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Amarok ChangeLog
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(C) 2002-2009 the Amarok authors.
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VERSION 2.2-beta1
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  FEATURES:
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    * Magnatune.com store: Allow redownloads of any previous Magnatune.com 
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      purchases by a given email, not just purchases made from a specific 
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      instalation of Amarok.
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    * Inline editing of lyrics from the context applet. (BR 201342)
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    * Ipod initialization support when failed to read an iPod database.
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    * Improvements to the "Show Cover" dialog. Resizes to match the image, auto
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      centers on screen, correctly handles images too large for the screen and
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      supports zooming using the mouse wheel. Patch thanks to Pascal Pollet 
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      <pascal@bongosoft.de> (BR 175901)
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    * Automatically expand collection browser search results and make the
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      results keyboard accessible. Patch thanks to Tuomas Nurmi
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      <tuomas@norsumanageri.org>. (BR 172379)
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    * Audio CD support. Audio CDs now show up as a separate collection and
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      tracks from the CD can be freely mixed with any other tracks in the 
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      playlist. Using the "Copy to Collection" menu its possible to copy (rip)
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      tracks directly to the local (or any other writable) collection. 
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    * Sortable playlist.
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    * Improved media device support.
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    * Video applet to show videos from YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo.
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      The video can be appended to the playlist, and rendered within the applet.
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    * Photo applet to show images from Flickr, with customizable animations.
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    * Customizable user interface using dock widgets.
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    * Support for external MySQL database. See
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      http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_Server.
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    * GHNS integration for downloading and installing Context applets.
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    * Support for Context applets to be written in QtScript.
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    * Custom Dynamic Playlists using Last.fm.
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    * Drag and Drop support for album cover image. (BR 91261)
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  CHANGES:
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    * Reset playlist filter when using the "replace playlist" action. Patch 
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      by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk> (BR 200709)
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    * Track lyrics are exposed through the DBUS interface.
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    * The database connection and tables now enforce UTF-8 for the character
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      set and collation.
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    * The OSD registers itself as a notification window type on relevant
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      platforms. Patch thanks to Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>.
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      (BR 194517)
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    * Improvements to the Wikipedia applet. History, language settings
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      and more.
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    * Improvements to the Current applet. Text slides on mouse hover.
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    * New navigation style in the browser sidebar.
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    * Improvements to the Albums applet. Show individual track times and
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      highlight currently playing artist within compilation albums
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    * Removed PlayAudioCD from the scripting interface. It never worked
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      anyway, and audio CDs are just treated as a collection and not a
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      special case like they were in 1.4.
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    * Changed trackInserted and trackRemoved API signals. (BR 194220)
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  BUGFIXES:
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    * Remove the video stream from the context view when removing the video 
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      applet during stream playback. (BR 201281)
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    * Fixed locales for Amazon cover fetching. (BR 188446)
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    * Fix crash on trying to edit a playlist layout with an invalid element
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      value in the xml file. (BR 197128)
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    * Fix DBUS xml parsing. Patch thanks to Ryan Bitanga
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      <ryan.bitanga@gmail.com>.
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    * Fix data caching issues causing incorrect values to be stored in the
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      database and in some cases to be written to tags. Fixes multiple bugs.
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    * Correctly enable/disable "Prefer Tracks" menu entry. Patch thanks to
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      Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>. (BR 191059)
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    * Do not show "%20" at the end of each filter value in the LibriVox 
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      service. (BR 190704)
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    * Cached lyrics will now be shown when offline. (BR 197589)
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    * Fixed pressing play after reaching the end of the playlist not starting
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      the playlist from the top (or whereever the navigator thinks it should 
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      start. (BR 176445)
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    * Fixed local playlists being renamed to blank when user hits cancel
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    * Fixed giant Edit Filter dialog with some translations. (BR 197566)
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    * Files browser remembers its view mode. (BR 197122)
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    * Fixed non-Latin UTF-8 encoding tags not being correctly decoded.
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VERSION 2.1.1
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  FEATURES:
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    * Compilations with more than 60 artists are supported.
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    * Option to hide the context view.
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    * Applets are now laid out according to two criteria: either fixed height
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      or flowing to fill the CV. No more slivers of applets visible at the
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      bottom.
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    * Load contents of an m3u file if specified when running amarok from the
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      command line. File must be local.
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    * Added large source emblem in current track applet.
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    * Removed option to purchase Magnatune.com albums using a Credit Card as
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      this is unfortunately no longer supported by Magnatune.com. It is still
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      possible to purchase albums using pre paid gift card codes, and all
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      membership features still work.
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    * Make it possible to delete multiple selected playlists at once from the 
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      "My Playlists" category in the playlist browser.
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    * Show info box in CV if no applets are visible.
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    * Don't hide the "On/Off" button for Dynamic Playlists if the window is
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      not tall enough. (BR 195886)
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    * Make it possible to change the width of a playlist layout element if the 
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      combined width of items in the row exceeds 100% (BR 195846)
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    * Keep width slider and width display from overlapping when setting
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      attributes on a playlist layout element.
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    * Don't overwrite cached lyrics when lyrics script returns a "Not found" 
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      result. (BR 195213)
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    * Fixed the layout of the "Edit Track Details" dialog, which came up
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      broken under some circumstances. (BR 195081)
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    * Reset total playlist time when the playlist is cleared. (BR 153160)
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    * Don't crash when starting a collection scan after another scan had been
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      aborted. (BR 195242)
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    * Fixed non-UTF8 MPEG tag wrongly shown.
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    * Fix problem with supported filetypes not being copied over to MTP device
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      (BR 186835)
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    * Fix problem with playlist names containing '/' not being saved (BR 975995)
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    * Allow cancelling of rename input box in playlist layout dialog (BR 976409)
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    * Loading playlists from the command line works again. (BR 191347)
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    * Fixed formatting of the debug output when using the -d option.
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    * Detection of compilation cover during the scan works again. (BR 172953)
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VERSION 2.1
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    * Removed the "Amarok Handbook" menu entry until the handbook actually
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      exists (work in progress).
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    * Single-click/double-click behavior in the Collection Browser now follows
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      the preference set in KDE System Settings.
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    * Automatically fetch the database for Jamendo/Opml on first load.
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    * Escape clears most search filters throughout Amarok. (BR 192254)
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    * Tracks of saved playlists are again shown in the playlistbrowser. They
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      can be added and sorted using drag and drop. (BR 187256, BR 184597)
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    * Fix incorrect scrobbling of tracks after only parts of them are played.
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      (BR 179503)
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    * Fix incorrect escaping of artist title in lyrics applet.
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    * Fix oddly capitalized format/extensions from being incorrectly
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      not recognized for copy of track to/from iPod. (BR 188249)
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    * Allow selecting directories from the "Add Media" dialog. (BR 192225)
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    * On Screen Display settings are now immediately applied, without
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      requiring an application restart.
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    * Fixed bug that variably caused Collection folders to be "forgotten",
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      lots of entries to show up in Amarok's config file, and some other
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      oddities. (BR 187126, BR 178973)
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    * Fixed large memleak when subsequent collection scans were performed.
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      (BR 186842)
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	* Fixed possible startup crash. (BR 187126)
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    * The context menu (right click) in the Current Track applet works again.
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      (BR 176169)
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    * After clicking on the Current Track applet, the menu bar at the top was
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      no longer working. (BR 190923)
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    * Fixed playlist sometimes becoming invisible when Amarok is restored from
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      the system tray. (BR 184714)
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    * Fix saving podcast episodes to the database when the metadata contains percent signs.
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      (BR 189104)
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VERSION 2.1-beta2
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  FEATURES:
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    * New Script method to get current track time in milliseconds. (BR 177073)
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    * Pressing the return key in the playlist search activates the selected
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      result. (BR 192126)
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    * Pressing the escape key in the playlist search clears it's contents.
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      (BR 192123)
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    * Optimizations to the insertion and removal of large numbers of tracks 
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      from the playlist. Especially clearing a large playlist is now about 
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      300 times faster.
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    * Always scroll to newly inserted tracks in the Playlist.
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    * When removing upcoming tracks from an active dynamic playlist, add a
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      similar number of new ones to keep if from "drying up".
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    * Some action cleanup in the playlist context menu.
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    * When clearing the playlist, also reset the search/filter text.
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    * Podcast titles are stripped of unnecessary whitespace. (BR 177403)
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    * Fixed incorrect track counts in the collection.
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    * Fixed duplicate scanning of playlists during collection scan
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    * Fixed drag and drop to other applications. (BR 177415)
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    * Fixed the filter widget in the Files browser. (BR 176139)
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    * Fixed crash when using context menu after collection update. (BR 190056)
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    * Fixed problem with Amarok showing wrong track length for Last.fm 
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      streams. Patch by Michael Quinn <mike@quinnsoft.com>. (BR 188512)
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    * Fixed several memory leaks.
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    * Set the value of the slider to the actual scale when loading a fuzzy
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      Bias playlist, instead of 100% in every case
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    * Don't fetch all coverless albums automatically when opening the Cover
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      Manager. (BR 176170)
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    * Podcast episodes are loaded correctly when restoring a playlist on
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      startup. This means the local file will be played if downloaded.
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      (BR 189328)
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    * Next button in the main toolbar no longer has a clipped shadow.
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      (BR 176031)
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    * Fixed slider mouse events in RTL layouts. (BR 185465)
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    * Detect iPhones as iPods. (BR 184744)
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    * Clicking on "Stop after current track" disables the flag if it is
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      already enabled.
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    * Show a track marker when the "stop after current track" flag is set.
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      (BR 185888)
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    * Don't flash the OSD when opening the settings dialog. Patch thanks
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      to Andreas Heider <andreas@meetr.de>.
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    * Podcast file formats are correctly displayed.
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    * Don't crash when pressing Delete on empty playlist. (BR 189021)
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VERSION 2.1-beta1
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  FEATURES:
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    * The collection scanner is now able to be run in batch mode, allowing for
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      automated scans of both full and incremental types.  In addition, all
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      graphical dependencies have been removed, allowing for headless, remote
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      runs of collection scans.  A wiki page detailing how to do this will be
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      made available shortly.
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    * Covers are shown and written for iPod collections.
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    * Phonon multimedia system can be configured directly from Amarok.
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    * Cover art can now be disabled in the collection browser.
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    * Scrobble tracks from streams that have title and artist metadata
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    * Add support for showing a stream with multiple alternative servers as a
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      single item in the playlist and add GUI for manually selecting prefered
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      source.
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    * Ampache service: Add support for Ampache 3.4.4 and 3.5.x.
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    * Auto timecoding (position bookmarking) now exists for tracks with length
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      greater than 10 minutes. (BR 148740)
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    * Add a animated "loading..." screen when dynamically fetching info about
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      an item to show in the service info applet.
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    * Deleting tracks from the local collection is now possible. (BR 170999)
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    * Add a filter-by-date-added to the collection browser. Use added:"today" 
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      or added:<2m2d
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    * Add an advanced but user friendly playlist layout editor allowing users
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      to modify and create their own playlist layouts.
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    * The Playlist can now render itself using layouts defined in XML. A
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      number of default layouts are included and can be switched between.
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    * Option to automatically scroll the playlist to the active item on track
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      change.
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    * New QtScript methods for accessing the playlist:
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      Amarok.Playlist.selectedFilenames() & Amarok.Playlist.selectedIndexes().
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      Patch by Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net>.
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    * New QtScript method for the Track prototype: imagePixmap( size ). Returns
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      a QPixmap of the given size, or the default if the size argument isn't
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      supplied.
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    * New QtScript class 'DataDownloader' that returns results as a QByteArray
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      instead of a string. Needed for image downloads.
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    * Cue Sheets are now supported as in Amarok 1.4, plus each cue entry
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      (usually a track) will be displayed as a timecode on the Progress Bar
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      with a nice onMouseOver popup.
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    * Ipod support now uses/depends on libgpod 0.7.0
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    * Bookmarking specific positions within local tracks and downloaded local
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      podcast episodes, with a nice visual indicator on the progress bar.
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    * When the last.fm service is active, any track, from any collection or
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      service, can be loved from the browser , and there will always be a love
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      button for the currently playing track, no matter the source.
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    * Dbus methods added: VolumeUp, VolumeDown and Mute. (BR 181130)
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    * The feed url is displayed in the config dialog of a podcast channel.
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      By left clicking in the url it's copied to the clipboard. (BR 180853)
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    * The Playlist Browser can now show playlists from multiple sources,
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      including media devices.
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    * The Last.fm service now allows for the playing of all types of user
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      stations (personal, loved tracks, recommendations, and neighborhood).
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    * Arbitrary Tags can now be played in the last.fm service. (BR 139802)
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    * Replay Gain support for most file formats that Amarok can read tags from.
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      Reading Replay Gain tags from MP4 files requires libMP4v2.  Musepack
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      (MPC) files are unsupported due to a limitation of TagLib.
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    * Bookmark Manager applet allowing for the creation, browsing, ordering and
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      deletion of Amarok urls of different kinds. (BR 173512)
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    * Amarok urls. Amarok can now load and generate "amarok urls" that allows
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      any "view" to be bookmarked and later retrieved. A protocol handler is
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      also installed that will launch amarok into the correct state, or make
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      amarok show the correct view, if already running, when such a url is
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      activated system wide.
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    * Customizable playlist layouts. The playlist is now rendered according to
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      an xml layout, allowing the playlist to assume a variety of different
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      looks and supply customizable information.
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    * Album cover art can be accessed via the scripting API. Patch thanks to
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      Simon Esneault <simon.esneault@gmail.com>. (BR 179732)
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    * New vertical Context View layout.
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    * New applet toolbar in the Context View to arrange, select, and add
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      applets.
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    * New splash screen by Wade Olson <wade@corefunction.com>.
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    * Magnatune.com store: When downloading albums (either by purchasing or
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      free membership downloads) remember the file format and download 
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      location for next time.
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    * Links in the lyrics applet are now clickable and open with the default
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      external web browser (BR 179396)
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    * Collection browser has been pimped.
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    * Bring back animations in the browsers if Qt 4.5 or later is detected.
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    * The collection scanner is now being provided in a separate package.
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    * The TagLib plugins formerly provided by Amarok are now being provided in
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      a separate package. It should be available in most distributions as
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      taglib-extras.
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    * Improvements to playlist searching and filtering. No longer reset view
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      to the top when clearing a search term. No longer scroll into the results
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      when the "show only matches" option is set.
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    * Improved implementation of volume muting. Mute state doesn't change
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      volume level any more. (BR 172392)
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    * Remove score, last played and play count from the current track applet
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      for tracks that does not have any of them (mainly streams).
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    * Don't pretend to be able to seek if the source isn't seekable.
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    * File Browser UI has been tweaked for better usability.
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    * The Bookmark Handler in the File Browser no longer causes a crash-on-exit,
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      so it has been re-enabled. (BR 173634)
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    * Performance optimisation when loading large playlists, and hence faster
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      application startup.
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    * Many small visual tweaks for greater consistency and better use of screen
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      space.
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    * Increased width of volume slider for greater precision.
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    * Use the speex, trueaudio and wavpack support in TagLib 1.5, rather than
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      our own plugins.
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    * Double click on a podcast channel appends all episodes to the playlist.
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    * Delete and download actions will only be shown when relevant to the
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      selected podcast episode.
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    * Major refactoring of the podcast model and view to allow custom actions
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      per podcasts source.
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    * Compilation fixed for OpenSolaris.
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    * Show the cover menu when right clicking on artwork in the Tag Dialog.
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    * Don't remove queued tracks from the playlist when repopulating dynamic
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      playlists. (BR 191285)
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    * Major last.fm UI overhaul.
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    * Progress indicator on system tray icon is back.
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    * Now using KSystemTrayIcon.
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    * QtScript: Importer.loadQtBinding returns a true or false depending on
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      success.
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    * Improvements to compilation detection during the collection scanning
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      phase. Thanks to Michael Quinn <mike@quinnsoft.com> for laying the
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      groundwork. (BR 172953)
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    * Do not reset lyrics applet to the top when pausing and then unpausing a
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      track. (BR 182519)
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    * Automatically update lyrics applet if the user edits relevant track
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      metadata. (BR 185237)
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    * Fix tracks with some identical tags being detected as dupes and not
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      getting copied onto MTP device.
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    * Fix invisible and unintuitive selection in the playlist after deleting
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      one or more tracks. (BR 187871)
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    * Prevent playlist from showing a wrong playing song after adding tracks
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      above it. (BR 181947)
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    * Show the current playing song when resuming playback of a track not in
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      the collection. (BR 173912)
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    * Fix crash when using ctrl+mousewheel in the File Browser. Patch by Valentin
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      Rouet <v.rouet@gmail.com>. (BR 175803)
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    * Fix actions choosen from context menu in a filtered playlist getting
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      applied to wrong track(s). (BR 186573) (BR 185054)
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    * Try to detect the charset of cue sheets. (BR 184769)
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    * Make opening an external webbrowser working on Windows, too.
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    * The File Browser now remembers its sort order. (BR 186444)
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    * When editing info for multiple tracks, do not write to the files if only
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      editing info that is stored in the db and not in the actual files (such
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      as ratings). (BR 184836)
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    * Render the lyrics applet correctly with dark color schemes. (BR 183037)
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    * When turning on a dynamic playlist, automatically populate the playlist if
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      it is empty. (BR 183968)
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    * Don't crash if using an invalid codec name AmarokLyricsScript conversion
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      functions. (BR 185540)
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    * Actually stop playback if we encounter too many errors.
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    * The collection scanner no longer sucks quite as much.
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    * A full rescan is no longer necessary after disconnecting/reconnecting an 
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      external harddrive.
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    * Fix issue with files being deleted when Organize Collection is run
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      without selecting a collection root. (BR 184410)
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    * Dynamic playlist weight's are now saved correctly. (BR 184304)
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    * Fix using "Copy to Collection" to download Magnatune.com preview
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      tracks. (BR 183328)
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    * Correct behaviour when queuing in a filtered playlist. (BR 180477)
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    * Do not break up grouping in the playlist when editing (all but
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      album) tags.
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    * QtScript correctly writes the tags of tracks metadata it changes. 
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      (BR 182667)
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    * Fix "Stop Playing After Track". (BR 180486)
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    * Fix switching tracks in random tracks mode. (BR 176019)
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    * Fix grouping of Stream and File meta objects. This affects many cases,
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      Such as when loading a playlist containing tracks from a scripted
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      service.
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    * Fixed crash on exit when collection scan has been aborted. (BR 176870)
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    * Fixed an infinite loop bug when using title case conversion in Guess Tags.
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      (BR 180164)
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    * Don't show the rating widget for tracks which are not in the collection.
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      (BR 180023)
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    * The negation operator works in the collection browser filter.
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VERSION 2.0.2
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  CHANGES:
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    * Show a statusbar message when loving a lastfm track.
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    * Show error message when Wikipedia information cannot be retrieved.
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    * Fix showing of book information from the LibriVox service.
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    * Don't crash if a script has uncaught exceptions.
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    * Open ogg files in Amarok when using Dolphin and other file managers.
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      Patch thanks to Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>. (BR 180155)
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    * Fix podcast episodes not ordered right because of incorrect parsing of
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      pubdate. (BR 181338)
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    * Fix crash in tagdialog when editing tracks without an artist. (BR 183180)
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    * Statistics were not calculated properly in all instances. (BR 182025)
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    * Compilation fixes on Open Solaris.
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    * Trim URL before adding a new podcast.
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    * Add Ok button to the podcast configuration dialog to improve usability.
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      (BR 181339)
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    * Add tooltips to now playing widget icons.
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    * Fix not possible to download episodes from newly added podcast channel.
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      (BR 180851)
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VERSION 2.0.1.1
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  BUGFIX:
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    * Fix possible buffer overflows when parsing Audible .aa files.
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VERSION 2.0.1
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  FEATURES:
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    * Add advanced, configurable, searching and filtering to the playlist.
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    * Add "Stop after track" option to the playlist menu.
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    * Queue track functionality has returned. (BR 171939)
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    * Growl support on OS X.
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    * Add automatic recovery option to MySQL embedded server.
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    * Greatly improved Librivox.org service script. It now works for all books,
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      and dynamically fetches a summary of each book that is shown in the
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      service info applet. The script now also has a propper icon in the
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      service browser and its own emblem and default "album" cover for books.
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    * Sorting collection by Composer is now possible. (BR 177271)
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    * Service scripts can now dynamically fetch context info when items are
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      selected (info can still be applied statically to each item as well).
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    * Album items from a service script can now have custom covers.
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    * Items from a service script can now have a custom emblem.
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    * Service scripts can now set custom icons for the service browser.
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    * Add simple filtering to the service browser.
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    * Podcast channels are automatically refreshed once per hour if autoscan is
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      enabled.
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    * MTP devices can now delete multiple tracks at once.
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    * Status bar notification on copying or deleting tracks on Ipod.
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    * Don't fold the Collection Browser after editing or updating the
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      collection. (BR 166841)
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    * Replace the systray icon with a more modern logo.
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    * "Cool-Streams" radio service script is now enabled by default.
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    * Show more verbose output when copying tracks to the local collection.
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    * Custom Sorting in the Collection Browser has returned.
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    * Memory use optimizations.
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    * Playlist items now have tooltips. (BR 170844)
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    * The QtScript Qt binding generator has been updated to the latest.
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      This should complete some features such as Model/View in the QtScript API
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      and fix building with Qt 4.5. (BR 177863)
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    * The Files browser now remembers its settings, like the active directory.
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      (BR 173742)
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    * Fix problems with the collection scanner often missing a part of the
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      collection, or potentially failing altogether. (BR 176154)
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    * Fix Context View crash when quitting the application. (BR 179110)
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    * LibriVox: Don't crash when double clicking "Enter Query". (BR 177991)
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    * Files could be deleted when moving files to an unwritable destination.
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      (BR 178701)
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    * Don't override cached lyrics when fetching. (BR 178196)
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    * Show a warning when the collection scanner dies. (BR 176154)
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    * Set date correctly on MTP devices. (BR 171194)
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    * Ipod ratings are read/written/displayed.
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    * Ipod playcounts are read and displayed on Current Track Info applet.
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    * Lastfm Settings Dialog can now check to ensure username/password is
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      correct. (BR 144456)
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    * Don't delete files if an error occurs during transfer. (BR 178701)
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    * MPRIS GetMetadata() call returns arturl for last.fm streams. (BR 178695)
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    * Fix grouping of various artist albums in the playlist. (BR 175604)
469
    * Update statistics properly on Windows and Mac versions.
470
    * Fix progress indicator disapearing when skipping in last.fm streams.
471
    * Write the discnumber field for mp3 tags.
472
    * Don't start a fadeout when stopping paused media. (BR 178057)
473
    * More accurate Amarok 1.4 database imports.
474
    * Ipod tracks' sample rate is now shown correctly in Tag Dialog.
475
    * Tracks did not always report that their editable status correctly.
476
      (BR 177058)
477
    * Gapless playback of MTP tracks one after another now works.
478
    * Podcast with some unsafe characters in them caused database corruption.
479
      (BR 172594)
480
    * Amarok no longer stalls on large Ipod copy operations. (BR 173707)
481
    * Fix switching between basic and advanced mode in the filename scheme
482
      chooser.
483
    * Fix MTP device attached on startup crashing. (BR 177201)
484
    * Tracks with same tags as a track on Ipod are no longer copied. (BR 177198)
485
    * When reaching the end of the playlist, actually show stopped state.
486
      (BR 177782)
487
    * Fixes in playing tracks in repeat modes.
488
    * The wikipedia applet did not give a status update when an entry was not
489
      found. (BR 173940)
490
    * Add tooltips to icons in context view. (BR 174478)
491
    * Fix icons and layout in Advanced Filter dialog.
492
493
494
VERSION 2.0
495
  FEATURES:
496
    * Added read/write configuration APIs for QtScript.
497
498
  CHANGES:
499
    * Removed the KBookmarks menu in the FileBrowser because it causes
500
      crashes.
501
    * The Organize Collection dialog has been improved.
502
    * Last.Fm service now uses KIO for network access, respects desktop proxy
503
      settings.
504
    * Added icons to the filename scheme and organize collection dialogs.
505
    * Added an OK button for the script manager.
506
507
  BUGFIXES:
508
    * Don't try to squeeze text into wrongly tiny space, make the track label
509
      in the tag dialog work again. (BR 176399)
510
    * Collection setup directory chooser would incorrectly set some paths as
511
      disabled. Patch thanks to Ben Boeckel <MathStuf@gmail.com>. (BR 176569)
512
    * Fix shadows around the cover in the current track applet (and potentially
513
      other places as well) getting progresssively darker.
514
    * Don't compare Solid and libmtp's serial number to connect. (BR 176403)
515
    * Workaround a bug in the CurrentEngine class that makes the nocover image
516
      look grainy in the currenttrack applet.
517
    * Dragging and Dropping folders from the filebrowser into the playlist will
518
      now result in the tracks being ordered correctly. (BR 176673) (BR 176156)
519
    * Fixed deletion for downloaded podcast episodes (BR 176084)
520
    * Show artists in Cover Manager sorted alphabetically. (BR 176178)
521
    * Fix reading of windows playlists, recognise \ as directory separator.
522
      (BR 93717)
523
    * Fix crash when searching in collections. (BR 175094)
524
    * Prevent disabled MP3tunes service from being initialized on first run.
525
    * Elide text properly in applet chooser widget. (BR 175064)
526
    * Fixed potential crash when playing streams. (BR 175886)
527
    * Don't show wrong metadata for Last.fm radio. (BR 175435)
528
    * Don't try to squeeze text into wrongly tiny space, make the track label
529
      in the tag dialog work again. (BR 176399)
530
    * Expand applets width when a complete column has been removed.
531
    * Don't try to fetch another cover if there are no more albums to fetch
532
      for. (BR 176364)
533
    * Don't crash when trying to edit the details of a track without an artist
534
      or album. (BR 173322)
535
    * Magnatune.com store: Correctly show progress info when downloading.
536
    * Magnatune.com store: Fix purchase/download of wrong album being initiated
537
      when selecting "Purchase" or "Download" from the playlist context menu.
538
      (BR 176171)
539
    * Fix a bug that stopping a running script crashes amarok. (BR 175050)
540
    * The context view could sometimes show the "stopped state" even when a
541
      track was playing.
542
    * Amarok 1.4 database importer would crash under some circumstances.
543
      (BR 171784)
544
    * Covers could not be fetched from Amazon Japan. (BR 176073)
545
    * Fix a bug that the script manager deletes wrong entry after script
546
      installation. (BR 173919)
547
    * Make lyrics auto-display when applet is added while a song is playing.
548
    * "Watch folders for changes" actually works now.
549
    * Fix a bug that caused dynamic playlists not to repopulate. (BR 173776)
550
    * Fixed potential issues with malformed XML breaking the collection scan.
551
      (BR 170408)
552
    * Focus of text fields no longer lost when changing tracks using the Next/
553
      Previous buttons in tag dialog. (BR 175524)
554
    * Sort Podcasts in the right order.
555
556
557
VERSION 2.0-rc1
558
  FEATURES:
559
    * Users' Recommended radio is now shown in the Last.Fm Service.
560
    * Playlist browser items can be deleted and renamed using the keyboard.
561
      (BR 175116)
562
    * Basic and Advanced view when editing a filename scheme are synchronized.
563
    * Added delete button to Advanced view for defining a filename scheme.
564
    * Importer for iTunes libraries now allows you to import your statistics
565
      from iTunes.
566
    * The settings dialog now remembers the page that was last used.
567
    * Track information can be edited from the file browser. (BR 172812)
568
569
  CHANGES:
570
    * Video and Last.fm applet have been disabled. They are not ready for release.
571
    * Ipods and MTP devices auto-connect again for usability.
572
    * Ipod Collections can now delete multiple tracks at once.
573
    * User playlists added from files are now updated on collection rescans, so
574
      any changes in the file is reflected in the SQL playlist.
575
    * Layout refactoring in the Organize Collection dialog.
576
    * Enabled Last.fm scrobbling by default when Last.fm login is supplied.
577
    * Amarok now allows opening of video files again. (BR 174267)
578
    * "Show active track" has been moved from the playlist context menu to the
579
      playlist toolbar.
580
581
  BUGFIXES:
582
    * Last playing track on exit now selected on startup. (BR 168789)
583
    * Update Collection works now correctly, only scanning the necessary dirs.
584
      (BR 169602)
585
    * In Organize Collection, the "Collection root" token is now fixed at the
586
      beginning of the filename scheme. (BR 175376)
587
    * Resize handle now appears in OS X. (BR 170199)
588
    * Do not deselect album when right clicking on header. (BR 175527)
589
      (BR 174584)
590
    * Correctly sort tracks when dragging and dropping directly to the
591
      playlist. (BR 175023)
592
    * Clearing the playlist turns Dynamic Mode off. (BR 174514)
593
    * Make sure user has edited a text field manually before overwriting that
594
      tag. (BR 174878)
595
    * Podcast episodes and channels can be dragged directly from the
596
      playlistbrowser onto the playlist. (BR 175162)
597
    * Multiple fixes and improvements for the Wikipedia applet.
598
    * Playback no longer stops when Last.Fm service config is closed. (BR 174943)
599
    * Fix issue with tracks from SQL playlists that were added from collection
600
      scanning not having proper metadata until after a restart.
601
    * Fix duplicate playlists being added on collection rescanning. (BR 173180)
602
    * OSD timer resets when song changes. (BR 175030)
603
    * Fix crash when dragging albums to the bottom of the playlist. (BR 174786)
604
    * Fixed update of preview string in Organize Collection when switching
605
      collections.
606
    * Fix playlist behaviour when adding a track that is already playing
607
      (BR 174634)
608
    * Jamendo Service: Remove some sorting modes that caused the database to
609
      choke as the result sets became too large. Will be revisisted post
610
      2.0.0. (BR 174851)
611
    * Fixed possible crash with reading wav files. Patch by Peter van Fessem
612
      <peter@f-is.eu>. (BR 174819)
613
    * Amarok 1.4 database importer would skip tracks in some collections.
614
      (BR 174329) (BR 174444)
615
    * OSD renders correctly on track changes.
616
    * Podcasts are correctly stored to the database. (BR 172688)
617
    * Lyrics aren't refetched when irrelevant track metadata is changed.
618
      (BR 174678)
619
    * Don't show transfer popups when copying tracks to a collection and
620
      overwriting files. (BR 174533)
621
    * When organising files, "Ignore The" logic was inverted.
622
    * Do not reload scripts that are already active. (BR 174601)
623
    * Pressing Stop while fade-out is running will no longer restart the
624
      fading. (BR 173528)
625
    * Fixed problem with Amarok sometimes not advancing to the next track.
626
    * Wikipedia and Lyrics applets now update with streams. (BR 172715)
627
    * Ampache Service: Do not crash if login is incorrect on startup.
628
    * Playback control buttons now respects the current color theme.
629
      (BR 169268)
630
    * Fix scripted services not resetting content when filter is cleared.
631
    * Dynamic playlist no longer locks up requiring a restart of the
632
      application. (BR 173776)
633
    * Correctly load m3u playlists. (BR 171595)
634
    * Made the Load action start playback correctly like the Append action.
635
    * Fixed metadata updating for Shoutcast streams.
636
637
638
VERSION 2.0-beta3
639
  FEATURES:
640
    * More intelligent sorting of items in the collection browser, using
641
      locale aware sorting and natural sorting for numbers. Patch by Nicholas
642
      Wilson <nicholas@nickcwilson.co.uk>. (BR 154408)
643
    * The playlist automatically scrolls when dragging tracks. (BR 171622)
644
    * Import statistics from Amarok 1.4.
645
    * Double clicking items in the Albums applet appends to playlist.
646
    * Service scripts can now specify custom info for artist, album and friends
647
      that will be shown in the playlist and other places, independetly of
648
      their actual parent item in the service. This value is ignored if item
649
      is not a level 0 item. Specifying these values is completely optional.
650
    * Playlists can be added using the Add Media dialogs.
651
    * Collection browser can once again sort by Year - Album.
652
    * Albums applet shows disc number separators.
653
    * Context menu and drag & drop support for the albums applet.
654
    * Added tracks count and total playlist time to the status bar.
655
      (BR 171652)
656
    * You can now Copy To a collection, Append, and Load tracks from
657
      the file browser's context menu.
658
659
  CHANGES:
660
    * Improved usability for the collection configuration dialog.
661
    * XSPF playlists will now attempt to apply any stored metadata to items
662
      not owned by a service when loading. This will make many streams stored
663
      on shutdown appear with correct metadata after a restart of Amarok.
664
    * Scripted services are now able to set the infoHtml used in the
665
      service info applet for individual tracks.
666
    * The default lyrics script now uses the LyricWiki site, which is more
667
      reliable and also faster than the old lyrics provider.
668
    * Add script API function: Amarok.Collection.escape which escapes strings
669
      for SQL statements.
670
    * Some new and updated icons.
671
    * Allow multiple items to be selected in the user playlist category.
672
    * Statusbar rewrite: Messages are no longer shown as top-level windows.
673
    * Added proper mouse over visuals to some places where it was missing.
674
    * All services (or any other part of Amarok) can now add context
675
      actions to any item in any collection. This is only used for the "play
676
      similar artists from last.fm" currently, but it allows this kind of
677
      action to be added without hardcoding it in the core. The immidiate
678
      effect of this is that the last.fm action is now available for any
679
      artist in any collection.
680
    * New "playground" directory added for plugins and applets that are not
681
      yet ready for prime time.
682
    * Nonconsecutive items can now be selected and dragged around in the
683
      playlist.
684
    * Major overhaul of playlist subsystem, including a completely new view
685
      (even though it looks a lot like to old one).  Programmers should
686
      review the SVN commit notes to learn about other changes.
687
    * Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu
688
      will now recursively include all directories within the selected items.
689
    * Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu
690
      will now delete the original source files as expected.
691
692
  BUGFIXES:
693
    * Correct scrobbling for all tracks, even last.fm streams and loved tracks
694
      in Last.Fm streams. (BR 164156)
695
    * Files moved or organized into themselves are no longer deleted.
696
      (BR 173341)
697
    * Fix playlist scrollbar graphical errors with some styles. Patch by Huynh
698
      Huu Long <long.upcase@googlemail.com>. (BR 173547)
699
    * DBus MPRIS call GetMetadata returns the location field. (BR 173324)
700
    * Amarok would not show all files it could play in the files browser
701
      (BR 173333)
702
    * Amarok now remembers its panel sizes over restarts. Patch by Gary
703
      Steinert <fatlardo@gmail.com>. (BR 172976)
704
    * Automatic track score computation works now.
705
    * Immediately remove the playlist drop visualiser from the playlist after
706
      dropping an item. (BR 171382)
707
    * Albums applet doesn't jumble up most recent albums listing.
708
    * Fix problems with Amarok stopping playback after each track in some
709
      cases. (BR 172897)
710
    * Don't forget about downloaded images after doing a collection rescan.
711
    * Fixed giant font in the Internet tab on some machines. (BR 172954)
712
    * MPRIS Dbus interface Pause function conforms is a Play/Pause action.
713
      (BR 173007)
714
    * Script downloads using KNewStuff2 now correctly installs and uninstalls
715
      scripts.
716
    * Fix memleak in iPod handler. Thanks to Christophe Fergeau.
717
    * Wikipedia applet: Fix infinite retry loop if no artist information is
718
      found. (BR 171074)
719
    * First track of an album in the playlist can now be dragged seperately
720
      from the entire album. (BR 171331)
721
    * Fix crash when searching in the shoutcast service. (BR 170681)
722
    * Fix crash when adding multiple shoutcast stations. (BR 170247)
723
    * Escape HTML characters from track metadata when showing the system tray
724
      tooltip. Patch by Andrey Esin <gmlastik@gmail.com>. (BR 172623)
725
    * Only add one new folder when selecting "Add Folder" from the context
726
      menu in the user playlist category. (BR 169666)
727
    * Statusbar rewrite: Bring back the detailed progres operations view.
728
      It is now possible again to get a list of all running operations and
729
      to cancel each one individually. (BR 168380)
730
    * Statusbar rewrite: The "cancel all" button now works.
731
    * Statusbar rewrite: Don't hang on exit. (BR 171665)
732
    * When searching in the collection, give keyboard focus to the results
733
      after pressing Enter. (BR 172379)
734
    * Do not set two different lyrics scripts as default.
735
    * File sizes for non-collection local tracks are now determined properly.
736
    * Track rating and score are now enabled for read-only files too.
737
    * Play option from playlist context menu works now. (BR 172141)
738
    * Cloud applet moved to playground as it still needs a lot of work.
739
      (BR 170613)
740
    * Playlist overhaul fixes a couple of bugs. (BR 167861) (BR 171048)
741
    * Search queries with ' and \ now work fine. (BR 173330)
742
743
744
VERSION 2.0-beta2
745
  FEATURES:
746
    * Add themable borders to album covers where ever they are shown (with
747
      very few exceptions).
748
    * Automatically check for collection changes on startup if monitoring
749
      is enabled.
750
    * Files can be moved into collections from the Filebrowser. (BR 170077)
751
    * Clicking on the volume icon in the toolbar toggles mute. (BR 171017)
752
    * Arrows to switch between containments directly.
753
    * Scripted services can now show source info in the statusbar like most
754
      other services.
755
    * Scripts now able to access web via KDE-wide proxy.
756
    * Middle click on playlist will append URLs from the clipboard.
757
    * Numerous under-the-hood improvements to improve the stability of Amarok.
758
      Rejoice!
759
    * Incremental collection scanning support. (BR 169602)
760
    * Playlists found during a collection scan are automatically added to
761
      Amarok's Playlist Browser.
762
    * Lyricwiki support.
763
    * Chinese lyrics support from mp3.sogou.com
764
    * Sidebars can be toggled with the keyboard: Ctrl+1..4
765
    * Now remembers visible/invisible state of browsers. (BR 168344)
766
    * Add ability to play tracks directly off of MTP device.
767
    * Add option to enable/disable automatic cover fetching.
768
769
  CHANGES:
770
    * Add a new nice Service Info home page to the LibriVox script. Logo used with
771
      Permision.
772
    * Use custom stylesheets to ensure that html pages shown in the Wikipedia and
773
      Service Info applets always have a nice white background.
774
    * Jamendo service: Filter out genre names less than 3 characters long. This
775
      gets rid of some uninformative genres like "3" and "07". All content is
776
      likely still available under other genres.
777
    * Switch from Sqlite to MySQL Embedded (libmysqld), resulting in faster
778
      scanning and collection filtering times.
779
    * When saving a new user playlist, the playlist browser immediately shows
780
      the newly saved playlist and starts an edit operation on it.
781
    * Many small visual and layout tweaks.
782
    * Make the values for score, play count and time since last play appear in
783
      tooltip when hovering over the icons in the current track applet.
784
    * Make values for score, play count and time since last play in the current
785
      track applet readable.
786
    * The Librivox.org scripted service is back after a rather long, API-change
787
      induced hiatus.
788
    * Do not show the OSD if a stream repeatedly sends the same metadata.
789
    * "Rescan Collection" was moved to the collection settings dialog.
790
    * Do not always show status of cover fetching in the status bar. (BR 166946)
791
    * The playlist drop visualiser respects system colours when drawn.
792
    * Change the ordering of CurrentTrack applet information.
793
    * The option for exporting playlists with relative urls has been moved
794
      from the Amarok settings to the save file dialog.
795
    * Show recently added albums on the albums applet when no track is playing
796
    * The Love action in the Last.fm service is now available for all tracks,
797
      not just Last.fm radio.
798
    * Made album applets scrollable.
799
    * Default the OSD to the middle top of the screen.
800
    * New icons and layout for Context View navigation and applet manipulation
801
    * Same default setting for proportional and fuzzy biases when filtering
802
      by year. Patch by Andreas MĂĽtzel <andreas.muetzel@gmx.net>.
803
    * Config is now written right after closing the settings dialog, making
804
      it crash persistant.
805
    * Improve Biased Playlist solver by using genetic algorithm.
806
    * System tray tooltip is now translucent (if compositing is available).
807
    * QtScript: Importer.include imports the file in the same context that it
808
      is currently in.
809
    * PodcastCategory now uses PopupDropper actions.
810
    * Libgrypt is preferred over OpenSSL at build time, for licensing reasons.
811
812
  BUGFIXES:
813
    * Fixed crash on startup when using --nofork option with a URL argument.
814
    * Don't automatically refetch images after they have been removed.
815
      (BR 169619)
816
    * Fixed crash when playing certain podcasts. (BR 171890)
817
    * Don't show the playcount and rating statistic twice in the system tray
818
      tooltip.
819
    * Files from a daap server can be played again. (BR 169565)
820
    * Files copied from iPod devices had an incorrect file extension set.
821
    * Don't crash when undoing an action which added tracks to an empty
822
      playlist.
823
    * Keyboard shortcut configuration is now remembered. (BR 170260)
824
    * The playlist drop visualiser will snap to the end of the playlist if
825
      required. (BR 171016)
826
    * Enhanced keyboard navigation in the playlist. (BR 170489)
827
    * Fix edit bookmark feature (BR 170008)
828
    * Don't show scroll bars on the pixmap viewer when viewing a full sized
829
      cover.
830
    * Activate the SideBar tabs when dragging something over them. (BR 169712)
831
    * Save composer and disc number correctly (BR 167184)
832
    * Handle multidisc albums properly (BR 167238)
833
    * Remove empty folders after organizing the collection. (BR 141555)
834
    * Display rating (when present) in OSD. (BR: 167263)
835
    * Make the currently playing track active in the playlist if it has been
836
      removed and is later re added. (BR 167552)
837
    * Detect Amarok 1.x style compilations when scanning the collection.
838
    * Show the album year in the Collection Browser if requested.
839
    * Make appending of podcasts to the playlist work.
840
    * Fix text color of current track applet. (BR 168466)
841
    * Lyrics applet is functional.
842
    * Setting half ratings via global shortcuts was broken.
843
    * Exporting of M3U and PLS playlists has been fixed.
844
    * Make the PlayPause button actually switch icons again. (BR 169805)
845
    * Add "Ignore field" token to the Guess tags dialog. (BR 161060)
846
    * Only add supported file formats to the playlist. Patch by Andreas MĂĽtzel
847
      <andreas.muetzel@gmx.net>.
848
    * Clear the status bar when stopping playback.
849
    * Albums applet no longer uses lots of CPU cycles. (BR 169586)
850
    * Don't show the context menu in the Current Track applet if playback has
851
      been stopped.
852
    * Applets do not disappear if Context View is shrunk too much. (BR 169504)
853
    * Fix last.fm events applet.
854
    * The Current track applet now has tooltips for the icons on the right
855
      hand side. (BR 168260)
856
    * "Resume playback on start" now also restores the track position
857
      correctly. (BR 168792)
858
    * Fix layouting issues with tagging dialog. (BR 166837)
859
    * Fix crash when closing last.fm settings while playing. (BR 168828)
860
    * Make it possible to actually disable the audio fadeout. (BR 169022)
861
    * Podcast Episode downloading doesn't crash anymore. (BR 168203)
862
    * Dragging files to the playlist no longer appends, but drops in the
863
      correct spot.
864
    * Correctly order out-of-collection files dragged into the playlist.
865
      (BR 169064)
866
    * You can add directories from the Play and Add Media menus. (BR 166549)
867
    * Allow statistics to be written out when we move to the next track, not
868
      just when playback stops.
869
870
871
VERSION 2.0-beta1
872
  FEATURES:
873
    * Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
874
    * Album moves can be undone
875
    * Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album
876
      header
877
    * Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
878
    * Gapless playback.
879
    * New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
880
    * Saving/loading dynamic playlists.
881
    * Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories.
882
      (BR 123637)
883
    * Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
884
    * Add toolbox to context view
885
    * Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
886
    * Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
887
    * Saving/loading of biased playlists.
888
    * Improved script console
889
    * Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant.
890
      patch by Sebastian Trueg <trueg@kde.org>
891
    * Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
892
    * Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
893
    * New start flag --multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of
894
      Amarok.
895
    * Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
896
    * Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when
897
      playing non local content
898
    * Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
899
    * New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.
900
901
  CHANGES:
902
    * New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
903
    * New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
904
    * Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
905
    * Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from Filenames dialog.
906
    * New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro <nuno@oxygen-icons.org> and Wade Olson
907
      <wade@corefunction.com>
908
    * Better zooming animation in the context view
909
    * Better usage of the available space in the context view.
910
    * Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades
911
      <edward.hades@gmail.com> (BR 167171)
912
913
  BUGFIXES:
914
    * Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file
915
      browser) to the playlist (BR 169035)
916
    * Fix crash when opening the setting dialog (BR 169215)
917
    * Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things around.
918
    * Don't pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in the
919
      Cover Manager (BR 167462)
920
    * Amarok would not respect the user's changes in the cover search dialog.
921
    * Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user chose to enable scrobbling.
922
    * OSD translucency works now. (BR 166567)
923
    * Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes
924
      sorting in shoutcast and cool streams services)
925
    * Don't try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
926
    * Don't pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
927
    * Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. (BR 167872)
928
    * Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has
929
      logged us out. (BR 166958)
930
    * Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it's width and does
931
      not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin
932
      <danimo@kde.org> (BR 166832)
933
    * Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. (BR 164156)
934
    * Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in
935
      SqlMeta. ( BR 122797 )
936
    * Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
937
    * Don't remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first.
938
      (BR: 167251)
939
    * Only increment playcount if we've played more than half of the song.
940
      (BR 121587)
941
    * Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only
942
      unplayable tracks.
943
    * Missing default playlist does not produce error message now.
944
      (BR 167385)
945
    * Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate
946
      entries. (BR 167153)
947
    * Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. (BR 167218)
948
    * Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
949
    * Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
950
    * Update album applet on track change. (BR 167256)
951
952
953
VERSION 2.0-alpha2
954
  FEATURES:
955
    * New interface for extracting tags from filenames, now fully working.
956
    * Context view applet to view albums. (BR 164005)
957
    * Automatic detection of non-UTF-8 charsets for metadata.
958
    * Dynamic/Biased playlists.
959
    * QtBindings support for the scripts. Also add a GUI console demo script.
960
961
  CHANGES:
962
    * Collection scanner now picks up bmp images too. (BR 167122)
963
    * Update the DBus APIs.
964
    * Update the QtScript APIs.
965
    * Current track applet added to the Context View on startup.
966
    * No more applets flashing between track changes.
967
    * Current track applet now shows a message when no track is being played.
968
969
  BUGFIXES:
970
    * Correctly save custom external browser setting. (BR 166979)
971
    * Use default KDE crash handler again.
972
    * Fix crash when switching tracks in the playlist. (BR 166964)
973
    * Fix crash when trying to download a playlist from unreachable server.
974
    * Script Manager now automatically restarts scripts on next startup.
975
    * Correctly handle albums with the same name. (BR 164173)
976
    * Various bugfixes for the systray tooltip.
977
    * In the Wikipedia applet scrolling works properly now.
978
    * Context menu separators are no longer shown as empty items.
979
    * Make the filebrowser filter instantaneously display results for files.
980
    * Add a path separator if required when constructing relative urls from M3U
981
      playlists. (BR 166346)
982
    * Rescan collection if the version is higher than we currently use
983
      (downgrades). (BR 142712)
984
    * Play the first track in the playlist if there is no active track.
985
      (BR 166336)
986
    * Do not use 100% cpu in the cover manager when changing view modes.
987
      (BR 164112)
988
    * Fix build on Debian. Patch by David Palacio <dpalacio@uninorte.edu.co>.
989
      (BR 166321)
990
    * Fix bug with selection getting stuck in collection browser when selecting
991
      multiple items when dragging over them. (BR 164960)
992
    * Fix crash when removing collapsed album from the playlist. (BR 163653)
993
    * Mp3tunes would load for users who had never used it before and prompt
994
      them with an annoying login box. (BR 166332)
995
    * Random album playback mode implemented. (BR 164623)
996
    * Fix rendering glitches when double clicking tracks in dynamic mode.
997
      (BR 166705)
998
    * Make the rating widget on the current track hideable.
999
1000
1001
VERSION 2.0-alpha1
1002
  FEATURES:
1003
    * Amarok defaults to using the standard music storage location of the
1004
      desktop environment.
1005
    * LastFM: Now using the new and improved 1.2 protocol.
1006
    * New Service Framework: Common framework for integrated services. A new
1007
      framework for adding the content of online services directly into Amarok
1008
      in a consistent and well integrated way. All services are plugins and can
1009
      be enabled or disabled form the new service config screen. Services that
1010
      are not loaded will not degrade performance or increase memory usage.
1011
      The service frameworks also offers for free, or makes it very simple to
1012
      add features such as cached albumcover downloads, searching and filtering
1013
      to the individual services. Services can also be track providers, meaning
1014
      that if amarok recieves a url that one of the services knows how to
1015
      handle, they will be presented with all the metadata that the servie can
1016
      provide.
1017
    * Magnatune.com store: Support for purchases using Magnatune gift cards
1018
    * Magnatune.com store: Support for the upcoming Magnatune.com stream and
1019
      download memberships, allowing uninterrupred streaming at higher quality
1020
      and free unlimited downloads respectively.
1021
    * Magnatune.com store: Add stream selection to the Magnatune service config,
1022
      allowing the selection of mp3, ogg or lo-fi mp3 streams, and make ogg the
1023
      default
1024
    * Jamendo.com service: Add new Jamendo service that allows for direct
1025
      streaming and (using the default bit torrent client) downloads.
1026
    * Mp3Tunes.com service: A service for streaming music from a personal
1027
      Mp3Tunes.com locker has been added.
1028
    * Ampache service: A new ampache plugin has been built on top of the service
1029
      framework. Together with a recent version of Ampache, this allows the
1030
      seamless integration of content from one or more Ampache servers directly
1031
      into Amarok
1032
    * OPML Directory service: A simple podcast directory service has been added
1033
    * Shoutcast service: The shoutcast list from previous versions of Amarok has
1034
      been reimplemented as a service.
1035
    * Scriptable Service Manager: Add support for writing simple services using
1036
      scripts. This allows quick prototyping of services as well as the
1037
      integration and distribution of community created services. The scripted
1038
      service can be started and stopped from the service manager. Also add 2
1039
      simple demo scripts.
1040
    * Playlist Framework: The Playlist Browser can now contain
1041
      Playlists/Podcasts/Streams from any mediadevice/service/collection in
1042
      addition to local files. Playlists are accessible by any Amarok subsystem
1043
      and scripts.
1044
1045
  CHANGES:
1046
    * The context view was reimplemented with Plasma technology from KDE.
1047
    * The audio engine system was removed. Amarok now uses Phonon from KDE.
1048
    * Debugging output is now enabled with a runtime option (--debug). It's no
1049
      longer necessary to rebuild Amarok.
1050
    * Removed the amarok loader application.
1051
    * The custom color theme options have been removed.
1052
    * The player window (small XMMS like thingie) was removed.
1053
    * DCOP interface replaced with D-Bus.
1054
    * Dependencies lifted to KDE 4.1 and Qt 4.4. Refer to the README.
1055
    * Improved the startup time.
1056
    * The magnatune store is now implemented as a service, making it much more
1057
      seamlessly integrated with the rest of Amarok, and offering a number of
1058
      benefits such as propper filtering and sorting, automatic downloads and
1059
      caching of albums cover.
1060
    * Podcast fetching uses the new QXmlStreamReader with incremental parsing.
1061
1062
1063
==BEGIN Qt 4.4 / KDE 4.1 DEPENDENCY==
1064
1065
VERSION 1.4.8
1066
  BUGFIXES:
1067
    * Make sure the localUrl of a PodcastEpisode is valid after a failed
1068
      download. (BR 147351)
1069
    * Fix off-by-one error causing Smart Playlists to not load tracks with a
1070
      rating >= 4.5. (BR 148916)
1071
    * Don't enable "Configure Podcasts" at the top-level Podcasts folder if
1072
      there is nothing beneath it. (BR 146504)
1073
    * Generic Media Device could copy some non-ASCII filenames to turn to
1074
      gibberish.  Thanks to David Smith <davidsmith@acm.org> for the fix.
1075
    * Fixed possible GUI freeze when Amarok was showing the dialog for
1076
      installing mp3 support. Patch by Sascha Sommer <ssommer@suse.de>.
1077
      (BR 147126)
1078
    * Amarok could needlessely reinitialize connections to MySQL databases
1079
      after a configuration change.  Combined with a bug in MySQL libraries,
1080
      this could lead to a crash.
1081
    * Pressing Preveious Track in a Dynamic Playlist could cause undefined
1082
      behavior in certain edge conditions.  Now it always plays the current
1083
      track. (BR 148317)
1084
    * Immediately after loading a dynamic playlist, you couldn't drag a
1085
      track to the top of the playlist. (BR 149263)
1086
    * Fix transferring files with UTF8 names to MTP devices. Thanks to Kevin
1087
      Becker <kevman3000@gmail.com> for the fix. (BR 139722)
1088
    * Display warning that iPod sysinfo could not be written in the case of
1089
      incorrect file permissions. Patch by Christian Ober-Blöbaum
1090
      <cob@tzi.de>. (BR 148607)
1091
    * Fix Czech character conversion to ASCII for Generic Media Device. Patch
1092
      by Matěj Laitl <strohel@gmail.com>. (BR 149125)
1093
1094
1095
VERSION 1.4.7
1096
  CHANGES:
1097
    * Updated the Cool Streams.
1098
    * Improved application icon. Thanks go to Pasi Lallinaho.
1099
    * Upgraded SQLite to 3.4.1
1100
    * SQL improvements providing optimisations on intensive queries. Patch by
1101
      Gosta <gostaj@gmail.com>. (BR 142999)
1102
1103
  BUGFIXES:
1104
    * Wikipedia artist lookup would freeze Amarok if the artist was not found
1105
      and the locale was not English. (BR 142764)
1106
    * Cannot limit smart playlists to more than 1000 tracks. (BR 148084)
1107
    * Fixed the formatting in the "Extended Info" pane for podcasts.
1108
    * Don't show "Not Rated" for items rated with half a star. Patch by Tuomas
1109
      Nurmi <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 144675)
1110
    * Copy, don't move items from Cool Streams to folders. (BR 147404)
1111
    * Sometimes folders in the playlistbrowser could be lost. (BR 147404)
1112
    * NJB devices could have tags corrupted that contained Unicode characters.
1113
      Patch by Kun Xi <quinnxi@gmail.com>. (BR 147223)
1114
    * Show OSD when changing song rating via shortcut. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
1115
1116
VERSION 1.4.6
1117
  CHANGES:
1118
    * Improved icon theme, kindly provided by Landy DeField
1119
      <lando@revelinux.com>. Big thanks!
1120
    * Playlist now sends notifications to scripts if items are added, removed,
1121
      reordered, or if the playlist is cleared.  Useful for script authors.
1122
      Thanks to Miguel Angel Alvarez <maacruz@gmail.com> for the patch.
1123
    * iPod device plugin now handles RockBox devices.  Thanks to Michael
1124
      Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> for the patch.
1125
    * Organising files will only delete empty parent folders if the folder
1126
      is within the collection hierarchy. (BR 136757)
1127
    * The default cover image preview size has been increased to 130px.
1128
    * The "hide menubar" option has been removed. It's too dangerous and led
1129
      to countless support requests.
1130
    * Generic media device can now handle any KIO-compatible URL, including
1131
      obex and smb. Manage your bluetooth phone's music collection through
1132
      Amarok!
1133
    * Upgraded SQLite to 3.3.17.
1134
    * Append an album to the playlist by right-clicking on it from within
1135
      the Cover Manager.  Patch by Doug Reich <dreich@hmc.edu>.
1136
    * Faster playlist handling. Patch by Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>. (BR 142255)
1137
    * The moodbar process has been given a higher priority. (BR 136867)
1138
    * Allow for lyrics scripts to specifiy site, site_url, and add_url from
1139
      within the script. This will allow for "meta lyrics" scripts. Patch by
1140
      Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 141885)
1141
    * First rating star now lets you toggle between no rating, half a star,
1142
      and one full star.
1143
1144
  BUGFIXES:
1145
    * Uninstalling scripts would in some cases leave files behind. Patch by
1146
      Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 143716)
1147
    * Last.fm "Custom Station" stream works again. (BR 146020)
1148
    * Fix regression where the "Show Script Manager" button displayed on the
1149
      Lyrics tab of the Context Browser wouldn't actually show the Script
1150
      Manager.
1151
    * Don't show ratings from the previous track's rating change in the OSD on
1152
      playing the next track.
1153
    * The config dialog is now less tall and fits on widescreen displays.
1154
    * Making a dynamic playlist with the number of previously played tracks to
1155
      show set to zero and attempting to play the first track would cause a
1156
      crash. (BR 145157)
1157
    * If "Stop after current track" was used, the last track would not be
1158
      counted or rated in the user's statistics. (BR 140980)
1159
    * Generic media device wouldn't allow you to drop a folder on the
1160
      viewport, meaning you couldn't move subfolders to the top level of the
1161
      mount point.
1162
    * Made the settings dialog less tall. (BR 141250)
1163
    * Star ratings now update instantly in the Context Browser, OSD, and
1164
      Collection Browser.
1165
    * lyrc script did not work behind proxy due to a stray quote mark. Gentoo
1166
1167
VERSION 1.4.5
1168
  FEATURES:
1169
    * Added support for custom song labels. Labels can be managed
1170
      through the GUI or using new DCOP functions. (BR 89314)
1171
    * New DCOP functions to make it easier for scripts to use Amarok's
1172
      Dynamic Collection feature.
1173
    * Download songs from Shared Music (DAAP) directly into the collection.
1174
    * Fadeout for Helix engine when pressing Stop.
1175
    * Guided editing of the collection/playlist/devices filters. Patch by
1176
      Giovanni Venturi <giovanni@kde-it.org>. (BR 139292)
1177
    * Added GUI options for fadeout and fadeout on exit. Both are now enabled
1178
      by default.
1179
    * Support for Speex (.spx), WavPack (.wv) and TrueAudio (.tta) files in
1180
      the collection thanks to taglib plugins by Lukáš Lalinský
1181
      <lalinsky@gmail.com>.
1182
    * Search inside of lyrics, by using "/" on Context Browser. Patch by
1183
      Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>. (BR 139210)
1184
    * "Automatically show context browser" feature makes a return, as per
1185
      popular request. It is however disabled by default.
1186
    * Improved keyboard navigation: Space key is now a shortcut for Play/Pause,
1187
      and cursor left/right seeks forward/backward.
1188
    * Cover images are shown in collection browser. Patch by Trever Fischer
1189
      <wm161@wm161.net>. (BR 91044)
1190
    * Send cover art to MTP media devices if they support it.
1191
    * Elapsed time can be shown in OSD. Patch by Christian Engels
1192
      <s9chenge@stud.uni-sb.de>. (BR 120051)
1193
    * New redownload manager for the Magnatune.com store. Allows re-download
1194
      of any previous purchase free of charge (in any format).
1195
    * New items in the playlist are colorized, as a visual cue.
1196
    * Show rating as stars in flat collection view. Patch by Daniel Faust
1197
      <hessijames@gmail.com>. (BR 133797)
1198
    * Synchronize play count, last played time and date of modification to
1199
      iPods. Patch by Michael <michael003@gmail.com>. (BR 136759)
1200
    * Propose list of composers in collection when editing the composer tag
1201
      from the playlist. (BR 137775)
1202
    * Greatly improved sound quality for the xine equalizer. Patch by Tobias
1203
      Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 127307)
1204
    * Fancy graphical volume slider for the OSD. Patch by Alexander Bechikov
1205
      <goo@t72.ru>.
1206
    * Shoutcast stream directory. Contributed by Adam Pigg <adam@piggz.co.uk>.
1207
    * Support for %composer and %genre when guessing tags from filenames.
1208
    * Cached lyrics are now AFT-enabled, and will follow your files around as
1209
      you move and rename them.
1210
1211
  CHANGES:
1212
    * Added configure option to build without DAAP support.
1213
    * Album covers are now downloaded and added to album directory when
1214
      purchasing from the Magnatune.com store. (BR 136680)
1215
    * Update context browser when a change in the collection has been detected.
1216
      (BR 140588)
1217
    * Ignore leading 'The ' when sorting playlist by artist. (BR 139829)
1218
    * Smart Playlists now have 'does not start with' and 'does not end with'
1219
      options, as well as a dropdown for mount points. (BR 139552)
1220
    * Support for cue files not matching audio files' name. Patch by Dawid
1221
      WrĂłbel <dawid@klej.net>. (BR 128046)
1222
    * Script Manager now remembers if categories were open or closed.
1223
    * Restart collection scanner as long as not more than 5 % of the files
1224
      make it crash. (BR 106474)
1225
    * Ensure the first selected item in the Collection Browser stays visible
1226
      when the search field is cleared using the clear button.
1227
    * Duplicate filenames are now allowed on MTP media devices if the files are
1228
      in different folders.
1229
    * Save media device transfer queue when adding items or after transfers.
1230
      (BR 138885)
1231
    * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.12.
1232
    * MTP media devices are not automatically connected on start-up. This
1233
      should solve slow loading times for those with large collections on an
1234
      MTP media device. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
1235
    * Internationalize unknown artist/album/genre strings. Contributed by Mikko
1236
      Seppälä. (BR 138409)
1237
    * Don't assume that a device returning 0 tracks is invalid. It could just
1238
      have no tracks on. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
1239
    * Magnatune store look now matches rest of Amarok much better.
1240
    * Album art is displayed on the Magnatune purchase dialog.
1241
    * Generic media device now has an option to force VFAT-safe filenames even
1242
      on non-VFAT filesystems.
1243
    * Double-clicked items in sidebar and urls passed on the command line
1244
      are treated equally: append them to playlist if not yet there and start
1245
      playing the first if nothing is playing.
1246
    * "Scan Changes" button was replaced with "Update Collection" menu entry.
1247
    * Consistent double-click behavior in sidebar. (BR 138125)
1248
    * Propose name of currently loaded playlist when saving current one.
1249
    * Remove support for older libmtp versions. We now require 0.0.15 or
1250
      newer.
1251
    * Deleting a playlist item on an MTP media device now results in it being
1252
      removed from the playlist.
1253
    * Magnatune store is lazy loaded to improve startup times.
1254
    * Dynamic mode logic has been rethought to provide a faster and better
1255
      user experience.
1256
    * When checking for duplicate files on a Rio Karma media device, use
1257
      track number in addition to artist, album & title. (BR 137152)
1258
    * The XMMS visualization interface has been removed. LibVisual supersedes
1259
      this feature.
1260
    * It is now possible to select the time unit for length-based smart
1261
      playlists. (BR 136841)
1262
    * Show shadowed cover images in the system tray tooltip. (BR 136589)
1263
    * Amarok won't crossfade if it was paused, and user started another
1264
      track. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>.
1265
      (BR 136428)
1266
    * Amarok now saves playlists with relative paths by default.
1267
1268
  BUGFIXES:
1269
    * Disable seeking in streams. (BR 140364)
1270
    * With the default theme, the playlist browser info pane would not show
1271
      the horizontal scrollbar if necessary. (BR 134221)
1272
    * Some .rm files would make Amarok crash. (BR 137695)
1273
    * Remember 'User Cover Art for Folder Icons' when organizing files.
1274
      (BR 138582)
1275
    * "Listening since..." has been changed to the more clear "First
1276
      Played..."  Patch by Andrew Ash <ash211@gmail.com>. (BR 131727)
1277
    * Fixed regression: the DEL key no longer worked in the
1278
      playlist after opening the File Browser context menu. (BR 140197)
1279
    * Smart playlists now work correctly with "is not" filters containing
1280
      numbers. Patch by Felix Rotthowe <felix.rotthowe@cs.uni-dortmund.de>.
1281
    * Context browser would not display updated covers correctly. (BR 130518)
1282
    * The select custom cover dialog no longer starts in the wrong directory
1283
      for compilations. (BR 131776)
1284
    * Amarok's xine engine would cut off approximately the last second of an
1285
      audio file. (BR 135190)
1286
    * Cue sheet would remain enabled when switching to a stream. Patch
1287
      by Ted Percival <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 127683)
1288
    * Length of tracks wouldn't be shown correctly for some cue files.
1289
      Patch by Dawid WrĂłbel <dawid@klej.net> (BR 139707)
1290
    * Assume that all dots but the last in script executable files belong to
1291
      the script name. (BR 139460)
1292
    * Don't crash when quitting while initially loading the playlist.
1293
      (BR 136353)
1294
    * The same track could be queued multiple times for transferring to a
1295
      media device. (BR 129136)
1296
    * Migrate statistics for files moved from outside to the collection.
1297
      (BR 127776)
1298
    * Select All/Copy action would not copy from context browser. (BR 138635)
1299
    * Xine-engine: When a track was fading out (after pressing Stop), and you
1300
      started another track, Amarok could become unresponsive.
1301
    * Improved seeking with xine-engine. No longer jumps to 0 when you seek
1302
      too quickly. Patch by Alexander Bechikov <goo@t72.ru>. (BR 99808)
1303
    * Improved cover images handling for Various Artists. Patch by Tobias
1304
      Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 136833)
1305
    * Don't enable a mount point for devices that can't support them (mtp,
1306
      njb).
1307
    * With SQLite, the search in the collection browser was case-sensitive
1308
      with UTF-8. Patch by Stanislav Nikolov <stanley_87@mail.ru>. (BR 138482)
1309
    * (Don't) Show Under Various Artists would not work when multiple albums
1310
      are selected. Patch by Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>.
1311
      (BR 112422)
1312
    * Changed temp download location for Magnatune purchases. (BR 137912)
1313
    * Fixed potential double payment issues in the Magnatune store.
1314
    * Only synchronize already set values to media devices. (BR 138150)
1315
    * Correctly update total playlist play time when removing last.fm
1316
      streams. Patch by Modestas Vainius <geromanas@mailas.com>. (BR 134333)
1317
    * File organization jobs could not be canceled. Patch by Wenli Liu
1318
      <wenlil@xandros.com>. (BR 136527)
1319
    * Sending filenames to MTP media devices as UTF-8 caused problems, use
1320
      Latin-1 instead.
1321
    * It's now possible to delete a file from an MTP media device and
1322
      re-upload it without having to reconnect the device.
1323
    * Wikipedia links to edit sections are no longer shown.
1324
    * Metadata is read from Rio Karma media devices as UTF-8.
1325
    * Last.fm streams could be paused with DCOP or global shortcuts.
1326
      (BR 133013)
1327
    * Dynamic mode can still be used after a collection rescan. (BR 133269)
1328
    * Dynamic mode will repopulate from all available sources. (BR 137212)
1329
    * Dynamic mode no longer repeats songs often. (BR 107693)
1330
    * When transferring files to a Generic media device, having certain
1331
      characters (such as '#') in a tag field could cause a directory based on
1332
      that field to not be created.
1333
    * Editing lyrics from within the context browser no longer removes all
1334
      linebreaks.
1335
    * Read metadata from MTP media devices as UTF-8.
1336
    * Some shoutcast streams would show an empty title. (BR 127741)
1337
    * Pause would act as Play/Pause. (BR 116101)
1338
    * The same track would sometimes be shown twice in suggested songs.
1339
      (BR 129395)
1340
    * Detect VFAT partitioned devices on FreeBSD. Patch by Daniel
1341
      O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>.
1342
    * Favorite Tracks wouldn't be shown on Context Browser, and
1343
      Statistics Panel would be empty for SQLite users. (BR 136791)
1344
    * Volume slider in the player window would not react correctly to
1345
      the mouse wheel. (BR 136714)
1346
    * When using a proxy set by script, context browser wouldn't work
1347
      properly, and the application would crash when closing. (BR 112437)
1348
    * Proxy settings wouldn't be respected when downloading podcast
1349
      episodes. (BR 134028)
1350
    * Xine engine could hang when skipping through tracks quickly with
1351
      crossfade on.
1352
    * Fix crash when an MTP media device returned a playlist with an
1353
      invalid track ID. (BR 136552)
1354
    * The Install MP3 support script would be run regardless of what the
1355
      user answered to the shown dialog. (BR 136294)
1356
    * OSD wouldn't always show up-to-date ratings. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
1357
      <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 125612)
1358
1359
1360
VERSION 1.4.4
1361
  FEATURES:
1362
    * Transfer .wav-files to iPods. (BR 131130)
1363
    * Xine and Helix engines now support three different crossfading modes:
1364
      always, on manual track changes only, or on automatic track changes
1365
      only.
1366
    * Manually specify local file for podcast episodes via right-click menu.
1367
    * Action menu entry for adding podcasts to Amarok. Based on .desktop files
1368
      by Harald Sitter and Fabio Bacigalupo <kde-apps.org@open-haus.de>.
1369
    * Open podcast items with external application from right-click menu.
1370
    * Synchronize listened flag for podcast between Amarok and iPods.
1371
    * Added integrated Magnatune.com music store. Includes artist and album
1372
      info and full previews of all tracks.
1373
    * Fade-out for xine-engine when pressing Stop. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
1374
      <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 127316)
1375
    * Support downloading of files from an MTP device.
1376
    * Purged podcast episodes can be readded by increasing the purge number.
1377
    * Added rudimentary support for the Rio Karma. (BR 132713)
1378
    * Support creation and editing of playlists on MTP media devices.
1379
    * Undo/Redo functionality is now available over sessions. (BR 131072)
1380
    * Allow the creation of empty playlists in the playlist browser. Available
1381
      either from the Add button in the toolbar or the context menu of a
1382
      playlist folder. (BR 133543)
1383
1384
  CHANGES:
1385
    * Ignore leading "The " when sorting artists on media devices. (BR 136233)
1386
    * Improved handling of VFAT/ASCII files and paths when organizing the
1387
      collection and using the Generic media device.
1388
    * Enable playing audio CDs on CD insert. Patch by Will Stephenson
1389
      <wstephenson@kde.org>. (BR 136106)
1390
    * Bring Amarok main window to front when starting amarok again without
1391
      arguments. Patch by Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>. (BR 135396)
1392
    * Don't switch to playlist browser after saving a playlist from files tab.
1393
      (BR 130189)
1394
    * Add .ape and .mpc to possible file types supported by a generic media
1395
      device. (BR 133491)
1396
    * Move button for saving current playlist from playlist browser toolbar to
1397
      playlist toolbar. (BR 129300)
1398
    * Run 'kdeeject -q devicenode' when no post-disconnect command has been
1399
      configured for media devices.
1400
    * Reduced memory usage for MTP media devices. (BR 134663)
1401
    * Faster searching on playlist and startup, due to some optimizing in
1402
      string usage. Patch by Ovidiu Gheorghioiu <ovidiug@gmail.com>.
1403
    * Correctly translate media:, home:, ... style urls on KDE 3.5 and newer.
1404
    * When tracks are added to the collection and Playlist entries already
1405
      exist (as determined by the file tracking code), the corresponding
1406
      Playlist entries are updated to the new location and enabled if they
1407
      were previously disabled.
1408
    * When file tracking is updating Playlist entries, multiple entries of the
1409
      same song will now all be updated, instead of just one.
1410
    * When tracks are removed from the collection (deleted on disk or moved
1411
      outside of a collection folder) any corresponding entry in the Playlist
1412
      will be disabled.
1413
    * Dragging podcasts to to playlist will insert them in a chronological
1414
      order, so you can listen to the oldest first automatically!
1415
    * Improve application startup times dramaticaly by lazy loading podcast
1416
      episodes.
1417
    * Transferring tracks to an MTP device now shows a progress bar and
1418
      doesn't hang the rest of the UI. (only available for libmtp >= 0.0.15)
1419
    * Show a proper tag dialog when viewing information for DAAP music shares.
1420
1421
  BUGFIXES:
1422
    * Ipod Mode on Collection Browser would have duplicated headers.
1423
    * Multiple problems related to Amarok using wrong playlists on Dynamic Mode
1424
      fixed.
1425
    * Deleting files from generic media devices would not update the progress
1426
      bar, resulting in the progress staying at 0%. (BR 130009)
1427
    * If nothing at all existed on a generic device, the first item
1428
      transferred would incorrectly show that an error had occured during
1429
      transfer. (BR 133528)
1430
    * Synchronising a smart playlist to a device when it didn't exist before
1431
      would crash Amarok. (BR 135956)
1432
    * Proxies would not take into account certain settings in KDE's Proxy
1433
      control center modules for PAC files and more. (BR 123021)
1434
    * Generic media devices would not accept files with an extension that only
1435
      differs in case from a supported extension. (BR 135261)
1436
    * Xine-engine: Pausing during crossfade would not work properly. Patches by
1437
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 122514 & 135285)
1438
    * Stop a running cross-fading operation before starting another one. Patch
1439
      by Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 128629)
1440
    * Queuing again would dequeue. (BR 121206)
1441
    * In some cases, the Removal and Enqueue buttons in the queue manager would
1442
      have no icons. (BR 115895)
1443
    * Don't change length of position slider when navigating within a track.
1444
      (BR 122569)
1445
    * Direct copying of non-local items would result in wrong properties on
1446
      iPods. (BR 135681)
1447
    * Honor setting to show Amarok's menu in main toolbar.
1448
    * "Burn this album" would burn all albums of the same name. (BR 121963)
1449
    * Ignore double-clicks on tree item openers. (BR 125121)
1450
    * Visibility of sidebar tabs would depend on the current locale. (BR 135316)
1451
    * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work when selected
1452
      with the mouse. (BR 123327)
1453
    * Check for some integral data types for improved DAAP portability.
1454
      (BR 132939)
1455
    * Take disc number into account when checking if a song is already on an
1456
      iPod. (BR 135643)
1457
    * Editing metadata in the playlist itself now matches possible alternatives
1458
      case-insensitively. (BR 135683)
1459
    * Fix loading directory in external browser in the tag editor when the path
1460
      contains parentheses. (BR 132961)
1461
    * Stop scripts using a proxy when it's disabled in KDE. Patch by Felix Geyer
1462
      <sniperbeamer_disc1@fobos.de>.
1463
    * While playing Last.fm Streams, sometimes metadata wouldn't be updated
1464
      on track changes. Patch by Tom Kaitchuck <tkaitchuck@comcast.net>.
1465
    * Speed patch to load playlist columns from statistic tables on population
1466
      of the playlist, makes adding to the playlist and starting up faster.
1467
      Thanks Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>! (BR 135324)
1468
    * Save MTP playlists when they are renamed so we don't lose changes.
1469
    * Prevent new podcastepisodes from showing up in the playlistbrowser twice
1470
      by opening it's parent before adding. (BR 134108)
1471
    * New iPods would not get initialized.
1472
    * Files that were detected as being added back to the collection would not
1473
      always be re-enabled in the Playlist. (BR 130359)
1474
    * Fix some spelling and layout issues. Part of a patch by Malcolm Parsons
1475
      <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>.
1476
    * Correctly handle horizontal wheel events in position slider. (BR 119254)
1477
    * Don't rescan collection while transcoding. (BR 133423)
1478
    * Don't try to copy to collection from urls without kio slaves.
1479
    * Don't quit immediately if amarokrc was removed. (BR 134439)
1480
    * The DAAP client would crash Amarok under certain conditions when
1481
      kdelibs was compiled with asserts on. (BR 132851)
1482
    * Configuring the toolbar would disable the stop button. Patch by
1483
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 132477)
1484
    * Changed tags of songs on iPods would not propagate to its database.
1485
      (BR 133842)
1486
    * Fixed playlist encoding problems. (BR 133613)
1487
    * Cover images for compilation albums can now be displayed full size in
1488
      the context browser.
1489
    * Dragging compilation albums from the collection browser or the playlist
1490
      would show multiple cover images in the tooltip. (BR 133916)
1491
    * Don't crash when calling repopulate dynamic mode from dcop. (BR 133716)
1492
    * Last.fm streams work with proxies. (BR 131137)
1493
    * Don't try to read m4a tags from apparently invalid files. (BR 133288)
1494
    * Some podcasts would insert line breaks in author/title information and
1495
      cause graphical errors. (BR 133591)
1496
    * File tracking could fail on files that were copies of each other but
1497
      with different ID3v1 or APE tags.
1498
1499
1500
VERSION 1.4.3:
1501
  FEATURES:
1502
    * New DCOP: player trackCurrentTimeMs, returns the current track position
1503
      in milliseconds.
1504
    * Amarok File Tracking (formerly ATF) goes public! See
1505
      http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok_File_Tracking for more information.
1506
    * DAAP client now supports Zeroconf. With mDNSResponder properly setup
1507
      Amarok automatically shows local DAAP servers.
1508
    * DAAP client saves manually added computers between sessions.
1509
1510
  CHANGES:
1511
    * Performance with big playlists has been improved by a magnitude. This
1512
      also makes application shutdown faster.
1513
    * Remove the option to enable/disable history in dynamic mode. (BR 133076)
1514
    * Reduce the minimum available tracks to show to 0. (BR 131223)
1515
    * Change in file tracking behavior: IDs are no longer embedded into tags
1516
      but are calculated from a portion of the file data instead, letting
1517
      users with read-only music stores take advantage of it.
1518
    * Don't report "/dev/hd" style devices as new media devices. (BR 127831)
1519
    * Smart Playlists only load media from currently mounted devices.
1520
1521
  BUGFIXES:
1522
    * Dequeuing tracks whilst in dynamic mode might not work. (BR 133449)
1523
    * When marking podcast episodes as listened, update the channel icon if
1524
      necessary. (BR 133497)
1525
    * Don't always mark podcast channel icon as "listened" on rescan if.
1526
      (BR 133495)
1527
    * User added streams were not editable once saved. (BR 133483)
1528
    * Cover images were not displayed in some cases. (BR 133174)
1529
    * Fixed bug which prevented Amarok from creating the collection database
1530
      in rare circumstances using SQLite. (BR 133072)
1531
    * Collection scanner would only restart a maximum of 2 times instead of
1532
      20. (fixed in SVN revision 578922)
1533
    * MTP media device support would not compile against libmtp versions >=
1534
      0.0.12. (fixed in SVN revision 576121)
1535
    * AudioCD playback would stutter and sometimes freeze Amarok. (BR 133015)
1536
    * Dynamic Collection broke flat collection view when the Filename column
1537
      was added (BR 132874)
1538
    * DAAP client shows connection errors to the user and no longer says
1539
      "Loading" perpetually. After a failed connection, the user can now
1540
      try again.
1541
    * Don't empty media device transfer queue when canceling a transfer.
1542
    * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work. (BR 123327)
1543
    * Delete covers from the filesystem when requested.
1544
    * Show context menu on right-click in empty area of media device
1545
      browser. (BR 127154)
1546
    * Sort numeric columns in flat collection view numerically. (BR 130667)
1547
1548
1549
VERSION 1.4.2:
1550
  FEATURES:
1551
    * Handle itpc:// and pcast:// url protocols for adding podcast feeds.
1552
      (BR 128918)
1553
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalComposers" returns the number of
1554
      different composers in your collection.
1555
    * Synchronize playlists to media devices.
1556
    * Support for MTP/PlaysForSure media devices. (BR 128532)
1557
    * iPod plugin usable with iTunes phones. (BR 131487)
1558
    * Browse collection by composer. (BR 122452)
1559
    * New DCOP call "playlist: filenames" returns the filenames of the songs
1560
      currently in the playlist. Patch by Arash Abedinzadeh
1561
      <arash@netcologne.de>
1562
    * Lyrics can be edited directly on Context Browser's Lyrics tab.
1563
    * Collection browse mode similar to that used by some portable players.
1564
      Patch by Joe Rabinoff <bobqwatson@yahoo.com>. (BR 130586)
1565
    * BPM field. Patch by Alf B LervĂĄg <alfborge@gmail.com> and Aaron
1566
      VonderHaar <gruen0aermel@gmail.com>. (BR 123142)
1567
    * Improved crossfading for xine-engine: Honours the 'Crossfade Length'
1568
      setting precisely, and uses a better mixing style profile. Patch by
1569
      Enrico Ros <koral@email.it>.
1570
    * Media and collection browser tabs now support dropping.
1571
    * Allow for deleting all the tracks on a playlist from iPods. (BR 127855)
1572
    * Ability to create custom last.fm station from the GUI.
1573
    * Ability to mark podcasts as listened.
1574
    * Show error messages when connecting to last.fm streams fails.
1575
    * A new media device implements a DAAP client. So Amarok can connect
1576
      to iTunes, Firefly Media Server etc. (BR 100513)
1577
    * Dynamic Collection: improved support for songs on removable external
1578
      harddisks, SMB and NFS shares
1579
1580
  CHANGES:
1581
    * Skip tracks that failed to transfer to media devices instead of stopping
1582
      transfer process. (BR 130008)
1583
    * libtunepimp 0.5.0 actually compiles successfully now.
1584
    * Lift size limit on pathnames and comments in collection databases not
1585
      managed by MySQL. (BR 130585)
1586
    * Generic media device plugin is improved. Users can configure supported
1587
      filetypes and get more control over the location of songs and podcasts
1588
      on disk (Patch by eute).
1589
    * Move composer tag to its own database table.
1590
    * Re-enable adding videos to iPods with recent libgpod-cvs. (BR 130117)
1591
    * Include Skip, Love and Ban in playlist right-click menu for last.fm
1592
      streams.
1593
    * Advanced Tag Features (ATF) deferred to 1.4.3: Public release delayed
1594
      pending some bug fixes in both Amarok and a dependency. It will be
1595
      automatically disabled the first time you run 1.4.2 if you had it enabled
1596
      from 1.4.2-beta1. (It will still be available in subversion snapshots.)
1597
    * Optionally finish transferring all queued tracks to media device after
1598
      pressing disconnect button. (BR 129716)
1599
    * It's now possible to edit scores and ratings for multiple tracks in
1600
      TagDialog.
1601
    * TagDialog won't make Amarok unresponsive while committing tags changes
1602
      to files anymore.
1603
    * Exact playtime as tooltip in statusbar. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1604
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 130463)
1605
    * Suspend collection rescanning while organizing files. (BR 129885)
1606
    * Always use metadata from original file for transcoded files transfered
1607
      to media devices. (BR 131171)
1608
    * Enhancements to ATF/statistics to allow for better tracking of stats as
1609
      files are moved.
1610
    * Tag Editing Dialog is now ATF-enabled.
1611
    * In-line tag editing is now ATF-enabled.
1612
    * Previously, using ATF with MP3 files would wipe out existing UFID frames
1613
      from other applications. Now Amarok plays nicely and only touches its
1614
      own UFID frame.
1615
    * ATF no longer requires a restart to enable or disable it.
1616
    * ATF read-only functions are always enabled if a UID is found in the
1617
      file. Option in the configuration dialog now only controls whether new
1618
      UIDs are written to new files.
1619
    * ATF will now automatically run the rescan and clear the Playlist only on
1620
      the first time it is enabled.  After that it will simply display an info
1621
      reminding users that they may need a rescan if their library has changed
1622
      since the last time it was enabled.
1623
1624
  BUGFIXES:
1625
    * DCOP calls to add and remove ATF tags are no longer allowed to run while
1626
      the collection is being scanned.
1627
    * Last.fm streams no longer freeze Amarok's GUI with xine-engine.
1628
    * Sometimes metadata wasn't updated with Last.fm streams.
1629
    * Update context browser on score and rating changes. (BR 132496)
1630
    * Double colons in the collection filter would lead to invalid queries.
1631
      (BR 132551)
1632
    * Handle changed semantics of MySQL 5.0.23+ (BR 132114)
1633
    * Do not try to detach() KURLs, as this would not work for non-ascii urls.
1634
      (BR 132355)
1635
    * Adding songs while at end of playlist could crash in dynamic mode.
1636
      Patch by Joe Rabinoff <rabinoff@post.harvard.edu>. (BR 128340)
1637
    * Don't update accessdate when setting songs rating or score. (BR 132274)
1638
    * Increasing or decreasing volume while muted would not correctly unmute.
1639
      (BR 132228)
1640
    * Better resize behavior in iPod collection view mode. Patch by Joe Rabinoff
1641
      <bobqwatson@yahoo.com> (BR 132016)
1642
    * Make sure a track's compilation status is returned properly when running
1643
      with Postgresql.
1644
    * Check directory structure on iPods of unknown type in order to detect
1645
      iTunes phones. (BR 131910)
1646
    * Make 'Clear' individually translatable for playlists. (BR 131521)
1647
    * Retain column visibility for flat collection view. (BR 126685)
1648
    * Honour proxy exceptions for MusicBrainz lookups. Patch by N. Cat
1649
      <trisk-bug@quasarnet.org>. (BR 131377)
1650
    * Correctly pass links containing parentheses to external browsers. Patch
1651
      by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131307)
1652
    * iPods would not show podcast descriptions. (BR 129824)
1653
    * Carry over rounding increments to next larger unit for fuzzy time
1654
      display. (BR 131383)
1655
    * If disabled, don't show splash screen - even on Kubuntu. (BR 125210)
1656
    * Correctly request last.fm similar artist information for artists
1657
      containing non-ASCII characters. Patch by Thomas Lindroth
1658
      <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131254)
1659
    * Support non-chronologically ordered podcast feeds. (BR 119911)
1660
    * Support for libvisual 0.4.0 was fixed. Patch by Dennis Smit.
1661
    * Adding songs already on a media device to playlists would not work.
1662
    * Fix adding smart playlists to media devices. (BR 130540)
1663
    * Reverse check for mount point and device node when connecting to iPods
1664
      for better handling of device nodes pointed to by symlinks. (BR 129965)
1665
    * Make handling of filenames on iPods case-insensitive and thus fix
1666
      fix problems with too many orphaned and stale items. (BR 126431)
1667
    * Correct action of queueing current item in dynamic mode. (BR 130313)
1668
    * Double clicking in the filebrowser will append to playlist. (BR 117465)
1669
    * Fixed problems with last.fm streams containing spaces, e.g. "Hip Hop".
1670
    * When generic media devices were specified manually, transferred files
1671
      would not always get converted to VFAT-friendly names if they were on a
1672
      VFAT filesystem.
1673
    * When using ATF, tags in MP3 files would be written as ID3v2 only and
1674
      existing ID3v1 tags would be stripped, which could lead to media devices
1675
      and tagging libraries that were not ID3v2.4-aware to report that no tag
1676
      existed.  Now both tags are written with identical data.
1677
    * Correct handling of filenames with special characters. (BR 132243)
1678
1679
1680
VERSION 1.4.1:
1681
  FEATURES:
1682
    * Support for last.fm streams. (BR 111983)
1683
    * New playlist toolbar menu entry for adding streams to the playlist.
1684
      (BR 129349)
1685
1686
  CHANGES:
1687
    * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.6.
1688
    * Inotify support disabled for now, due to stability issues.
1689
    * Tag editor is no longer modal.
1690
    * Provide warning dialog when deleting items from the playlistbrowser.
1691
      (BR 129313)
1692
    * GUI layout reverted to the classic Amarok layout.
1693
    * The Extended Info panel in the playlistbrowser is now resizeable.
1694
1695
  BUGFIXES:
1696
    * Pressing return in the search bar of the Collection Browser immediately
1697
      after typing a query no longer appends the wrong items to the playlist.
1698
    * Fix crash when pressing Back or Forward buttons multiple times quickly
1699
      in Artist tab. Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>.
1700
    * Fix problems where blanks would be added to data if SQLite was busy.
1701
      Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 127608)
1702
    * Automatically refresh stream lyrics on new metadata.
1703
    * Set half star ratings on multiple selected tracks when clicking on an
1704
      item. (BR 129449)
1705
    * Only enable Show Extended Info in the Playlist Browser when information
1706
      is available. (BR 126590)
1707
    * Disable global shortcut for ratings when ratings are disabled.
1708
      (BR 129414)
1709
    * Autodetect button in Media Devices configuration dialog would not
1710
      properly signal changes, so that new devices were not always saved.
1711
1712
1713
VERSION 1.4.1-beta1:
1714
  FEATURES:
1715
    * Much improved and completed custom icon theme by Vadim Petrunin
1716
      <vnizzz@gmail.com>.
1717
    * LibVisual 0.4 supported and required.
1718
    * Support for custom scoring algorithms, via scripts.
1719
    * Creative Nomad Jukebox support (untested!). Submitted by Andres Oton
1720
      <andres.oton@gmail.com>. (BR 103185)
1721
    * Inotify support. On kernels 2.6.13 and above with Inotify support
1722
      compiled in, the collection will automatically be rescanned and
1723
      updated as soon as a watched folder has changed.
1724
1725
  CHANGES:
1726
    * First-run wizard can no longer be restarted from the application menu.
1727
      However, it can still be invoked with "amarok --wizard".
1728
    * Astraweb lyrics script was removed for being crappy and unmaintained. If
1729
      you want to maintain it, grab it from SVN and release on kde-apps.org.
1730
    * "Append Count" option of dynamic playlists has been removed. It is
1731
      now always one. (BR 120044)
1732
    * Context browser can now play/queue specific discs of an album or
1733
      compilation.
1734
    * Automatically imported playlists go into a separate category.
1735
    * Block quitting amaroK until all on-going media device operations have
1736
      finished with a consistent state.
1737
    * Interface choice in wizard removed.
1738
    * MoodBar has been removed. The maintainer has not been updating it, and
1739
      it was causing crashes for many people.
1740
    * Usability improvements for the Script Manager, including a tree view.
1741
    * Use KMimeType for resolving file type for metadata acquisition before
1742
      falling back to extension based guessing.
1743
    * Removed the "detailed mode" in the playlist-browser.
1744
    * Also copy non-local URLs to collection when dropped onto collection
1745
      browser.
1746
    * Speed up connecting media devices with a lot of tracks to be submitted
1747
      to last.fm.
1748
    * For media without metadata, try to read metadata after transfer to
1749
      the iPod (e.g. when copying an audio CD via KIOslaves).
1750
    * Hint at starting a transcode script for transcoding while transferring
1751
      to media devices. (BR 127155)
1752
    * If a disc number is present, append it to the album's name when
1753
      organizing files. (BR 126867)
1754
    * Configure, which of fresh podcasts, newest & favorite albums are shown
1755
      in context browser home view. Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>.
1756
      (BR 127043)
1757
    * Dynamic mode no longer skips to the next song if you press play (via
1758
      dcop, for instance) while already playing a track. Instead it restarts
1759
      the current one.
1760
    * The Actions menu has been renamed the Engage menu. It's way cooler,
1761
      right? I mean, Star Trek is really cool, right?
1762
    * Multiple podcasts can be configured at once by selecting multiple channels
1763
      or by configuring the children of a folder.
1764
1765
  BUGFIXES:
1766
    * Allow dropping of tracks after non-existant items in the playlist.
1767
    * Make changes to the default dynamic playlists persistent.
1768
    * Send UTF-8 encoded requests to Wikipedia. Thanks to Thomas Lindroth
1769
      <tholi945@student.liu.se> for the patch. (BR 127654)
1770
    * Correctly restore podcast channel title when fetching fails.
1771
    * Show error message when xine mp3 decoder isn't installed, don't just
1772
      play next track.
1773
    * Properly render and optimise playlist loading icons.
1774
    * Properly import and export XSPF playlist formats.
1775
    * Optimise addition of playlists to the playlistbrowser.
1776
    * In context browser, show localized date for podcasts. (BR 127853)
1777
    * Regression in dynamic mode caused it to skip the first track in the
1778
      playlist whenever it was started. (BR 127451)
1779
    * Stop Playing after Track: remember current track (BR 127312)
1780
    * Radio streams were broken for protocols other than HTTP. (BR 127848)
1781
    * Collection Browser would not set/unset/burn albums with ', The' in
1782
      their name.
1783
    * Prevent breakage when xine couldn't initialize the audio device. Patch
1784
      from Ilya Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 115960)
1785
    * Allow for recognition of the webdav protocol. Patch by Ilya
1786
      Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 126847)
1787
    * Setting a rating on an unplayed track would affect score generated.
1788
      Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>. (BR 127475)
1789
    * Stop tags with different capitalisation being treated as the same
1790
      when building the collection.
1791
    * Make database connections actually get closed when no longer used.
1792
      (BR 123113)
1793
    * xine engine would truncate the last seconds of a track, if no other
1794
      track followed in the playlist.
1795
    * Fixed AudioCD playback with xine-engine. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1796
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 127388)
1797
    * If dynamic mode was turned on and then off, the previous random and
1798
      repeat modes would be forgotten. (BR 123743)
1799
    * Removing the current track through DCOP while editing a field of the
1800
      track in the playlist would cause a crash. (BR 119152)
1801
    * Make characters encoded with % (such as a forward slash, %2f) display
1802
      correctly. (BR 105266)
1803
1804
1805
VERSION 1.4.0:
1806
  FEATURES:
1807
    * New DCOP call "player: version()". Returns the amaroK version.
1808
    * iFP has persistent settings when transferring tracks to the device.
1809
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports Audio CDs.
1810
    * Context menus for entries in the statistics tool. (BR 124945)
1811
1812
  CHANGES:
1813
    * Composer, Disc Number and File Size columns in flat collection view.
1814
    * 'k' or 'm' suffixes for matching filesize in kibi or respectively mebi
1815
      bytes.
1816
    * Groupings when transferring files to media devices are now persistent.
1817
      (BR 127158)
1818
    * Transfer contents of smart playlists to media device without adding
1819
      them to a playlist. (BR 126997)
1820
    * Set %albumartist to Various Artists, but keep %artist as the track's
1821
      artist when organizing compilations. (BR 126936)
1822
    * Discard empty tokens surrounded by {} in custom organize file format.
1823
      (BR 124337)
1824
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine was disabled for this release (not yet stable).
1825
    * Only pick genres for Smart playlists that exist in your collection.
1826
    * VFAT plugin completely rewritten since 1.4beta3. Name is now changed to
1827
      "Generic Audio Player" to make it less needlessly technical.
1828
    * Don't limit the number of episodes shown with a new podcast, since the
1829
      user can limit the number shown afterwards by configuring the channel.
1830
    * Automatically populate the playlist with items if it is empty when a
1831
      dynamic playlist is loaded. (BR 126594)
1832
    * Unplayed/unrated tracks are no longer shown in the statistics dialog.
1833
    * Removed the option "Import Playlists". It's now always enabled.
1834
    * Show total track time in context browser (BR 126548)
1835
    * Derive filename for downloaded podcast episodes from their url in the
1836
      rss feed. (BR 125966)
1837
    * Only show albums/artists/genres with more than 3 tracks when listing
1838
      favourite albums/artists/genres. (BR 126435)
1839
    * libtunepimp 0.5 compiles successfully.
1840
    * Podcasts are automatically configured to be checked for updates.
1841
    * Show only 2 decimal places for scores in the statistics module.
1842
    * Replace 'Move to Collection' in file browser context menu by 'Organize
1843
      Files' for collection directories. (BR 125702)
1844
    * Removed the option "Show Status Bar". It's now always enabled.
1845
    * Tracks from a media device scan be submitted to last.fm immediately,
1846
      without waiting for tracks to be played in amaroK. Patch by Iain
1847
      Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125690)
1848
    * Any failed attempts to submit to last.fm are now automatically retried
1849
      in the background, without waiting for new tracks to be played.
1850
    * Smart playlists can be constructed using mixed ALL and ANY matches
1851
      (BR 124483)
1852
    * Configure media devices in global settings, disable media browser when
1853
      no media device is configured.
1854
    * Dynamic Playlist bar made more conspicuous.
1855
    * The Konqueror setting to show a 'delete' entry in the menu is now
1856
      respected, if the setting exists and KDE is version 3.4 or higher.
1857
    * Cover art from m4a files. Updated m4a taglib patch by Jochen Issing
1858
      <jochen@isign-softart.de> and patch by Shane King
1859
      <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125414)
1860
1861
  BUGFIXES:
1862
    * The playlist would incorrectly sort after using the queue manager in
1863
      dynamic mode.
1864
    * Sort disc numbers numerically (BR 127114)
1865
    * Smart Playlists using 'last played time' now filter correctly.
1866
      (BR 127145)
1867
    * If "Transcode Whenever Possible" was selected for transferring to media
1868
      devices, if the file was in the device's preferred format, transcoding
1869
      would not take place.  Thanks to Ants Aasma for the patch. (BR 127109)
1870
    * Fix possible loss of database after changing settings. (BR 126880)
1871
    * Only include audio files when expanding directories. (BR 126765)
1872
    * Correctly handle 'Cancel' in confirmation dialog for deleting items
1873
      from media devices. (BR 126989)
1874
    * Smart-Playlist random mode was not 'sticking'. (BR 126877)
1875
    * Statusbar log files would only ever write to the first log after all
1876
      four logs had been filled.
1877
    * iFP: Don't pretend to add newly transferred files to wrong folders.
1878
    * Set a podcast as listened only when it really has been listened to.
1879
    * All tracks from a cuesheet will now submit correctly to last.fm.
1880
      (BR 114969)
1881
    * xine-engine will now correctly detect a change when only one of the
1882
      artist or album metadata changes. Patch by Kim Rasmussen
1883
      <kml@elreki.net>. (BR 126648)
1884
    * Less than and between criteria in a smart playlist for playcount, rating
1885
      or score of 0 now work. (BR 97046)
1886
    * Empty genres are no longer displayed in the collection browser.
1887
      (BR 126495)
1888
    * Fix regression causing drag and drop of playlist track items in the
1889
      playlistbrowser to be functionless. (BR 126387)
1890
    * Fix regression causing podcast purge property to be ignored. (BR 126194)
1891
    * Automatically convert MySql/PostgreSql passwords from 1.3 to 1.4 state.
1892
    * Popup Messages would flicker when being shown.
1893
    * Some 1.3 podcasts wouldn't get transferred to 1.4 settings.
1894
    * New podcasts didn't get a default save location. (BR 126196)
1895
    * Fixed encoding problems with lyrics scripts.
1896
    * Mark/unmark as compilation is now stored in the file tag so it is
1897
      remembered when the colection is rescanned. (BR 120428)
1898
    * Submissions from media devices are timestamped so as to be less likely
1899
      to conflict with submissions from another last.fm client. (BR 125367)
1900
    * The MySQL connection will no longer time out when idle. (BR 120198)
1901
    * Load manually configured media devices even after failed DCOP queries.
1902
      Patch by Iain Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125692)
1903
    * Copy/move to collection recurses into directories. (BR 125334)
1904
    * Amazon no longer tries to refetch invalid entries. (BR 125168)
1905
    * Skip hidden directories while scanning the collection. (BR 115478)
1906
    * Instead of cancelling collection organiziation operations when starting
1907
      new one append to running one.
1908
    * Correctly show &amp; in playlist 'Burn' right-click submenu. Patch by
1909
      Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2@gmail.com>. (BR 125117)
1910
    * Disable option to delete remote items in playlist right-click menu.
1911
      (BR 124745)
1912
    * Reload playlist browser podcasts when switching database engines.
1913
    * Podcast tables recreated on startup if they don't exist.
1914
1915
1916
VERSION 1.4-beta3:
1917
  FEATURES:
1918
    * amaroK now supports multiple media devices of varying types (currently
1919
      iPods, UMS/VFAT, and iFP devices).
1920
    * Autodetection of iPods and UMS/VFAT devices (if KDE has HAL/DBUS support
1921
      compiled in).
1922
    * New DCOP call "devices: showDeviceList()" to show the Device Manager's
1923
      current device knowledge.
1924
    * amaroK now has a custom icon theme, and an option to switch back to the
1925
      system icons, if preferred (in the General settings section).
1926
    * Collection browser view is separated alphabetically. Patch by
1927
      Christian Hoenig <list@hoenig.cc>.
1928
    * Ease navigation with track slider below playlist window by showing mood.
1929
      (BR 121715)
1930
    * Show context information for podcasts.
1931
    * Filebrowser: toolbar button to change to the directory of the currently
1932
      playing song. (BR 115479)
1933
    * Added "Play Audio CD" entry to the amaroK menu. (BR 103409)
1934
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports visualizations.
1935
    * xine-engine: Show metadata for ogg vorbis streams. (BR 122505)
1936
    * Drag and drop podcast urls directly onto podcast folders for addition.
1937
    * Add media directly into directories for iRiver ifp devices.
1938
    * Button to directly edit lyrics from the context browser. (BR 123515)
1939
    * Support for SMIL playlists. (BR 121983)
1940
    * Support for WAX playlists. (BR 120980)
1941
    * Handle the Year tag when playing AudioCDs. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1942
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123428)
1943
    * Ignore 'The ' in artist names when sorting in the cover manager, as per
1944
      the collection browser. (BR 122858)
1945
    * Add autocompletion to the composer field in the tag dialog. (BR 123026)
1946
1947
  CHANGES:
1948
    * In context browser, show information about recently updated podcasts,
1949
      recently added and favourite albums when nothing is playing.
1950
    * Ratings can now have half stars: click again on the last star in the
1951
      rating to toggle it between a half and a full star.
1952
    * Improved handling of embedded cover art, utilizing the database. Patch
1953
      by Shane King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 124563)
1954
    * Statistics tool has had numerous improvements.
1955
    * Optimise: Only rerender the CollectionBrowser when relevant.
1956
    * Disable detection of iPod model and thus solve g_object_get related
1957
      problems. (BR 121990)
1958
    * Don't block GUI when trying to transfer large numbers of items already
1959
      on media device. (BR 123570)
1960
    * Update playlist items when their location is changed during organizing
1961
      files. (BR 123752)
1962
    * Recursively add tracks when directories are dropped to the media browser
1963
      and the collection browser. (BR 123982)
1964
    * Visualizations now receive stereo data from amaroK. (BR 118765)
1965
    * Upgraded internal SQLite library to version 3.3.4.
1966
    * Podcast information is stored in the database.
1967
    * Improved password handling in the PostgreSQL config dialog. Patch by
1968
      Peter C. Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 118304)
1969
1970
  BUGFIXES:
1971
    * Expand-By smart playlists were returning the wrong number of values.
1972
    * Fix display of media device transfer queues larger than 4 GB. (BR 125247)
1973
    * Fix duplicate detection when transferring to media device for tracks having
1974
      empty album tags. (BR 125203)
1975
    * Fix spuriously garbled collection scans. Patch by Shane King
1976
      <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125114)
1977
    * Fix error with 'Back' link when browsing related artists. (BR 123227)
1978
    * Files with names containing '#' or '?' from smart playlists would not
1979
      get transferred to media device. (BR 122488)
1980
    * Stop Playing After Track option wouldn't be shown for the right tracks,
1981
      when there were queued tracks. Patch by Marcelo Penna Guerra
1982
      <eu@marcelopenna.org>. (BR 124297)
1983
    * Don't submit podcast episodes to last.fm. (BR 118987)
1984
    * Accept system:/media/ urls into the playlist. (BR 120249)
1985
    * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
1986
      King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
1987
    * Stop collection folders being automatically removed. Instead, allow
1988
      user to remove non-existent folders by deselecting parent. (BR 123745)
1989
    * Stop delete key in playlist deleting last deselected item. (BR 123265)
1990
    * xine-engine: Show bitrate and samplerate for CD-Audio and WAV. Patch by
1991
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123625)
1992
    * Some podcasts would cause amaroK to hang.
1993
    * Check if directories still exist when showing Collection directories.
1994
      (BR 123834)
1995
    * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
1996
      earlier versions of Plastik.
1997
    * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
1998
      (BR 119230)
1999
    * Sometimes iRiver devices would crash upon disconnecting. (BR 123416)
2000
    * Adjust the Astraweb lyrics script for a layout change on the site. Patch
2001
      by Andrew Turner <andrewturner512+kdebugs googlemail com>. (BR 123636)
2002
    * Directory selection would incorrectly highlight a directory in a
2003
      corner case. (BR 123635)
2004
    * Don't pretend to be able to uninstall default ContextBrowser themes.
2005
      (BR 123585)
2006
    * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
2007
      Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
2008
    * OSD text would not be stripped of empty lines.
2009
    * Playlist couldn't be shuffled if queued items existed. (BR 120221)
2010
    * Fixed renaming of Smart Playlists. (BR 122509)
2011
    * Fixed some bugs with PostgreSQL and Smart Playlists. Patch by Peter C.
2012
      Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 123317)
2013
    * Escape invalid characters when transferring files to IFP devices.
2014
      (BR 123199)
2015
    * Escape newline characters when showing detailed information for podcast
2016
      items in the playlistbrowser. (BR 123109)
2017
2018
2019
VERSION 1.4-beta2:
2020
  FEATURES:
2021
    * Equalizer for the GStreamer-0.10 engine.
2022
    * Crossfade in the helix engine!
2023
    * The build date is shown in the "About amaroK" dialog.
2024
    * Show album covers when dragging playlist items. Patch from Jonas
2025
      Hurrelmann <j@outpo.st>.
2026
2027
  CHANGES:
2028
    * Summarize transfer failures to media devices instead of a message for each.
2029
      (BR 122491)
2030
    * Don't list the <no engine> entry in the engine selection widget, when
2031
      it's not the active engine. Makes no sense to select this dummy engine.
2032
    * The aRts and GStreamer-0.8 engines have been removed for being obsolete.
2033
    * Automatically skip to the next track in the playlist when a track is
2034
      unplayable. (BR 116555)
2035
    * Don't check for collection changes on startup if Watch Folders is
2036
      disabled. (BR 116173)
2037
2038
  BUGFIXES:
2039
    * Handle .m4a files as audio when transferring to iPod video. (BR 122492)
2040
    * Smart playlists would not transfer to media devices. (BR 122838)
2041
    * Assume that .mp4 files are audio only when transferring to iPod. (BR 122591)
2042
    * Dereference symbolic links when transferring to iPod. (BR 123206)
2043
    * Correct domain for japanese wikipedia locale. (BR 122319)
2044
    * When deleting a downloaded podcast, the icon wouldn't be updated.
2045
      (BR 122440)
2046
    * Manage Files would create duplicates on collection. (BR 122519)
2047
    * On Statistics Dialog, Compilations would be shown with a random artist,
2048
      and dragging to playlist would add only the tracks by that artist.
2049
      (BR 122363)
2050
    * When editing current dynamic playlist, the adjusting of upcoming tracks
2051
      could be faulty. (BR 122401)
2052
    * Changing database on First-Run Wizard wouldn't work.
2053
    * When loading M3U playlists containing "." or "..", amaroK failed to
2054
      detect that the files are in the collection. Patch by Ted Percival
2055
      <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 121046)
2056
    * Konqueror sidebar would show garbage for people not using UTF-8 locales.
2057
      (BR 122395)
2058
    * "Open in External Browser" in the lyrics tab works now.
2059
    * Lyrc lyrics script handles tick characters correctly.
2060
    * Crash on startup when upgrading from 1.3, using MySQL. (BR 122042)
2061
    * No more crash on exit or deleting podcast.
2062
    * Handle metadata for .aac files as mpeg instead of mp4. (BR 121852)
2063
2064
2065
VERSION 1.4-beta1:
2066
  FEATURES:
2067
    * AudioCD (CDDA) support for xine-engine, including CDDB lookup. Patch by
2068
      Alberto Griggio <alberto.griggio@gmail.com>. (BR 121647)
2069
    * The Helix engine now supports direct alsa playback using Realplayer 10.
2070
    * New DCOP call "player: setVolumeRelative(int ticks)".
2071
    * Options for Random Mode to favor tracks with a higher rating, score, or
2072
      ones less recently played.
2073
    * Support for playing entire albums. This works just like normal, except
2074
      when choosing the next track, it'll go to the next track from the album
2075
      it finds in the playlist, or the first track of another album otherwise.
2076
    * Support for plain VFAT devices in the Media Device browser.
2077
    * You can now mousewheel over a track's queue label to change its position
2078
      in the queue.
2079
    * Added a time-filter to the CollectionBrowser. Now you can make it show
2080
      only those tracks, which have been added to your collection within the
2081
      last day, week, month or year.
2082
    * Fit to Width for the playlist columns is now optional (accessible in the
2083
      context menu for the column headers).
2084
    * On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media devices, provided
2085
      that an appropriate transcoding script is running.
2086
    * Handle compilations as such on iPods.
2087
    * New DCOP calls "mediabrowser: ..." for interfacing with media devices.
2088
    * Multiple simultaneously connected media devices.
2089
    * Lyrics support is now scriptable. This allows to add support for any
2090
      lyrics site, and makes it possible to provide upgrades. (BR 94437)
2091
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics(string)".
2092
    * New 'File Size' column in the playlist.
2093
    * Amarok now supports ASX playlist files. (BR 114051)
2094
    * New DCOP call "collection: isDirInCollection(const QString& path )".
2095
    * New DCOP call "playlist: removeByIndex(int)". (BR 119143)
2096
    * For mp3, aac/mp4, and ogg vorbis, it's possible to use Disc Number and
2097
      Composer tags. (BR 110675) (BR 90503)
2098
    * For xine-lib 1.1.1 and greater, xine engine has gapless playback. amaroK
2099
      is now "The Wall" compatible. (BR 77766)
2100
    * Option for selecting external web browser in amaroK. No longer requires
2101
      KDE-Base. (BR 106015)
2102
    * Press Enter in the Collection Browser filter to send all the visible
2103
      tracks to the playlist.
2104
    * Hold Ctrl while pressing Enter in the playlist's filter to apply to all
2105
      visible items instead of just the first, and Shift to only queue and not
2106
      play them.
2107
    * Tags can be edited inline in the playlist by clicking on a single selected
2108
      item.
2109
    * Switchable Wikipedia locale. (BR 104383)
2110
    * Initial port of GStreamer engine to GStreamer 0.10.
2111
    * Drag albums and compilations from context browser to media device and
2112
      playlist browser.
2113
    * Browse your collection and other related artists with context browser.
2114
    * Copy artwork to iPods capable of displaying it.
2115
    * Show extended podcast info on iPod.
2116
    * Optionally update playcount for items played on iPod and submit them
2117
      to last.fm and synchronize ratings between amaroK and iPod.
2118
    * Tracks can now be rated from 1-5 stars manually, in addition to the score
2119
      which amaroK calculates automatically based on your listening habits. You
2120
      can use the 'Rating' column and Win+1..5 to change the rating.
2121
    * Ability to copy items from iPod and from filebrowser to collection.
2122
    * New 'Last Played' column in the playlist, showing when the track was last
2123
      played. (Like in the Context Browser.)
2124
    * Browsers can be now accessed with keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+1..5.
2125
      Also Ctrl+0 to close the current one, and Ctrl+Tab to switch the focus
2126
      between the playlist and the active browser.
2127
    * Downloaded podcast episodes can be deleted from the context menu.
2128
    * New DCOP call "player: osdEnabled".
2129
    * Add contents of smart amaroK playlists as playlist to media device.
2130
    * Mediabrowser support for the iRiver iFP series!
2131
    * New dcop call playlistbrowser loadPlaylist. (BR 110082)
2132
    * New Edit Track Information dialog. Lyrics can be edited there, comments
2133
      can have more than one line, some statistics and tag guessing from
2134
      filename. (BR 93982)
2135
    * Show/hide browsers via context menu. (BR 110823)
2136
    * Display disk space on media device.
2137
    * Copy standard and amaroK playlists to media device.
2138
    * Create playlist from items transferred to iPod.
2139
    * Edit dumb iPod playlists with media browser.
2140
    * Ability to read audible.com .aa file metadata and to transfer audiobooks
2141
      to iPod via file browser.
2142
    * Optionally add new podcasts to media device transfer queue on download
2143
      and remove podcasts already listened to on media device connect.
2144
    * Add podcast shows to the Podcast folder on iPods.
2145
    * Persistent media device transfer queue.
2146
    * Incremental update of media device view.
2147
    * Automatic scanning for stale and orphaned iPod items.
2148
    * Moodbar!
2149
    * configure: report not included extra features (BR 115057)
2150
    * Ability to uninstall context-browser themes. (BR 111449)
2151
    * More columns available in the Flat View of the Collection Browser.
2152
    * New Collection Scanner, running in an external process. No longer can
2153
      amaroK crash while scanning the Collection :)
2154
    * Statistics tool!
2155
    * Dragging external playlists into the playlist browser will add them.
2156
    * NMM engine now has a configure dialog.
2157
    * Collection scanner now supports WMA, MP4/AAC, and RealMedia (RA,RV,RM).
2158
    * You can now Organize Music from the Collection Browser, to move and
2159
      rename files to a logical place in your collection folders based on their
2160
      tags.
2161
    * Option to crossfade only on manual track changes. Useful for listening
2162
      to consecutive tracks on a single album.
2163
2164
  CHANGES:
2165
    * Dynamic Mode is now stateless, meaning there's no Dynamic Mode any more,
2166
      only loading and unloading of Dynamic Playlists. There's also now a nice
2167
      info bar above the playlist when a Dynamic Playlist is loaded.
2168
    * The major huge context menu used for hiding/showing columns in the
2169
      playlist has been replaced with a shorter one and a nice dialog.
2170
    * Elapsed time / length in the systray tooltip now updates in real time as
2171
      the song progresses.
2172
    * Tooltips in the playlist for truncated text are now shown directly above
2173
      the text, giving the effect of it being expanded to its full length.
2174
    * The option for restarting scripts automatically at startup is removed, as
2175
      it is now the default behaviour.
2176
    * Reduced memory usage for large playlists to under 30% of pre-1.4 versions.
2177
      (Measured as the difference in memory usage between an empty playlist and
2178
      loading the 'All Collection' smart playlist.)
2179
    * Import iTunes album art from directories.
2180
    * Media Devices (Apple iPod, iRiver iFP, ...) are now handled with plugins.
2181
    * New default image for albums with no cover art.
2182
    * When tabbing between cells while editing tags in the playlist, autosave
2183
      the contents of the previous tag you edited, so you don't have to
2184
      constantly go in and out of editing mode to edit lots of tags.
2185
    * When saving playlists, if there's already one with the same name, instead
2186
      of complaining about it, smartly append (2), (3), etc. to the end.
2187
    * 'Stop Playing After Track' now has a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+V), and a global
2188
      shortcut for the currently playing track (Ctrl+Win+V).
2189
    * Various keyboard usability and focus tweaks so using amaroK with the
2190
      keyboard is nicer.
2191
    * Upgraded internal SQLite database library to version 3.2.7.
2192
    * Recoding mp3 tags has been removed due to many unjustified
2193
      complications.
2194
    * Viewing track information of remote media will show the url.
2195
    * "Update"-button is now hidden in the collection browser if "Watch
2196
      folders for changes" is enabled in the options.
2197
    * Playlist Browser now remembers which entries were open across startups.
2198
    * The tooltip and the menu from the queue icon in the statusbar now shows
2199
      the total length of the queued tracks.
2200
    * The Home tab has been merged into the Current tab, now called Music.
2201
    * New look for the current track marker in the playlist. Pimp my roK!
2202
    * When turning either random or dynamic mode on, turn the other off,
2203
      instead of completely disabling random mode when dynamic is on.
2204
    * libgpod from gtkpod replaces kio based iPod support for improved
2205
      compatibility with various iPod models.
2206
    * Podcast settings are hierarchical now, meaning you can set settings
2207
      for the category's, newly added podcasts take the settings from there parent category.
2208
2209
  BUGFIXES:
2210
    * Dragging text to a filter line edit would still show the "Filter
2211
      Here..." text in the background. (BR 108876)
2212
    * Don't show an empty playlist length holder in the statusbar.
2213
    * Allow for % and _ in tags, and filter them correctly.
2214
    * Do not copy files of types an iPod is not capable of playing to the
2215
      iPod. (BR 117486)
2216
    * Also take track number into account when comparing tags for checking
2217
      if a track is already present on iPod. (BR 117380)
2218
    * iPod nanos would not switch off during playing songs added with amaroK
2219
      because of their file size not being set.
2220
    * "Show Fullsize" now works for ID3 embedded cover images. (BR 114517)
2221
    * Fix possible bug when saving unencoded podcasts to strange file systems.
2222
    * OSD Preview did not update colours when toggling 'Use custom colours'
2223
      option. (BR 115965)
2224
    * Cached lyrics are not erased when rescanning. (BR 110489)
2225
    * No more "can't create amazon table" warnings. (BR 113930)
2226
    * Creating a new playlist via drag-and-drop no longer shows duplicates
2227
      of each song until amaroK is restarted.
2228
2229
2230
VERSION 1.3.9:
2231
  FEATURES:
2232
    * Support for libtunepimp 0.4. (BR 94988)
2233
2234
  BUGFIXES:
2235
    * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
2236
      King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
2237
    * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
2238
      earlier versions of Plastik.
2239
    * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
2240
      Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
2241
    * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
2242
      (BR 119230)
2243
    * Fix memory leak in the helix engine when the player and playlist are
2244
      not visible.
2245
    * Stream with URLs containing "&" wouldn't be correctly saved.
2246
      (BR 121846)
2247
    * Playlist Browser would save invalid PLS Playlists. (BR 122875)
2248
    * Refresh All Podcasts wouldn't consider subfolders. (BR 122783)
2249
    * When using a folder as playlist, deleting the playlist would delete
2250
      the folder and all files inside it. (BR 122480)
2251
    * OSD was showing "No track playing" for tracks without metadata.
2252
    * Smart Playlists with playcount or score related conditions wouldn't
2253
      match all songs properly. (BR 97046)
2254
    * With enormous queues, stop menu would take a lot of time to show up.
2255
      (BR 120677)
2256
2257
2258
VERSION 1.3.8:
2259
  BUGFIXES:
2260
    * NMM engine would crash when seeking after the playlist finished,
2261
      state Empty wasn't emitted.
2262
    * Fixed URL of the Nectarine radio stream.
2263
    * Fix crash after changing the alsa device in the helix configuration
2264
      dialog.
2265
    * When amaroK exits, send SIGTERM to running scripts. (BR 119159)
2266
    * Old error messages could be shown instead of current track lyrics.
2267
    * The equalizer in the helix engine now works properly at low sample
2268
      frequencies.
2269
    * Fixed some threading issues in loading XML playlists.
2270
    * Lyrics that are available on lyrc would be shown as "not found".
2271
    * The helix engine now includes protection so that misbehaving streams
2272
      do not cause the visualizations to leak memory.
2273
2274
2275
VERSION 1.3.7:
2276
  CHANGES:
2277
    * In the tree view, sort tracks alphabetically first, unless one of the
2278
      categories is by album, then sort by track number first. (BR 112830)
2279
    * No longer delete Amazon covers every 90 days, instead relying on
2280
      RefreshImages to re-download covers every 80 days to comply with
2281
      the TOS of the Amazon web service.
2282
2283
  BUGFIXES:
2284
    * Fix weirdness when overwriting a playlist by dragging a file to the
2285
      browser.
2286
    * When using Year - Album on Collection Browser, if two albums had the
2287
      same year, the order would be pseudo-random. Patch by Xepo
2288
      <xepo@trifault.net>. (BR 115584)
2289
    * Fix build issue on PCLinuxOS with "cpu_set undeclared".
2290
    * Fix crash in helix engine caused by improper reference counting
2291
      of the audiostreamresponse object.
2292
    * Helix engine no longer declares it is "empty" on a track change
2293
      (caused problems with context browser).
2294
    * Tag dialog doesn't delete year tags any more when editing multiple
2295
      tracks.
2296
    * amaroK would crash or hang when fetching similar artists information
2297
      from last.fm (BR 116399)
2298
    * Fix memory leak in the helix engine. (BR 116223)
2299
    * When changing the database type, the apply button wouldn't be enabled,
2300
      and it would be necessary to restart amaroK for it to work properly.
2301
    * Fix for regression in Qt 3.3.5, causing amaroK to crash when clearing
2302
      the playlist. (BR 116004)
2303
    * Zombie directories are removed automatically from the collection
2304
      scanner. (BR 115779)
2305
    * Dates wouldn't be properly loaded when editing Smart Playlists.
2306
    * Number of songs to add when using dynamic mode wouldn't be respected,
2307
      if the smartplaylist didn't have a ORDER BY statement. (BR 115860)
2308
    * Fix visibility related build problem on some distros.
2309
2310
2311
VERSION 1.3.6:
2312
  BUGFIXES:
2313
    * Fix autoscan with PostgreSQL. (BR 111209)
2314
    * Fix problem with sequences in PostgreSQL support. (BR 115075)
2315
    * Fix potential crash at startup while accessing amazon.com. (BR 115838)
2316
    * Potential crash when loading media from the Collection. (BR 115234)
2317
    * Podcast apply to all button was faulty.
2318
    * last.fm queue wouldn't be saved to disk. Patch by John Patterson
2319
      <kde-bugs@ninecats.org>. (BR 115212)
2320
    * Podcast download directory would only be effective next time the
2321
      application started.
2322
    * Don't crash when attempting to save an empty playlist from the Playlist
2323
      menu.
2324
    * Loading dynamic playlists with sources did not work properly.
2325
    * Fix build issue on some Linux kernel 2.4 distros. (BR 115068)
2326
2327
2328
VERSION 1.3.5:
2329
  BUGFIXES:
2330
    * Fixed a build issue.
2331
    * Fixed potential crash at startup. (BR 114983)
2332
2333
2334
VERSION 1.3.4:
2335
  FEATURES:
2336
    * Helix-engine supports ALSA (using RealPlayer 11). (BR 113909)
2337
    * Atom feed compatibility for podcasts.
2338
    * Statusbar messages are logged to a file, statusbar.log. (BR 99899)
2339
    * Podcast configuration now provides the ability to set the values for
2340
      all podcasts. (BR 114371)
2341
    * Downloading multiple podcasts will throw them into a queue, and
2342
      each will be downloaded sequentially. (BR 114370)
2343
    * Playlistbrowser items can be dragged into folders.
2344
2345
  CHANGES:
2346
    * Categories in the playlist browser are now always in the order of:
2347
      Playlists, Smart Playlists, Dynamic Playlists, Radio Streams, then
2348
      Podcasts, regardless of sorting options. (Items in the categories
2349
      are still sorted normally.)
2350
    * Reworked systray icon handling -- mostly under the hood, but it'll
2351
      now update properly - eg. when you change the cover. (BR 111014)
2352
    * Tooltip for the queue icon in the statusbar will now show the album
2353
      cover of the upcoming track.
2354
    * Totals in the collection browser will now reflect the visible items
2355
      if you set a filter.
2356
    * Podcast settings "download on request" and "stream on request" have
2357
      been merged.
2358
    * About button in script manager now uses a KAboutDialog and supports
2359
      rich text format in the README file. (BR 110961)
2360
    * After filtering the collection browser, if only a single item is left
2361
      visible, it will automatically be expanded.
2362
    * Added items for the Equalizer, Visualizations, and Queue Manager to
2363
      the context menus of the volume slider, analyzer, and statusbar queue
2364
      icon, respectively.
2365
2366
  BUGFIXES:
2367
    * If you queue an album from the context browser and then undo, the
2368
      queue icon in the statusbar is now updated properly (and hence
2369
      doesn't crash if you click on it).
2370
    * helix-engine no longer emits new metaData if only the bitrate of a
2371
      stream changes. (BR 114348)
2372
    * Fix amaroK attempting to destroy your computer, reach through the
2373
      monitor and violently strangle you if you attempt to exit while the
2374
      collection is being scanned. (BR 114597) (BR 114859)
2375
    * Postgresql code cleanup and fixed regression for manual collection
2376
      scanning. Autoscan still does not work. (BR 111209)
2377
    * File browser now sets to home if it was on a remote directory to prevent
2378
      annoying error messages. (BR 114498)
2379
    * Podcast settings would not add a trailing slash to podcast save
2380
      locations. (BR 114712)
2381
    * Workaround for stability issues with HyperThreading on Linux.
2382
      Added a configure check to deal with buggy GLIBC's. (BR 99199)
2383
    * xine-engine: Equalizer became inactive on trackchange when crossfading
2384
      was enabled. (BR 114492)
2385
    * Pausing a track would abort lyrics and wiki fetch jobs. (BR 114576)
2386
    * Dynamic mode did not respect repeat track mode. (BR 114585)
2387
    * The Script Manager no longer captures the script's stdout.
2388
    * Enqueuing files with amarok -e would not work for relative paths if the
2389
      working directories of the new and the running instance of amarok differ.
2390
    * Visualizations would only work when amarok was run as amarokapp.
2391
      (BR 99627)
2392
    * The number of podcasts items would be limited even when the user didn't
2393
      set it. (BR 114353)
2394
    * Switching system language wouldn't affect the root folder names on
2395
      Playlist Browser.
2396
    * On Context Browser, when showing a cached lyric, "add", "search", and
2397
      "open in external browser" buttons wouldn't work. "Open in External
2398
      Browser" is now disabled for cached lyrics. (BR 110812)
2399
    * Refreshing all podcasts when folder existed caused a crash.
2400
    * Multiple job statusbar widget was broken. (BR 114278)
2401
    * HTML in tags was getting interpreted in the context browser.
2402
    * Changing the podcast purge count could sometimes cause amaroK to hang.
2403
    * NMM-engine: Fixed crash after playing a song to the end, the trackEnd
2404
      signal was not emitted from the GUI thread.
2405
    * With Random Mode enabled and Repeat Playlist disabled, when it got to
2406
      the last track, it would play it a second time and then keep on playing
2407
      other tracks, instead of just stopping.
2408
    * Smart-Playlists were broken with PostgreSQL. Patch by Michael Landin
2409
      Hostbaek <mich@freebsd.org>. (BR 114269)
2410
    * Collection scanner ignored files with non-ascii characters. (BR 114195)
2411
    * Don't show "Change Collection Setup"-box for non-local files.
2412
    * Fixed issue with loading playlists containing remote URL's.
2413
    * Dynamic mode history tracks would be forgotten if there was no current
2414
      track on startup. (BR 110160)
2415
    * Fixed problems with "Retrieve Similar Artists" feature in combination
2416
      with SQLite, which could lead to 100% CPU usage. (BR 104447)
2417
    * Tabbing between items and cells in the playlist while editing them now
2418
      works much nicer (goes in order and doesn't tab to invisible columns),
2419
      and you can also now use Alt+Up, Down, Left, Right to navigate between
2420
      cells as well.
2421
    * Podcast settings failed to remember the save location. (BR 114128)
2422
    * Tray icon would stop filling up and showing play/pause icon if show
2423
      player window was toggled. (BR 93711)
2424
    * If player window is toggled during playback, playlist window's caption
2425
      now correctly shows the current track's name.
2426
    * Crossfade length would be enabled in Playback options when "No
2427
      crossfading" was selected.
2428
    * If an engine does not support crossfading, "No crossfading" is now
2429
      selected in Playback options.
2430
2431
2432
VERSION 1.3.3:
2433
  FEATURES:
2434
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showHome".
2435
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showCurrentTrack".
2436
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics".
2437
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showWiki".
2438
    * Saving a playlist will cleverly pick a default name if possible.
2439
    * Dragging an album cover into the playlist from the context browser
2440
      will append the album.
2441
    * Middle mouse button on the current track will toggle play/pause.
2442
    * Ctrl-Right click on a selection of tracks will queue all of them, not
2443
      just the track below the cursor. (BR 112841)
2444
    * CoverManager allows for downloads from Amazon Canada. (BR 113238)
2445
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPlaylist".
2446
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: scanPodcasts". Will check all podcasts
2447
      for new episodes.
2448
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPodcast".
2449
    * New DCOP call "player: type". Returns the current track's file type.
2450
    * New DCOP call "collection: migrateFile". Updates the collection db for
2451
      changes made to filenames, keeping stats intact.
2452
    * Smartplaylist has Length property. (BR 113039)
2453
    * Added a mouse-over effect for the volume slider.
2454
2455
  CHANGES:
2456
    * Adding a playlistbrowser folder will automatically focus the lineedit
2457
      for renaming the item.
2458
    * Removing podcasts will delete all downloaded media.
2459
    * Playlists in the playlistbrowser can no longer be removed, only deleted.
2460
    * Removing tracks when in dynamic mode will only replace up to the minimum
2461
      upcoming tracks requirement.
2462
    * Playlist columns are automatically resized when adding or removing
2463
      columns.
2464
    * Added a warning dialog when HyperThreading is enabled. (BR 99199)
2465
    * Blacklisted GStreamer's autoaudiosink, which is really a crapsink.
2466
    * Added a context menu to the volume slider.
2467
    * When viewing covers in fullsize, the window has a maximum size, and
2468
      scrollbars are shown if necessary. The user can also scroll the cover
2469
      by dragging it. Patch by Eyal Lotem <eyal.lotem@gmail.com>. (BR 103990)
2470
2471
  BUGFIXES:
2472
    * Patch fixing an almost-infinite directory-scanning problem while
2473
      building the Collection. Patch by Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>.
2474
    * Cover Manager: Album view setting became out of sync. Patch by Michael
2475
      Pujos <pujos.michael@laposte.net>. (BR 113370)
2476
    * Starting the first track in the playlist when in dynamic mode would skip
2477
      it. (BR 110160)
2478
    * Position slider in player-window disappeared after 2 hours. (BR 97128)
2479
    * PlaylistBrowser duplicated items when overwriting playlists. (BR 108693)
2480
    * Podcast settings would forget about the purge items checkbox.
2481
    * The Stop button in the toolbar was always enabled at startup.
2482
    * GStreamer-Engine: Could not seek to position 00:00:00. (BR 106483)
2483
    * Don't crossfade the last track in the playlist. (BR 96478)
2484
    * If files were in the transfer queue before connecting the iPod they
2485
      would be uploaded without checking if they already exist on the device.
2486
    * Using dynamic mode's playlist shuffle would result in repeated tracks
2487
      tracks during a populate operation.
2488
    * Fixed Xine config options were disappearing on ESC key. (BR 113225)
2489
    * Fixed problems with visibility enabled compilers. Patch by Unai Garro
2490
      <ugarro@telefonica.net>. (BR 113056)
2491
    * Fix regression causing dynamic mode playlist shuffle to break for
2492
      smart playlists which relied on ordering and limits. (BR 113121)
2493
    * Automatic podcast downloads did not do anything. (BR 113129)
2494
    * Playlist browser items were not properly saved on quit (with Qt 3.3.5).
2495
      Patch by Matthieu Bedouet <mbedouet@no-log.org>. (BR 113020)
2496
    * amaroK could crash on startup, if on last exit sorting was enabled in
2497
      the playlist. (BR 113042)
2498
    * Adding entries to a playlist and saving it could duplicate some tracks,
2499
      if the playlist hadn't been expanded before. (BR 111579)
2500
2501
2502
VERSION 1.3.2:
2503
  FEATURES:
2504
    * Tabs will open automatically when dragging files between tabs.
2505
      Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2506
    * Two new dcop calls which allow scripts to read many of amaroK's
2507
      configuration options. script readConfig(key) for strings, integers and
2508
      bools. script readListConfig(key) for lists. Note that these functions
2509
      aren't guaranteed to always return the latest settings (though many do).
2510
    * Added a right click menu for blank areas of the playlist, with options
2511
      to save, clear or shuffle the playlist and to "enable the dynamic
2512
      mode & repopulate".
2513
    * Playcount is shown in the tag dialog.
2514
    * New volume slider, both better looking and better working than
2515
      the old one.
2516
    * Podcasts can be saved to any location. (BR 111059)
2517
    * Added "Save as Playlist" option to the collection and file browser
2518
      context menus as well.
2519
    * Allow removing of items in the Media Device browser transfer
2520
      queue.
2521
2522
  CHANGES:
2523
    * Scroll wheel to switch tabs in context browser.
2524
    * Repopulate button is enabled or disabled together with dynamic mode.
2525
    * No warning dialog when starting if the directory File Browser is on
2526
      doesn't exist anymore. It just reverts to home. (BR 99208)
2527
    * Sorting on Collection Browser now shows "Unknown" items first, and
2528
      "Various Artists" last. Years are sorted descending now.
2529
    * When selecting 'Play' from the context menu on multiple items,
2530
      it'll now play the first and queue the rest.
2531
2532
  BUGFIXES:
2533
    * The Equalizer and QueueManager widgets were broken on window managers
2534
      other than KWin.
2535
    * "Year - Album" category in the Collection Browser didn't allow for
2536
      dragging tracks or fetching cover images.
2537
    * Xine engine no longer adds images to the playlist.
2538
    * The delete key for removing playlist items works even if the file
2539
      browser is open. (BR 100145)
2540
    * Filenames with XML entity codes were not playable in dynamic mode
2541
      and caused it to stop. (BR 108783)
2542
    * If the album or artist contained "&", cover fetching wouldn't work
2543
      properly.
2544
    * When restarting, Playlist Browser items used for playlist shuffle
2545
      wouldn't be properly marked, though they would be taken into account.
2546
    * Don't crash after changing Podcast options, or after manually deleting
2547
      its first item.
2548
    * When renaming a playlist, the "." would be removed from the filename.
2549
      Paych by Elliot Pahl <elliot.pahl@gmail.com>. (BR 112204)
2550
    * When using next and previous on Tagdialog, after passing by a stream,
2551
      the fields would be always disabled. (BR 112060)
2552
    * Restarting track when in dynamic mode didn't work.
2553
    * Fix issues with the GStreamer engine and alsasink, and reenable it.
2554
      Patch by Vincent Tondellier <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 112103)
2555
    * Dynamic playlist shuffle had some incorrect smart playlist handling.
2556
    * Robustified the code for handling the '# of tracks in the playlist'
2557
      part of the statusbar, it should not ever get out of sync with
2558
      reality now. Nice side effect is you can see the track count
2559
      increase while a playlist is loading.
2560
    * "Last played - not in the last" smart playlists would only work for
2561
      sqlite. (BR 112248)
2562
    * Podcast and Dynamic subfolders are correctly restored on application
2563
      start. (BR 112162)
2564
    * Dropping tracks onto playlist browser folders will work correctly.
2565
    * Invalid podcasts are no longer discarded on quit. (BR 112116)
2566
    * Fixed playing of files that have special characters like '#' in
2567
      helix engine.
2568
    * Fixed issue where selecting multiple items after filtering the
2569
      playlist would cause all the other items 'between' them (but
2570
      invisible due to the filter) to also get selected.
2571
2572
2573
VERSION 1.3.1:
2574
  FEATURES:
2575
    * Added 'Set as Playlist (Crop)' and 'Save as Playlist' options in the
2576
      playlist context menu. (BR 99932)
2577
    * Support for iPod shuffle devices. Patch by Guenter Schwann
2578
      <harry.w@gmx.at>.
2579
    * Media Device browser now has a connect button for connecting
2580
      your iPod after amaroK has already been started. Also includes
2581
      configurable mounting/unmounting options.
2582
    * Holding down the stop button (as opposed to just clicking it) pops
2583
      up a menu letting you stop either now, after the current track, or
2584
      after the end of the queue.
2585
    * Collection browser filter now fully supports the same Google-esque
2586
      syntax as the playlist filter, plus one extra: lyrics:"stuff to search
2587
      for" to search in cached lyrics.
2588
    * Pressing Shift+Enter after filtering the playlist will now queue
2589
      the first track. (BR 111054)
2590
    * Display short statistics in the collection browser depending on the
2591
      categorisation method.
2592
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalTracks". Returns the total number of
2593
      tracks in the collection.
2594
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalGenres". Returns the total number of
2595
      genres in the collection.
2596
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalCompilations". Returns the total number
2597
      of compilations in the collection.
2598
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalArtists". Returns the total number of
2599
      artists in the collection.
2600
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalAlbums". Returns the total number of
2601
      tracks in the collection.
2602
    * New DCOP call "collection: similarArtists(int artists)". Returns the
2603
      similar artists of the current track, results are limited by 'artists'.
2604
    * New DCOP call "playlist: repopulate". Repopulates the playlist with
2605
      tracks from dynamic mode.
2606
    * New DCOP call "player: showBrowser". Allows for showing of playlist
2607
      window browser, see the handbook for useage.
2608
    * New DCOP call "player: setLyricsByPath". Allows adding custom lyrics
2609
      for tracks.
2610
    * Add an icon in the statusbar displaying the number of queued tracks;
2611
      click on it to pop up a menu letting you jump to their locations in
2612
      the playlist.
2613
2614
  CHANGES:
2615
    * New "Blue Danna" splash screen. Created by Nenad Grujicic, modified by
2616
      Nathan Adolph.
2617
    * 'Stop after track' is now saved (and so remembered across amaroK
2618
      restarts).
2619
    * Ported playlist + filter-lineedit behaviour to collection browser as
2620
      well: you can move between the view and the filter with the up/down
2621
      buttons, and just typing into the view will set the filter. (BR 108656)
2622
    * Wiki Tab links use the color set for links, instead of "Selected
2623
      Background". Style Authors can use "AMAROK_LINKCOLOR" if they want that
2624
      color. (BR 111228)
2625
    * The Equalizer widget has been pimped.
2626
    * Pressing 'up' in the playlist filter will now take you to the end of
2627
      the playlist, in addition to down going to the beginning, as before.
2628
    * When jumping to the current track, it now gets centered instead of only
2629
      barely showing.
2630
    * GStreamer-engine was rewritten. The crossfading feature was removed for
2631
      now (it didn't work right with recent GStreamer versions). Improvements:
2632
      1) Reduced CPU usage 2) Reduced latency 3) Increased stability
2633
    * No need to restart amaroK to use your iPod!
2634
    * Improved Konqueror Sidebar.
2635
    * The bundled "Shouter" AmarokScript (for radio stream serving) has been
2636
      updated and improved.
2637
2638
  BUGFIXES:
2639
    * amaroK wouldn't remember current track when restarting. (BR 110282)
2640
    * Some memory leaks found and fixed.
2641
    * Fix buzz and subsequent clicking when equalizer enabled in Helix and
2642
      GStreamer engines compiled with GCC 4.0.1.
2643
    * Burn option wouldn't show up for "Year - Album" items on Collection
2644
      Browser.
2645
    * Tray's tooltip would show things like 69:40 of 1:12:01.
2646
    * Wiki Tab wouldn't work for names that contained "/". (BR 111634)
2647
    * With KDE 3.4, the proper context menu wouldn't be shown for File
2648
      Browser. Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2649
      (BR 103305)
2650
    * Playcounter and Access Date wouldn't be updated properly for PostgreSQL.
2651
      Patch by Tonton <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 111519)
2652
    * Clicking twice on the uninstall button for the same script, would make
2653
      amaroK crash.
2654
    * Fixed an obscure crash when you emptied the playlist, had the focus on
2655
      it, and pressed up.
2656
    * No longer show dynamic info popup on application startup.  Patch by
2657
      Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2658
    * Sometimes the system tray tooltip did not update on song change.
2659
    * Polishing for the collection browser and expanded item states. Patch
2660
      by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2661
    * With xine-engine amaroK always treated remote media like radio streams.
2662
    * Selecting Classical equalizer preset prompted for name.
2663
    * Fixed konqueror sidebar compilation with kde <= 3.3 and gcc patched for
2664
      visibility.
2665
    * Konqueror sidebar can switch again between tabs.
2666
    * Fixed playing of oggs in helix engine.
2667
    * Fixed crash in helix engine when switching engines if helix/realplayer
2668
      not installed.
2669
    * Undo/Redo for the playlist was broken in some cases.
2670
    * On Collection Browser, when grouping by Genre/Artist/Year-Album it
2671
      wouldn't show the tracks. (BR 110890)
2672
    * SmartPlaylist Editor would reset "Match Any" to "Match All" when
2673
      editing. Patch by Kevin Henderson <pyspud@hotmail.com> (BR 110918).
2674
    * Podcasts and playlist tracks would be sorted lexicographically
2675
      (BR 97297).
2676
    * Saved dynamic playlists were not removable.
2677
    * xine-engine: amaroK would get stuck on exit if the Equalizer was enabled
2678
      and the engine playing. (BR 110791)
2679
    * Dequeued items sometimes weren't being repainted properly.
2680
2681
2682
VERSION 1.3:
2683
  FEATURES:
2684
    * The tyranny of deleting covers every 90 days is over. Instead, amaroK now
2685
      automatically downloads the covers every 80 days to comply with
2686
      Amazon.com requirements.
2687
2688
  CHANGES:
2689
    * Removed 'Apply' button from dynamic config, all config options are now
2690
      hot! (Automatically applied on alteration)
2691
    * Minimum score changed from 1 to 0. (BR 107944)
2692
    * Playlist item lengths now shown with hours when necessary.
2693
2694
  BUGFIXES:
2695
    * M3U playlists would be broken after editing. (BR 109774)
2696
    * When there's no artist tag, don't show tons of unrelated songs and
2697
      albums in Context Browser. (BR 110319)
2698
    * Advertisements were showing up in Lyrics Tab for some songs.
2699
    * When editing tags in Playlist Window, only try to write the new tag if
2700
      it's different from the old one. (BR 110299)
2701
    * Changes to the score in the Edit Track Information dialog should only be
2702
      applied after clicking on the "Save and Close" button.
2703
    * When only the score is changed, amaroK shouldn't complain if the file is
2704
      read-only. (BR 109054)
2705
    * Mark/Unmark as compilation wouldn't work with SQLite. (BR 109275)
2706
    * Album Covers whose name or artist contained "'" wouldn't show up when
2707
      fetched from Amazon. (BR 109700)
2708
    * Edit Track Information dialog wouldn't update collection database if
2709
      filename contained non latin1 characters. Patch by Andrey Yasniy
2710
      <yasniy@gmail.com> (BR 110030)
2711
    * SmartPlaylist category created in the PlaylistBrowser once the
2712
      collection has been built for the first time.
2713
    * Refresh the context browser as appropriate when editing tags. (BR 108884)
2714
    * Cover image shown if track has no title.
2715
    * Statusbar cancel button will terminate a podcast download.
2716
    * Don't show multiple popup messages when retrieving podcast information.
2717
    * Don't crash when adding podcasts. (BR 109982)
2718
    * Tracks with urls containg apostrophes would not cache lyrics.
2719
    * PostgreSQL compile problem (BR 110033)
2720
2721
2722
VERSION 1.3-beta3:
2723
  FEATURES:
2724
    * New "not in the last" option for the date fields in Smart Playlists.
2725
      (BR 107725)
2726
    * New OSD tokens: %directory and %type (shows whether it's a stream, or
2727
      otherwise the extension).
2728
    * New DCOP call "player: lyrics" (BR 100306) and Lyrics Caching. (BR 97961)
2729
    * New DCOP call "player: transferDeviceFiles". Transfers queued files to
2730
      the Media Device.
2731
    * New DCOP call "player: queueForTransfer". Queues files for transfer to
2732
      the Media Device.
2733
    * Download your favourite podcasts and let amaroK manage them for you!
2734
    * 17 Equalizer presets. (BR 96302)
2735
    * xine-engine supports crossfading. Note: Your audio device must support
2736
      mixing. SBLive, dmix or ALSA 1.0.9 will do the trick.
2737
    * Shuffle the queue list in the queue manager. (BR 108861)
2738
    * The audio plugin (autodetect, ALSA, esd etc.) for xine-engine is now
2739
      configurable.
2740
    * Playlist-Browser now remembers the state and layout of its tree view.
2741
    * Show a stop icon next to the track to stop playing after.
2742
    * Miniature player window for the minimalists out there! (BR 85876)
2743
    * "Stop Playing After Track" now also works for queued tracks.
2744
    * "Open in External Browser" button for Lyrics Tab, patch from Nick
2745
      Tryon (Dhraakellian). <dhraak@gmail.com>
2746
    * Funky shadow effect for the album cover @ Context-Browser and OSD.
2747
      (BR 108334)
2748
    * Create playlists by dragging tracks onto the Playlist Category in the
2749
      PlaylistBrowser. (BR 75029)
2750
    * Show OSD when pausing and unpausing. (BR 104508)
2751
    * Make 'The' prefix of artists be transparent in the collection
2752
      browser and sort accordingly. (BR 85959)
2753
2754
  CHANGES:
2755
    * TagLib version 1.4 is required.
2756
    * Renamed "Track Name" column to "Filename", "Extension" to "Type".
2757
    * "Use hardware volume mixer" option has been removed.
2758
    * "Play AudioCD" gets disabled for engines that don't support KIO.
2759
    * The OSD (by default) and systray tooltip now show the same infos in
2760
      the same order as the columns in the playlist.
2761
    * xine-engine's configuration dialog has been reworked and simplified.
2762
    * xine-engine has been given the highest engine plugin rank.
2763
    * Systray tooltip now shows "elapsed time / total time" for the length.
2764
2765
  BUGFIXES:
2766
    * When playing, the text in the current track's columns wouldn't get
2767
      ellipsii added if the column was too short.
2768
    * Dragging 'All Collection' smart playlist made amaroK hang.
2769
    * Compilations reported incorrect number of tracks in the Context
2770
      Browser. (BR 109651)
2771
    * Track play icon remains even when stopped playing. (BR 107284)
2772
    * Sometimes valid tracks were not submitted to AudioScrobbler. (BR 100278)
2773
    * Current playlist is now being remembered when amaroK crashes. (BR 98689)
2774
    * Playlist-Browser saves its state after each change, so that no data
2775
      is lost when amaroK crashes. (BR 108814)
2776
    * Crash when trying to save Smart Playlists after creating a Collection
2777
      for the first time.
2778
    * Context menu of compilations was empty in context browser.
2779
    * Don't append albums and compilations when clicking on text in the
2780
      context browser. (BR 98797)
2781
    * xine-engine: pre-amp for the equalizer works now. (BR 104882)
2782
    * Crash when changing the number of minimum upcoming tracks right after
2783
      starting amaroK. (BR 108251)
2784
2785
2786
VERSION 1.3-beta2:
2787
  FEATURES:
2788
    * New DCOP call "collection: scanCollectionChanges" Scans for changes made
2789
      to the collection.
2790
    * Support for "media:" URLs. Patch by Sergio Cambra <sergio@ensanjose.net>
2791
      (BR 102668)
2792
    * Support for visualizations in the Helix engine.
2793
    * Queue manager to help organise your queued tracks. (BR 90594)
2794
    * Ability to create Smart Playlists based on file path. (BR 92467)
2795
    * Per track scripting via custom playlist context menu items.
2796
    * Added advanced, Google-esque syntax to the playlist filter. Lets you do
2797
      things like artist:sirenia, "pink floyd", artist:"pink floyd", or even
2798
      score:>50. When just typing words, it works as before. (BR 99312)
2799
2800
  CHANGES:
2801
    * Upgraded included SQLite library to version 3.2.2.
2802
    * Bumped GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins dependency to version 0.8.6.
2803
    * aKode-engine has been disabled (too buggy/incomplete).
2804
    * Repopulate upcoming tracks on demand when using dynamic mode.
2805
    * Remodel the playlist browser to incorporate dynamic mode more fully.
2806
2807
  BUGFIXES:
2808
    * Don't show textual URLs in Wikipedia Tab. (BR 108031)
2809
    * Don't refresh the collection view on update scans, if nothing changed.
2810
    * xine-engine: Don't pop up hundreds of error messages when something
2811
      goes wrong. Patch from John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net> (BR 101646)
2812
    * Automatic theme download with KNewStuff works now. (BR 107313)
2813
    * Clicking on "Lookup track at musicbrainz" use %2520 for spaces in URL.
2814
      (BR 107946)
2815
    * Crash when loading dynamic playlists without a collection.
2816
    * Crash when saving smart playlist without a collection.
2817
    * Do not call TagLib::MPEG::File for non-mpeg files - some FLAC files
2818
      would cause the CPU to start running in circles. (BR 107029)
2819
    * Many Helix engine improvements.
2820
    * Crash when dragging playlist items into Playlist Browser. (BR 107709)
2821
    * Improved context display when playing radio streams with xine-engine.
2822
    * Number of album tracks was incorrect when showing statistics by album.
2823
      (BR 107762)
2824
    * Massive performance speedup for the default analyzer (BlockAnalyzer).
2825
    * Dynamic mode will grab tracks from closed playlists.
2826
    * Covermanager tooltips were persistent even when window closed. Tooltips
2827
      have now been replaced with statusbar text. (BR 106976)
2828
    * Turning off dynamic mode when items were filtered only 're-enabled' the
2829
      visible items.
2830
    * Disable random mode on startup if dynamic mode is on. (BR 107311)
2831
    * The user is warned if saving tags failed. (BR 91568)
2832
    * Sub-Folders in Playlist Browser are correctly saved and restored.
2833
    * Crash after clicking on remove playlists in dynamic mode.
2834
    * Crash on Context Menu in dynamic mode.
2835
2836
2837
VERSION 1.3-beta1:
2838
  FEATURES:
2839
    * Add Media dialog allows for multiple file selection. (BR 105903)
2840
    * The browser-sidebar has been redesigned for improved usability.
2841
    * Cue file sheet support. Patch from Martin Ehmke <ehmke@gmx.de>.
2842
      (BR 92271).
2843
    * New OSD text token, %playcount, will write the playcount.
2844
    * SmartPlaylists are editable. (BR 91036)
2845
    * PlaylistBrowser gets a makeover!
2846
    * New playlist column "Playcount" for track play counts.
2847
    * New playlist column "Extension" allows easy sorting of playlist for
2848
       compatible file types for portable media players.
2849
    * Ability to save streams to the PlaylistBrowser (BR 91075, BR 104139)
2850
    * New DCOP call "playlist: popupMessage" Displays a popup message box
2851
       in the playlist window..
2852
    * New "year - album" - group by mode for collection browser. (BR 94845)
2853
    * New DCOP call "player: setScoreByPath(url, int)". Sets score of a track
2854
       specified by it's path.
2855
    * New DCOP call "player: setScore(int)". Sets score of the current track.
2856
    * New DCOP call "player: path()". Returns the path of the current track.
2857
    * New DCOP call "playlist: saveM3u(path, relativePaths)".
2858
    * New ScriptManager notification: "volumeChange: int".
2859
    * Tooltips for album covers in the CoverManager. (BR 103996)
2860
    * Automatic download of themes and scripts via KNewStuff.
2861
    * Different analyzers available for the playlist window.
2862
    * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatTrack" sets repeat track on or
2863
      off.
2864
    * HelixPlayer-engine.
2865
    * 'Load' and 'Append' entries for smart playlist context menus. (BR 99213)
2866
    * Support for reading embedded images from ID3 tags. (BR 88492)
2867
    * Wikipedia tab in ContextBrowser allows for artist biography retrieval
2868
      and more, supporting 9 different languages! (BR 98050) (BR 104383)
2869
    * Show "title by artist" on playlists titlebar and taskbar. (BR 97670)
2870
    * Option to show stats in the Home tab by album. Patch from Cédric
2871
      Brégardis <cedric.bregardis@free.fr>.
2872
    * New DCOP call "script: listRunningScripts()". Returns a list of all
2873
      currently running scripts. (BR 102649)
2874
    * New DCOP call "script: stopScript(name)". Stops a script. (BR 102649)
2875
    * New DCOP call "script: runScript(name)". Runs a script. (BR 102649)
2876
    * New form of playlist manipulation - Dynamic Mode.
2877
    * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatPlaylist" sets repeat playlist on or
2878
      off. (BR 102754)
2879
    * Add Score widget into the tag editor. (BR 100084)
2880
    * Support for PostgreSQL as database backend. (BR 99863)
2881
2882
  CHANGES:
2883
    * "amarokscript" filename extension is now mandatory for script packages.
2884
    * Append Suggestions has been superceded by Dynamic Mode.
2885
    * Add a label (with shortcut) to the Playlist filter.
2886
2887
  BUGFIXES:
2888
    * Message box when saving of playlist failed (BR 105520)
2889
    * Avoid weird results when fetching lyrics with slow connections.
2890
      (BR 103561) (BR 101327)
2891
    * Compensate for reversed slider widget in reverse layout locales, such as
2892
      Hebrew and Arabic. Patch from Assaf Gillat <gillata@gmail.com>.
2893
      (BR 102978)
2894
    * Playlist playMedia now works with streams.
2895
    * Context Browser is updated when current track's tags are changed.
2896
      (BR 102839)
2897
    * Clearing the playlist while playing a track does not lead to a confusing
2898
      interface anymore. (BR 103510)
2899
2900
2901
==BEGIN KDE 3.3 DEPENDENCY==
2902
2903
VERSION 1.2.4:
2904
  FEATURES:
2905
    * Queue selected tracks shortcut, Ctrl+D. (BR 83675)
2906
2907
  BUGFIXES:
2908
    * The first engine entry in the config dialog was always blank.
2909
    * If you filtered by more than one word in Collection Browser, adding
2910
      expandable items (eg: artists or albums) wouldn't work. (BR 100150)
2911
    * Updating the collection without any changes being made to it kept
2912
      the Update button disabled forever.
2913
    * Application freezes when switching shoutcast streams. (BR 103890)
2914
    * MusicBrainz lookup was not escaping quote characters. (BR 103740)
2915
    * Fixed crash when clicking the "clear" button in CoverManager's filter
2916
      widget.
2917
    * Update lyrics page on new radio stream metadata. (BR 99725)
2918
    * xine-engine was reporting bogus tracklengths for ogg vorbis. (BR 102547)
2919
2920
2921
VERSION 1.2.3:
2922
  FEATURES:
2923
    * Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
2924
    * New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not
2925
      the equalizer is enabled.
2926
    * OSD notification for mute.
2927
    * Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
2928
    * Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
2929
    * View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and
2930
      CollectionBrowser.
2931
    * You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's
2932
      right-click contextmenu.
2933
    * New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)".
2934
      Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
2935
    * New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)
2936
2937
  CHANGES:
2938
    * Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser
2939
      and ContextBrowser.
2940
    * Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
2941
    * DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.
2942
2943
  BUGFIXES:
2944
    * Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple
2945
      playlist items.
2946
    * Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
2947
    * 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
2948
    * When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the
2949
      real track, not the whole album.
2950
    * Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
2951
    * The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
2952
    * Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
2953
    * GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without
2954
      crossfading.
2955
    * GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when
2956
      Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
2957
    * Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog.
2958
      (BR 102059)
2959
    * "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
2960
    * Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
2961
    * amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524)
2962
      (a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)
2963
2964
2965
VERSION 1.2.2:
2966
  FEATURES:
2967
    * Context Browser CSS styles can now be installed and selected from the
2968
      appearance settings.
2969
    * Append Suggestions now has an icon in the statusbar.
2970
    * When selecting multiple files, the "View/Edit Meta Information" dialog
2971
      will show the tags that are common to all of them. (BR 100423)
2972
    * A line graph equalizer added as a script "graphequalizer."
2973
2974
  CHANGES:
2975
    * Add 25-track and 50-track smart-playlists.
2976
    * Update current-track icons to include greater padding.
2977
    * The contextbrowser now uses data:-URLs instead of temp image files, so
2978
      they cannot be left on disk when amaroK terminates unexpectedly, and the
2979
      Konqueror/Universal sidebar can show them when amaroK is not running.
2980
2981
  BUGFIXES:
2982
    * escape '&' char in contextmenu entry (BR 101276)
2983
    * Track is set as a number in the database, so shouldn't be added rounded
2984
      by quotes. (BR 101208)
2985
    * Rewrote the broken .pls playlist parser.
2986
    * Handle delay gap between songs properly with aRts engine. (BR 90404)
2987
    * Switched order of "Make playlist" and "Queue after current track" menus
2988
      to avoid playlist destruction. (BR 96164 part 1)
2989
    * Visualizations with LibVisual didn't work in some cases. (BR 99627)
2990
    * amaroK could fail to build if the whole kdeextragear-1 module was
2991
      compiled, due to conflicts with K3B on the MusicBrainz check. (BR 100906)
2992
    * Images shown on OSD where incorrect for action notifications.
2993
    * The handbook translations were not built when amaroK was installed from
2994
      the tarball. I've written a new release script in Ruby, which can
2995
      handle the new structure of kde-i18n. (BR 100498)
2996
    * GStreamer-engine can now play vorbis radio streams properly, with
2997
      full metadata support. (BR 89821)
2998
    * GStreamer-engine now uses the "decodebin" autoplugger, which fixes
2999
      the lag issues that some users had during crossfading. (BR 99570)
3000
3001
3002
VERSION 1.2.1:
3003
  FIX: Made the Tag-Editor only operate on visible items. (BR 100268)
3004
  ADD: Database settings added to the first-run wizard.
3005
  FIX: playlist2html generates UTF-8 output now. (BR 100140)
3006
  FIX: Bitrate/length showed random values for untagged mp3 files. (BR 100200)
3007
  FIX: Crash when recoding stream MetaData without CODEC selected. (BR 100077)
3008
  CHG: Show an additional "Compilations with Artist" box in ContextBrowser.
3009
  ADD: Remember collapse-state of boxes in ContextBrowser. (BR 98664)
3010
  ADD: Display an error when unable to connect to MySQL.
3011
  ADD: Konqueror Sidebar now has full drag and drop support.
3012
  CHG: Replaced "Blue Wolf" icon with Nenad Grujicic's amaroK 1.1
3013
       icon, due to legal issues.
3014
  ADD: Parameter "%score" shows the current song's score in OSD.
3015
  CHG: When you delete a song within amaroK, it gets removed from
3016
       the Collection automatically.
3017
  FIX: Directory column in the playlist was eating the first letter.
3018
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: setStopAfterCurrent(bool)". (BR 99944)
3019
  FIX: Coverfetcher: Do not crash when no cover was found. (BR 99942)
3020
  ADD: Support for amazon.co.jp cover fetching
3021
  CHG: Toolbar items reordered for optimal usability, as suggested by
3022
       Aaron "Tom Green" Seigo.
3023
  FIX: Show covers for albums containing chars '#' or '?'. (BR 96971 99780)
3024
  ADD: Help file for the playlist2html script.
3025
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: int getActiveIndex()".
3026
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: playByIndex(int)".
3027
  CHG: Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.1.3.
3028
  FIX: Update the database after editing tags in playlist. (BR 99593)
3029
  ADD: New DCOP function "player: trackPlayCounter". (BR 99575)
3030
  ADD: .ram playlist support with code from Kaffeine. (BR 96101)
3031
  FIX: amaroK can now determine the correct track-length even for formats
3032
       unknown to TagLib. Makes it possible to seek e.g. in m4a tracks.
3033
  ADD: Can now pick from multiple Musicbrainz results. Patch from
3034
       Jonathan Halcrow <gte899j@prism.gatech.edu>. (BR 89701)
3035
  ADD: May now set a custom cover on multiple albums in the Cover-Manager.
3036
  ADD: Support relative path of tracks in writing playlists. (BR 91053)
3037
  FIX: Don't inline-edit tags for the whole playlist's selection.
3038
  FIX: Fix "Recode Tags" crash issues. (BR 95041)
3039
  ADD: "Set Custom Cover" can fetch remote images. (BR 90499)
3040
3041
VERSION 1.2:
3042
  ADD: "Repeat Track" status is reflected by an icon in the playlist.
3043
  ADD: New icons from tightcode for statusbar and repeatTrack.
3044
  ADD: New Smart-Playlist "Ever Played".
3045
  CHG: Bumped GStreamer version requirement to 0.8.4.
3046
  CHG: Made it possible to use artsdsink with GStreamer again.
3047
  CHG: Don't read m3u files recursively when dropping a folder on the
3048
       playlist. No more doubled entries.
3049
  FIX: Shoutcast radio with GStreamer is improved, no more dropouts when
3050
       starting a stream.
3051
  ADD: The "Similar Artists" feature (using Audioscrobbler) can now be
3052
       switched off. (BR 95280)
3053
  FIX: Error in Shoutcast http-request, which made it impossible to play
3054
       many radio streams with GStreamer and aRts. (BR 97211, 98569)
3055
  CHG: Better default directory for selecting a custom cover.
3056
  FIX: ContextBrowser reloads after setting a custom cover. (BR 96548)
3057
  FIX: Cover-Manager's full-screen view works with Bughira (brushed metal).
3058
  ADD: Script-Manager can auto-run scripts on application startup.
3059
  ADD: aKode engine, depends on KDE 3.4. No configure check yet.
3060
  FIX: Don't add non-audio files to the Collection.
3061
  CHG: We now use the SqlLoader, which greatly improves the performance of
3062
       adding stuff to the playlist from SmartPlaylists and the Collection.
3063
3064
VERSION 1.2-beta4:
3065
  ADD: It is now possible to select the right image if there are multiple
3066
       results from Amazon. Patch from Gregory Isabelli <g_isabelli@yahoo.fr>.
3067
       (BR 93287)
3068
  CHG: Reorganized the DCOP interface. We used to have all DCOP functions in the
3069
       "player" group. Now it's splitted up into several categories. Attention
3070
       script writers: Adjust your DCOP calls!
3071
  FIX: The loader is now more robust and should always find amarokapp.
3072
  CHG: The search-browser has been integrated into the file-browser.
3073
  CHG: OSD can have fake transparency and new fancy shadow.
3074
  ADD: DCOP function "shortStatusMessage", shows a temporary message on the
3075
       application's statusbar.
3076
  FIX: Frequent crashes when writing tags. (BR 95344)
3077
  FIX: CoverManager updates its status display correctly.
3078
  FIX: "isPlaying" DCOP function now works correctly. (BR 90894)
3079
  ADD: Automatic crash report generator, sends backtraces to amaroK HQ.
3080
  ADD: DCOP function "saveCurrentPlaylist". Writes the playlist to current.xml,
3081
       for scripts that need to access the playlist contents.
3082
  ADD: Playlist2html, a script for playlist exporting. (BR 96199)
3083
  ADD: Improved statusbar, with animated error notification widget.
3084
  ADD: New progress display system, can show multiple expandable progress
3085
       widgets in the statusbar.
3086
  ADD: Alarm script, starts playing music at specified alarm time.
3087
  ADD: Script-Manager for DCOP script extensions is now functional. Refer to the
3088
       amaroK Wiki for information on script writing.
3089
  ADD: Collection-Browser shows a help message in flat-mode when filter is
3090
       empty. (BR 97000)
3091
  CHG: It is possible to select the Database Engine (SQLite, MySQL) runtime,
3092
       without amaroK restart. New Database Engines can be added, they need to
3093
       inherit DbConnection and implement its' virtual methods (see
3094
       SqliteConnection and MySqlConnection).
3095
  CHG: New amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by Da-Flow.
3096
  FIX: Possible crash when enabling Player-Window. (BR 94668)
3097
3098
VERSION 1.2-beta3:
3099
  ADD: Smart Playlists can have a random order or a score weighted random order
3100
       (BR 90861)
3101
  ADD: Show total length of selected songs in statusbar. (BR 90284)
3102
  ADD: Context-Browser now caches the tab widgets. Patch from Matias Costa
3103
       <mcc3@alu.um.es>. (BR 95999)
3104
  FIX: RAND and REP buttons were always enabled at startup. (BR 95861)
3105
  ADD: Implemented "Append Suggestions" functionality. It means that when
3106
       enabled, amaroK will append a couple of suggested songs to playlist when
3107
       you play a track. This produces a continuous playlist, something similar
3108
       to listening to radio.
3109
  ADD: Implemented "Play Media..." functionality.
3110
  FIX: Playlist-Browser was appending to playlist when clicking "Load". Now it
3111
       replaces the current playlist again, as intended.
3112
  ADD: Profile for KDELIRC (Remote Controls). Patch by Dirk Ziegelmeier
3113
       <dziegel@gmx.de>.
3114
  ADD: Remove Duplicates now also removes dead entries from playlist.
3115
  FIX: Accept album-dragging from the ContextBrowser. (BR 86020)
3116
  FIX: Configure check was missing for the Konqueror Sidebar (depends on
3117
       KDE-Base).
3118
  FIX: Browser splitter was drawn incorrectly with some styles. (BR 95333)
3119
  ADD: DCOP call for relative seek. Patch by Andreas Pfaller. (BR 84989)
3120
  CHG: Bumped TagLib dependency to 1.3.1. (1.3 is too damn buggy)
3121
  FIX: CTRL-M can show the menubar again after hiding. (BR 94139)
3122
  ADD: Support for last.fm streams.
3123
  FIX: amaroK icon shows correctly in window decoration under GNOME.
3124
  ADD: Support for ID3v2 cover images. (Thanks to M. Thiesen!) (BR 88492)
3125
  ADD: DCOP calls for the status of Random Mode, Repeat Playlist and Repeat
3126
       Track.
3127
  ADD: DCOP call to return the sample rate.
3128
  ADD: DCOP call to return the track number. (BR 94825)
3129
  FIX: GStreamer-engine provides better scope synchronisation.
3130
  ADD: Save current track position and play queue on exit. (BR 90379)
3131
  FIX: Fix Directory column on playlist, show absolute directory path instead of
3132
       empty string. (BR 90361)
3133
  ADD: DCOP call to scan your collection. (BR 84621)
3134
  FIX: When an engine fails to load, respect the rank while choosing the next
3135
       engine.
3136
3137
VERSION 1.2-beta2:
3138
  FIX: Classic amaroK theme looks better.
3139
  ADD: Context Browser has CSS styling.
3140
  FIX: Cover fetching improvements/fixes.
3141
  ADD: Last played: yesterday, etc. in ContextBrowser.
3142
  FIX: Big speedup for PlaylistLoader, when adding many items.
3143
  ADD: Show songs you once played, but didn't play for the longest time on
3144
       ContextBrowser's Home-page. (least played) (BR 89479)
3145
  FIX: Don't crash on song switch, when there's only one visible playlist item
3146
       and repeat-list is activated. (BR 94030)
3147
  CHG: Add and queue tracks after the current track. (BR 94121)
3148
  ADD: DCOP call to raise the equalizer configuration dialog.
3149
  ADD: Konqueror sidebar to view playing info and control amaroK.
3150
  ADD: DCOP call to clear the playlist. (BR 90149)
3151
  ADD: DCOP call to enable/disable the equalizer.
3152
  ADD: DCOP call to return the score of the currently playing track.
3153
  ADD: Audioscrobbler submit queue stored on disk. Tracks that are listened when
3154
       offline will be available for submitting later.
3155
  CHG: "Start Scan" button was renamed to "Update". Now it starts an incremental
3156
       scan instead of a full rescan.
3157
  FIX: Lyrics parsing failed for certain songs. (BR 94269)
3158
  ADD: xine-engine saves config, and implements crossfade, bug fixed too.
3159
  ADD: Player-Window can also show the BlockAnalyzer.
3160
  CHG: Run incremental scanning once a minute instead of every 30 seconds.
3161
  FIX: When collection scanning was interrupted with Cancel, incremental
3162
       scanning didn't work any longer.
3163
  CHG: Handle incremental file scanning in a thread. Now the GUI doesn't get
3164
       blocked every 30 seconds, anymore. (BR 93564)
3165
  ADD: CollectionBrowser now offers two operation modes:
3166
       The classical TreeView and a new FlatView (like the WinAmp Library).
3167
  FIX: Caching of local cover images was broken for non-unique filenames.
3168
       (BR 94068)
3169
  FIX: "Visualizations" menu entry was always disabled.
3170
  FIX: Play button was sometimes stuck in disabled state.
3171
  FIX: OSD was showing "%artist - %track" instead of "%artist - %title".
3172
  FIX: Forward command line option --engine to amarokapp.
3173
  FIX: CoverFetcher was always looking for "album - album".
3174
3175
VERSION 1.2-beta1:
3176
  ADD: Full support for Audioscrobbler, including submission of tracks.
3177
  FIX: Arts engine resumes from position when session is restored.
3178
  ADD: Vorbis stream metadata support (GStreamer-engine). (BR 82378)
3179
  ADD: Cover image and lyric fetchers include filters for common extensions,
3180
       such as (Disc 1). (BR 90630)
3181
  ADD: Ability to choose from four different Amazon locales. (BR 90664)
3182
  ADD: OSD now draws gradient instead of solid colour.
3183
  ADD: 'Stop after current song' functionality. (BR 88652)
3184
  FIX: Queue function from context/collection browsers actually properly queues
3185
       tracks. (BR 90319)
3186
  ADD: MySQL database support. Patch by Andreas Mair <am_ml@linogate.com>.
3187
       Please refer to mailing list for detailed instructions.
3188
  ADD: Metadata history for streams in Context-Browser. (BR 89839)
3189
  ADD: Command line option --engine.
3190
  ADD: OSD text is now configurable, and it displays the album cover.
3191
  FIX: Remote folders are read recursively when dropped on the playlist.
3192
  FIX: Audiocd protocol in filebrowser had empty folders.
3193
  ADD: Cache system for current-track animation in playlist. Reduces CPU load
3194
       when the playlist is visible.
3195
  ADD: 10-band IIR equalizer for GStreamer and xine engines.
3196
  FIX: The background gradient effect in Context-Browser is now much faster. The
3197
       gradient also looks nicer. (BR 91276)
3198
  FIX: Password-protected streams did not work correctly. (BR 91184). Patch by
3199
       <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
3200
  ADD: NMM-engine was rewritten and updated for the latest NMM release. Supports
3201
       audio and video playback.
3202
  ADD: Cover-Manager supports drag-and-drop.
3203
  ADD: Tags are now read from the Collection database if they are already
3204
       stored. This speeds up adding items to the playlist. (BR 90137)
3205
  ADD: Context-browser shows "Suggested Tracks", utilizing audioscrobbler.
3206
  FIX: Configure does no longer print "Good - Configure has finished" when a
3207
       dependency is missing.
3208
  ADD: Intelligent automatic resize for playlist columns
3209
  ADD: Shaded current-track marker in playlist.
3210
  ADD: Automatic song lyrics display.
3211
  CHG: Internal SQLite upgraded to 3.0.8.
3212
3213
VERSION 1.1.1:
3214
  FIX: Crash when using GStreamer-engine on 64bit. (BR 90869)
3215
  CHG: New splash screen by Nenad Grujicic <mchitman@neobee.net>.
3216
  FIX: Crash when fetching 1 missing cover using the fetch button. (BR 90673)
3217
  REM: Unsupported option "Show Metadata in Playlist".
3218
  ADD: Menubar (optional).
3219
  FIX: GStreamer-engine now resumes playback at correct position.
3220
  ADD: iCandy for Context-Browser: Background gradient and toolbar.
3221
  CHG: Collection-Browser now has a toolbar instead of menubar.
3222
  FIX: With "Title Streaming" disabled GStreamer could not play streams.
3223
  FIX: Osssink is now the default sink for GStreamer. If sink initialization
3224
       fails, a dialog will ask to select another sink.
3225
  FIX: Pausing failed on some systems with GStreamer-engine. (BR 90417)
3226
  FIX: Never scan the same directory twice.
3227
  FIX: Disable CD-burning menu for streams. (BR 90336)
3228
  ADD: Open Cover-Manager from Context-Browser popup-menu and main menu.
3229
  FIX: Made amaroK build with --disable-amazon flag.
3230
  FIX: Docs translations were not installed correctly. (BR 90307)
3231
  FIX: GStreamer-engine refused to play some mp3 files. (BR 90317)
3232
3233
VERSION 1.1:
3234
  FIX: Huge speedup for Context-Browser, makes changing tracks faster.
3235
  ADD: Progress display for Cover-Manager.
3236
  CHG: Systray animation is now optional.
3237
  CHG: Updated included sqlite to 3.0.7 (stable).
3238
  ADD: Tag editor can operate on multiple files (mass tagging).
3239
  FIX: Collection encoding broken for non-latin1 characters. (BR 89747)
3240
  ADD: Popup-menu for cover images in Context-Browser.
3241
  FIX: The first track to play is now random for random-mode. (BR 77055)
3242
  FIX: Show systray on startup. (BR 89661)
3243
  FIX: Let xine recognise tracks that have non lower-case extensions.
3244
3245
VERSION 1.1-beta2:
3246
  ADD: K3B integration for burning CDs. (BR 88052)
3247
  ADD: Third category for Collection-Browser. (BR 83609)
3248
  ADD: Playlist search now supports categories. (BR 86296)
3249
  ADD: Support for MAS (Media Application Server). MAS-engine
3250
       is in experimental state.
3251
  ADD: Context-Browser shows information about radio streams.
3252
  ADD: Custom Smart Playlists with built-in editor.
3253
  ADD: Systray icon shows track progress and play status.
3254
  CHG: Imported SQLite3 and ported CollectionDB.
3255
  ADD: "Cool-Streams", a list of amaroK Squad recommended streams for
3256
       playlist-browser.
3257
  ADD: Detecting Sampler/VA discs in CollectionBrowser (shown as
3258
       "Various Artists"). (BR 81683)
3259
  ADD: Configuration GUI for xine-engine.
3260
  ADD: Next and previous track buttons for Tag-Editor.
3261
  ADD: Player-window adapts to current color scheme.
3262
  ADD: Crossfading and fade-in/out function for GStreamer-Engine.
3263
  ADD: Genre and Favorite Tracks by Artist smart playlist in the
3264
       Playlist-Browser.
3265
  ADD: IMMS-like rating system for songs.
3266
  FIX: aRts-engine has been ported to the new engine interface and is
3267
       available again (but not recommended).
3268
  FIX: Try to autodetect Sampler-Discs and show them properly in the
3269
       Contextbrowser. (BR 87182)
3270
  FIX: Multiple items can now be selected in the CoverManager.
3271
       Thanks John Hughes (BR 87584)
3272
  FIX: Various fixes for certain Artist/Album names, which had problems
3273
       with cover support.
3274
  FIX: Sorting the collection is now case-insensitive. (BR 84141)
3275
  CHG: Symlink infinite recursion check for collection scan.
3276
  FIX: Show all accessible cover images in the tooltip. (BR 87283)
3277
  FIX: Clicking an album in the ContextBrowser adds items in the correct
3278
       order, now. (BR 87733)
3279
3280
VERSION 1.1-beta1:
3281
  ADD: Wizard for configuring amaroK on first startup.
3282
  CHG: Made it possible to use the next/previous buttons when amaroK is
3283
       not playing.
3284
  ADD: DCOP call to switch Random Mode on or off. (BR 84460)
3285
  ADD: DCOP call to retrieve current track's cover image. (BR 85364)
3286
  FIX: Problem with cover-saving for certain artist/album names. (BR 84171)
3287
  FIX: Show contextual information for songs, even if they are not in the
3288
       current collection instead of an ugly empty box.
3289
  ADD: GstEngine: Support for custom output plugin parameters. (BR 83949)
3290
  ADD: CoverManager - for downloading and managing album cover images.
3291
  CHG: Refactored engine plugin interface. Each engine can now provide specific
3292
       configuration GUIs.
3293
  ADD: As-you-type search for FileBrowser.
3294
  ADD: Seeking with mousewheel in playerwindow.
3295
  REM: Stream-Browser.
3296
  ADD: New meta-info dialog, with editable tags and MusicBrainz support.
3297
  ADD: Inline-tag editing auto-completion based on the Collection Database.
3298
  ADD: Deleting files physically from playlist context menu. (BR 75208)
3299
  ADD: Fadeouts for GStreamer-Engine.
3300
  ADD: New Playlist Browser, organizes multiple playlists, and offers smart
3301
       playlist functionality.
3302
  ADD: Support for redirected streams and streams with no specified port.
3303
  ADD: KIO support for GStreamer engine. Allows playing media via all
3304
       protocols supported by KIO (ftp, audiocd, fish, etc).
3305
  ADD: SearchBrowser operation can now be aborted.
3306
  ADD: Progressbar in CollectionBrowser informs about scan progress, and a
3307
       button was added for aborting the scan. (BR 83019)
3308
  ADD: Playlist sliders (volume and position) now move directly when clicked
3309
       outside of the handle. (BR 83611)
3310
  ADD: Untagged tracks now go into Collection too, listed as "unknown".
3311
  ADD: Automatic album cover fetching is back and improved.
3312
  ADD: Option for automatically switching to Context when playback is started.
3313
  CHG: Stream timeout value is now determined from KDE user settings.
3314
  ADD: Support for password-protected streams, by wef <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
3315
  FIX: GStreamer engine must not allow non-audio filetypes in playlist.
3316
  ADD: Icon for "Menu" button in toolbar. Improves Usability.
3317
3318
VERSION 1.0.2:
3319
  ADD: xine-engine plugin, audio only.
3320
  FIX: aRts-engine: Compatibility with newer aRts versions improved.
3321
  FIX: aRts-engine: Streams sometimes stopping shortly after playback was
3322
       started. (BR 84417)
3323
  CHG: Increased stream connect timeout to 12 seconds.
3324
3325
VERSION 1.0.1:
3326
  FIX: Short dropouts after starting a stream with GStreamer.
3327
  FIX: amaroK starting invisible when systray icon is disabled.
3328
  FIX: Playlist analyzer looks freaky on some systems. (BR 83671)
3329
  FIX: Display filename in title column for wav files. (BR 83650)
3330
  FIX: Don't show crash dialog when no engine plugins are found.
3331
  FIX: Compile issue for KDE < 3.2.1 users. Sorry :(
3332
3333
VERSION 1.0:
3334
  FIX: Plugin versions are validated. Prevents crashes with ancient plugins.
3335
  FIX: Configure now checks for gtk/gdk headers for the XMMSwrapper.
3336
  REM: Removed cover download feature for this release.
3337
  FIX: Do not crash if an unreadable dir is added to the collection.
3338
  FIX: Check database-sanity on startup and recreate broken tables (BR 83205).
3339
  FIX: CollectionBrowser was broken, when amaroK was running "localized".
3340
  FIX: TitleProxy hogging 100% CPU when unable to connect to server.
3341
  CHG: Bumped GStreamer requirement to 0.8.1.
3342
  ADD: Glowing player window icons.
3343
  ADD: amaroK finally remembers if it was hidden on exit.
3344
  ADD: OSDPreview now has snap to regions.
3345
  FIX: Newly shown columns in playlist can now be resized.
3346
  FIX: BR 82020: next/prev buttons disabled when they shouldn't be.
3347
  ADD: ToolbarAnalyzer remembers it's framerate, allowed fps: {50, 40, 30, 20}.
3348
  ADD: Full streaming audio support for GStreamer engine.
3349
  FIX: Don't allow user to get into a situation where there is no Menu.
3350
  ADD: Using Welcome-page power-links you can switch between XMMS and amaroK mode.
3351
  CHG: New icons and splash screen, by Roman Becker <roman@formmorf.de>.
3352
  ADD: Allow the current GL analyzer to be detached/attached from the
3353
       main window with the 'd' key.
3354
  FIX: Filtering the collection now searches the second category, too (BR 81681).
3355
  FIX: Filter in playlist was only working for the first argument.
3356
  CHG: Collection-Monitor now processes removed dirs in a thread.
3357
  ADD: Added a switch to toggle OSD's text-shadow. (BR 82011).
3358
  ADD: More detailed track information dialog for Collection Browser.
3359
  FIX: Track length was always 0 for certain filetypes (e.g. mod, wav) (BR 82673).
3360
  FIX: Gst engine refusing to add certain filetypes to the playlist, when
3361
       the engine was idle (BR 82713).
3362
  FIX: Rare playlist redraw bug, which resulted in messed up items.
3363
3364
VERSION 1.0-beta4:
3365
  ADD: CollectionDB now caches and rescales images. This binds cover art usage
3366
       in amaroK to the collection, but offers greatly improved speed for cover
3367
       retrieval and uses less memory.
3368
  FIX: Cover not shown in ContextBrowser, when song gets played for the first
3369
       time ever (BR 81241).
3370
  ADD: Cover art fetcher, downloads album cover images from amazon.com.
3371
  ADD: Configure->Playback->Device && default device option for audiosinks.
3372
  ADD: ContextBrowser now also shows your overall-favorites and the newest tracks
3373
       in your collection. Therefor I had to reset the statistics, sorry.
3374
  FIX: Decode %-encoded characters in filenames, like %2f for a slash. (BR 74576).
3375
  CHG: Songs you click in ContextBrowser will now directly start to play and won't
3376
       be added to the playlist, if they already are there.
3377
  FIX: "Start Scan" menu-entry gets disabled while scanning. (BR 81619).
3378
  FIX: Directories with non-ascii chars don't get scanned (CB) in multibyte locales.
3379
  CHG: Enhanced "Fill-Down" feature for track column (auto-increment) (BR 81194).
3380
  FIX: Closing xmms-visualizations freezes amaroK (BR 81326).
3381
  FIX: CollectionBrowser does not sort by tracknumber (BR 79600).
3382
  FIX: ContextBrowser's URLRequests need to be escaped.
3383
  FIX: Always show OSD (if enabled) on volume changes.
3384
  FIX: Filtering the collection using tokens with number(s) at the beginning
3385
       or end failed. (BR 81621).
3386
  FIX: FileBrowser didn't remember its current folder (BR 81816).
3387
  ADD: Expand/collapse items by doubleclicking in Collection (BR 81710).
3388
  FIX: Allow OSD still to be shown via shortcut when disabled (BR 80388).
3389
  FIX: Collection: live-monitoring dirs for changes works again.
3390
  FIX: Changing volume by mousewheel on systray icon works again.
3391
  ADD: Collection automatically rescans itself on startup.
3392
  ADD: "Add to Playlist" feature in CollectionBrowser, appends tracks to playlist.
3393
  ADD: Clear button for CollectionBrowser search.
3394
  FIX: Problem with invisible "Play next" marker in playlist.
3395
  FIX: Don't try to create sql-tables on every startup, but only on
3396
       sql-scheme (DATABASE_VERSION) changes.
3397
  FIX: Display splash screen on correct desktop with Xinerama.
3398
  CHG: CollectionBrowser filter now works in "search-as-you-type" mode.
3399
  FIX: Prevent TitleProxy from showing the same metadata over and over.
3400
  FIX: Compatibility bugfixes to TitleProxy, thanks to Daniel Molkentin
3401
       <danimo@kde.org>. I think we've now got 100% Shoutcast compatibility.
3402
  ADD: Allow changing volume by using the mousewheel anywhere on the toolbar.
3403
  FIX: Wheel-scrolling toolbar's volume slider doesn't change volume (BR 81155).
3404
  FIX: ContextBrowser is now shown in proper colors for every scheme.
3405
  CHG: Added track's physical location to the Meta Information dialog.
3406
  FIX: Show last playtime in localtime instead of UTC.
3407
  FIX: ContextBrowser not showing all items for current album.
3408
  FIX: Not all SQL queries were "string-escaped".
3409
  ADD: Added statistics database, which keeps track of how often and when you play
3410
       a specific song.
3411
3412
VERSION 1.0-beta3:
3413
  ADD: Additional volume slider for playlist window.
3414
  ADD: ContextBrowser shows you images and information to the current song/artist.
3415
       It depends on the collection and is presented as an HTML widget.
3416
  CHG: Improved color handling and visual feedback in the GUI.
3417
  ADD: Global shortcut for play/pause action, as requested by multimedia-keyboard
3418
       users (BR 79541).
3419
  CHG: Small player-window can be switched off now.
3420
  FIX: CollectionBrowser out of order after scanning.
3421
  FIX: TitleProxy partly rewritten. Should be more compatible with many streams
3422
       and not be able to freeze the app any longer.
3423
  FIX: When playing a stream with title streaming activated, the track is not
3424
       marked as playing (BR 79999).
3425
  FIX: Invoking "Track Information" in Collection Browser sometimes crashed
3426
       the application (BR 80266).
3427
  FIX: In CollectionBrowser's folder setup dialog pressing cancel did not abort
3428
       (BR 80451). Thanks to Michael Pyne <pynm0001@comcast.net> for patch.
3429
  ADD: Option for selecting sound output system (OSS/Alsa). Currently only
3430
       used with GStreamer engine.
3431
  CHG: Extended and updated handbook, thanks to Mike Diehl <madpenguin8@yahoo.com>.
3432
  ADD: Context menu item "Make Playlist" in Collection Browser generates new
3433
       playlists on the fly, without the need for drag-and-drop.
3434
  CHG: Renamed several files and folders in the source code tree, resulting in
3435
       improved code accessibility.
3436
3437
VERSION 1.0-beta2:
3438
  FIX: Crash on AMD64 due to assumption about pointer size.
3439
  CHG: SQLite library sourcecode now included with amaroK.
3440
  CHG: The collection-thread now inserts its data in a temporary database while
3441
       scanning, which allows us to safely use the collection in the meantime.
3442
       This is done by two concurrent sqlite-connections (thread-safe). Wrote a
3443
       new class named CollectionDB, which handles the database communication
3444
       for the collection.
3445
  ADD: URLDrag from Playlist, so you can drag and drop to xmms. Doesn't work with
3446
       the FileBrowser yet, but it will!
3447
  CHG: CollectionBrowser now fills the database inside of a thread, resulting in
3448
       improved performance.
3449
  ADD: Mini track-position slider in statusbar.
3450
  FIX: Don't try to crossfade with engines that do not support this feature.
3451
  ADD: XMMS visualization plugins can be configured with their GUI.
3452
  FIX: Collection filtering had some regressions
3453
  FIX: Loader on some systems not able to start amaroK.
3454
  FIX: Switching engines at runtime breaking volume control.
3455
  FIX: GstEngine skipping tracks directly after starting, when crossfading enabled.
3456
  CHG: Database system now works with linked tables. Saves hdd-space and cpu-time.
3457
  CHG: If you remove the current song from the playlist, we don't define the next
3458
       song anymore, but let it be randomly selected (only when random mode is on!)
3459
  CHG: Random Mode now respects the playlist filter and only picks items, which are
3460
       currently visible in the playlist. Also removed a crash situation.
3461
  CHG: Removed the search-token index. Searching now iterates through the playlist,
3462
       offering direct and specific access to the metadata.
3463
  FIX: Bug where fill-down would cause lots of extra tags to be written when a search is
3464
       in progress (BR 79482).
3465
  FIX: Defect in plugin framework code, leading to a crash on some systems
3466
       during engine plugin initialization.
3467
  FIX: Restoring current playlist on startup (BR 79436, BR 79439).
3468
  ADD: Searching the Collection with a filter.
3469
  FIX: BrowserWin's QLabels are painted white in amaroK's own color scheme.
3470
3471
VERSION 1.0-beta1:
3472
  ADD: Search Browser - search stuff on your hdd
3473
  ADD: song count on playlist statusbar
3474
  ADD: support for XMMS visualization plugins
3475
  ADD: Collection Browser - a database powered music collection manager
3476
  ADD: Playlist toolbar is now configurable
3477
  ADD: toolbar analyzer in playlist window
3478
  ADD: use XML playlists internally within amaroK so tags don't have to be
3479
       loaded/reloaded all the time. Makes undo/redo much quicker.
3480
  FIX: non latin1 locale issues with loading directories and tags (thanks Leo Zhu)
3481
  ADD: clicking shuffle will sort the playlist by the nextQueue first, and
3482
       randomise the rest
3483
  ADD: Play Next can now handle several songs through a queue. The queue can be
3484
       manipulated by using the context menu or by CTRL+right clicking.
3485
  ADD: much improved gstreamer engine, now working with visualizations
3486
  CHG: GstEngine requires gstreamer-0.8
3487
  FIX: Show move pointer instead of hand when moving preview OSD.
3488
  ADD: sorting by artist subsorts by album and track, sorting by album subsorts
3489
       by track, enjoy!
3490
  ADD: browserTabs float over the playlist when in set to not overlap
3491
  FIX: communication loader<-->amarok failing on FreeBSD
3492
  FIX: loader forgetting to close socket descriptors
3493
  FIX: FileBrowser remembers that state of its view between sessions
3494
  CHG: converted engines to plugins. they are now dynamically loaded at runtime
3495
  ADD: plugin framework
3496
  CHG: made amaroK aRts-independent. with the --without-arts configure switch
3497
       it's possible to build the app without aRts support, using only NMM or GST
3498
  ADD: Shift drag appends items to the end of the playlist.
3499
  FIX: startup notification icon staying on screen when amaroK started by loader
3500
  FIX: amaroK showing the "X" icon instead of the correct one
3501
3502
VERSION 0.9:
3503
  CHG: playlistBrowser removed until next release
3504
  FIX: playerWidget font is now configurable, you need to start new track for the
3505
       scrolling marquee to get updated. Default font is used by default.
3506
  FIX: fixed several stability issues concerning stream-playback
3507
  ADD: whatsthis for all configurable options.
3508
  FIX: amaroK registering with dcop as "amarok-PID". it's back to just "amarok" now.
3509
  FIX: OSD not updating correctly when changing volume
3510
3511
VERSION 0.9-beta3:
3512
  ADD: "Show Current Track" button in playlist.
3513
  ADD: Volume OSD when changing with mousewheel over trayicon.
3514
  CHG: software volume mixer uses a logarithmic function to make the scale more natural
3515
  ADD: Global shortcuts to display OSD and increase/decrease volume.
3516
       (Win+o and Win+KP_Add/KP_Subtract by default, respectively)
3517
  ADD: DCOP calls to control OSD and playback volume
3518
  ADD: ported config-GUI for audio decoders to new engine (works currently with
3519
       modplug_artsplugin)
3520
  FIX: show correct track-length when playing .mod or .sid with aRts-engine
3521
  ADD: loader application, starts and controls amaroK. it reduces the lag when handing
3522
       command line arguments to amaroK and makes the splash load faster
3523
  ADD: playlist items, which couldn't be opened / read (for some reason) will be marked
3524
       with a grey background color
3525
  ADD: pasting clipboard selection into playlist with MidButton, X11-style
3526
  CHG: refined on-screen-display with more polished look
3527
  FIX: skipping broken/non-existant tracks
3528
  CHG: If the current song is paused, the Play Button will resume, not restart it.
3529
  FIX: respect "hide playlist with main window" and playlist minimize/hide behaviour.
3530
  ADD: new OSD configuration options: bgcolor, screen position
3531
3532
VERSION 0.9-beta2:
3533
  CHG: some look-and-feel polishing in the main player window
3534
  ADD: option to turn off analyzers
3535
  ADD: splash-screen shown during program startup (optional)
3536
  FIX: made stream playback with TitleProxy more stable (by using an unbuffered socket)
3537
  ADD: show stream metadata in on-screen-display
3538
  CHG: transformed "EQ" button into a togglebutton, which can also hide the effect browser
3539
  ADD: new OpenGL analyzer, contributed by Enrico Ros <eros.kde@email.it>
3540
  FIX: FreeBSD compile fixes, contributed by Markus Brueffer <brueffer@phoenix-systems.de>
3541
  FIX: rewritten configure: checks properly for kdemultimedia presence,
3542
       and adds --without-opengl and --without-gstreamer arguments
3543
3544
VERSION 0.9-beta1:
3545
  ADD: display warning when artsd is not running with realtime priority
3546
  ADD: Audioproperties are loaded as you scroll the playlist and get saved to playlist files
3547
  ADD: If trackname column is hidden, the title column will show the trackname until a title
3548
       tag can replace it. If no title tag is found the trackname stays.
3549
  CHG: Pressing "back" in Random Mode now works as expected and walks backwards
3550
       through the list of recently played songs.
3551
  ADD: TitleProxy searches for a free local port (contributed by Stefan Gehn)
3552
  CHG: Random Mode now stores the recently played songs in a buffer, which prevents
3553
       playing the same songs too often.
3554
  ADD: "Play Next" context menu option
3555
  ADD: selected aRts-effects will be remembered on next program start, including settings
3556
  FIX: sort numerical playlist columns in correct order
3557
  ADD: logarithmic fading algorithm makes crossfading smoother
3558
  ADD: Select a series of tracks, start inline tag-editing a tag and amaroK will prompt you to
3559
       edit that tag for all tracks one-by-one. Also available: fill-down.
3560
  ADD: improved crossfading: will fade out smoothly when the stop button is pressed
3561
  FIX: O(n) behavior for playlist scrolling fixed
3562
  ADD: setting to make playlist colours the KDE defaults
3563
  ADD: support for tag-editing directly in playlist
3564
  CHG: replaced old FileBrowser with the comfortable fileselector from KDevelop
3565
  CHG: analyzers now powered by a new, more flexible FFT routine
3566
  ADD: hide/show selected playlist columns
3567
  CHG: upgrade streambrowser to kderadiostation 0.5
3568
  FIX: many streams not loading from browser and AddItem dialog
3569
  CHG: amaroK moved out of kdenonbeta. we are now member of KDE Extra Gear 1
3570
  ADD: on-screen-display (OSD), shows an overlay with information on the currently playing track
3571
  CHG: use KMultiTabBar for browser selection
3572
  CHG: migrated settings system to KConfig XT
3573
  ADD: playlist columns for length and bitrate
3574
  ADD: merged new audio engine in. this provides a generic interface class, with multiple
3575
       backends. right now there is a backend for aRts and one for GStreamer (still rudimentary)
3576
3577
==BEGIN KDE 3.2 DEPENDENCY==
3578
3579
VERSION 0.8.3:
3580
  FIX: build issue
3581
3582
VERSION 0.8.2:
3583
  ADD: added Hide/Show Playlist global shortcut (thanks gogo)
3584
  CHG: mousewheel over trayicon behaviour changed
3585
  CHG: search tokens can now be entered in random order
3586
       ("Presley Elvis" will find "Elvis Presley")
3587
  FIX: qt 3.1 compile issues
3588
3589
VERSION 0.8.1:
3590
  FIX: compilation problem with KDE < 3.1.3
3591
3592
VERSION 0.8.0:
3593
  FIX: KDE 3.1 compatibility re-gained
3594
  ADD: hitting return in the search field of the playlist starts playback of the
3595
       first visible playlist entry (Qt >=3.2 only)
3596
  FIX: fixed crash bug in playlist searching
3597
  FIX: fixed crash bug when removing playlist-items
3598
  CHG: new layout has been adopted
3599
  ADD: added accepting files dropped onto systray icon
3600
  FIX: significant reduction in memory consumption for PlaylistItems
3601
  FIX: hardware mixer works again
3602
  CHG: replaced sliders with custom slider class, which fits better in our design
3603
  FIX: exchanged c32-app-amarok.png with the correct (active) version
3604
  FIX: amarok.desktop file. now we show up in the k-menu again.
3605
  FIX: crossfading aRts module. the fading is now much smoother than before
3606
  FIX: crossfading bug. before the fix amaroK sometimes mixed up the two xfade sources,
3607
       so it sort of faded in reverse (==crap)
3608
  ADD: tag reading in separate thread
3609
  ADD: re-added m_optCrossFade, so we don't lose the crossfade length on switching it on/off.
3610
       set default crossfade length to 2500.
3611
  CHG: "Title Streaming" on by default
3612
  CHG: integrated streambrowser into playlist window
3613
  ADD: added dcop implementation for url adding. Relevant diffs for mediacontrol are
3614
       available.
3615
  FIX: libamarokarts detection code
3616
  ADD: added long-awaited DCOP methods for manipulating the playback. This also adds
3617
       integration with kdeaddons/kicker-applets/mediacontrol.
3618
  CHG: moved DCOP handler to a separate class/file
3619
  ADD: threaded playlist insertion
3620
  FIX: removed bugs and waste code keyhandling in browser*, it mostly works as expected
3621
       now with various keypresses going to the correct places
3622
  FIX: cleaned the playlist class's public interface, also fixed some unreported bugs in
3623
       process (inconsistent recursive behavior), please keep the encapsulation, it's a
3624
       good thing (tm)
3625
  FIX: tweaked undo/redo behavior
3626
  CHG: exchanged old player icons with new ones made by
3627
       Alper Ayazoglu a.k.a. cubon <cubon@cubon.de>
3628
  ADD: clicking on EQ button activates effect selection widget
3629
  ADD: KJanusWidget as a sidebar for filebrowser mode selection
3630
  FIX: pushing enter in lineedit goes up a level
3631
  ADD: a stream browser, can only DnD, separate window, not great yet
3632
  FIX: finally fixed the ancient "annoying-noise-when-pressing-pause" bug
3633
  FIX: should keep track of currently played item no matter what you do to the playlist,
3634
       has a nice side effect of remembering the last played song, too. <berkus>
3635
  FIX: write undo for Shuffle <berkus>
3636
  FIX: the expandbutton doesn't fire events when it has had its stack expanded
3637
       (behaviour a-la Winamp Classic) <berkus>
3638
  FIX: crash when pressing right mouse button while stream is connecting
3639
  ADD: show bitrate for streams with icecast support
3640
  FIX: save stream names as #EXTINF in m3u files
3641
  ADD: bug report dialog
3642
  ADD: proxy for decoding shoutcast/icecast metadata (experimental!)
3643
  ADD: amaroK now in bugs.kde.org
3644
  ADD: configurable delay after each track.  currently 0-10 seconds in 1 sec increments
3645
       but could easily be made to use finder increments if ppl want - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
3646
  ADD: viswidgetv2.  it seems a lot smoother on my machine.
3647
       its quite easy to tweak the dynamics is needed.  is accessible the same as the other
3648
       widgets, just click until it appears (though it looks the same as the original widget
3649
       it just acts differently) - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
3650
  ADD: combo with history and completion for dir/file chooser
3651
  ADD: in configure.in.in for checking the version of TagLib, if compiled from CVS, if not,
3652
       then show, that it uses bundled version of TagLib - Stormy
3653
  FIX: font dialog sizing issues
3654
  ADD: resume playback option. Using this means your track starts up again where you left it
3655
       last time you quit amaroK. Excellent feature for us developers :-)
3656
3657
VERSION 0.7.0:
3658
  FIX: collection of fixes related to showing/raising/hiding the playlist
3659
  when showing/raising/hiding the mainWidget
3660
  FIX: by muesli: make playlist searches a bit faster at the expense of memory
3661
  FIX: (partial fix) bitrate/samplerate font overlap at large font sizes
3662
  change: less staccato loading of widgets
3663
  change: pause makes the analyser bars fall to zero rather than just vanish
3664
  ADD: xfade when starting tracks by doubleclick
3665
  FIX: global shortcuts can now be changed
3666
  FIX: tracks skipping randomly
3667
  change: "BrowserWin Enabled" on by default
3668
  change: "Save Playlist" on by default
3669
  change: "Show Metainfo" on by default
3670
  FIX: make loading playlist not block UI
3671
  FIX: on startup load playlist after UI is shown
3672
  change: "Software Mixer Only" on by default
3673
  FIX: make timedisplay also work for streams
3674
  FIX: volume slider adjusting
3675
  FIX: when dropping tracks to PL, order will stay the same as in FileBrowser
3676
  ADD: FileBrowser sortable by clicking on header
3677
  ADD: analyzer that distorts a bitmap
3678
  ADD: multiple analyzers now possible
3679
  ADD: "Software Mixer Only" option
3680
  Removed stale sigplay()
3681
  Cleaned a couple "deprecated" warnings
3682
  ADD: undo and redo playlist actions
3683
  FIX: rewritten config dialog and moved into separate file
3684
  ADD: started configurable colors
3685
  change: spectrum analyser bars now have dynamics, ie. they move smoothly between values
3686
  ADD: mouse wheel over systray icon changes the track, hold shift to change the volume
3687
  change: rearranged menu order for systray (quit = last)
3688
  change: moved volume slider to the right, lets see if this is better
3689
  ADD: started a font selection page in settings
3690
  FIX: Stream urls are now properly demangled/unescaped (%20 => space etc)
3691
3692
VERSION 0.6.91:
3693
  FIX: ExpandButton submenu now slightly delayed
3694
  FIX: dropping items into playlist
3695
  ADD: drop-target indicator line in PlaylistWidget, providing visual feedback
3696
  ADD: tray menu
3697
  ADD: random mode
3698
  ADD: crossfading between tracks
3699
  ADD: vertical lines between columns in Playlist
3700
  ADD: alternating item colors in Playlist
3701
  ADD: column "directory" in PlaylistWidget (for Grue:)
3702
  ADD: sorting by clicking on column headers in PlaylistWidget
3703
  FIX: rewrote directory reading code in BrowserWidget.cpp.
3704
       code is now much more readable, and it also fixes a bug.
3705
  ADD: additional columns in playlist for tags
3706
  FIX: made metainfo reading algorithm faster
3707
  change: switched to TagLib for metainfo reading
3708
  ADD: button "play" in PlayerWidget.cpp is now a toggleButton
3709
  ADD: tray icon
3710
  FIX: playlist window is optionally hideable with main widget when iconified to tray
3711
3712
VERSION 0.6.0:
3713
  Release :)
3714
3715
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE5:
3716
  fixed: animated buttons don't get stuck anymore
3717
  fixed: invoking help
3718
  changed: MetaInfo reading now off by default. the slowdown was potentially
3719
           confusing to new users
3720
  added: documentation
3721
  fixed: cleaned up Makefile.am a bit
3722
  fixed: defined new APP_VERSION macro, since the old approach did not work
3723
         with CVS
3724
  changed: put amarok into KDE CVS (KDENONBETA)
3725
  added: applied Stormchaser's button patch. the AmarokButtons now work
3726
         in a more standard conform way. Thanks Stormchaser, blessed be :)
3727
3728
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE4:
3729
  added: buttons in playlist window for play, pause, stop, next, prev.
3730
    a.k.a. stakker mode :)
3731
  removed: "load" button. this functionality is now provided by "Add item"
3732
  added: more sanity checks on pointers
3733
  fixed: when track in playlist does not exist, we now skip to the next track
3734
  fixed: all aRts references are freed correctly at program exit
3735
  fixed: effects will not be forgotten any more when EffectWidget is closed
3736
3737
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE3:
3738
  fixed: crash when URLs were dropped onto filebrowser from other apps
3739
  fixed: URL dialog now accepts remote files
3740
  added: correct caption for ArtsConfigWidget
3741
  added: "amaroK Handbook" menu entry, calling KHelpCenter
3742
  changed: amarok gets installed into multimedia now
3743
  fixed: PlayObject configuration
3744
3745
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE2:
3746
  changed: safety question at program exit now off by default
3747
  removed: button "sub" - it was useless
3748
  changed: clearing playlist does not stop playing anymore - for Grue ;)
3749
  fixed: potential crash at startup
3750
  added: menu option to configure PlayObject
3751
  fixed: crash when removing currently playing track
3752
3753
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE1:
3754
  fixed: flicker in glowing item
3755
  fixed: another memory leak in analyzer (hopefully the last one!)
3756
  added: playlist widget can display metainfo instead of filenames
3757
  added: repeat track / repeat playlist
3758
3759
VERSION 0.5.2 - 0.5.2-DEV6:
3760
  fixed: memory leak in analyzer code.
3761
  added: shortcut for copying current title to the clipboard
3762
  added: slider position can be changed by just clicking somewhere on the slider
3763
  added: icon
3764
  added: url can be entered directly above the filebrowser widget
3765
  changed: removed the "jump" widget. you can now enter a filter string
3766
    directly above the playlist widget
3767
  added: playlists (.m3u and .pls) can now directly be dragged into the playlist
3768
  added: support for .pls (audio/x-scpls)
3769
  added: amarok is now completely network-transparent. any kind of folder,
3770
    local as well as remote, can be browsed and played.
3771
  added: check for libamarokarts. amarok won't crash anymore if it's not found
3772
  added: the time display now has a mode for showing the remaining time, too
3773
  fixed: crash when clearing playlist, after playlist has played till the end.
3774
    clearing the playlist stops the playing now.
3775
  added: new gfx in playerwidget
3776
  fixed: progressbar sometimes not working, zero tracklength
3777
  fixed: font of bitrate/frequency display too big on some systems
3778
  added: command line options
3779
  added: timedisplay is now updated during seeks
3780
  added: saving window positions and size on exit
3781
  added: due to popular request, I finally changed the behaviour of the "play"
3782
    button. it's now possible to start a track on a fresh playlist without
3783
    double-clicking an item.
3784
  fixed: compile error on GCC 3.3.1 in visQueue.cpp. bugfix by thiago
3785
  added: completely rewrote drag-and-drop code. works recursively now (optionally).
3786
    plus dragging stuff from other applications into amaroK also works now.
3787
3788
VERSION 0.5.1:
3789
  added a Tip of the Day at startup to explain the user interface a bit
3790
  added restarting of artsd on first program start to make sure it registers
3791
    the new mcopclasses
3792
  fixed possible compile error in viswidget.cpp
3793
  amaroK uses much less CPU now than it used to. This was mainly achieved by
3794
    using a new FFT-analyzer module, which I took from Noatuns "Winskin"-plugin,
3795
    and modified slightly to my needs. Also some other optimizations were made,
3796
    which improved the standby performance, when no song is playing. I'm still
3797
    not satisfied with overall performance, tho, but it seems that most of the
3798
    load is produced by the aRts code itself, so this will rather be difficult
3799
    to improve.
3800
  fixed crash when "next" or "previous" was pressed without a track
3801
    loaded
3802
  thanks to valgrind I was able to find and squish some serious bugs,
3803
    most of which were related to pointers. to sum it up: pointers are evil.
3804
    valgrind is great.
3805
  lots of UI-changes in the main widget. uses a background pixmap now, a
3806
    custom font and widget for the time-display, and generally looks better
3807
  fixed issues with the liquid skin. unfortunately, there seems to be no way
3808
    to display pushbuttons correctly with a black background under liquid. so,
3809
    until I find a solution for that, the expandbutton widget doesn't look quite
3810
    as cool as it used to. maybe I should ask mosfet about this..
3811
3812
VERSION 0.50:
3813
  renamed 0.15 to 0.50
3814
3815
VERSION 0.15:
3816
  playing streams now works! *yipeeee*
3817
  fixed tons of bugs in aRts playing code. i think i got it right now.
3818
  fixed loading and saving of playlists. can cope with all protocols now.
3819
  fixed a bug in EffectWidget.cpp, that gave a compile error on some systems.
3820
  Converting QString into std::string was not done correctly. Thanks to
3821
    Whitehawk Stormchaser for that one :)
3822
  changed project name to "amaroK" and built new project-file
3823
3824
VERSION 0.14 (internal):
3825
  implemented use of arts-software-mixing, in case hardware-mixing
3826
  (/dev/mixer) doesn't work
3827
  fixed crash when play was pressed without selecting a file
3828
  changed the direction of the volume-slider. maximum is now at the top
3829
  added automatic saving of current playlist on exit
3830
  added previous/next track
3831
  added two radiobuttons in the playerwidget for toggling the
3832
    playlist/equalizer on and off. admitted, the equalizer doesn't yet exist, so
3833
    it's just a dummy button :P
3834
  added popup-menu for the playerwidget. opens on
3835
    right mouse button. this menu finally replaces the ugly menubar.
3836
  added some icons (from noatun) for the player-buttons instead of text
3837
  added pause function
3838
  changed most names in the source to comply with the
3839
    (unofficial?) KDE c++ coding standard (using the prefix "m_" for member
3840
    attributes and so on). This was real slave-work :/
3841
  cleaned up code in several classes
3842
  fixed problem where subwidgets got keyboard focus and were drawn dark with
3843
    the liquid style. switched off focus completely, since it's not needed for
3844
    this type of application
3845
3846
VERSION 0.13 (internal):
3847
  added cute animated pushbuttons with sub-menus
3848
  added saving playlists
3849
  added dragging items inside of playlist widget
3850
  added forward declarations in header files to reduce compile time
3851
  added saving of browserwin/splitter size
3852
  rewrote track information widget. used a html table for the text. looks much
3853
  nicer now :)
3854
  fixed sorting function
3855
  fixed jump widget. removed huge memory leaks in the widget
3856
  fixed flicker in analyzer widget
3857
  tons of bugfixes in playing code. partly rewritten. seems to be much more
3858
  stable now
3859
3860
VERSION 0.12 (internal):
3861
  added ChangeLog and TODO
3862
  added grid under scope display
3863
  added saving of options, like current directory and playlist
3864
  added detection of mimetypes
3865
  added adjusting volume by mousewheel
3866
  added skipping to next track after playing
3867
  added loads of sanity/safety checks
3868
  bugfixes (tons of) in playlist code, partly rewritten
3869
  bugfixes in scope code
3870
3871
3872
VERSION 0.1 - 0.11:
3873
  internal versions, no changelog
3874
  tried no less then 4 different sound interfaces:
3875
    mpg123, smpeg, alsaplayer, and finally aRts
3876
3877
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