer, which prevents
2403 playing the same songs too often.
2404 ADD: "Play Next" context menu option
2405 ADD: selected aRts-effects will be remembered on next program start, including settings
2406 FIX: sort numerical playlist columns in correct order
2407 ADD: logarithmic fading algorithm makes crossfading smoother
2408 ADD: Select a series of tracks, start inline tag-editing a tag and amaroK will prompt you to
2409 edit that tag for all tracks one-by-one. Also available: fill-down.
2410 ADD: improved crossfading: will fade out smoothly when the stop button is pressed
2411 FIX: O(n) behavior for playlist scrolling fixed
2412 ADD: setting to make playlist colours the KDE defaults
2413 ADD: support for tag-editing directly in playlist
2414 CHG: replaced old FileBrowser with the comfortable fileselector from KDevelop
2415 CHG: analyzers now powered by a new, more flexible FFT routine
2416 ADD: hide/show selected playlist columns
2417 CHG: upgrade streambrowser to kderadiostation 0.5
2418 FIX: many streams not loading from browser and AddItem dialog
2419 CHG: amaroK moved out of kdenonbeta. we are now member of KDE Extra Gear 1
2420 ADD: on-screen-display (OSD), shows an overlay with information on the currently playing track
2421 CHG: use KMultiTabBar for browser selection
2422 CHG: migrated settings system to KConfig XT
2423 ADD: playlist columns for length and bitrate
2424 ADD: merged new audio engine in. this provides a generic interface class, with multiple
2425 backends. right now there is a backend for aRts and one for GStreamer (still rudimentary)
2427 ==BEGIN KDE 3.2 DEPENDENCY==
2433 ADD: added Hide/Show Playlist global shortcut (thanks gogo)
2434 CHG: mousewheel over trayicon behaviour changed
2435 CHG: search tokens can now be entered in random order
2436 ("Presley Elvis" will find "Elvis Presley")
2437 FIX: qt 3.1 compile issues
2440 FIX: compilation problem with KDE < 3.1.3
2443 FIX: KDE 3.1 compatibility re-gained
2444 ADD: hitting return in the search field of the playlist starts playback of the
2445 first visible playlist entry (Qt >=3.2 only)
2446 FIX: fixed crash bug in playlist searching
2447 FIX: fixed crash bug when removing playlist-items
2448 CHG: new layout has been adopted
2449 ADD: added accepting files dropped onto systray icon
2450 FIX: significant reduction in memory consumption for PlaylistItems
2451 FIX: hardware mixer works again
2452 CHG: replaced sliders with custom slider class, which fits better in our design
2453 FIX: exchanged c32-app-amarok.png with the correct (active) version
2454 FIX: amarok.desktop file. now we show up in the k-menu again.
2455 FIX: crossfading aRts module. the fading is now much smoother than before
2456 FIX: crossfading bug. before the fix amaroK sometimes mixed up the two xfade sources,
2457 so it sort of faded in reverse (==crap)
2458 ADD: tag reading in separate thread
2459 ADD: re-added m_optCrossFade, so we don't lose the crossfade length on switching it on/off.
2460 set default crossfade length to 2500.
2461 CHG: "Title Streaming" on by default
2462 CHG: integrated streambrowser into playlist window
2463 ADD: added dcop implementation for url adding. Relevant diffs for mediacontrol are
2465 FIX: libamarokarts detection code
2466 ADD: added long-awaited DCOP methods for manipulating the playback. This also adds
2467 integration with kdeaddons/kicker-applets/mediacontrol.
2468 CHG: moved DCOP handler to a separate class/file
2469 ADD: threaded playlist insertion
2470 FIX: removed bugs and waste code keyhandling in browser*, it mostly works as expected
2471 now with various keypresses going to the correct places
2472 FIX: cleaned the playlist class's public interface, also fixed some unreported bugs in
2473 process (inconsistent recursive behavior), please keep the encapsulation, it's a
2475 FIX: tweaked undo/redo behavior
2476 CHG: exchanged old player icons with new ones made by
2477 Alper Ayazoglu a.k.a. cubon <cubon@cubon.de>
2478 ADD: clicking on EQ button activates effect selection widget
2479 ADD: KJanusWidget as a sidebar for filebrowser mode selection
2480 FIX: pushing enter in lineedit goes up a level
2481 ADD: a stream browser, can only DnD, separate window, not great yet
2482 FIX: finally fixed the ancient "annoying-noise-when-pressing-pause" bug
2483 FIX: should keep track of currently played item no matter what you do to the playlist,
2484 has a nice side effect of remembering the last played song, too. <berkus>
2485 FIX: write undo for Shuffle <berkus>
2486 FIX: the expandbutton doesn't fire events when it has had its stack expanded
2487 (behaviour a-la Winamp Classic) <berkus>
2488 FIX: crash when pressing right mouse button while stream is connecting
2489 ADD: show bitrate for streams with icecast support
2490 FIX: save stream names as #EXTINF in m3u files
2491 ADD: bug report dialog
2492 ADD: proxy for decoding shoutcast/icecast metadata (experimental!)
2493 ADD: amaroK now in bugs.kde.org
2494 ADD: configurable delay after each track. currently 0-10 seconds in 1 sec increments
2495 but could easily be made to use finder increments if ppl want - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
2496 ADD: viswidgetv2. it seems a lot smoother on my machine.
2497 its quite easy to tweak the dynamics is needed. is accessible the same as the other
2498 widgets, just click until it appears (though it looks the same as the original widget
2499 it just acts differently) - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
2500 ADD: combo with history and completion for dir/file chooser
2501 ADD: in configure.in.in for checking the version of TagLib, if compiled from CVS, if not,
2502 then show, that it uses bundled version of TagLib - Stormy
2503 FIX: font dialog sizing issues
2504 ADD: resume playback option. Using this means your track starts up again where you left it
2505 last time you quit amaroK. Excellent feature for us developers :-)
2508 FIX: collection of fixes related to showing/raising/hiding the playlist
2509 when showing/raising/hiding the mainWidget
2510 FIX: by muesli: make playlist searches a bit faster at the expense of memory
2511 FIX: (partial fix) bitrate/samplerate font overlap at large font sizes
2512 change: less staccato loading of widgets
2513 change: pause makes the analyser bars fall to zero rather than just vanish
2514 ADD: xfade when starting tracks by doubleclick
2515 FIX: global shortcuts can now be changed
2516 FIX: tracks skipping randomly
2517 change: "BrowserWin Enabled" on by default
2518 change: "Save Playlist" on by default
2519 change: "Show Metainfo" on by default
2520 FIX: make loading playlist not block UI
2521 FIX: on startup load playlist after UI is shown
2522 change: "Software Mixer Only" on by default
2523 FIX: make timedisplay also work for streams
2524 FIX: volume slider adjusting
2525 FIX: when dropping tracks to PL, order will stay the same as in FileBrowser
2526 ADD: FileBrowser sortable by clicking on header
2527 ADD: analyzer that distorts a bitmap
2528 ADD: multiple analyzers now possible
2529 ADD: "Software Mixer Only" option
2530 Removed stale sigplay()
2531 Cleaned a couple "deprecated" warnings
2532 ADD: undo and redo playlist actions
2533 FIX: rewritten config dialog and moved into separate file
2534 ADD: started configurable colors
2535 change: spectrum analyser bars now have dynamics, ie. they move smoothly between values
2536 ADD: mouse wheel over systray icon changes the track, hold shift to change the volume
2537 change: rearranged menu order for systray (quit = last)
2538 change: moved volume slider to the right, lets see if this is better
2539 ADD: started a font selection page in settings
2540 FIX: Stream urls are now properly demangled/unescaped (%20 => space etc)
2543 FIX: ExpandButton submenu now slightly delayed
2544 FIX: dropping items into playlist
2545 ADD: drop-target indicator line in PlaylistWidget, providing visual feedback
2548 ADD: crossfading between tracks
2549 ADD: vertical lines between columns in Playlist
2550 ADD: alternating item colors in Playlist
2551 ADD: column "directory" in PlaylistWidget (for Grue:)
2552 ADD: sorting by clicking on column headers in PlaylistWidget
2553 FIX: rewrote directory reading code in BrowserWidget.cpp.
2554 code is now much more readable, and it also fixes a bug.
2555 ADD: additional columns in playlist for tags
2556 FIX: made metainfo reading algorithm faster
2557 change: switched to TagLib for metainfo reading
2558 ADD: button "play" in PlayerWidget.cpp is now a toggleButton
2560 FIX: playlist window is optionally hideable with main widget when iconified to tray
2566 fixed: animated buttons don't get stuck anymore
2567 fixed: invoking help
2568 changed: MetaInfo reading now off by default. the slowdown was potentially
2569 confusing to new users
2570 added: documentation
2571 fixed: cleaned up Makefile.am a bit
2572 fixed: defined new APP_VERSION macro, since the old approach did not work
2574 changed: put amarok into KDE CVS (KDENONBETA)
2575 added: applied Stormchaser's button patch. the AmarokButtons now work
2576 in a more standard conform way. Thanks Stormchaser, blessed be :)
2579 added: buttons in playlist window for play, pause, stop, next, prev.
2580 a.k.a. stakker mode :)
2581 removed: "load" button. this functionality is now provided by "Add item"
2582 added: more sanity checks on pointers
2583 fixed: when track in playlist does not exist, we now skip to the next track
2584 fixed: all aRts references are freed correctly at program exit
2585 fixed: effects will not be forgotten any more when EffectWidget is closed
2588 fixed: crash when URLs were dropped onto filebrowser from other apps
2589 fixed: URL dialog now accepts remote files
2590 added: correct caption for ArtsConfigWidget
2591 added: "amaroK Handbook" menu entry, calling KHelpCenter
2592 changed: amarok gets installed into multimedia now
2593 fixed: PlayObject configuration
2596 changed: safety question at program exit now off by default
2597 removed: button "sub" - it was useless
2598 changed: clearing playlist does not stop playing anymore - for Grue ;)
2599 fixed: potential crash at startup
2600 added: menu option to configure PlayObject
2601 fixed: crash when removing currently playing track
2604 fixed: flicker in glowing item
2605 fixed: another memory leak in analyzer (hopefully the last one!)
2606 added: playlist widget can display metainfo instead of filenames
2607 added: repeat track / repeat playlist
2609 VERSION 0.5.2 - 0.5.2-DEV6:
2610 fixed: memory leak in analyzer code.
2611 added: shortcut for copying current title to the clipboard
2612 added: slider position can be changed by just clicking somewhere on the slider
2614 added: url can be entered directly above the filebrowser widget
2615 changed: removed the "jump" widget. you can now enter a filter string
2616 directly above the playlist widget
2617 added: playlists (.m3u and .pls) can now directly be dragged into the playlist
2618 added: support for .pls (audio/x-scpls)
2619 added: amarok is now completely network-transparent. any kind of folder,
2620 local as well as remote, can be browsed and played.
2621 added: check for libamarokarts. amarok won't crash anymore if it's not found
2622 added: the time display now has a mode for showing the remaining time, too
2623 fixed: crash when clearing playlist, after playlist has played till the end.
2624 clearing the playlist stops the playing now.
2625 added: new gfx in playerwidget
2626 fixed: progressbar sometimes not working, zero tracklength
2627 fixed: font of bitrate/frequency display too big on some systems
2628 added: command line options
2629 added: timedisplay is now updated during seeks
2630 added: saving window positions and size on exit
2631 added: due to popular request, I finally changed the behaviour of the "play"
2632 button. it's now possible to start a track on a fresh playlist without
2633 double-clicking an item.
2634 fixed: compile error on GCC 3.3.1 in visQueue.cpp. bugfix by thiago
2635 added: completely rewrote drag-and-drop code. works recursively now (optionally).
2636 plus dragging stuff from other applications into amaroK also works now.
2639 added a Tip of the Day at startup to explain the user interface a bit
2640 added restarting of artsd on first program start to make sure it registers
2642 fixed possible compile error in viswidget.cpp
2643 amaroK uses much less CPU now than it used to. This was mainly achieved by
2644 using a new FFT-analyzer module, which I took from Noatuns "Winskin"-plugin,
2645 and modified slightly to my needs. Also some other optimizations were made,
2646 which improved the standby performance, when no song is playing. I'm still
2647 not satisfied with overall performance, tho, but it seems that most of the
2648 load is produced by the aRts code itself, so this will rather be difficult
2650 fixed crash when "next" or "previous" was pressed without a track
2652 thanks to valgrind I was able to find and squish some serious bugs,
2653 most of which were related to pointers. to sum it up: pointers are evil.
2655 lots of UI-changes in the main widget. uses a background pixmap now, a
2656 custom font and widget for the time-display, and generally looks better
2657 fixed issues with the liquid skin. unfortunately, there seems to be no way
2658 to display pushbuttons correctly with a black background under liquid. so,
2659 until I find a solution for that, the expandbutton widget doesn't look quite
2660 as cool as it used to. maybe I should ask mosfet about this..
2663 renamed 0.15 to 0.50
2666 playing streams now works! *yipeeee*
2667 fixed tons of bugs in aRts playing code. i think i got it right now.
2668 fixed loading and saving of playlists. can cope with all protocols now.
2669 fixed a bug in EffectWidget.cpp, that gave a compile error on some systems.
2670 Converting QString into std::string was not done correctly. Thanks to
2671 Whitehawk Stormchaser for that one :)
2672 changed project name to "amaroK" and built new project-file
2674 VERSION 0.14 (internal):
2675 implemented use of arts-software-mixing, in case hardware-mixing
2676 (/dev/mixer) doesn't work
2677 fixed crash when play was pressed without selecting a file
2678 changed the direction of the volume-slider. maximum is now at the top
2679 added automatic saving of current playlist on exit
2680 added previous/next track
2681 added two radiobuttons in the playerwidget for toggling the
2682 playlist/equalizer on and off. admitted, the equalizer doesn't yet exist, so
2683 it's just a dummy button :P
2684 added popup-menu for the playerwidget. opens on
2685 right mouse button. this menu finally replaces the ugly menubar.
2686 added some icons (from noatun) for the player-buttons instead of text
2687 added pause function
2688 changed most names in the source to comply with the
2689 (unofficial?) KDE c++ coding standard (using the prefix "m_" for member
2690 attributes and so on). This was real slave-work :/
2691 cleaned up code in several classes
2692 fixed problem where subwidgets got keyboard focus and were drawn dark with
2693 the liquid style. switched off focus completely, since it's not needed for
2694 this type of application
2696 VERSION 0.13 (internal):
2697 added cute animated pushbuttons with sub-menus
2698 added saving playlists
2699 added dragging items inside of playlist widget
2700 added forward declarations in header files to reduce compile time
2701 added saving of browserwin/splitter size
2702 rewrote track information widget. used a html table for the text. looks much
2704 fixed sorting function
2705 fixed jump widget. removed huge memory leaks in the widget
2706 fixed flicker in analyzer widget
2707 tons of bugfixes in playing code. partly rewritten. seems to be much more
2710 VERSION 0.12 (internal):
2711 added ChangeLog and TODO
2712 added grid under scope display
2713 added saving of options, like current directory and playlist
2714 added detection of mimetypes
2715 added adjusting volume by mousewheel
2716 added skipping to next track after playing
2717 added loads of sanity/safety checks
2718 bugfixes (tons of) in playlist code, partly rewritten
2719 bugfixes in scope code
2723 internal versions, no changelog
2724 tried no less then 4 different sound interfaces:
2725 mpg123, smpeg, alsaplayer, and finally aRts