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Amarok ChangeLog
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(C) 2002-2009 the Amarok authors.
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VERSION 2.0.3
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  BUGFIXES:
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    * When turning on a dynamic playlist, automatically repopulate if The
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      Playlist is empty. (BR 183968)
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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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  BUGFIXES:
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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)
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    * Update statistics properly on Windows and Mac versions.
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    * Fix progress indicator disapearing when skipping in last.fm streams.
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    * Write the discnumber field for mp3 tags.
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    * Don't start a fadeout when stopping paused media. (BR 178057)
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    * More accurate Amarok 1.4 database imports.
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    * Ipod tracks' sample rate is now shown correctly in Tag Dialog.
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    * Tracks did not always report that their editable status correctly.
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      (BR 177058)
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    * Gapless playback of MTP tracks one after another now works.
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    * Podcast with some unsafe characters in them caused database corruption.
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      (BR 172594)
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    * Amarok no longer stalls on large Ipod copy operations. (BR 173707)
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    * Fix switching between basic and advanced mode in the filename scheme
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      chooser.
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    * Fix MTP device attached on startup crashing. (BR 177201)
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    * Tracks with same tags as a track on Ipod are no longer copied. (BR 177198)
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    * When reaching the end of the playlist, actually show stopped state.
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    * Fixes in playing tracks in repeat modes.
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    * The wikipedia applet did not give a status update when an entry was not
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      found. (BR 173940)
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    * Add tooltips to icons in context view. (BR 174478)
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    * Fix icons and layout in Advanced Filter dialog.
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VERSION 2.0
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  FEATURES:
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    * Added read/write configuration APIs for QtScript.
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    * Removed the KBookmarks menu in the FileBrowser because it causes
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      crashes.
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    * The Organize Collection dialog has been improved.
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    * Last.Fm service now uses KIO for network access, respects desktop proxy
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      settings.
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    * Added icons to the filename scheme and organize collection dialogs.
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    * Added an OK button for the script manager.
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    * Don't try to squeeze text into wrongly tiny space, make the track label
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      in the tag dialog work again. (BR 176399)
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    * Collection setup directory chooser would incorrectly set some paths as
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      disabled. Patch thanks to Ben Boeckel <MathStuf@gmail.com>. (BR 176569)
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    * Fix shadows around the cover in the current track applet (and potentially
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      other places as well) getting progresssively darker.
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    * Don't compare Solid and libmtp's serial number to connect. (BR 176403)
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    * Workaround a bug in the CurrentEngine class that makes the nocover image
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      look grainy in the currenttrack applet.
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    * Dragging and Dropping folders from the filebrowser into the playlist will
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      now result in the tracks being ordered correctly. (BR 176673) (BR 176156)
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    * Fixed deletion for downloaded podcast episodes (BR 176084)
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    * Show artists in Cover Manager sorted alphabetically. (BR 176178)
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    * Fix reading of windows playlists, recognise \ as directory separator.
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      (BR 93717)
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    * Fix crash when searching in collections. (BR 175094)
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    * Prevent disabled MP3tunes service from being initialized on first run.
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    * Elide text properly in applet chooser widget. (BR 175064)
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    * Fixed potential crash when playing streams. (BR 175886)
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    * Don't show wrong metadata for Last.fm radio. (BR 175435)
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    * Don't try to squeeze text into wrongly tiny space, make the track label
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      in the tag dialog work again. (BR 176399)
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    * Expand applets width when a complete column has been removed.
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    * Don't try to fetch another cover if there are no more albums to fetch
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      for. (BR 176364)
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    * Don't crash when trying to edit the details of a track without an artist
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      or album. (BR 173322)
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    * Magnatune.com store: Correctly show progress info when downloading.
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    * Magnatune.com store: Fix purchase/download of wrong album being initiated
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      when selecting "Purchase" or "Download" from the playlist context menu.
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      (BR 176171)
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    * Fix a bug that stopping a running script crashes amarok. (BR 175050)
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    * The context view could sometimes show the "stopped state" even when a
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      track was playing.
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    * Amarok 1.4 database importer would crash under some circumstances.
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      (BR 171784)
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    * Covers could not be fetched from Amazon Japan. (BR 176073)
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    * Fix a bug that the script manager deletes wrong entry after script
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      installation. (BR 173919)
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    * Make lyrics auto-display when applet is added while a song is playing.
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    * "Watch folders for changes" actually works now.
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    * Fix a bug that caused dynamic playlists not to repopulate. (BR 173776)
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    * Fixed potential issues with malformed XML breaking the collection scan.
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    * Focus of text fields no longer lost when changing tracks using the Next/
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      Previous buttons in tag dialog. (BR 175524)
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    * Sort Podcasts in the right order.
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VERSION 2.0-rc1
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  FEATURES:
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    * Users' Recommended radio is now shown in the Last.Fm Service.
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    * Playlist browser items can be deleted and renamed using the keyboard.
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    * Basic and Advanced view when editing a filename scheme are synchronized.
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    * Added delete button to Advanced view for defining a filename scheme.
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    * Importer for iTunes libraries now allows you to import your statistics
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      from iTunes.
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    * The settings dialog now remembers the page that was last used.
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    * Track information can be edited from the file browser. (BR 172812)
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    * Video and Last.fm applet have been disabled. They are not ready for release.
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    * Ipods and MTP devices auto-connect again for usability.
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    * Ipod Collections can now delete multiple tracks at once.
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    * User playlists added from files are now updated on collection rescans, so
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      any changes in the file is reflected in the SQL playlist.
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    * Layout refactoring in the Organize Collection dialog.
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    * Enabled Last.fm scrobbling by default when Last.fm login is supplied.
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    * Amarok now allows opening of video files again. (BR 174267)
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    * "Show active track" has been moved from the playlist context menu to the
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      playlist toolbar.
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    * Last playing track on exit now selected on startup. (BR 168789)
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    * Update Collection works now correctly, only scanning the necessary dirs.
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    * In Organize Collection, the "Collection root" token is now fixed at the
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      beginning of the filename scheme. (BR 175376)
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    * Resize handle now appears in OS X. (BR 170199)
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    * Do not deselect album when right clicking on header. (BR 175527)
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    * Correctly sort tracks when dragging and dropping directly to the
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      playlist. (BR 175023)
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    * Clearing the playlist turns Dynamic Mode off. (BR 174514)
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    * Make sure user has edited a text field manually before overwriting that
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      tag. (BR 174878)
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    * Podcast episodes and channels can be dragged directly from the
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      playlistbrowser onto the playlist. (BR 175162)
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    * Multiple fixes and improvements for the Wikipedia applet.
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    * Playback no longer stops when Last.Fm service config is closed. (BR 174943)
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    * Fix issue with tracks from SQL playlists that were added from collection
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      scanning not having proper metadata until after a restart.
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    * Fix duplicate playlists being added on collection rescanning. (BR 173180)
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    * OSD timer resets when song changes. (BR 175030)
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    * Fix crash when dragging albums to the bottom of the playlist. (BR 174786)
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    * Fixed update of preview string in Organize Collection when switching
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      collections.
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    * Fix playlist behaviour when adding a track that is already playing
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      (BR 174634)
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    * Jamendo Service: Remove some sorting modes that caused the database to
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      2.0.0. (BR 174851)
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    * Fixed possible crash with reading wav files. Patch by Peter van Fessem
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      <peter@f-is.eu>. (BR 174819)
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    * Amarok 1.4 database importer would skip tracks in some collections.
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    * OSD renders correctly on track changes.
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    * Podcasts are correctly stored to the database. (BR 172688)
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    * Lyrics aren't refetched when irrelevant track metadata is changed.
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    * Don't show transfer popups when copying tracks to a collection and
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      overwriting files. (BR 174533)
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    * When organising files, "Ignore The" logic was inverted.
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    * Do not reload scripts that are already active. (BR 174601)
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    * Pressing Stop while fade-out is running will no longer restart the
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      fading. (BR 173528)
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    * Fixed problem with Amarok sometimes not advancing to the next track.
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    * Wikipedia and Lyrics applets now update with streams. (BR 172715)
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    * Ampache Service: Do not crash if login is incorrect on startup.
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    * Playback control buttons now respects the current color theme.
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    * Fix scripted services not resetting content when filter is cleared.
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    * Dynamic playlist no longer locks up requiring a restart of the
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      application. (BR 173776)
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    * Correctly load m3u playlists. (BR 171595)
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    * Made the Load action start playback correctly like the Append action.
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    * Fixed metadata updating for Shoutcast streams.
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VERSION 2.0-beta3
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    * More intelligent sorting of items in the collection browser, using
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      locale aware sorting and natural sorting for numbers. Patch by Nicholas
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      Wilson <nicholas@nickcwilson.co.uk>. (BR 154408)
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    * The playlist automatically scrolls when dragging tracks. (BR 171622)
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    * Import statistics from Amarok 1.4.
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    * Double clicking items in the Albums applet appends to playlist.
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    * Service scripts can now specify custom info for artist, album and friends
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      that will be shown in the playlist and other places, independetly of
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      their actual parent item in the service. This value is ignored if item
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      is not a level 0 item. Specifying these values is completely optional.
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    * Playlists can be added using the Add Media dialogs.
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    * Collection browser can once again sort by Year - Album.
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    * Albums applet shows disc number separators.
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    * Context menu and drag & drop support for the albums applet.
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    * Added tracks count and total playlist time to the status bar.
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    * You can now Copy To a collection, Append, and Load tracks from
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    * Improved usability for the collection configuration dialog.
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    * XSPF playlists will now attempt to apply any stored metadata to items
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      not owned by a service when loading. This will make many streams stored
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      on shutdown appear with correct metadata after a restart of Amarok.
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    * Scripted services are now able to set the infoHtml used in the
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      service info applet for individual tracks.
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    * The default lyrics script now uses the LyricWiki site, which is more
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    * Add script API function: Amarok.Collection.escape which escapes strings
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      for SQL statements.
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    * Some new and updated icons.
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    * Allow multiple items to be selected in the user playlist category.
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    * Statusbar rewrite: Messages are no longer shown as top-level windows.
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    * Added proper mouse over visuals to some places where it was missing.
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    * All services (or any other part of Amarok) can now add context
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      actions to any item in any collection. This is only used for the "play
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      action to be added without hardcoding it in the core. The immidiate
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      effect of this is that the last.fm action is now available for any
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      artist in any collection.
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    * New "playground" directory added for plugins and applets that are not
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    * Nonconsecutive items can now be selected and dragged around in the
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      playlist.
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    * Major overhaul of playlist subsystem, including a completely new view
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      (even though it looks a lot like to old one).  Programmers should
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      review the SVN commit notes to learn about other changes.
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    * Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu
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      will now recursively include all directories within the selected items.
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    * Selecting "Move to Collection" in the file browser's context menu
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    * Correct scrobbling for all tracks, even last.fm streams and loved tracks
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      in Last.Fm streams. (BR 164156)
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    * Files moved or organized into themselves are no longer deleted.
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    * Fix playlist scrollbar graphical errors with some styles. Patch by Huynh
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      Huu Long <long.upcase@googlemail.com>. (BR 173547)
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    * DBus MPRIS call GetMetadata returns the location field. (BR 173324)
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    * Amarok would not show all files it could play in the files browser
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    * Amarok now remembers its panel sizes over restarts. Patch by Gary
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      Steinert <fatlardo@gmail.com>. (BR 172976)
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    * Automatic track score computation works now.
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    * Immediately remove the playlist drop visualiser from the playlist after
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      dropping an item. (BR 171382)
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    * Albums applet doesn't jumble up most recent albums listing.
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    * Fix problems with Amarok stopping playback after each track in some
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    * Don't forget about downloaded images after doing a collection rescan.
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    * Fixed giant font in the Internet tab on some machines. (BR 172954)
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    * MPRIS Dbus interface Pause function conforms is a Play/Pause action.
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      (BR 173007)
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    * Script downloads using KNewStuff2 now correctly installs and uninstalls
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      scripts.
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    * Fix memleak in iPod handler. Thanks to Christophe Fergeau.
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    * Wikipedia applet: Fix infinite retry loop if no artist information is
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      found. (BR 171074)
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    * First track of an album in the playlist can now be dragged seperately
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      from the entire album. (BR 171331)
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    * Fix crash when searching in the shoutcast service. (BR 170681)
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    * Fix crash when adding multiple shoutcast stations. (BR 170247)
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    * Escape HTML characters from track metadata when showing the system tray
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      tooltip. Patch by Andrey Esin <gmlastik@gmail.com>. (BR 172623)
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    * Only add one new folder when selecting "Add Folder" from the context
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      menu in the user playlist category. (BR 169666)
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    * Statusbar rewrite: Bring back the detailed progres operations view.
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      It is now possible again to get a list of all running operations and
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      to cancel each one individually. (BR 168380)
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    * Statusbar rewrite: The "cancel all" button now works.
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    * Statusbar rewrite: Don't hang on exit. (BR 171665)
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    * When searching in the collection, give keyboard focus to the results
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      after pressing Enter. (BR 172379)
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    * Do not set two different lyrics scripts as default.
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    * File sizes for non-collection local tracks are now determined properly.
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    * Track rating and score are now enabled for read-only files too.
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    * Play option from playlist context menu works now. (BR 172141)
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    * Cloud applet moved to playground as it still needs a lot of work.
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      (BR 170613)
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    * Playlist overhaul fixes a couple of bugs. (BR 167861) (BR 171048)
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    * Search queries with ' and \ now work fine. (BR 173330)
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VERSION 2.0-beta2
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  FEATURES:
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    * Add themable borders to album covers where ever they are shown (with
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    * Automatically check for collection changes on startup if monitoring
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      is enabled.
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    * Files can be moved into collections from the Filebrowser. (BR 170077)
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    * Clicking on the volume icon in the toolbar toggles mute. (BR 171017)
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    * Arrows to switch between containments directly.
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    * Scripted services can now show source info in the statusbar like most
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      other services.
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    * Scripts now able to access web via KDE-wide proxy.
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    * Middle click on playlist will append URLs from the clipboard.
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    * Numerous under-the-hood improvements to improve the stability of Amarok.
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      Rejoice!
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    * Incremental collection scanning support. (BR 169602)
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    * Playlists found during a collection scan are automatically added to
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      Amarok's Playlist Browser.
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    * Lyricwiki support.
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    * Chinese lyrics support from mp3.sogou.com
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    * Sidebars can be toggled with the keyboard: Ctrl+1..4
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    * Now remembers visible/invisible state of browsers. (BR 168344)
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    * Add ability to play tracks directly off of MTP device.
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    * Add option to enable/disable automatic cover fetching.
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    * Add a new nice Service Info home page to the LibriVox script. Logo used with
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      Permision.
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    * Use custom stylesheets to ensure that html pages shown in the Wikipedia and
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      Service Info applets always have a nice white background.
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    * Jamendo service: Filter out genre names less than 3 characters long. This
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      gets rid of some uninformative genres like "3" and "07". All content is
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      likely still available under other genres.
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    * Switch from Sqlite to MySQL Embedded (libmysqld), resulting in faster
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      scanning and collection filtering times.
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    * When saving a new user playlist, the playlist browser immediately shows
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      the newly saved playlist and starts an edit operation on it.
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    * Many small visual and layout tweaks.
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    * Make the values for score, play count and time since last play appear in
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      tooltip when hovering over the icons in the current track applet.
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    * Make values for score, play count and time since last play in the current
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      track applet readable.
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    * The Librivox.org scripted service is back after a rather long, API-change
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      induced hiatus.
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    * Do not show the OSD if a stream repeatedly sends the same metadata.
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    * "Rescan Collection" was moved to the collection settings dialog.
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    * Do not always show status of cover fetching in the status bar. (BR 166946)
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    * The playlist drop visualiser respects system colours when drawn.
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    * Change the ordering of CurrentTrack applet information.
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    * The option for exporting playlists with relative urls has been moved
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      from the Amarok settings to the save file dialog.
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    * Show recently added albums on the albums applet when no track is playing
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    * The Love action in the Last.fm service is now available for all tracks,
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      not just Last.fm radio.
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    * Made album applets scrollable.
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    * Default the OSD to the middle top of the screen.
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    * New icons and layout for Context View navigation and applet manipulation
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    * Same default setting for proportional and fuzzy biases when filtering
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      by year. Patch by Andreas Mützel <andreas.muetzel@gmx.net>.
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    * Config is now written right after closing the settings dialog, making
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      it crash persistant.
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    * Improve Biased Playlist solver by using genetic algorithm.
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    * System tray tooltip is now translucent (if compositing is available).
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    * QtScript: Importer.include imports the file in the same context that it
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      is currently in.
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    * PodcastCategory now uses PopupDropper actions.
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    * Libgrypt is preferred over OpenSSL at build time, for licensing reasons.
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    * Fixed crash on startup when using --nofork option with a URL argument.
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    * Don't automatically refetch images after they have been removed.
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      (BR 169619)
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    * Fixed crash when playing certain podcasts. (BR 171890)
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    * Don't show the playcount and rating statistic twice in the system tray
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      tooltip.
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    * Files from a daap server can be played again. (BR 169565)
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    * Files copied from iPod devices had an incorrect file extension set.
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    * Don't crash when undoing an action which added tracks to an empty
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      playlist.
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    * Keyboard shortcut configuration is now remembered. (BR 170260)
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    * The playlist drop visualiser will snap to the end of the playlist if
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      required. (BR 171016)
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    * Enhanced keyboard navigation in the playlist. (BR 170489)
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    * Fix edit bookmark feature (BR 170008)
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    * Don't show scroll bars on the pixmap viewer when viewing a full sized
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      cover.
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    * Activate the SideBar tabs when dragging something over them. (BR 169712)
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    * Save composer and disc number correctly (BR 167184)
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    * Handle multidisc albums properly (BR 167238)
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    * Remove empty folders after organizing the collection. (BR 141555)
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    * Display rating (when present) in OSD. (BR: 167263)
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    * Make the currently playing track active in the playlist if it has been
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      removed and is later re added. (BR 167552)
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    * Detect Amarok 1.x style compilations when scanning the collection.
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    * Show the album year in the Collection Browser if requested.
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    * Make appending of podcasts to the playlist work.
465
    * Fix text color of current track applet. (BR 168466)
466
    * Lyrics applet is functional.
467
    * Setting half ratings via global shortcuts was broken.
468
    * Exporting of M3U and PLS playlists has been fixed.
469
    * Make the PlayPause button actually switch icons again. (BR 169805)
470
    * Add "Ignore field" token to the Guess tags dialog. (BR 161060)
471
    * Only add supported file formats to the playlist. Patch by Andreas Mützel
472
      <andreas.muetzel@gmx.net>.
473
    * Clear the status bar when stopping playback.
474
    * Albums applet no longer uses lots of CPU cycles. (BR 169586)
475
    * Don't show the context menu in the Current Track applet if playback has
476
      been stopped.
477
    * Applets do not disappear if Context View is shrunk too much. (BR 169504)
478
    * Fix last.fm events applet.
479
    * The Current track applet now has tooltips for the icons on the right
480
      hand side. (BR 168260)
481
    * "Resume playback on start" now also restores the track position
482
      correctly. (BR 168792)
483
    * Fix layouting issues with tagging dialog. (BR 166837)
484
    * Fix crash when closing last.fm settings while playing. (BR 168828)
485
    * Make it possible to actually disable the audio fadeout. (BR 169022)
486
    * Podcast Episode downloading doesn't crash anymore. (BR 168203)
487
    * Dragging files to the playlist no longer appends, but drops in the
488
      correct spot.
489
    * Correctly order out-of-collection files dragged into the playlist.
490
      (BR 169064)
491
    * You can add directories from the Play and Add Media menus. (BR 166549)
492
    * Allow statistics to be written out when we move to the next track, not
493
      just when playback stops.
494
495
496
VERSION 2.0-beta1
497
  FEATURES:
498
    * Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
499
    * Album moves can be undone
500
    * Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album
501
      header
502
    * Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
503
    * Gapless playback.
504
    * New "fuzzy" bias type, which matches values loosely.
505
    * Saving/loading dynamic playlists.
506
    * Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories.
507
      (BR 123637)
508
    * Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
509
    * Add toolbox to context view
510
    * Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
511
    * Implement "Move to collection" functionality in file browser.
512
    * Saving/loading of biased playlists.
513
    * Improved script console
514
    * Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant.
515
      patch by Sebastian Trueg <trueg@kde.org>
516
    * Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
517
    * Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
518
    * New start flag --multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of
519
      Amarok.
520
    * Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
521
    * Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when
522
      playing non local content
523
    * Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
524
    * New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.
525
526
  CHANGES:
527
    * New filename scheme widget in the Organize Collection dialog.
528
    * New laylout of the main toolbar using the new graphics.
529
    * Greatly reduced memory usage when using dynamic playlists.
530
    * Reworked layout and more intuitive interface in the Guess Tags from Filenames dialog.
531
    * New artwork by Nuno Pinheiro <nuno@oxygen-icons.org> and Wade Olson
532
      <wade@corefunction.com>
533
    * Better zooming animation in the context view
534
    * Better usage of the available space in the context view.
535
    * Show url in the playlist if track has no name. patch by Edward Hades
536
      <edward.hades@gmail.com> (BR 167171)
537
538
  BUGFIXES:
539
    * Fix crash when dragging media from an external source (or the file
540
      browser) to the playlist (BR 169035)
541
    * Fix crash when opening the setting dialog (BR 169215)
542
    * Many fixes to the behavior of the playlist when dragging things around.
543
    * Don't pop up multiple cover search dialogs when cancelling search in the
544
      Cover Manager (BR 167462)
545
    * Amarok would not respect the user's changes in the cover search dialog.
546
    * Amarok would submit tracks to lastfm reguardless of whether the user chose to enable scrobbling.
547
    * OSD translucency works now. (BR 166567)
548
    * Use name based sorting of tracks without a track number (fixes
549
      sorting in shoutcast and cool streams services)
550
    * Don't try to scan the whole $HOME on first startup.
551
    * Don't pop up the OSD after changing Amarok settings. (BR: 168197)
552
    * Fix crash when exiting while collection scan was running. (BR 167872)
553
    * Automatically re-authenticate connection if the Ampache server has
554
      logged us out. (BR 166958)
555
    * Status bar now allows shrinking main window beyond it's width and does
556
      not enlarge main window by itself. Patch by Daniel Molkentin
557
      <danimo@kde.org> (BR 166832)
558
    * Submit tracks to Last.fm also when playing Last.fm Radio. (BR 164156)
559
    * Check if the file is writable before allowing the tags to be edited in
560
      SqlMeta. ( BR 122797 )
561
    * Properly insert items dragged from the collection view. (BR: 166609)
562
    * Don't remove all the tracks in the group when removing the first.
563
      (BR: 167251)
564
    * Only increment playcount if we've played more than half of the song.
565
      (BR 121587)
566
    * Added protection against endless looping when a playlist contains only
567
      unplayable tracks.
568
    * Missing default playlist does not produce error message now.
569
      (BR 167385)
570
    * Fixed playlist bias drop-down box showing multiple empty and duplicate
571
      entries. (BR 167153)
572
    * Fixed the "Toggle Main Window" shortcut. (BR 167218)
573
    * Script manager now could stop scripts which use qt bindings.
574
    * Fix crash when calling GetCaps from the DBus Player interface
575
    * Update album applet on track change. (BR 167256)
576
577
578
VERSION 2.0-alpha2
579
  FEATURES:
580
    * New interface for extracting tags from filenames, now fully working.
581
    * Context view applet to view albums. (BR 164005)
582
    * Automatic detection of non-UTF-8 charsets for metadata.
583
    * Dynamic/Biased playlists.
584
    * QtBindings support for the scripts. Also add a GUI console demo script.
585
586
  CHANGES:
587
    * Collection scanner now picks up bmp images too. (BR 167122)
588
    * Update the DBus APIs.
589
    * Update the QtScript APIs.
590
    * Current track applet added to the Context View on startup.
591
    * No more applets flashing between track changes.
592
    * Current track applet now shows a message when no track is being played.
593
594
  BUGFIXES:
595
    * Correctly save custom external browser setting. (BR 166979)
596
    * Use default KDE crash handler again.
597
    * Fix crash when switching tracks in the playlist. (BR 166964)
598
    * Fix crash when trying to download a playlist from unreachable server.
599
    * Script Manager now automatically restarts scripts on next startup.
600
    * Correctly handle albums with the same name. (BR 164173)
601
    * Various bugfixes for the systray tooltip.
602
    * In the Wikipedia applet scrolling works properly now.
603
    * Context menu separators are no longer shown as empty items.
604
    * Make the filebrowser filter instantaneously display results for files.
605
    * Add a path separator if required when constructing relative urls from M3U
606
      playlists. (BR 166346)
607
    * Rescan collection if the version is higher than we currently use
608
      (downgrades). (BR 142712)
609
    * Play the first track in the playlist if there is no active track.
610
      (BR 166336)
611
    * Do not use 100% cpu in the cover manager when changing view modes.
612
      (BR 164112)
613
    * Fix build on Debian. Patch by David Palacio <dpalacio@uninorte.edu.co>.
614
      (BR 166321)
615
    * Fix bug with selection getting stuck in collection browser when selecting
616
      multiple items when dragging over them. (BR 164960)
617
    * Fix crash when removing collapsed album from the playlist. (BR 163653)
618
    * Mp3tunes would load for users who had never used it before and prompt
619
      them with an annoying login box. (BR 166332)
620
    * Random album playback mode implemented. (BR 164623)
621
    * Fix rendering glitches when double clicking tracks in dynamic mode.
622
      (BR 166705)
623
    * Make the rating widget on the current track hideable.
624
625
626
VERSION 2.0-alpha1
627
  FEATURES:
628
    * Amarok defaults to using the standard music storage location of the
629
      desktop environment.
630
    * LastFM: Now using the new and improved 1.2 protocol.
631
    * New Service Framework: Common framework for integrated services. A new
632
      framework for adding the content of online services directly into Amarok
633
      in a consistent and well integrated way. All services are plugins and can
634
      be enabled or disabled form the new service config screen. Services that
635
      are not loaded will not degrade performance or increase memory usage.
636
      The service frameworks also offers for free, or makes it very simple to
637
      add features such as cached albumcover downloads, searching and filtering
638
      to the individual services. Services can also be track providers, meaning
639
      that if amarok recieves a url that one of the services knows how to
640
      handle, they will be presented with all the metadata that the servie can
641
      provide.
642
    * Magnatune.com store: Support for purchases using Magnatune gift cards
643
    * Magnatune.com store: Support for the upcoming Magnatune.com stream and
644
      download memberships, allowing uninterrupred streaming at higher quality
645
      and free unlimited downloads respectively.
646
    * Magnatune.com store: Add stream selection to the Magnatune service config,
647
      allowing the selection of mp3, ogg or lo-fi mp3 streams, and make ogg the
648
      default
649
    * Jamendo.com service: Add new Jamendo service that allows for direct
650
      streaming and (using the default bit torrent client) downloads.
651
    * Mp3Tunes.com service: A service for streaming music from a personal
652
      Mp3Tunes.com locker has been added.
653
    * Ampache service: A new ampache plugin has been built on top of the service
654
      framework. Together with a recent version of Ampache, this allows the
655
      seamless integration of content from one or more Ampache servers directly
656
      into Amarok
657
    * OPML Directory service: A simple podcast directory service has been added
658
    * Shoutcast service: The shoutcast list from previous versions of Amarok has
659
      been reimplemented as a service.
660
    * Scriptable Service Manager: Add support for writing simple services using
661
      scripts. This allows quick prototyping of services as well as the
662
      integration and distribution of community created services. The scripted
663
      service can be started and stopped from the service manager. Also add 2
664
      simple demo scripts.
665
    * Playlist Framework: The Playlist Browser can now contain
666
      Playlists/Podcasts/Streams from any mediadevice/service/collection in
667
      addition to local files. Playlists are accessible by any Amarok subsystem
668
      and scripts.
669
670
  CHANGES:
671
    * The context view was reimplemented with Plasma technology from KDE.
672
    * The audio engine system was removed. Amarok now uses Phonon from KDE.
673
    * Debugging output is now enabled with a runtime option (--debug). It's no
674
      longer necessary to rebuild Amarok.
675
    * Removed the amarok loader application.
676
    * The custom color theme options have been removed.
677
    * The player window (small XMMS like thingie) was removed.
678
    * DCOP interface replaced with D-Bus.
679
    * Dependencies lifted to KDE 4.1 and Qt 4.4. Refer to the README.
680
    * Improved the startup time.
681
    * The magnatune store is now implemented as a service, making it much more
682
      seamlessly integrated with the rest of Amarok, and offering a number of
683
      benefits such as propper filtering and sorting, automatic downloads and
684
      caching of albums cover.
685
    * Podcast fetching uses the new QXmlStreamReader with incremental parsing.
686
687
688
==BEGIN Qt 4.4 / KDE 4.1 DEPENDENCY==
689
690
VERSION 1.4.8
691
  BUGFIXES:
692
    * Make sure the localUrl of a PodcastEpisode is valid after a failed
693
      download. (BR 147351)
694
    * Fix off-by-one error causing Smart Playlists to not load tracks with a
695
      rating >= 4.5. (BR 148916)
696
    * Don't enable "Configure Podcasts" at the top-level Podcasts folder if
697
      there is nothing beneath it. (BR 146504)
698
    * Generic Media Device could copy some non-ASCII filenames to turn to
699
      gibberish.  Thanks to David Smith <davidsmith@acm.org> for the fix.
700
    * Fixed possible GUI freeze when Amarok was showing the dialog for
701
      installing mp3 support. Patch by Sascha Sommer <ssommer@suse.de>.
702
      (BR 147126)
703
    * Amarok could needlessely reinitialize connections to MySQL databases
704
      after a configuration change.  Combined with a bug in MySQL libraries,
705
      this could lead to a crash.
706
    * Pressing Preveious Track in a Dynamic Playlist could cause undefined
707
      behavior in certain edge conditions.  Now it always plays the current
708
      track. (BR 148317)
709
    * Immediately after loading a dynamic playlist, you couldn't drag a
710
      track to the top of the playlist. (BR 149263)
711
    * Fix transferring files with UTF8 names to MTP devices. Thanks to Kevin
712
      Becker <kevman3000@gmail.com> for the fix. (BR 139722)
713
    * Display warning that iPod sysinfo could not be written in the case of
714
      incorrect file permissions. Patch by Christian Ober-Blöbaum
715
      <cob@tzi.de>. (BR 148607)
716
    * Fix Czech character conversion to ASCII for Generic Media Device. Patch
717
      by Matěj Laitl <strohel@gmail.com>. (BR 149125)
718
719
720
VERSION 1.4.7
721
  CHANGES:
722
    * Updated the Cool Streams.
723
    * Improved application icon. Thanks go to Pasi Lallinaho.
724
    * Upgraded SQLite to 3.4.1
725
    * SQL improvements providing optimisations on intensive queries. Patch by
726
      Gosta <gostaj@gmail.com>. (BR 142999)
727
728
  BUGFIXES:
729
    * Wikipedia artist lookup would freeze Amarok if the artist was not found
730
      and the locale was not English. (BR 142764)
731
    * Cannot limit smart playlists to more than 1000 tracks. (BR 148084)
732
    * Fixed the formatting in the "Extended Info" pane for podcasts.
733
    * Don't show "Not Rated" for items rated with half a star. Patch by Tuomas
734
      Nurmi <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 144675)
735
    * Copy, don't move items from Cool Streams to folders. (BR 147404)
736
    * Sometimes folders in the playlistbrowser could be lost. (BR 147404)
737
    * NJB devices could have tags corrupted that contained Unicode characters.
738
      Patch by Kun Xi <quinnxi@gmail.com>. (BR 147223)
739
    * Show OSD when changing song rating via shortcut. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
740
741
VERSION 1.4.6
742
  CHANGES:
743
    * Improved icon theme, kindly provided by Landy DeField
744
      <lando@revelinux.com>. Big thanks!
745
    * Playlist now sends notifications to scripts if items are added, removed,
746
      reordered, or if the playlist is cleared.  Useful for script authors.
747
      Thanks to Miguel Angel Alvarez <maacruz@gmail.com> for the patch.
748
    * iPod device plugin now handles RockBox devices.  Thanks to Michael
749
      Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> for the patch.
750
    * Organising files will only delete empty parent folders if the folder
751
      is within the collection hierarchy. (BR 136757)
752
    * The default cover image preview size has been increased to 130px.
753
    * The "hide menubar" option has been removed. It's too dangerous and led
754
      to countless support requests.
755
    * Generic media device can now handle any KIO-compatible URL, including
756
      obex and smb. Manage your bluetooth phone's music collection through
757
      Amarok!
758
    * Upgraded SQLite to 3.3.17.
759
    * Append an album to the playlist by right-clicking on it from within
760
      the Cover Manager.  Patch by Doug Reich <dreich@hmc.edu>.
761
    * Faster playlist handling. Patch by Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>. (BR 142255)
762
    * The moodbar process has been given a higher priority. (BR 136867)
763
    * Allow for lyrics scripts to specifiy site, site_url, and add_url from
764
      within the script. This will allow for "meta lyrics" scripts. Patch by
765
      Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 141885)
766
    * First rating star now lets you toggle between no rating, half a star,
767
      and one full star.
768
769
  BUGFIXES:
770
    * Uninstalling scripts would in some cases leave files behind. Patch by
771
      Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>. (BR 143716)
772
    * Last.fm "Custom Station" stream works again. (BR 146020)
773
    * Fix regression where the "Show Script Manager" button displayed on the
774
      Lyrics tab of the Context Browser wouldn't actually show the Script
775
      Manager.
776
    * Don't show ratings from the previous track's rating change in the OSD on
777
      playing the next track.
778
    * The config dialog is now less tall and fits on widescreen displays.
779
    * Making a dynamic playlist with the number of previously played tracks to
780
      show set to zero and attempting to play the first track would cause a
781
      crash. (BR 145157)
782
    * If "Stop after current track" was used, the last track would not be
783
      counted or rated in the user's statistics. (BR 140980)
784
    * Generic media device wouldn't allow you to drop a folder on the
785
      viewport, meaning you couldn't move subfolders to the top level of the
786
      mount point.
787
    * Made the settings dialog less tall. (BR 141250)
788
    * Star ratings now update instantly in the Context Browser, OSD, and
789
      Collection Browser.
790
    * lyrc script did not work behind proxy due to a stray quote mark. Gentoo
791
792
VERSION 1.4.5
793
  FEATURES:
794
    * Added support for custom song labels. Labels can be managed
795
      through the GUI or using new DCOP functions. (BR 89314)
796
    * New DCOP functions to make it easier for scripts to use Amarok's
797
      Dynamic Collection feature.
798
    * Download songs from Shared Music (DAAP) directly into the collection.
799
    * Fadeout for Helix engine when pressing Stop.
800
    * Guided editing of the collection/playlist/devices filters. Patch by
801
      Giovanni Venturi <giovanni@kde-it.org>. (BR 139292)
802
    * Added GUI options for fadeout and fadeout on exit. Both are now enabled
803
      by default.
804
    * Support for Speex (.spx), WavPack (.wv) and TrueAudio (.tta) files in
805
      the collection thanks to taglib plugins by Lukáš Lalinský
806
      <lalinsky@gmail.com>.
807
    * Search inside of lyrics, by using "/" on Context Browser. Patch by
808
      Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>. (BR 139210)
809
    * "Automatically show context browser" feature makes a return, as per
810
      popular request. It is however disabled by default.
811
    * Improved keyboard navigation: Space key is now a shortcut for Play/Pause,
812
      and cursor left/right seeks forward/backward.
813
    * Cover images are shown in collection browser. Patch by Trever Fischer
814
      <wm161@wm161.net>. (BR 91044)
815
    * Send cover art to MTP media devices if they support it.
816
    * Elapsed time can be shown in OSD. Patch by Christian Engels
817
      <s9chenge@stud.uni-sb.de>. (BR 120051)
818
    * New redownload manager for the Magnatune.com store. Allows re-download
819
      of any previous purchase free of charge (in any format).
820
    * New items in the playlist are colorized, as a visual cue.
821
    * Show rating as stars in flat collection view. Patch by Daniel Faust
822
      <hessijames@gmail.com>. (BR 133797)
823
    * Synchronize play count, last played time and date of modification to
824
      iPods. Patch by Michael <michael003@gmail.com>. (BR 136759)
825
    * Propose list of composers in collection when editing the composer tag
826
      from the playlist. (BR 137775)
827
    * Greatly improved sound quality for the xine equalizer. Patch by Tobias
828
      Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 127307)
829
    * Fancy graphical volume slider for the OSD. Patch by Alexander Bechikov
830
      <goo@t72.ru>.
831
    * Shoutcast stream directory. Contributed by Adam Pigg <adam@piggz.co.uk>.
832
    * Support for %composer and %genre when guessing tags from filenames.
833
    * Cached lyrics are now AFT-enabled, and will follow your files around as
834
      you move and rename them.
835
836
  CHANGES:
837
    * Added configure option to build without DAAP support.
838
    * Album covers are now downloaded and added to album directory when
839
      purchasing from the Magnatune.com store. (BR 136680)
840
    * Update context browser when a change in the collection has been detected.
841
      (BR 140588)
842
    * Ignore leading 'The ' when sorting playlist by artist. (BR 139829)
843
    * Smart Playlists now have 'does not start with' and 'does not end with'
844
      options, as well as a dropdown for mount points. (BR 139552)
845
    * Support for cue files not matching audio files' name. Patch by Dawid
846
      Wróbel <dawid@klej.net>. (BR 128046)
847
    * Script Manager now remembers if categories were open or closed.
848
    * Restart collection scanner as long as not more than 5 % of the files
849
      make it crash. (BR 106474)
850
    * Ensure the first selected item in the Collection Browser stays visible
851
      when the search field is cleared using the clear button.
852
    * Duplicate filenames are now allowed on MTP media devices if the files are
853
      in different folders.
854
    * Save media device transfer queue when adding items or after transfers.
855
      (BR 138885)
856
    * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.12.
857
    * MTP media devices are not automatically connected on start-up. This
858
      should solve slow loading times for those with large collections on an
859
      MTP media device. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
860
    * Internationalize unknown artist/album/genre strings. Contributed by Mikko
861
      Seppälä. (BR 138409)
862
    * Don't assume that a device returning 0 tracks is invalid. It could just
863
      have no tracks on. Contributed by Mikko Seppälä. (BR 138409)
864
    * Magnatune store look now matches rest of Amarok much better.
865
    * Album art is displayed on the Magnatune purchase dialog.
866
    * Generic media device now has an option to force VFAT-safe filenames even
867
      on non-VFAT filesystems.
868
    * Double-clicked items in sidebar and urls passed on the command line
869
      are treated equally: append them to playlist if not yet there and start
870
      playing the first if nothing is playing.
871
    * "Scan Changes" button was replaced with "Update Collection" menu entry.
872
    * Consistent double-click behavior in sidebar. (BR 138125)
873
    * Propose name of currently loaded playlist when saving current one.
874
    * Remove support for older libmtp versions. We now require 0.0.15 or
875
      newer.
876
    * Deleting a playlist item on an MTP media device now results in it being
877
      removed from the playlist.
878
    * Magnatune store is lazy loaded to improve startup times.
879
    * Dynamic mode logic has been rethought to provide a faster and better
880
      user experience.
881
    * When checking for duplicate files on a Rio Karma media device, use
882
      track number in addition to artist, album & title. (BR 137152)
883
    * The XMMS visualization interface has been removed. LibVisual supersedes
884
      this feature.
885
    * It is now possible to select the time unit for length-based smart
886
      playlists. (BR 136841)
887
    * Show shadowed cover images in the system tray tooltip. (BR 136589)
888
    * Amarok won't crossfade if it was paused, and user started another
889
      track. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>.
890
      (BR 136428)
891
    * Amarok now saves playlists with relative paths by default.
892
893
  BUGFIXES:
894
    * Disable seeking in streams. (BR 140364)
895
    * With the default theme, the playlist browser info pane would not show
896
      the horizontal scrollbar if necessary. (BR 134221)
897
    * Some .rm files would make Amarok crash. (BR 137695)
898
    * Remember 'User Cover Art for Folder Icons' when organizing files.
899
      (BR 138582)
900
    * "Listening since..." has been changed to the more clear "First
901
      Played..."  Patch by Andrew Ash <ash211@gmail.com>. (BR 131727)
902
    * Fixed regression: the DEL key no longer worked in the
903
      playlist after opening the File Browser context menu. (BR 140197)
904
    * Smart playlists now work correctly with "is not" filters containing
905
      numbers. Patch by Felix Rotthowe <felix.rotthowe@cs.uni-dortmund.de>.
906
    * Context browser would not display updated covers correctly. (BR 130518)
907
    * The select custom cover dialog no longer starts in the wrong directory
908
      for compilations. (BR 131776)
909
    * Amarok's xine engine would cut off approximately the last second of an
910
      audio file. (BR 135190)
911
    * Cue sheet would remain enabled when switching to a stream. Patch
912
      by Ted Percival <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 127683)
913
    * Length of tracks wouldn't be shown correctly for some cue files.
914
      Patch by Dawid Wróbel <dawid@klej.net> (BR 139707)
915
    * Assume that all dots but the last in script executable files belong to
916
      the script name. (BR 139460)
917
    * Don't crash when quitting while initially loading the playlist.
918
      (BR 136353)
919
    * The same track could be queued multiple times for transferring to a
920
      media device. (BR 129136)
921
    * Migrate statistics for files moved from outside to the collection.
922
      (BR 127776)
923
    * Select All/Copy action would not copy from context browser. (BR 138635)
924
    * Xine-engine: When a track was fading out (after pressing Stop), and you
925
      started another track, Amarok could become unresponsive.
926
    * Improved seeking with xine-engine. No longer jumps to 0 when you seek
927
      too quickly. Patch by Alexander Bechikov <goo@t72.ru>. (BR 99808)
928
    * Improved cover images handling for Various Artists. Patch by Tobias
929
      Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 136833)
930
    * Don't enable a mount point for devices that can't support them (mtp,
931
      njb).
932
    * With SQLite, the search in the collection browser was case-sensitive
933
      with UTF-8. Patch by Stanislav Nikolov <stanley_87@mail.ru>. (BR 138482)
934
    * (Don't) Show Under Various Artists would not work when multiple albums
935
      are selected. Patch by Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>.
936
      (BR 112422)
937
    * Changed temp download location for Magnatune purchases. (BR 137912)
938
    * Fixed potential double payment issues in the Magnatune store.
939
    * Only synchronize already set values to media devices. (BR 138150)
940
    * Correctly update total playlist play time when removing last.fm
941
      streams. Patch by Modestas Vainius <geromanas@mailas.com>. (BR 134333)
942
    * File organization jobs could not be canceled. Patch by Wenli Liu
943
      <wenlil@xandros.com>. (BR 136527)
944
    * Sending filenames to MTP media devices as UTF-8 caused problems, use
945
      Latin-1 instead.
946
    * It's now possible to delete a file from an MTP media device and
947
      re-upload it without having to reconnect the device.
948
    * Wikipedia links to edit sections are no longer shown.
949
    * Metadata is read from Rio Karma media devices as UTF-8.
950
    * Last.fm streams could be paused with DCOP or global shortcuts.
951
      (BR 133013)
952
    * Dynamic mode can still be used after a collection rescan. (BR 133269)
953
    * Dynamic mode will repopulate from all available sources. (BR 137212)
954
    * Dynamic mode no longer repeats songs often. (BR 107693)
955
    * When transferring files to a Generic media device, having certain
956
      characters (such as '#') in a tag field could cause a directory based on
957
      that field to not be created.
958
    * Editing lyrics from within the context browser no longer removes all
959
      linebreaks.
960
    * Read metadata from MTP media devices as UTF-8.
961
    * Some shoutcast streams would show an empty title. (BR 127741)
962
    * Pause would act as Play/Pause. (BR 116101)
963
    * The same track would sometimes be shown twice in suggested songs.
964
      (BR 129395)
965
    * Detect VFAT partitioned devices on FreeBSD. Patch by Daniel
966
      O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>.
967
    * Favorite Tracks wouldn't be shown on Context Browser, and
968
      Statistics Panel would be empty for SQLite users. (BR 136791)
969
    * Volume slider in the player window would not react correctly to
970
      the mouse wheel. (BR 136714)
971
    * When using a proxy set by script, context browser wouldn't work
972
      properly, and the application would crash when closing. (BR 112437)
973
    * Proxy settings wouldn't be respected when downloading podcast
974
      episodes. (BR 134028)
975
    * Xine engine could hang when skipping through tracks quickly with
976
      crossfade on.
977
    * Fix crash when an MTP media device returned a playlist with an
978
      invalid track ID. (BR 136552)
979
    * The Install MP3 support script would be run regardless of what the
980
      user answered to the shown dialog. (BR 136294)
981
    * OSD wouldn't always show up-to-date ratings. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
982
      <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 125612)
983
984
985
VERSION 1.4.4
986
  FEATURES:
987
    * Transfer .wav-files to iPods. (BR 131130)
988
    * Xine and Helix engines now support three different crossfading modes:
989
      always, on manual track changes only, or on automatic track changes
990
      only.
991
    * Manually specify local file for podcast episodes via right-click menu.
992
    * Action menu entry for adding podcasts to Amarok. Based on .desktop files
993
      by Harald Sitter and Fabio Bacigalupo <kde-apps.org@open-haus.de>.
994
    * Open podcast items with external application from right-click menu.
995
    * Synchronize listened flag for podcast between Amarok and iPods.
996
    * Added integrated Magnatune.com music store. Includes artist and album
997
      info and full previews of all tracks.
998
    * Fade-out for xine-engine when pressing Stop. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
999
      <tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 127316)
1000
    * Support downloading of files from an MTP device.
1001
    * Purged podcast episodes can be readded by increasing the purge number.
1002
    * Added rudimentary support for the Rio Karma. (BR 132713)
1003
    * Support creation and editing of playlists on MTP media devices.
1004
    * Undo/Redo functionality is now available over sessions. (BR 131072)
1005
    * Allow the creation of empty playlists in the playlist browser. Available
1006
      either from the Add button in the toolbar or the context menu of a
1007
      playlist folder. (BR 133543)
1008
1009
  CHANGES:
1010
    * Ignore leading "The " when sorting artists on media devices. (BR 136233)
1011
    * Improved handling of VFAT/ASCII files and paths when organizing the
1012
      collection and using the Generic media device.
1013
    * Enable playing audio CDs on CD insert. Patch by Will Stephenson
1014
      <wstephenson@kde.org>. (BR 136106)
1015
    * Bring Amarok main window to front when starting amarok again without
1016
      arguments. Patch by Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>. (BR 135396)
1017
    * Don't switch to playlist browser after saving a playlist from files tab.
1018
      (BR 130189)
1019
    * Add .ape and .mpc to possible file types supported by a generic media
1020
      device. (BR 133491)
1021
    * Move button for saving current playlist from playlist browser toolbar to
1022
      playlist toolbar. (BR 129300)
1023
    * Run 'kdeeject -q devicenode' when no post-disconnect command has been
1024
      configured for media devices.
1025
    * Reduced memory usage for MTP media devices. (BR 134663)
1026
    * Faster searching on playlist and startup, due to some optimizing in
1027
      string usage. Patch by Ovidiu Gheorghioiu <ovidiug@gmail.com>.
1028
    * Correctly translate media:, home:, ... style urls on KDE 3.5 and newer.
1029
    * When tracks are added to the collection and Playlist entries already
1030
      exist (as determined by the file tracking code), the corresponding
1031
      Playlist entries are updated to the new location and enabled if they
1032
      were previously disabled.
1033
    * When file tracking is updating Playlist entries, multiple entries of the
1034
      same song will now all be updated, instead of just one.
1035
    * When tracks are removed from the collection (deleted on disk or moved
1036
      outside of a collection folder) any corresponding entry in the Playlist
1037
      will be disabled.
1038
    * Dragging podcasts to to playlist will insert them in a chronological
1039
      order, so you can listen to the oldest first automatically!
1040
    * Improve application startup times dramaticaly by lazy loading podcast
1041
      episodes.
1042
    * Transferring tracks to an MTP device now shows a progress bar and
1043
      doesn't hang the rest of the UI. (only available for libmtp >= 0.0.15)
1044
    * Show a proper tag dialog when viewing information for DAAP music shares.
1045
1046
  BUGFIXES:
1047
    * Ipod Mode on Collection Browser would have duplicated headers.
1048
    * Multiple problems related to Amarok using wrong playlists on Dynamic Mode
1049
      fixed.
1050
    * Deleting files from generic media devices would not update the progress
1051
      bar, resulting in the progress staying at 0%. (BR 130009)
1052
    * If nothing at all existed on a generic device, the first item
1053
      transferred would incorrectly show that an error had occured during
1054
      transfer. (BR 133528)
1055
    * Synchronising a smart playlist to a device when it didn't exist before
1056
      would crash Amarok. (BR 135956)
1057
    * Proxies would not take into account certain settings in KDE's Proxy
1058
      control center modules for PAC files and more. (BR 123021)
1059
    * Generic media devices would not accept files with an extension that only
1060
      differs in case from a supported extension. (BR 135261)
1061
    * Xine-engine: Pausing during crossfade would not work properly. Patches by
1062
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 122514 & 135285)
1063
    * Stop a running cross-fading operation before starting another one. Patch
1064
      by Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 128629)
1065
    * Queuing again would dequeue. (BR 121206)
1066
    * In some cases, the Removal and Enqueue buttons in the queue manager would
1067
      have no icons. (BR 115895)
1068
    * Don't change length of position slider when navigating within a track.
1069
      (BR 122569)
1070
    * Direct copying of non-local items would result in wrong properties on
1071
      iPods. (BR 135681)
1072
    * Honor setting to show Amarok's menu in main toolbar.
1073
    * "Burn this album" would burn all albums of the same name. (BR 121963)
1074
    * Ignore double-clicks on tree item openers. (BR 125121)
1075
    * Visibility of sidebar tabs would depend on the current locale. (BR 135316)
1076
    * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work when selected
1077
      with the mouse. (BR 123327)
1078
    * Check for some integral data types for improved DAAP portability.
1079
      (BR 132939)
1080
    * Take disc number into account when checking if a song is already on an
1081
      iPod. (BR 135643)
1082
    * Editing metadata in the playlist itself now matches possible alternatives
1083
      case-insensitively. (BR 135683)
1084
    * Fix loading directory in external browser in the tag editor when the path
1085
      contains parentheses. (BR 132961)
1086
    * Stop scripts using a proxy when it's disabled in KDE. Patch by Felix Geyer
1087
      <sniperbeamer_disc1@fobos.de>.
1088
    * While playing Last.fm Streams, sometimes metadata wouldn't be updated
1089
      on track changes. Patch by Tom Kaitchuck <tkaitchuck@comcast.net>.
1090
    * Speed patch to load playlist columns from statistic tables on population
1091
      of the playlist, makes adding to the playlist and starting up faster.
1092
      Thanks Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>! (BR 135324)
1093
    * Save MTP playlists when they are renamed so we don't lose changes.
1094
    * Prevent new podcastepisodes from showing up in the playlistbrowser twice
1095
      by opening it's parent before adding. (BR 134108)
1096
    * New iPods would not get initialized.
1097
    * Files that were detected as being added back to the collection would not
1098
      always be re-enabled in the Playlist. (BR 130359)
1099
    * Fix some spelling and layout issues. Part of a patch by Malcolm Parsons
1100
      <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>.
1101
    * Correctly handle horizontal wheel events in position slider. (BR 119254)
1102
    * Don't rescan collection while transcoding. (BR 133423)
1103
    * Don't try to copy to collection from urls without kio slaves.
1104
    * Don't quit immediately if amarokrc was removed. (BR 134439)
1105
    * The DAAP client would crash Amarok under certain conditions when
1106
      kdelibs was compiled with asserts on. (BR 132851)
1107
    * Configuring the toolbar would disable the stop button. Patch by
1108
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 132477)
1109
    * Changed tags of songs on iPods would not propagate to its database.
1110
      (BR 133842)
1111
    * Fixed playlist encoding problems. (BR 133613)
1112
    * Cover images for compilation albums can now be displayed full size in
1113
      the context browser.
1114
    * Dragging compilation albums from the collection browser or the playlist
1115
      would show multiple cover images in the tooltip. (BR 133916)
1116
    * Don't crash when calling repopulate dynamic mode from dcop. (BR 133716)
1117
    * Last.fm streams work with proxies. (BR 131137)
1118
    * Don't try to read m4a tags from apparently invalid files. (BR 133288)
1119
    * Some podcasts would insert line breaks in author/title information and
1120
      cause graphical errors. (BR 133591)
1121
    * File tracking could fail on files that were copies of each other but
1122
      with different ID3v1 or APE tags.
1123
1124
1125
VERSION 1.4.3:
1126
  FEATURES:
1127
    * New DCOP: player trackCurrentTimeMs, returns the current track position
1128
      in milliseconds.
1129
    * Amarok File Tracking (formerly ATF) goes public! See
1130
      http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok_File_Tracking for more information.
1131
    * DAAP client now supports Zeroconf. With mDNSResponder properly setup
1132
      Amarok automatically shows local DAAP servers.
1133
    * DAAP client saves manually added computers between sessions.
1134
1135
  CHANGES:
1136
    * Performance with big playlists has been improved by a magnitude. This
1137
      also makes application shutdown faster.
1138
    * Remove the option to enable/disable history in dynamic mode. (BR 133076)
1139
    * Reduce the minimum available tracks to show to 0. (BR 131223)
1140
    * Change in file tracking behavior: IDs are no longer embedded into tags
1141
      but are calculated from a portion of the file data instead, letting
1142
      users with read-only music stores take advantage of it.
1143
    * Don't report "/dev/hd" style devices as new media devices. (BR 127831)
1144
    * Smart Playlists only load media from currently mounted devices.
1145
1146
  BUGFIXES:
1147
    * Dequeuing tracks whilst in dynamic mode might not work. (BR 133449)
1148
    * When marking podcast episodes as listened, update the channel icon if
1149
      necessary. (BR 133497)
1150
    * Don't always mark podcast channel icon as "listened" on rescan if.
1151
      (BR 133495)
1152
    * User added streams were not editable once saved. (BR 133483)
1153
    * Cover images were not displayed in some cases. (BR 133174)
1154
    * Fixed bug which prevented Amarok from creating the collection database
1155
      in rare circumstances using SQLite. (BR 133072)
1156
    * Collection scanner would only restart a maximum of 2 times instead of
1157
      20. (fixed in SVN revision 578922)
1158
    * MTP media device support would not compile against libmtp versions >=
1159
      0.0.12. (fixed in SVN revision 576121)
1160
    * AudioCD playback would stutter and sometimes freeze Amarok. (BR 133015)
1161
    * Dynamic Collection broke flat collection view when the Filename column
1162
      was added (BR 132874)
1163
    * DAAP client shows connection errors to the user and no longer says
1164
      "Loading" perpetually. After a failed connection, the user can now
1165
      try again.
1166
    * Don't empty media device transfer queue when canceling a transfer.
1167
    * Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work. (BR 123327)
1168
    * Delete covers from the filesystem when requested.
1169
    * Show context menu on right-click in empty area of media device
1170
      browser. (BR 127154)
1171
    * Sort numeric columns in flat collection view numerically. (BR 130667)
1172
1173
1174
VERSION 1.4.2:
1175
  FEATURES:
1176
    * Handle itpc:// and pcast:// url protocols for adding podcast feeds.
1177
      (BR 128918)
1178
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalComposers" returns the number of
1179
      different composers in your collection.
1180
    * Synchronize playlists to media devices.
1181
    * Support for MTP/PlaysForSure media devices. (BR 128532)
1182
    * iPod plugin usable with iTunes phones. (BR 131487)
1183
    * Browse collection by composer. (BR 122452)
1184
    * New DCOP call "playlist: filenames" returns the filenames of the songs
1185
      currently in the playlist. Patch by Arash Abedinzadeh
1186
      <arash@netcologne.de>
1187
    * Lyrics can be edited directly on Context Browser's Lyrics tab.
1188
    * Collection browse mode similar to that used by some portable players.
1189
      Patch by Joe Rabinoff <bobqwatson@yahoo.com>. (BR 130586)
1190
    * BPM field. Patch by Alf B Lervåg <alfborge@gmail.com> and Aaron
1191
      VonderHaar <gruen0aermel@gmail.com>. (BR 123142)
1192
    * Improved crossfading for xine-engine: Honours the 'Crossfade Length'
1193
      setting precisely, and uses a better mixing style profile. Patch by
1194
      Enrico Ros <koral@email.it>.
1195
    * Media and collection browser tabs now support dropping.
1196
    * Allow for deleting all the tracks on a playlist from iPods. (BR 127855)
1197
    * Ability to create custom last.fm station from the GUI.
1198
    * Ability to mark podcasts as listened.
1199
    * Show error messages when connecting to last.fm streams fails.
1200
    * A new media device implements a DAAP client. So Amarok can connect
1201
      to iTunes, Firefly Media Server etc. (BR 100513)
1202
    * Dynamic Collection: improved support for songs on removable external
1203
      harddisks, SMB and NFS shares
1204
1205
  CHANGES:
1206
    * Skip tracks that failed to transfer to media devices instead of stopping
1207
      transfer process. (BR 130008)
1208
    * libtunepimp 0.5.0 actually compiles successfully now.
1209
    * Lift size limit on pathnames and comments in collection databases not
1210
      managed by MySQL. (BR 130585)
1211
    * Generic media device plugin is improved. Users can configure supported
1212
      filetypes and get more control over the location of songs and podcasts
1213
      on disk (Patch by eute).
1214
    * Move composer tag to its own database table.
1215
    * Re-enable adding videos to iPods with recent libgpod-cvs. (BR 130117)
1216
    * Include Skip, Love and Ban in playlist right-click menu for last.fm
1217
      streams.
1218
    * Advanced Tag Features (ATF) deferred to 1.4.3: Public release delayed
1219
      pending some bug fixes in both Amarok and a dependency. It will be
1220
      automatically disabled the first time you run 1.4.2 if you had it enabled
1221
      from 1.4.2-beta1. (It will still be available in subversion snapshots.)
1222
    * Optionally finish transferring all queued tracks to media device after
1223
      pressing disconnect button. (BR 129716)
1224
    * It's now possible to edit scores and ratings for multiple tracks in
1225
      TagDialog.
1226
    * TagDialog won't make Amarok unresponsive while committing tags changes
1227
      to files anymore.
1228
    * Exact playtime as tooltip in statusbar. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1229
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 130463)
1230
    * Suspend collection rescanning while organizing files. (BR 129885)
1231
    * Always use metadata from original file for transcoded files transfered
1232
      to media devices. (BR 131171)
1233
    * Enhancements to ATF/statistics to allow for better tracking of stats as
1234
      files are moved.
1235
    * Tag Editing Dialog is now ATF-enabled.
1236
    * In-line tag editing is now ATF-enabled.
1237
    * Previously, using ATF with MP3 files would wipe out existing UFID frames
1238
      from other applications. Now Amarok plays nicely and only touches its
1239
      own UFID frame.
1240
    * ATF no longer requires a restart to enable or disable it.
1241
    * ATF read-only functions are always enabled if a UID is found in the
1242
      file. Option in the configuration dialog now only controls whether new
1243
      UIDs are written to new files.
1244
    * ATF will now automatically run the rescan and clear the Playlist only on
1245
      the first time it is enabled.  After that it will simply display an info
1246
      reminding users that they may need a rescan if their library has changed
1247
      since the last time it was enabled.
1248
1249
  BUGFIXES:
1250
    * DCOP calls to add and remove ATF tags are no longer allowed to run while
1251
      the collection is being scanned.
1252
    * Last.fm streams no longer freeze Amarok's GUI with xine-engine.
1253
    * Sometimes metadata wasn't updated with Last.fm streams.
1254
    * Update context browser on score and rating changes. (BR 132496)
1255
    * Double colons in the collection filter would lead to invalid queries.
1256
      (BR 132551)
1257
    * Handle changed semantics of MySQL 5.0.23+ (BR 132114)
1258
    * Do not try to detach() KURLs, as this would not work for non-ascii urls.
1259
      (BR 132355)
1260
    * Adding songs while at end of playlist could crash in dynamic mode.
1261
      Patch by Joe Rabinoff <rabinoff@post.harvard.edu>. (BR 128340)
1262
    * Don't update accessdate when setting songs rating or score. (BR 132274)
1263
    * Increasing or decreasing volume while muted would not correctly unmute.
1264
      (BR 132228)
1265
    * Better resize behavior in iPod collection view mode. Patch by Joe Rabinoff
1266
      <bobqwatson@yahoo.com> (BR 132016)
1267
    * Make sure a track's compilation status is returned properly when running
1268
      with Postgresql.
1269
    * Check directory structure on iPods of unknown type in order to detect
1270
      iTunes phones. (BR 131910)
1271
    * Make 'Clear' individually translatable for playlists. (BR 131521)
1272
    * Retain column visibility for flat collection view. (BR 126685)
1273
    * Honour proxy exceptions for MusicBrainz lookups. Patch by N. Cat
1274
      <trisk-bug@quasarnet.org>. (BR 131377)
1275
    * Correctly pass links containing parentheses to external browsers. Patch
1276
      by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131307)
1277
    * iPods would not show podcast descriptions. (BR 129824)
1278
    * Carry over rounding increments to next larger unit for fuzzy time
1279
      display. (BR 131383)
1280
    * If disabled, don't show splash screen - even on Kubuntu. (BR 125210)
1281
    * Correctly request last.fm similar artist information for artists
1282
      containing non-ASCII characters. Patch by Thomas Lindroth
1283
      <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 131254)
1284
    * Support non-chronologically ordered podcast feeds. (BR 119911)
1285
    * Support for libvisual 0.4.0 was fixed. Patch by Dennis Smit.
1286
    * Adding songs already on a media device to playlists would not work.
1287
    * Fix adding smart playlists to media devices. (BR 130540)
1288
    * Reverse check for mount point and device node when connecting to iPods
1289
      for better handling of device nodes pointed to by symlinks. (BR 129965)
1290
    * Make handling of filenames on iPods case-insensitive and thus fix
1291
      fix problems with too many orphaned and stale items. (BR 126431)
1292
    * Correct action of queueing current item in dynamic mode. (BR 130313)
1293
    * Double clicking in the filebrowser will append to playlist. (BR 117465)
1294
    * Fixed problems with last.fm streams containing spaces, e.g. "Hip Hop".
1295
    * When generic media devices were specified manually, transferred files
1296
      would not always get converted to VFAT-friendly names if they were on a
1297
      VFAT filesystem.
1298
    * When using ATF, tags in MP3 files would be written as ID3v2 only and
1299
      existing ID3v1 tags would be stripped, which could lead to media devices
1300
      and tagging libraries that were not ID3v2.4-aware to report that no tag
1301
      existed.  Now both tags are written with identical data.
1302
    * Correct handling of filenames with special characters. (BR 132243)
1303
1304
1305
VERSION 1.4.1:
1306
  FEATURES:
1307
    * Support for last.fm streams. (BR 111983)
1308
    * New playlist toolbar menu entry for adding streams to the playlist.
1309
      (BR 129349)
1310
1311
  CHANGES:
1312
    * Upgraded internal SQLite to 3.3.6.
1313
    * Inotify support disabled for now, due to stability issues.
1314
    * Tag editor is no longer modal.
1315
    * Provide warning dialog when deleting items from the playlistbrowser.
1316
      (BR 129313)
1317
    * GUI layout reverted to the classic Amarok layout.
1318
    * The Extended Info panel in the playlistbrowser is now resizeable.
1319
1320
  BUGFIXES:
1321
    * Pressing return in the search bar of the Collection Browser immediately
1322
      after typing a query no longer appends the wrong items to the playlist.
1323
    * Fix crash when pressing Back or Forward buttons multiple times quickly
1324
      in Artist tab. Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>.
1325
    * Fix problems where blanks would be added to data if SQLite was busy.
1326
      Patch by Thomas Lindroth <tholi945@student.liu.se>. (BR 127608)
1327
    * Automatically refresh stream lyrics on new metadata.
1328
    * Set half star ratings on multiple selected tracks when clicking on an
1329
      item. (BR 129449)
1330
    * Only enable Show Extended Info in the Playlist Browser when information
1331
      is available. (BR 126590)
1332
    * Disable global shortcut for ratings when ratings are disabled.
1333
      (BR 129414)
1334
    * Autodetect button in Media Devices configuration dialog would not
1335
      properly signal changes, so that new devices were not always saved.
1336
1337
1338
VERSION 1.4.1-beta1:
1339
  FEATURES:
1340
    * Much improved and completed custom icon theme by Vadim Petrunin
1341
      <vnizzz@gmail.com>.
1342
    * LibVisual 0.4 supported and required.
1343
    * Support for custom scoring algorithms, via scripts.
1344
    * Creative Nomad Jukebox support (untested!). Submitted by Andres Oton
1345
      <andres.oton@gmail.com>. (BR 103185)
1346
    * Inotify support. On kernels 2.6.13 and above with Inotify support
1347
      compiled in, the collection will automatically be rescanned and
1348
      updated as soon as a watched folder has changed.
1349
1350
  CHANGES:
1351
    * First-run wizard can no longer be restarted from the application menu.
1352
      However, it can still be invoked with "amarok --wizard".
1353
    * Astraweb lyrics script was removed for being crappy and unmaintained. If
1354
      you want to maintain it, grab it from SVN and release on kde-apps.org.
1355
    * "Append Count" option of dynamic playlists has been removed. It is
1356
      now always one. (BR 120044)
1357
    * Context browser can now play/queue specific discs of an album or
1358
      compilation.
1359
    * Automatically imported playlists go into a separate category.
1360
    * Block quitting amaroK until all on-going media device operations have
1361
      finished with a consistent state.
1362
    * Interface choice in wizard removed.
1363
    * MoodBar has been removed. The maintainer has not been updating it, and
1364
      it was causing crashes for many people.
1365
    * Usability improvements for the Script Manager, including a tree view.
1366
    * Use KMimeType for resolving file type for metadata acquisition before
1367
      falling back to extension based guessing.
1368
    * Removed the "detailed mode" in the playlist-browser.
1369
    * Also copy non-local URLs to collection when dropped onto collection
1370
      browser.
1371
    * Speed up connecting media devices with a lot of tracks to be submitted
1372
      to last.fm.
1373
    * For media without metadata, try to read metadata after transfer to
1374
      the iPod (e.g. when copying an audio CD via KIOslaves).
1375
    * Hint at starting a transcode script for transcoding while transferring
1376
      to media devices. (BR 127155)
1377
    * If a disc number is present, append it to the album's name when
1378
      organizing files. (BR 126867)
1379
    * Configure, which of fresh podcasts, newest & favorite albums are shown
1380
      in context browser home view. Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>.
1381
      (BR 127043)
1382
    * Dynamic mode no longer skips to the next song if you press play (via
1383
      dcop, for instance) while already playing a track. Instead it restarts
1384
      the current one.
1385
    * The Actions menu has been renamed the Engage menu. It's way cooler,
1386
      right? I mean, Star Trek is really cool, right?
1387
    * Multiple podcasts can be configured at once by selecting multiple channels
1388
      or by configuring the children of a folder.
1389
1390
  BUGFIXES:
1391
    * Allow dropping of tracks after non-existant items in the playlist.
1392
    * Make changes to the default dynamic playlists persistent.
1393
    * Send UTF-8 encoded requests to Wikipedia. Thanks to Thomas Lindroth
1394
      <tholi945@student.liu.se> for the patch. (BR 127654)
1395
    * Correctly restore podcast channel title when fetching fails.
1396
    * Show error message when xine mp3 decoder isn't installed, don't just
1397
      play next track.
1398
    * Properly render and optimise playlist loading icons.
1399
    * Properly import and export XSPF playlist formats.
1400
    * Optimise addition of playlists to the playlistbrowser.
1401
    * In context browser, show localized date for podcasts. (BR 127853)
1402
    * Regression in dynamic mode caused it to skip the first track in the
1403
      playlist whenever it was started. (BR 127451)
1404
    * Stop Playing after Track: remember current track (BR 127312)
1405
    * Radio streams were broken for protocols other than HTTP. (BR 127848)
1406
    * Collection Browser would not set/unset/burn albums with ', The' in
1407
      their name.
1408
    * Prevent breakage when xine couldn't initialize the audio device. Patch
1409
      from Ilya Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 115960)
1410
    * Allow for recognition of the webdav protocol. Patch by Ilya
1411
      Konstantinov <kde-bugzilla@future.shiny.co.il>. (BR 126847)
1412
    * Setting a rating on an unplayed track would affect score generated.
1413
      Patch by Patrick Muench <s7mon@web.de>. (BR 127475)
1414
    * Stop tags with different capitalisation being treated as the same
1415
      when building the collection.
1416
    * Make database connections actually get closed when no longer used.
1417
      (BR 123113)
1418
    * xine engine would truncate the last seconds of a track, if no other
1419
      track followed in the playlist.
1420
    * Fixed AudioCD playback with xine-engine. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1421
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 127388)
1422
    * If dynamic mode was turned on and then off, the previous random and
1423
      repeat modes would be forgotten. (BR 123743)
1424
    * Removing the current track through DCOP while editing a field of the
1425
      track in the playlist would cause a crash. (BR 119152)
1426
    * Make characters encoded with % (such as a forward slash, %2f) display
1427
      correctly. (BR 105266)
1428
1429
1430
VERSION 1.4.0:
1431
  FEATURES:
1432
    * New DCOP call "player: version()". Returns the amaroK version.
1433
    * iFP has persistent settings when transferring tracks to the device.
1434
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports Audio CDs.
1435
    * Context menus for entries in the statistics tool. (BR 124945)
1436
1437
  CHANGES:
1438
    * Composer, Disc Number and File Size columns in flat collection view.
1439
    * 'k' or 'm' suffixes for matching filesize in kibi or respectively mebi
1440
      bytes.
1441
    * Groupings when transferring files to media devices are now persistent.
1442
      (BR 127158)
1443
    * Transfer contents of smart playlists to media device without adding
1444
      them to a playlist. (BR 126997)
1445
    * Set %albumartist to Various Artists, but keep %artist as the track's
1446
      artist when organizing compilations. (BR 126936)
1447
    * Discard empty tokens surrounded by {} in custom organize file format.
1448
      (BR 124337)
1449
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine was disabled for this release (not yet stable).
1450
    * Only pick genres for Smart playlists that exist in your collection.
1451
    * VFAT plugin completely rewritten since 1.4beta3. Name is now changed to
1452
      "Generic Audio Player" to make it less needlessly technical.
1453
    * Don't limit the number of episodes shown with a new podcast, since the
1454
      user can limit the number shown afterwards by configuring the channel.
1455
    * Automatically populate the playlist with items if it is empty when a
1456
      dynamic playlist is loaded. (BR 126594)
1457
    * Unplayed/unrated tracks are no longer shown in the statistics dialog.
1458
    * Removed the option "Import Playlists". It's now always enabled.
1459
    * Show total track time in context browser (BR 126548)
1460
    * Derive filename for downloaded podcast episodes from their url in the
1461
      rss feed. (BR 125966)
1462
    * Only show albums/artists/genres with more than 3 tracks when listing
1463
      favourite albums/artists/genres. (BR 126435)
1464
    * libtunepimp 0.5 compiles successfully.
1465
    * Podcasts are automatically configured to be checked for updates.
1466
    * Show only 2 decimal places for scores in the statistics module.
1467
    * Replace 'Move to Collection' in file browser context menu by 'Organize
1468
      Files' for collection directories. (BR 125702)
1469
    * Removed the option "Show Status Bar". It's now always enabled.
1470
    * Tracks from a media device scan be submitted to last.fm immediately,
1471
      without waiting for tracks to be played in amaroK. Patch by Iain
1472
      Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125690)
1473
    * Any failed attempts to submit to last.fm are now automatically retried
1474
      in the background, without waiting for new tracks to be played.
1475
    * Smart playlists can be constructed using mixed ALL and ANY matches
1476
      (BR 124483)
1477
    * Configure media devices in global settings, disable media browser when
1478
      no media device is configured.
1479
    * Dynamic Playlist bar made more conspicuous.
1480
    * The Konqueror setting to show a 'delete' entry in the menu is now
1481
      respected, if the setting exists and KDE is version 3.4 or higher.
1482
    * Cover art from m4a files. Updated m4a taglib patch by Jochen Issing
1483
      <jochen@isign-softart.de> and patch by Shane King
1484
      <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125414)
1485
1486
  BUGFIXES:
1487
    * The playlist would incorrectly sort after using the queue manager in
1488
      dynamic mode.
1489
    * Sort disc numbers numerically (BR 127114)
1490
    * Smart Playlists using 'last played time' now filter correctly.
1491
      (BR 127145)
1492
    * If "Transcode Whenever Possible" was selected for transferring to media
1493
      devices, if the file was in the device's preferred format, transcoding
1494
      would not take place.  Thanks to Ants Aasma for the patch. (BR 127109)
1495
    * Fix possible loss of database after changing settings. (BR 126880)
1496
    * Only include audio files when expanding directories. (BR 126765)
1497
    * Correctly handle 'Cancel' in confirmation dialog for deleting items
1498
      from media devices. (BR 126989)
1499
    * Smart-Playlist random mode was not 'sticking'. (BR 126877)
1500
    * Statusbar log files would only ever write to the first log after all
1501
      four logs had been filled.
1502
    * iFP: Don't pretend to add newly transferred files to wrong folders.
1503
    * Set a podcast as listened only when it really has been listened to.
1504
    * All tracks from a cuesheet will now submit correctly to last.fm.
1505
      (BR 114969)
1506
    * xine-engine will now correctly detect a change when only one of the
1507
      artist or album metadata changes. Patch by Kim Rasmussen
1508
      <kml@elreki.net>. (BR 126648)
1509
    * Less than and between criteria in a smart playlist for playcount, rating
1510
      or score of 0 now work. (BR 97046)
1511
    * Empty genres are no longer displayed in the collection browser.
1512
      (BR 126495)
1513
    * Fix regression causing drag and drop of playlist track items in the
1514
      playlistbrowser to be functionless. (BR 126387)
1515
    * Fix regression causing podcast purge property to be ignored. (BR 126194)
1516
    * Automatically convert MySql/PostgreSql passwords from 1.3 to 1.4 state.
1517
    * Popup Messages would flicker when being shown.
1518
    * Some 1.3 podcasts wouldn't get transferred to 1.4 settings.
1519
    * New podcasts didn't get a default save location. (BR 126196)
1520
    * Fixed encoding problems with lyrics scripts.
1521
    * Mark/unmark as compilation is now stored in the file tag so it is
1522
      remembered when the colection is rescanned. (BR 120428)
1523
    * Submissions from media devices are timestamped so as to be less likely
1524
      to conflict with submissions from another last.fm client. (BR 125367)
1525
    * The MySQL connection will no longer time out when idle. (BR 120198)
1526
    * Load manually configured media devices even after failed DCOP queries.
1527
      Patch by Iain Benson <iain@arctos.me.uk>. (BR 125692)
1528
    * Copy/move to collection recurses into directories. (BR 125334)
1529
    * Amazon no longer tries to refetch invalid entries. (BR 125168)
1530
    * Skip hidden directories while scanning the collection. (BR 115478)
1531
    * Instead of cancelling collection organiziation operations when starting
1532
      new one append to running one.
1533
    * Correctly show &amp; in playlist 'Burn' right-click submenu. Patch by
1534
      Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2@gmail.com>. (BR 125117)
1535
    * Disable option to delete remote items in playlist right-click menu.
1536
      (BR 124745)
1537
    * Reload playlist browser podcasts when switching database engines.
1538
    * Podcast tables recreated on startup if they don't exist.
1539
1540
1541
VERSION 1.4-beta3:
1542
  FEATURES:
1543
    * amaroK now supports multiple media devices of varying types (currently
1544
      iPods, UMS/VFAT, and iFP devices).
1545
    * Autodetection of iPods and UMS/VFAT devices (if KDE has HAL/DBUS support
1546
      compiled in).
1547
    * New DCOP call "devices: showDeviceList()" to show the Device Manager's
1548
      current device knowledge.
1549
    * amaroK now has a custom icon theme, and an option to switch back to the
1550
      system icons, if preferred (in the General settings section).
1551
    * Collection browser view is separated alphabetically. Patch by
1552
      Christian Hoenig <list@hoenig.cc>.
1553
    * Ease navigation with track slider below playlist window by showing mood.
1554
      (BR 121715)
1555
    * Show context information for podcasts.
1556
    * Filebrowser: toolbar button to change to the directory of the currently
1557
      playing song. (BR 115479)
1558
    * Added "Play Audio CD" entry to the amaroK menu. (BR 103409)
1559
    * GStreamer-0.10 engine now supports visualizations.
1560
    * xine-engine: Show metadata for ogg vorbis streams. (BR 122505)
1561
    * Drag and drop podcast urls directly onto podcast folders for addition.
1562
    * Add media directly into directories for iRiver ifp devices.
1563
    * Button to directly edit lyrics from the context browser. (BR 123515)
1564
    * Support for SMIL playlists. (BR 121983)
1565
    * Support for WAX playlists. (BR 120980)
1566
    * Handle the Year tag when playing AudioCDs. Patch by Markus Kaufhold
1567
      <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123428)
1568
    * Ignore 'The ' in artist names when sorting in the cover manager, as per
1569
      the collection browser. (BR 122858)
1570
    * Add autocompletion to the composer field in the tag dialog. (BR 123026)
1571
1572
  CHANGES:
1573
    * In context browser, show information about recently updated podcasts,
1574
      recently added and favourite albums when nothing is playing.
1575
    * Ratings can now have half stars: click again on the last star in the
1576
      rating to toggle it between a half and a full star.
1577
    * Improved handling of embedded cover art, utilizing the database. Patch
1578
      by Shane King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 124563)
1579
    * Statistics tool has had numerous improvements.
1580
    * Optimise: Only rerender the CollectionBrowser when relevant.
1581
    * Disable detection of iPod model and thus solve g_object_get related
1582
      problems. (BR 121990)
1583
    * Don't block GUI when trying to transfer large numbers of items already
1584
      on media device. (BR 123570)
1585
    * Update playlist items when their location is changed during organizing
1586
      files. (BR 123752)
1587
    * Recursively add tracks when directories are dropped to the media browser
1588
      and the collection browser. (BR 123982)
1589
    * Visualizations now receive stereo data from amaroK. (BR 118765)
1590
    * Upgraded internal SQLite library to version 3.3.4.
1591
    * Podcast information is stored in the database.
1592
    * Improved password handling in the PostgreSQL config dialog. Patch by
1593
      Peter C. Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 118304)
1594
1595
  BUGFIXES:
1596
    * Expand-By smart playlists were returning the wrong number of values.
1597
    * Fix display of media device transfer queues larger than 4 GB. (BR 125247)
1598
    * Fix duplicate detection when transferring to media device for tracks having
1599
      empty album tags. (BR 125203)
1600
    * Fix spuriously garbled collection scans. Patch by Shane King
1601
      <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 125114)
1602
    * Fix error with 'Back' link when browsing related artists. (BR 123227)
1603
    * Files with names containing '#' or '?' from smart playlists would not
1604
      get transferred to media device. (BR 122488)
1605
    * Stop Playing After Track option wouldn't be shown for the right tracks,
1606
      when there were queued tracks. Patch by Marcelo Penna Guerra
1607
      <eu@marcelopenna.org>. (BR 124297)
1608
    * Don't submit podcast episodes to last.fm. (BR 118987)
1609
    * Accept system:/media/ urls into the playlist. (BR 120249)
1610
    * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
1611
      King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
1612
    * Stop collection folders being automatically removed. Instead, allow
1613
      user to remove non-existent folders by deselecting parent. (BR 123745)
1614
    * Stop delete key in playlist deleting last deselected item. (BR 123265)
1615
    * xine-engine: Show bitrate and samplerate for CD-Audio and WAV. Patch by
1616
      Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 123625)
1617
    * Some podcasts would cause amaroK to hang.
1618
    * Check if directories still exist when showing Collection directories.
1619
      (BR 123834)
1620
    * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
1621
      earlier versions of Plastik.
1622
    * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
1623
      (BR 119230)
1624
    * Sometimes iRiver devices would crash upon disconnecting. (BR 123416)
1625
    * Adjust the Astraweb lyrics script for a layout change on the site. Patch
1626
      by Andrew Turner <andrewturner512+kdebugs googlemail com>. (BR 123636)
1627
    * Directory selection would incorrectly highlight a directory in a
1628
      corner case. (BR 123635)
1629
    * Don't pretend to be able to uninstall default ContextBrowser themes.
1630
      (BR 123585)
1631
    * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
1632
      Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
1633
    * OSD text would not be stripped of empty lines.
1634
    * Playlist couldn't be shuffled if queued items existed. (BR 120221)
1635
    * Fixed renaming of Smart Playlists. (BR 122509)
1636
    * Fixed some bugs with PostgreSQL and Smart Playlists. Patch by Peter C.
1637
      Ndikuwera <pndiku@gmail.com>. (BR 123317)
1638
    * Escape invalid characters when transferring files to IFP devices.
1639
      (BR 123199)
1640
    * Escape newline characters when showing detailed information for podcast
1641
      items in the playlistbrowser. (BR 123109)
1642
1643
1644
VERSION 1.4-beta2:
1645
  FEATURES:
1646
    * Equalizer for the GStreamer-0.10 engine.
1647
    * Crossfade in the helix engine!
1648
    * The build date is shown in the "About amaroK" dialog.
1649
    * Show album covers when dragging playlist items. Patch from Jonas
1650
      Hurrelmann <j@outpo.st>.
1651
1652
  CHANGES:
1653
    * Summarize transfer failures to media devices instead of a message for each.
1654
      (BR 122491)
1655
    * Don't list the <no engine> entry in the engine selection widget, when
1656
      it's not the active engine. Makes no sense to select this dummy engine.
1657
    * The aRts and GStreamer-0.8 engines have been removed for being obsolete.
1658
    * Automatically skip to the next track in the playlist when a track is
1659
      unplayable. (BR 116555)
1660
    * Don't check for collection changes on startup if Watch Folders is
1661
      disabled. (BR 116173)
1662
1663
  BUGFIXES:
1664
    * Handle .m4a files as audio when transferring to iPod video. (BR 122492)
1665
    * Smart playlists would not transfer to media devices. (BR 122838)
1666
    * Assume that .mp4 files are audio only when transferring to iPod. (BR 122591)
1667
    * Dereference symbolic links when transferring to iPod. (BR 123206)
1668
    * Correct domain for japanese wikipedia locale. (BR 122319)
1669
    * When deleting a downloaded podcast, the icon wouldn't be updated.
1670
      (BR 122440)
1671
    * Manage Files would create duplicates on collection. (BR 122519)
1672
    * On Statistics Dialog, Compilations would be shown with a random artist,
1673
      and dragging to playlist would add only the tracks by that artist.
1674
      (BR 122363)
1675
    * When editing current dynamic playlist, the adjusting of upcoming tracks
1676
      could be faulty. (BR 122401)
1677
    * Changing database on First-Run Wizard wouldn't work.
1678
    * When loading M3U playlists containing "." or "..", amaroK failed to
1679
      detect that the files are in the collection. Patch by Ted Percival
1680
      <ted@midg3t.net>. (BR 121046)
1681
    * Konqueror sidebar would show garbage for people not using UTF-8 locales.
1682
      (BR 122395)
1683
    * "Open in External Browser" in the lyrics tab works now.
1684
    * Lyrc lyrics script handles tick characters correctly.
1685
    * Crash on startup when upgrading from 1.3, using MySQL. (BR 122042)
1686
    * No more crash on exit or deleting podcast.
1687
    * Handle metadata for .aac files as mpeg instead of mp4. (BR 121852)
1688
1689
1690
VERSION 1.4-beta1:
1691
  FEATURES:
1692
    * AudioCD (CDDA) support for xine-engine, including CDDB lookup. Patch by
1693
      Alberto Griggio <alberto.griggio@gmail.com>. (BR 121647)
1694
    * The Helix engine now supports direct alsa playback using Realplayer 10.
1695
    * New DCOP call "player: setVolumeRelative(int ticks)".
1696
    * Options for Random Mode to favor tracks with a higher rating, score, or
1697
      ones less recently played.
1698
    * Support for playing entire albums. This works just like normal, except
1699
      when choosing the next track, it'll go to the next track from the album
1700
      it finds in the playlist, or the first track of another album otherwise.
1701
    * Support for plain VFAT devices in the Media Device browser.
1702
    * You can now mousewheel over a track's queue label to change its position
1703
      in the queue.
1704
    * Added a time-filter to the CollectionBrowser. Now you can make it show
1705
      only those tracks, which have been added to your collection within the
1706
      last day, week, month or year.
1707
    * Fit to Width for the playlist columns is now optional (accessible in the
1708
      context menu for the column headers).
1709
    * On-the-fly transcoding when transferring to media devices, provided
1710
      that an appropriate transcoding script is running.
1711
    * Handle compilations as such on iPods.
1712
    * New DCOP calls "mediabrowser: ..." for interfacing with media devices.
1713
    * Multiple simultaneously connected media devices.
1714
    * Lyrics support is now scriptable. This allows to add support for any
1715
      lyrics site, and makes it possible to provide upgrades. (BR 94437)
1716
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics(string)".
1717
    * New 'File Size' column in the playlist.
1718
    * Amarok now supports ASX playlist files. (BR 114051)
1719
    * New DCOP call "collection: isDirInCollection(const QString& path )".
1720
    * New DCOP call "playlist: removeByIndex(int)". (BR 119143)
1721
    * For mp3, aac/mp4, and ogg vorbis, it's possible to use Disc Number and
1722
      Composer tags. (BR 110675) (BR 90503)
1723
    * For xine-lib 1.1.1 and greater, xine engine has gapless playback. amaroK
1724
      is now "The Wall" compatible. (BR 77766)
1725
    * Option for selecting external web browser in amaroK. No longer requires
1726
      KDE-Base. (BR 106015)
1727
    * Press Enter in the Collection Browser filter to send all the visible
1728
      tracks to the playlist.
1729
    * Hold Ctrl while pressing Enter in the playlist's filter to apply to all
1730
      visible items instead of just the first, and Shift to only queue and not
1731
      play them.
1732
    * Tags can be edited inline in the playlist by clicking on a single selected
1733
      item.
1734
    * Switchable Wikipedia locale. (BR 104383)
1735
    * Initial port of GStreamer engine to GStreamer 0.10.
1736
    * Drag albums and compilations from context browser to media device and
1737
      playlist browser.
1738
    * Browse your collection and other related artists with context browser.
1739
    * Copy artwork to iPods capable of displaying it.
1740
    * Show extended podcast info on iPod.
1741
    * Optionally update playcount for items played on iPod and submit them
1742
      to last.fm and synchronize ratings between amaroK and iPod.
1743
    * Tracks can now be rated from 1-5 stars manually, in addition to the score
1744
      which amaroK calculates automatically based on your listening habits. You
1745
      can use the 'Rating' column and Win+1..5 to change the rating.
1746
    * Ability to copy items from iPod and from filebrowser to collection.
1747
    * New 'Last Played' column in the playlist, showing when the track was last
1748
      played. (Like in the Context Browser.)
1749
    * Browsers can be now accessed with keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+1..5.
1750
      Also Ctrl+0 to close the current one, and Ctrl+Tab to switch the focus
1751
      between the playlist and the active browser.
1752
    * Downloaded podcast episodes can be deleted from the context menu.
1753
    * New DCOP call "player: osdEnabled".
1754
    * Add contents of smart amaroK playlists as playlist to media device.
1755
    * Mediabrowser support for the iRiver iFP series!
1756
    * New dcop call playlistbrowser loadPlaylist. (BR 110082)
1757
    * New Edit Track Information dialog. Lyrics can be edited there, comments
1758
      can have more than one line, some statistics and tag guessing from
1759
      filename. (BR 93982)
1760
    * Show/hide browsers via context menu. (BR 110823)
1761
    * Display disk space on media device.
1762
    * Copy standard and amaroK playlists to media device.
1763
    * Create playlist from items transferred to iPod.
1764
    * Edit dumb iPod playlists with media browser.
1765
    * Ability to read audible.com .aa file metadata and to transfer audiobooks
1766
      to iPod via file browser.
1767
    * Optionally add new podcasts to media device transfer queue on download
1768
      and remove podcasts already listened to on media device connect.
1769
    * Add podcast shows to the Podcast folder on iPods.
1770
    * Persistent media device transfer queue.
1771
    * Incremental update of media device view.
1772
    * Automatic scanning for stale and orphaned iPod items.
1773
    * Moodbar!
1774
    * configure: report not included extra features (BR 115057)
1775
    * Ability to uninstall context-browser themes. (BR 111449)
1776
    * More columns available in the Flat View of the Collection Browser.
1777
    * New Collection Scanner, running in an external process. No longer can
1778
      amaroK crash while scanning the Collection :)
1779
    * Statistics tool!
1780
    * Dragging external playlists into the playlist browser will add them.
1781
    * NMM engine now has a configure dialog.
1782
    * Collection scanner now supports WMA, MP4/AAC, and RealMedia (RA,RV,RM).
1783
    * You can now Organize Music from the Collection Browser, to move and
1784
      rename files to a logical place in your collection folders based on their
1785
      tags.
1786
    * Option to crossfade only on manual track changes. Useful for listening
1787
      to consecutive tracks on a single album.
1788
1789
  CHANGES:
1790
    * Dynamic Mode is now stateless, meaning there's no Dynamic Mode any more,
1791
      only loading and unloading of Dynamic Playlists. There's also now a nice
1792
      info bar above the playlist when a Dynamic Playlist is loaded.
1793
    * The major huge context menu used for hiding/showing columns in the
1794
      playlist has been replaced with a shorter one and a nice dialog.
1795
    * Elapsed time / length in the systray tooltip now updates in real time as
1796
      the song progresses.
1797
    * Tooltips in the playlist for truncated text are now shown directly above
1798
      the text, giving the effect of it being expanded to its full length.
1799
    * The option for restarting scripts automatically at startup is removed, as
1800
      it is now the default behaviour.
1801
    * Reduced memory usage for large playlists to under 30% of pre-1.4 versions.
1802
      (Measured as the difference in memory usage between an empty playlist and
1803
      loading the 'All Collection' smart playlist.)
1804
    * Import iTunes album art from directories.
1805
    * Media Devices (Apple iPod, iRiver iFP, ...) are now handled with plugins.
1806
    * New default image for albums with no cover art.
1807
    * When tabbing between cells while editing tags in the playlist, autosave
1808
      the contents of the previous tag you edited, so you don't have to
1809
      constantly go in and out of editing mode to edit lots of tags.
1810
    * When saving playlists, if there's already one with the same name, instead
1811
      of complaining about it, smartly append (2), (3), etc. to the end.
1812
    * 'Stop Playing After Track' now has a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+V), and a global
1813
      shortcut for the currently playing track (Ctrl+Win+V).
1814
    * Various keyboard usability and focus tweaks so using amaroK with the
1815
      keyboard is nicer.
1816
    * Upgraded internal SQLite database library to version 3.2.7.
1817
    * Recoding mp3 tags has been removed due to many unjustified
1818
      complications.
1819
    * Viewing track information of remote media will show the url.
1820
    * "Update"-button is now hidden in the collection browser if "Watch
1821
      folders for changes" is enabled in the options.
1822
    * Playlist Browser now remembers which entries were open across startups.
1823
    * The tooltip and the menu from the queue icon in the statusbar now shows
1824
      the total length of the queued tracks.
1825
    * The Home tab has been merged into the Current tab, now called Music.
1826
    * New look for the current track marker in the playlist. Pimp my roK!
1827
    * When turning either random or dynamic mode on, turn the other off,
1828
      instead of completely disabling random mode when dynamic is on.
1829
    * libgpod from gtkpod replaces kio based iPod support for improved
1830
      compatibility with various iPod models.
1831
    * Podcast settings are hierarchical now, meaning you can set settings
1832
      for the category's, newly added podcasts take the settings from there parent category.
1833
1834
  BUGFIXES:
1835
    * Dragging text to a filter line edit would still show the "Filter
1836
      Here..." text in the background. (BR 108876)
1837
    * Don't show an empty playlist length holder in the statusbar.
1838
    * Allow for % and _ in tags, and filter them correctly.
1839
    * Do not copy files of types an iPod is not capable of playing to the
1840
      iPod. (BR 117486)
1841
    * Also take track number into account when comparing tags for checking
1842
      if a track is already present on iPod. (BR 117380)
1843
    * iPod nanos would not switch off during playing songs added with amaroK
1844
      because of their file size not being set.
1845
    * "Show Fullsize" now works for ID3 embedded cover images. (BR 114517)
1846
    * Fix possible bug when saving unencoded podcasts to strange file systems.
1847
    * OSD Preview did not update colours when toggling 'Use custom colours'
1848
      option. (BR 115965)
1849
    * Cached lyrics are not erased when rescanning. (BR 110489)
1850
    * No more "can't create amazon table" warnings. (BR 113930)
1851
    * Creating a new playlist via drag-and-drop no longer shows duplicates
1852
      of each song until amaroK is restarted.
1853
1854
1855
VERSION 1.3.9:
1856
  FEATURES:
1857
    * Support for libtunepimp 0.4. (BR 94988)
1858
1859
  BUGFIXES:
1860
    * Fix leak of file descriptors with embedded cover art. Patch by Shane
1861
      King <kde@dontletsstart.com>. (BR 123472)
1862
    * Playlist popup menu had a visual glitch with Lipstik and (probably)
1863
      earlier versions of Plastik.
1864
    * Fix preamp and frequency band scaling in the xine equalizer. Patch by
1865
      Tobias Knieper <tobias.knieper@gmail.com>. (BR 116633)
1866
    * Fixed a huge memory leak when using xine-engine with crossfading.
1867
      (BR 119230)
1868
    * Fix memory leak in the helix engine when the player and playlist are
1869
      not visible.
1870
    * Stream with URLs containing "&" wouldn't be correctly saved.
1871
      (BR 121846)
1872
    * Playlist Browser would save invalid PLS Playlists. (BR 122875)
1873
    * Refresh All Podcasts wouldn't consider subfolders. (BR 122783)
1874
    * When using a folder as playlist, deleting the playlist would delete
1875
      the folder and all files inside it. (BR 122480)
1876
    * OSD was showing "No track playing" for tracks without metadata.
1877
    * Smart Playlists with playcount or score related conditions wouldn't
1878
      match all songs properly. (BR 97046)
1879
    * With enormous queues, stop menu would take a lot of time to show up.
1880
      (BR 120677)
1881
1882
1883
VERSION 1.3.8:
1884
  BUGFIXES:
1885
    * NMM engine would crash when seeking after the playlist finished,
1886
      state Empty wasn't emitted.
1887
    * Fixed URL of the Nectarine radio stream.
1888
    * Fix crash after changing the alsa device in the helix configuration
1889
      dialog.
1890
    * When amaroK exits, send SIGTERM to running scripts. (BR 119159)
1891
    * Old error messages could be shown instead of current track lyrics.
1892
    * The equalizer in the helix engine now works properly at low sample
1893
      frequencies.
1894
    * Fixed some threading issues in loading XML playlists.
1895
    * Lyrics that are available on lyrc would be shown as "not found".
1896
    * The helix engine now includes protection so that misbehaving streams
1897
      do not cause the visualizations to leak memory.
1898
1899
1900
VERSION 1.3.7:
1901
  CHANGES:
1902
    * In the tree view, sort tracks alphabetically first, unless one of the
1903
      categories is by album, then sort by track number first. (BR 112830)
1904
    * No longer delete Amazon covers every 90 days, instead relying on
1905
      RefreshImages to re-download covers every 80 days to comply with
1906
      the TOS of the Amazon web service.
1907
1908
  BUGFIXES:
1909
    * Fix weirdness when overwriting a playlist by dragging a file to the
1910
      browser.
1911
    * When using Year - Album on Collection Browser, if two albums had the
1912
      same year, the order would be pseudo-random. Patch by Xepo
1913
      <xepo@trifault.net>. (BR 115584)
1914
    * Fix build issue on PCLinuxOS with "cpu_set undeclared".
1915
    * Fix crash in helix engine caused by improper reference counting
1916
      of the audiostreamresponse object.
1917
    * Helix engine no longer declares it is "empty" on a track change
1918
      (caused problems with context browser).
1919
    * Tag dialog doesn't delete year tags any more when editing multiple
1920
      tracks.
1921
    * amaroK would crash or hang when fetching similar artists information
1922
      from last.fm (BR 116399)
1923
    * Fix memory leak in the helix engine. (BR 116223)
1924
    * When changing the database type, the apply button wouldn't be enabled,
1925
      and it would be necessary to restart amaroK for it to work properly.
1926
    * Fix for regression in Qt 3.3.5, causing amaroK to crash when clearing
1927
      the playlist. (BR 116004)
1928
    * Zombie directories are removed automatically from the collection
1929
      scanner. (BR 115779)
1930
    * Dates wouldn't be properly loaded when editing Smart Playlists.
1931
    * Number of songs to add when using dynamic mode wouldn't be respected,
1932
      if the smartplaylist didn't have a ORDER BY statement. (BR 115860)
1933
    * Fix visibility related build problem on some distros.
1934
1935
1936
VERSION 1.3.6:
1937
  BUGFIXES:
1938
    * Fix autoscan with PostgreSQL. (BR 111209)
1939
    * Fix problem with sequences in PostgreSQL support. (BR 115075)
1940
    * Fix potential crash at startup while accessing amazon.com. (BR 115838)
1941
    * Potential crash when loading media from the Collection. (BR 115234)
1942
    * Podcast apply to all button was faulty.
1943
    * last.fm queue wouldn't be saved to disk. Patch by John Patterson
1944
      <kde-bugs@ninecats.org>. (BR 115212)
1945
    * Podcast download directory would only be effective next time the
1946
      application started.
1947
    * Don't crash when attempting to save an empty playlist from the Playlist
1948
      menu.
1949
    * Loading dynamic playlists with sources did not work properly.
1950
    * Fix build issue on some Linux kernel 2.4 distros. (BR 115068)
1951
1952
1953
VERSION 1.3.5:
1954
  BUGFIXES:
1955
    * Fixed a build issue.
1956
    * Fixed potential crash at startup. (BR 114983)
1957
1958
1959
VERSION 1.3.4:
1960
  FEATURES:
1961
    * Helix-engine supports ALSA (using RealPlayer 11). (BR 113909)
1962
    * Atom feed compatibility for podcasts.
1963
    * Statusbar messages are logged to a file, statusbar.log. (BR 99899)
1964
    * Podcast configuration now provides the ability to set the values for
1965
      all podcasts. (BR 114371)
1966
    * Downloading multiple podcasts will throw them into a queue, and
1967
      each will be downloaded sequentially. (BR 114370)
1968
    * Playlistbrowser items can be dragged into folders.
1969
1970
  CHANGES:
1971
    * Categories in the playlist browser are now always in the order of:
1972
      Playlists, Smart Playlists, Dynamic Playlists, Radio Streams, then
1973
      Podcasts, regardless of sorting options. (Items in the categories
1974
      are still sorted normally.)
1975
    * Reworked systray icon handling -- mostly under the hood, but it'll
1976
      now update properly - eg. when you change the cover. (BR 111014)
1977
    * Tooltip for the queue icon in the statusbar will now show the album
1978
      cover of the upcoming track.
1979
    * Totals in the collection browser will now reflect the visible items
1980
      if you set a filter.
1981
    * Podcast settings "download on request" and "stream on request" have
1982
      been merged.
1983
    * About button in script manager now uses a KAboutDialog and supports
1984
      rich text format in the README file. (BR 110961)
1985
    * After filtering the collection browser, if only a single item is left
1986
      visible, it will automatically be expanded.
1987
    * Added items for the Equalizer, Visualizations, and Queue Manager to
1988
      the context menus of the volume slider, analyzer, and statusbar queue
1989
      icon, respectively.
1990
1991
  BUGFIXES:
1992
    * If you queue an album from the context browser and then undo, the
1993
      queue icon in the statusbar is now updated properly (and hence
1994
      doesn't crash if you click on it).
1995
    * helix-engine no longer emits new metaData if only the bitrate of a
1996
      stream changes. (BR 114348)
1997
    * Fix amaroK attempting to destroy your computer, reach through the
1998
      monitor and violently strangle you if you attempt to exit while the
1999
      collection is being scanned. (BR 114597) (BR 114859)
2000
    * Postgresql code cleanup and fixed regression for manual collection
2001
      scanning. Autoscan still does not work. (BR 111209)
2002
    * File browser now sets to home if it was on a remote directory to prevent
2003
      annoying error messages. (BR 114498)
2004
    * Podcast settings would not add a trailing slash to podcast save
2005
      locations. (BR 114712)
2006
    * Workaround for stability issues with HyperThreading on Linux.
2007
      Added a configure check to deal with buggy GLIBC's. (BR 99199)
2008
    * xine-engine: Equalizer became inactive on trackchange when crossfading
2009
      was enabled. (BR 114492)
2010
    * Pausing a track would abort lyrics and wiki fetch jobs. (BR 114576)
2011
    * Dynamic mode did not respect repeat track mode. (BR 114585)
2012
    * The Script Manager no longer captures the script's stdout.
2013
    * Enqueuing files with amarok -e would not work for relative paths if the
2014
      working directories of the new and the running instance of amarok differ.
2015
    * Visualizations would only work when amarok was run as amarokapp.
2016
      (BR 99627)
2017
    * The number of podcasts items would be limited even when the user didn't
2018
      set it. (BR 114353)
2019
    * Switching system language wouldn't affect the root folder names on
2020
      Playlist Browser.
2021
    * On Context Browser, when showing a cached lyric, "add", "search", and
2022
      "open in external browser" buttons wouldn't work. "Open in External
2023
      Browser" is now disabled for cached lyrics. (BR 110812)
2024
    * Refreshing all podcasts when folder existed caused a crash.
2025
    * Multiple job statusbar widget was broken. (BR 114278)
2026
    * HTML in tags was getting interpreted in the context browser.
2027
    * Changing the podcast purge count could sometimes cause amaroK to hang.
2028
    * NMM-engine: Fixed crash after playing a song to the end, the trackEnd
2029
      signal was not emitted from the GUI thread.
2030
    * With Random Mode enabled and Repeat Playlist disabled, when it got to
2031
      the last track, it would play it a second time and then keep on playing
2032
      other tracks, instead of just stopping.
2033
    * Smart-Playlists were broken with PostgreSQL. Patch by Michael Landin
2034
      Hostbaek <mich@freebsd.org>. (BR 114269)
2035
    * Collection scanner ignored files with non-ascii characters. (BR 114195)
2036
    * Don't show "Change Collection Setup"-box for non-local files.
2037
    * Fixed issue with loading playlists containing remote URL's.
2038
    * Dynamic mode history tracks would be forgotten if there was no current
2039
      track on startup. (BR 110160)
2040
    * Fixed problems with "Retrieve Similar Artists" feature in combination
2041
      with SQLite, which could lead to 100% CPU usage. (BR 104447)
2042
    * Tabbing between items and cells in the playlist while editing them now
2043
      works much nicer (goes in order and doesn't tab to invisible columns),
2044
      and you can also now use Alt+Up, Down, Left, Right to navigate between
2045
      cells as well.
2046
    * Podcast settings failed to remember the save location. (BR 114128)
2047
    * Tray icon would stop filling up and showing play/pause icon if show
2048
      player window was toggled. (BR 93711)
2049
    * If player window is toggled during playback, playlist window's caption
2050
      now correctly shows the current track's name.
2051
    * Crossfade length would be enabled in Playback options when "No
2052
      crossfading" was selected.
2053
    * If an engine does not support crossfading, "No crossfading" is now
2054
      selected in Playback options.
2055
2056
2057
VERSION 1.3.3:
2058
  FEATURES:
2059
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showHome".
2060
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showCurrentTrack".
2061
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showLyrics".
2062
    * New DCOP call "contextbrowser: showWiki".
2063
    * Saving a playlist will cleverly pick a default name if possible.
2064
    * Dragging an album cover into the playlist from the context browser
2065
      will append the album.
2066
    * Middle mouse button on the current track will toggle play/pause.
2067
    * Ctrl-Right click on a selection of tracks will queue all of them, not
2068
      just the track below the cursor. (BR 112841)
2069
    * CoverManager allows for downloads from Amazon Canada. (BR 113238)
2070
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPlaylist".
2071
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: scanPodcasts". Will check all podcasts
2072
      for new episodes.
2073
    * New DCOP call "playlistbrowser: addPodcast".
2074
    * New DCOP call "player: type". Returns the current track's file type.
2075
    * New DCOP call "collection: migrateFile". Updates the collection db for
2076
      changes made to filenames, keeping stats intact.
2077
    * Smartplaylist has Length property. (BR 113039)
2078
    * Added a mouse-over effect for the volume slider.
2079
2080
  CHANGES:
2081
    * Adding a playlistbrowser folder will automatically focus the lineedit
2082
      for renaming the item.
2083
    * Removing podcasts will delete all downloaded media.
2084
    * Playlists in the playlistbrowser can no longer be removed, only deleted.
2085
    * Removing tracks when in dynamic mode will only replace up to the minimum
2086
      upcoming tracks requirement.
2087
    * Playlist columns are automatically resized when adding or removing
2088
      columns.
2089
    * Added a warning dialog when HyperThreading is enabled. (BR 99199)
2090
    * Blacklisted GStreamer's autoaudiosink, which is really a crapsink.
2091
    * Added a context menu to the volume slider.
2092
    * When viewing covers in fullsize, the window has a maximum size, and
2093
      scrollbars are shown if necessary. The user can also scroll the cover
2094
      by dragging it. Patch by Eyal Lotem <eyal.lotem@gmail.com>. (BR 103990)
2095
2096
  BUGFIXES:
2097
    * Patch fixing an almost-infinite directory-scanning problem while
2098
      building the Collection. Patch by Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>.
2099
    * Cover Manager: Album view setting became out of sync. Patch by Michael
2100
      Pujos <pujos.michael@laposte.net>. (BR 113370)
2101
    * Starting the first track in the playlist when in dynamic mode would skip
2102
      it. (BR 110160)
2103
    * Position slider in player-window disappeared after 2 hours. (BR 97128)
2104
    * PlaylistBrowser duplicated items when overwriting playlists. (BR 108693)
2105
    * Podcast settings would forget about the purge items checkbox.
2106
    * The Stop button in the toolbar was always enabled at startup.
2107
    * GStreamer-Engine: Could not seek to position 00:00:00. (BR 106483)
2108
    * Don't crossfade the last track in the playlist. (BR 96478)
2109
    * If files were in the transfer queue before connecting the iPod they
2110
      would be uploaded without checking if they already exist on the device.
2111
    * Using dynamic mode's playlist shuffle would result in repeated tracks
2112
      tracks during a populate operation.
2113
    * Fixed Xine config options were disappearing on ESC key. (BR 113225)
2114
    * Fixed problems with visibility enabled compilers. Patch by Unai Garro
2115
      <ugarro@telefonica.net>. (BR 113056)
2116
    * Fix regression causing dynamic mode playlist shuffle to break for
2117
      smart playlists which relied on ordering and limits. (BR 113121)
2118
    * Automatic podcast downloads did not do anything. (BR 113129)
2119
    * Playlist browser items were not properly saved on quit (with Qt 3.3.5).
2120
      Patch by Matthieu Bedouet <mbedouet@no-log.org>. (BR 113020)
2121
    * amaroK could crash on startup, if on last exit sorting was enabled in
2122
      the playlist. (BR 113042)
2123
    * Adding entries to a playlist and saving it could duplicate some tracks,
2124
      if the playlist hadn't been expanded before. (BR 111579)
2125
2126
2127
VERSION 1.3.2:
2128
  FEATURES:
2129
    * Tabs will open automatically when dragging files between tabs.
2130
      Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2131
    * Two new dcop calls which allow scripts to read many of amaroK's
2132
      configuration options. script readConfig(key) for strings, integers and
2133
      bools. script readListConfig(key) for lists. Note that these functions
2134
      aren't guaranteed to always return the latest settings (though many do).
2135
    * Added a right click menu for blank areas of the playlist, with options
2136
      to save, clear or shuffle the playlist and to "enable the dynamic
2137
      mode & repopulate".
2138
    * Playcount is shown in the tag dialog.
2139
    * New volume slider, both better looking and better working than
2140
      the old one.
2141
    * Podcasts can be saved to any location. (BR 111059)
2142
    * Added "Save as Playlist" option to the collection and file browser
2143
      context menus as well.
2144
    * Allow removing of items in the Media Device browser transfer
2145
      queue.
2146
2147
  CHANGES:
2148
    * Scroll wheel to switch tabs in context browser.
2149
    * Repopulate button is enabled or disabled together with dynamic mode.
2150
    * No warning dialog when starting if the directory File Browser is on
2151
      doesn't exist anymore. It just reverts to home. (BR 99208)
2152
    * Sorting on Collection Browser now shows "Unknown" items first, and
2153
      "Various Artists" last. Years are sorted descending now.
2154
    * When selecting 'Play' from the context menu on multiple items,
2155
      it'll now play the first and queue the rest.
2156
2157
  BUGFIXES:
2158
    * The Equalizer and QueueManager widgets were broken on window managers
2159
      other than KWin.
2160
    * "Year - Album" category in the Collection Browser didn't allow for
2161
      dragging tracks or fetching cover images.
2162
    * Xine engine no longer adds images to the playlist.
2163
    * The delete key for removing playlist items works even if the file
2164
      browser is open. (BR 100145)
2165
    * Filenames with XML entity codes were not playable in dynamic mode
2166
      and caused it to stop. (BR 108783)
2167
    * If the album or artist contained "&", cover fetching wouldn't work
2168
      properly.
2169
    * When restarting, Playlist Browser items used for playlist shuffle
2170
      wouldn't be properly marked, though they would be taken into account.
2171
    * Don't crash after changing Podcast options, or after manually deleting
2172
      its first item.
2173
    * When renaming a playlist, the "." would be removed from the filename.
2174
      Paych by Elliot Pahl <elliot.pahl@gmail.com>. (BR 112204)
2175
    * When using next and previous on Tagdialog, after passing by a stream,
2176
      the fields would be always disabled. (BR 112060)
2177
    * Restarting track when in dynamic mode didn't work.
2178
    * Fix issues with the GStreamer engine and alsasink, and reenable it.
2179
      Patch by Vincent Tondellier <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 112103)
2180
    * Dynamic playlist shuffle had some incorrect smart playlist handling.
2181
    * Robustified the code for handling the '# of tracks in the playlist'
2182
      part of the statusbar, it should not ever get out of sync with
2183
      reality now. Nice side effect is you can see the track count
2184
      increase while a playlist is loading.
2185
    * "Last played - not in the last" smart playlists would only work for
2186
      sqlite. (BR 112248)
2187
    * Podcast and Dynamic subfolders are correctly restored on application
2188
      start. (BR 112162)
2189
    * Dropping tracks onto playlist browser folders will work correctly.
2190
    * Invalid podcasts are no longer discarded on quit. (BR 112116)
2191
    * Fixed playing of files that have special characters like '#' in
2192
      helix engine.
2193
    * Fixed issue where selecting multiple items after filtering the
2194
      playlist would cause all the other items 'between' them (but
2195
      invisible due to the filter) to also get selected.
2196
2197
2198
VERSION 1.3.1:
2199
  FEATURES:
2200
    * Added 'Set as Playlist (Crop)' and 'Save as Playlist' options in the
2201
      playlist context menu. (BR 99932)
2202
    * Support for iPod shuffle devices. Patch by Guenter Schwann
2203
      <harry.w@gmx.at>.
2204
    * Media Device browser now has a connect button for connecting
2205
      your iPod after amaroK has already been started. Also includes
2206
      configurable mounting/unmounting options.
2207
    * Holding down the stop button (as opposed to just clicking it) pops
2208
      up a menu letting you stop either now, after the current track, or
2209
      after the end of the queue.
2210
    * Collection browser filter now fully supports the same Google-esque
2211
      syntax as the playlist filter, plus one extra: lyrics:"stuff to search
2212
      for" to search in cached lyrics.
2213
    * Pressing Shift+Enter after filtering the playlist will now queue
2214
      the first track. (BR 111054)
2215
    * Display short statistics in the collection browser depending on the
2216
      categorisation method.
2217
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalTracks". Returns the total number of
2218
      tracks in the collection.
2219
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalGenres". Returns the total number of
2220
      genres in the collection.
2221
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalCompilations". Returns the total number
2222
      of compilations in the collection.
2223
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalArtists". Returns the total number of
2224
      artists in the collection.
2225
    * New DCOP call "collection: totalAlbums". Returns the total number of
2226
      tracks in the collection.
2227
    * New DCOP call "collection: similarArtists(int artists)". Returns the
2228
      similar artists of the current track, results are limited by 'artists'.
2229
    * New DCOP call "playlist: repopulate". Repopulates the playlist with
2230
      tracks from dynamic mode.
2231
    * New DCOP call "player: showBrowser". Allows for showing of playlist
2232
      window browser, see the handbook for useage.
2233
    * New DCOP call "player: setLyricsByPath". Allows adding custom lyrics
2234
      for tracks.
2235
    * Add an icon in the statusbar displaying the number of queued tracks;
2236
      click on it to pop up a menu letting you jump to their locations in
2237
      the playlist.
2238
2239
  CHANGES:
2240
    * New "Blue Danna" splash screen. Created by Nenad Grujicic, modified by
2241
      Nathan Adolph.
2242
    * 'Stop after track' is now saved (and so remembered across amaroK
2243
      restarts).
2244
    * Ported playlist + filter-lineedit behaviour to collection browser as
2245
      well: you can move between the view and the filter with the up/down
2246
      buttons, and just typing into the view will set the filter. (BR 108656)
2247
    * Wiki Tab links use the color set for links, instead of "Selected
2248
      Background". Style Authors can use "AMAROK_LINKCOLOR" if they want that
2249
      color. (BR 111228)
2250
    * The Equalizer widget has been pimped.
2251
    * Pressing 'up' in the playlist filter will now take you to the end of
2252
      the playlist, in addition to down going to the beginning, as before.
2253
    * When jumping to the current track, it now gets centered instead of only
2254
      barely showing.
2255
    * GStreamer-engine was rewritten. The crossfading feature was removed for
2256
      now (it didn't work right with recent GStreamer versions). Improvements:
2257
      1) Reduced CPU usage 2) Reduced latency 3) Increased stability
2258
    * No need to restart amaroK to use your iPod!
2259
    * Improved Konqueror Sidebar.
2260
    * The bundled "Shouter" AmarokScript (for radio stream serving) has been
2261
      updated and improved.
2262
2263
  BUGFIXES:
2264
    * amaroK wouldn't remember current track when restarting. (BR 110282)
2265
    * Some memory leaks found and fixed.
2266
    * Fix buzz and subsequent clicking when equalizer enabled in Helix and
2267
      GStreamer engines compiled with GCC 4.0.1.
2268
    * Burn option wouldn't show up for "Year - Album" items on Collection
2269
      Browser.
2270
    * Tray's tooltip would show things like 69:40 of 1:12:01.
2271
    * Wiki Tab wouldn't work for names that contained "/". (BR 111634)
2272
    * With KDE 3.4, the proper context menu wouldn't be shown for File
2273
      Browser. Patch by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2274
      (BR 103305)
2275
    * Playcounter and Access Date wouldn't be updated properly for PostgreSQL.
2276
      Patch by Tonton <tonton-lists@team1664.org>. (BR 111519)
2277
    * Clicking twice on the uninstall button for the same script, would make
2278
      amaroK crash.
2279
    * Fixed an obscure crash when you emptied the playlist, had the focus on
2280
      it, and pressed up.
2281
    * No longer show dynamic info popup on application startup.  Patch by
2282
      Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2283
    * Sometimes the system tray tooltip did not update on song change.
2284
    * Polishing for the collection browser and expanded item states. Patch
2285
      by Christian Baumgart <christianbaumgart@web.de>.
2286
    * With xine-engine amaroK always treated remote media like radio streams.
2287
    * Selecting Classical equalizer preset prompted for name.
2288
    * Fixed konqueror sidebar compilation with kde <= 3.3 and gcc patched for
2289
      visibility.
2290
    * Konqueror sidebar can switch again between tabs.
2291
    * Fixed playing of oggs in helix engine.
2292
    * Fixed crash in helix engine when switching engines if helix/realplayer
2293
      not installed.
2294
    * Undo/Redo for the playlist was broken in some cases.
2295
    * On Collection Browser, when grouping by Genre/Artist/Year-Album it
2296
      wouldn't show the tracks. (BR 110890)
2297
    * SmartPlaylist Editor would reset "Match Any" to "Match All" when
2298
      editing. Patch by Kevin Henderson <pyspud@hotmail.com> (BR 110918).
2299
    * Podcasts and playlist tracks would be sorted lexicographically
2300
      (BR 97297).
2301
    * Saved dynamic playlists were not removable.
2302
    * xine-engine: amaroK would get stuck on exit if the Equalizer was enabled
2303
      and the engine playing. (BR 110791)
2304
    * Dequeued items sometimes weren't being repainted properly.
2305
2306
2307
VERSION 1.3:
2308
  FEATURES:
2309
    * The tyranny of deleting covers every 90 days is over. Instead, amaroK now
2310
      automatically downloads the covers every 80 days to comply with
2311
      Amazon.com requirements.
2312
2313
  CHANGES:
2314
    * Removed 'Apply' button from dynamic config, all config options are now
2315
      hot! (Automatically applied on alteration)
2316
    * Minimum score changed from 1 to 0. (BR 107944)
2317
    * Playlist item lengths now shown with hours when necessary.
2318
2319
  BUGFIXES:
2320
    * M3U playlists would be broken after editing. (BR 109774)
2321
    * When there's no artist tag, don't show tons of unrelated songs and
2322
      albums in Context Browser. (BR 110319)
2323
    * Advertisements were showing up in Lyrics Tab for some songs.
2324
    * When editing tags in Playlist Window, only try to write the new tag if
2325
      it's different from the old one. (BR 110299)
2326
    * Changes to the score in the Edit Track Information dialog should only be
2327
      applied after clicking on the "Save and Close" button.
2328
    * When only the score is changed, amaroK shouldn't complain if the file is
2329
      read-only. (BR 109054)
2330
    * Mark/Unmark as compilation wouldn't work with SQLite. (BR 109275)
2331
    * Album Covers whose name or artist contained "'" wouldn't show up when
2332
      fetched from Amazon. (BR 109700)
2333
    * Edit Track Information dialog wouldn't update collection database if
2334
      filename contained non latin1 characters. Patch by Andrey Yasniy
2335
      <yasniy@gmail.com> (BR 110030)
2336
    * SmartPlaylist category created in the PlaylistBrowser once the
2337
      collection has been built for the first time.
2338
    * Refresh the context browser as appropriate when editing tags. (BR 108884)
2339
    * Cover image shown if track has no title.
2340
    * Statusbar cancel button will terminate a podcast download.
2341
    * Don't show multiple popup messages when retrieving podcast information.
2342
    * Don't crash when adding podcasts. (BR 109982)
2343
    * Tracks with urls containg apostrophes would not cache lyrics.
2344
    * PostgreSQL compile problem (BR 110033)
2345
2346
2347
VERSION 1.3-beta3:
2348
  FEATURES:
2349
    * New "not in the last" option for the date fields in Smart Playlists.
2350
      (BR 107725)
2351
    * New OSD tokens: %directory and %type (shows whether it's a stream, or
2352
      otherwise the extension).
2353
    * New DCOP call "player: lyrics" (BR 100306) and Lyrics Caching. (BR 97961)
2354
    * New DCOP call "player: transferDeviceFiles". Transfers queued files to
2355
      the Media Device.
2356
    * New DCOP call "player: queueForTransfer". Queues files for transfer to
2357
      the Media Device.
2358
    * Download your favourite podcasts and let amaroK manage them for you!
2359
    * 17 Equalizer presets. (BR 96302)
2360
    * xine-engine supports crossfading. Note: Your audio device must support
2361
      mixing. SBLive, dmix or ALSA 1.0.9 will do the trick.
2362
    * Shuffle the queue list in the queue manager. (BR 108861)
2363
    * The audio plugin (autodetect, ALSA, esd etc.) for xine-engine is now
2364
      configurable.
2365
    * Playlist-Browser now remembers the state and layout of its tree view.
2366
    * Show a stop icon next to the track to stop playing after.
2367
    * Miniature player window for the minimalists out there! (BR 85876)
2368
    * "Stop Playing After Track" now also works for queued tracks.
2369
    * "Open in External Browser" button for Lyrics Tab, patch from Nick
2370
      Tryon (Dhraakellian). <dhraak@gmail.com>
2371
    * Funky shadow effect for the album cover @ Context-Browser and OSD.
2372
      (BR 108334)
2373
    * Create playlists by dragging tracks onto the Playlist Category in the
2374
      PlaylistBrowser. (BR 75029)
2375
    * Show OSD when pausing and unpausing. (BR 104508)
2376
    * Make 'The' prefix of artists be transparent in the collection
2377
      browser and sort accordingly. (BR 85959)
2378
2379
  CHANGES:
2380
    * TagLib version 1.4 is required.
2381
    * Renamed "Track Name" column to "Filename", "Extension" to "Type".
2382
    * "Use hardware volume mixer" option has been removed.
2383
    * "Play AudioCD" gets disabled for engines that don't support KIO.
2384
    * The OSD (by default) and systray tooltip now show the same infos in
2385
      the same order as the columns in the playlist.
2386
    * xine-engine's configuration dialog has been reworked and simplified.
2387
    * xine-engine has been given the highest engine plugin rank.
2388
    * Systray tooltip now shows "elapsed time / total time" for the length.
2389
2390
  BUGFIXES:
2391
    * When playing, the text in the current track's columns wouldn't get
2392
      ellipsii added if the column was too short.
2393
    * Dragging 'All Collection' smart playlist made amaroK hang.
2394
    * Compilations reported incorrect number of tracks in the Context
2395
      Browser. (BR 109651)
2396
    * Track play icon remains even when stopped playing. (BR 107284)
2397
    * Sometimes valid tracks were not submitted to AudioScrobbler. (BR 100278)
2398
    * Current playlist is now being remembered when amaroK crashes. (BR 98689)
2399
    * Playlist-Browser saves its state after each change, so that no data
2400
      is lost when amaroK crashes. (BR 108814)
2401
    * Crash when trying to save Smart Playlists after creating a Collection
2402
      for the first time.
2403
    * Context menu of compilations was empty in context browser.
2404
    * Don't append albums and compilations when clicking on text in the
2405
      context browser. (BR 98797)
2406
    * xine-engine: pre-amp for the equalizer works now. (BR 104882)
2407
    * Crash when changing the number of minimum upcoming tracks right after
2408
      starting amaroK. (BR 108251)
2409
2410
2411
VERSION 1.3-beta2:
2412
  FEATURES:
2413
    * New DCOP call "collection: scanCollectionChanges" Scans for changes made
2414
      to the collection.
2415
    * Support for "media:" URLs. Patch by Sergio Cambra <sergio@ensanjose.net>
2416
      (BR 102668)
2417
    * Support for visualizations in the Helix engine.
2418
    * Queue manager to help organise your queued tracks. (BR 90594)
2419
    * Ability to create Smart Playlists based on file path. (BR 92467)
2420
    * Per track scripting via custom playlist context menu items.
2421
    * Added advanced, Google-esque syntax to the playlist filter. Lets you do
2422
      things like artist:sirenia, "pink floyd", artist:"pink floyd", or even
2423
      score:>50. When just typing words, it works as before. (BR 99312)
2424
2425
  CHANGES:
2426
    * Upgraded included SQLite library to version 3.2.2.
2427
    * Bumped GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins dependency to version 0.8.6.
2428
    * aKode-engine has been disabled (too buggy/incomplete).
2429
    * Repopulate upcoming tracks on demand when using dynamic mode.
2430
    * Remodel the playlist browser to incorporate dynamic mode more fully.
2431
2432
  BUGFIXES:
2433
    * Don't show textual URLs in Wikipedia Tab. (BR 108031)
2434
    * Don't refresh the collection view on update scans, if nothing changed.
2435
    * xine-engine: Don't pop up hundreds of error messages when something
2436
      goes wrong. Patch from John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net> (BR 101646)
2437
    * Automatic theme download with KNewStuff works now. (BR 107313)
2438
    * Clicking on "Lookup track at musicbrainz" use %2520 for spaces in URL.
2439
      (BR 107946)
2440
    * Crash when loading dynamic playlists without a collection.
2441
    * Crash when saving smart playlist without a collection.
2442
    * Do not call TagLib::MPEG::File for non-mpeg files - some FLAC files
2443
      would cause the CPU to start running in circles. (BR 107029)
2444
    * Many Helix engine improvements.
2445
    * Crash when dragging playlist items into Playlist Browser. (BR 107709)
2446
    * Improved context display when playing radio streams with xine-engine.
2447
    * Number of album tracks was incorrect when showing statistics by album.
2448
      (BR 107762)
2449
    * Massive performance speedup for the default analyzer (BlockAnalyzer).
2450
    * Dynamic mode will grab tracks from closed playlists.
2451
    * Covermanager tooltips were persistent even when window closed. Tooltips
2452
      have now been replaced with statusbar text. (BR 106976)
2453
    * Turning off dynamic mode when items were filtered only 're-enabled' the
2454
      visible items.
2455
    * Disable random mode on startup if dynamic mode is on. (BR 107311)
2456
    * The user is warned if saving tags failed. (BR 91568)
2457
    * Sub-Folders in Playlist Browser are correctly saved and restored.
2458
    * Crash after clicking on remove playlists in dynamic mode.
2459
    * Crash on Context Menu in dynamic mode.
2460
2461
2462
VERSION 1.3-beta1:
2463
  FEATURES:
2464
    * Add Media dialog allows for multiple file selection. (BR 105903)
2465
    * The browser-sidebar has been redesigned for improved usability.
2466
    * Cue file sheet support. Patch from Martin Ehmke <ehmke@gmx.de>.
2467
      (BR 92271).
2468
    * New OSD text token, %playcount, will write the playcount.
2469
    * SmartPlaylists are editable. (BR 91036)
2470
    * PlaylistBrowser gets a makeover!
2471
    * New playlist column "Playcount" for track play counts.
2472
    * New playlist column "Extension" allows easy sorting of playlist for
2473
       compatible file types for portable media players.
2474
    * Ability to save streams to the PlaylistBrowser (BR 91075, BR 104139)
2475
    * New DCOP call "playlist: popupMessage" Displays a popup message box
2476
       in the playlist window..
2477
    * New "year - album" - group by mode for collection browser. (BR 94845)
2478
    * New DCOP call "player: setScoreByPath(url, int)". Sets score of a track
2479
       specified by it's path.
2480
    * New DCOP call "player: setScore(int)". Sets score of the current track.
2481
    * New DCOP call "player: path()". Returns the path of the current track.
2482
    * New DCOP call "playlist: saveM3u(path, relativePaths)".
2483
    * New ScriptManager notification: "volumeChange: int".
2484
    * Tooltips for album covers in the CoverManager. (BR 103996)
2485
    * Automatic download of themes and scripts via KNewStuff.
2486
    * Different analyzers available for the playlist window.
2487
    * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatTrack" sets repeat track on or
2488
      off.
2489
    * HelixPlayer-engine.
2490
    * 'Load' and 'Append' entries for smart playlist context menus. (BR 99213)
2491
    * Support for reading embedded images from ID3 tags. (BR 88492)
2492
    * Wikipedia tab in ContextBrowser allows for artist biography retrieval
2493
      and more, supporting 9 different languages! (BR 98050) (BR 104383)
2494
    * Show "title by artist" on playlists titlebar and taskbar. (BR 97670)
2495
    * Option to show stats in the Home tab by album. Patch from Cédric
2496
      Brégardis <cedric.bregardis@free.fr>.
2497
    * New DCOP call "script: listRunningScripts()". Returns a list of all
2498
      currently running scripts. (BR 102649)
2499
    * New DCOP call "script: stopScript(name)". Stops a script. (BR 102649)
2500
    * New DCOP call "script: runScript(name)". Runs a script. (BR 102649)
2501
    * New form of playlist manipulation - Dynamic Mode.
2502
    * New DCOP call "player: enableRepeatPlaylist" sets repeat playlist on or
2503
      off. (BR 102754)
2504
    * Add Score widget into the tag editor. (BR 100084)
2505
    * Support for PostgreSQL as database backend. (BR 99863)
2506
2507
  CHANGES:
2508
    * "amarokscript" filename extension is now mandatory for script packages.
2509
    * Append Suggestions has been superceded by Dynamic Mode.
2510
    * Add a label (with shortcut) to the Playlist filter.
2511
2512
  BUGFIXES:
2513
    * Message box when saving of playlist failed (BR 105520)
2514
    * Avoid weird results when fetching lyrics with slow connections.
2515
      (BR 103561) (BR 101327)
2516
    * Compensate for reversed slider widget in reverse layout locales, such as
2517
      Hebrew and Arabic. Patch from Assaf Gillat <gillata@gmail.com>.
2518
      (BR 102978)
2519
    * Playlist playMedia now works with streams.
2520
    * Context Browser is updated when current track's tags are changed.
2521
      (BR 102839)
2522
    * Clearing the playlist while playing a track does not lead to a confusing
2523
      interface anymore. (BR 103510)
2524
2525
2526
==BEGIN KDE 3.3 DEPENDENCY==
2527
2528
VERSION 1.2.4:
2529
  FEATURES:
2530
    * Queue selected tracks shortcut, Ctrl+D. (BR 83675)
2531
2532
  BUGFIXES:
2533
    * The first engine entry in the config dialog was always blank.
2534
    * If you filtered by more than one word in Collection Browser, adding
2535
      expandable items (eg: artists or albums) wouldn't work. (BR 100150)
2536
    * Updating the collection without any changes being made to it kept
2537
      the Update button disabled forever.
2538
    * Application freezes when switching shoutcast streams. (BR 103890)
2539
    * MusicBrainz lookup was not escaping quote characters. (BR 103740)
2540
    * Fixed crash when clicking the "clear" button in CoverManager's filter
2541
      widget.
2542
    * Update lyrics page on new radio stream metadata. (BR 99725)
2543
    * xine-engine was reporting bogus tracklengths for ogg vorbis. (BR 102547)
2544
2545
2546
VERSION 1.2.3:
2547
  FEATURES:
2548
    * Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
2549
    * New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not
2550
      the equalizer is enabled.
2551
    * OSD notification for mute.
2552
    * Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
2553
    * Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
2554
    * View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and
2555
      CollectionBrowser.
2556
    * You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's
2557
      right-click contextmenu.
2558
    * New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)".
2559
      Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
2560
    * New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)
2561
2562
  CHANGES:
2563
    * Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser
2564
      and ContextBrowser.
2565
    * Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
2566
    * DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.
2567
2568
  BUGFIXES:
2569
    * Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple
2570
      playlist items.
2571
    * Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
2572
    * 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
2573
    * When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the
2574
      real track, not the whole album.
2575
    * Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
2576
    * The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
2577
    * Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
2578
    * GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without
2579
      crossfading.
2580
    * GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when
2581
      Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
2582
    * Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog.
2583
      (BR 102059)
2584
    * "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
2585
    * Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
2586
    * amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524)
2587
      (a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)
2588
2589
2590
VERSION 1.2.2:
2591
  FEATURES:
2592
    * Context Browser CSS styles can now be installed and selected from the
2593
      appearance settings.
2594
    * Append Suggestions now has an icon in the statusbar.
2595
    * When selecting multiple files, the "View/Edit Meta Information" dialog
2596
      will show the tags that are common to all of them. (BR 100423)
2597
    * A line graph equalizer added as a script "graphequalizer."
2598
2599
  CHANGES:
2600
    * Add 25-track and 50-track smart-playlists.
2601
    * Update current-track icons to include greater padding.
2602
    * The contextbrowser now uses data:-URLs instead of temp image files, so
2603
      they cannot be left on disk when amaroK terminates unexpectedly, and the
2604
      Konqueror/Universal sidebar can show them when amaroK is not running.
2605
2606
  BUGFIXES:
2607
    * escape '&' char in contextmenu entry (BR 101276)
2608
    * Track is set as a number in the database, so shouldn't be added rounded
2609
      by quotes. (BR 101208)
2610
    * Rewrote the broken .pls playlist parser.
2611
    * Handle delay gap between songs properly with aRts engine. (BR 90404)
2612
    * Switched order of "Make playlist" and "Queue after current track" menus
2613
      to avoid playlist destruction. (BR 96164 part 1)
2614
    * Visualizations with LibVisual didn't work in some cases. (BR 99627)
2615
    * amaroK could fail to build if the whole kdeextragear-1 module was
2616
      compiled, due to conflicts with K3B on the MusicBrainz check. (BR 100906)
2617
    * Images shown on OSD where incorrect for action notifications.
2618
    * The handbook translations were not built when amaroK was installed from
2619
      the tarball. I've written a new release script in Ruby, which can
2620
      handle the new structure of kde-i18n. (BR 100498)
2621
    * GStreamer-engine can now play vorbis radio streams properly, with
2622
      full metadata support. (BR 89821)
2623
    * GStreamer-engine now uses the "decodebin" autoplugger, which fixes
2624
      the lag issues that some users had during crossfading. (BR 99570)
2625
2626
2627
VERSION 1.2.1:
2628
  FIX: Made the Tag-Editor only operate on visible items. (BR 100268)
2629
  ADD: Database settings added to the first-run wizard.
2630
  FIX: playlist2html generates UTF-8 output now. (BR 100140)
2631
  FIX: Bitrate/length showed random values for untagged mp3 files. (BR 100200)
2632
  FIX: Crash when recoding stream MetaData without CODEC selected. (BR 100077)
2633
  CHG: Show an additional "Compilations with Artist" box in ContextBrowser.
2634
  ADD: Remember collapse-state of boxes in ContextBrowser. (BR 98664)
2635
  ADD: Display an error when unable to connect to MySQL.
2636
  ADD: Konqueror Sidebar now has full drag and drop support.
2637
  CHG: Replaced "Blue Wolf" icon with Nenad Grujicic's amaroK 1.1
2638
       icon, due to legal issues.
2639
  ADD: Parameter "%score" shows the current song's score in OSD.
2640
  CHG: When you delete a song within amaroK, it gets removed from
2641
       the Collection automatically.
2642
  FIX: Directory column in the playlist was eating the first letter.
2643
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: setStopAfterCurrent(bool)". (BR 99944)
2644
  FIX: Coverfetcher: Do not crash when no cover was found. (BR 99942)
2645
  ADD: Support for amazon.co.jp cover fetching
2646
  CHG: Toolbar items reordered for optimal usability, as suggested by
2647
       Aaron "Tom Green" Seigo.
2648
  FIX: Show covers for albums containing chars '#' or '?'. (BR 96971 99780)
2649
  ADD: Help file for the playlist2html script.
2650
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: int getActiveIndex()".
2651
  ADD: New DCOP call "playlist: playByIndex(int)".
2652
  CHG: Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.1.3.
2653
  FIX: Update the database after editing tags in playlist. (BR 99593)
2654
  ADD: New DCOP function "player: trackPlayCounter". (BR 99575)
2655
  ADD: .ram playlist support with code from Kaffeine. (BR 96101)
2656
  FIX: amaroK can now determine the correct track-length even for formats
2657
       unknown to TagLib. Makes it possible to seek e.g. in m4a tracks.
2658
  ADD: Can now pick from multiple Musicbrainz results. Patch from
2659
       Jonathan Halcrow <gte899j@prism.gatech.edu>. (BR 89701)
2660
  ADD: May now set a custom cover on multiple albums in the Cover-Manager.
2661
  ADD: Support relative path of tracks in writing playlists. (BR 91053)
2662
  FIX: Don't inline-edit tags for the whole playlist's selection.
2663
  FIX: Fix "Recode Tags" crash issues. (BR 95041)
2664
  ADD: "Set Custom Cover" can fetch remote images. (BR 90499)
2665
2666
VERSION 1.2:
2667
  ADD: "Repeat Track" status is reflected by an icon in the playlist.
2668
  ADD: New icons from tightcode for statusbar and repeatTrack.
2669
  ADD: New Smart-Playlist "Ever Played".
2670
  CHG: Bumped GStreamer version requirement to 0.8.4.
2671
  CHG: Made it possible to use artsdsink with GStreamer again.
2672
  CHG: Don't read m3u files recursively when dropping a folder on the
2673
       playlist. No more doubled entries.
2674
  FIX: Shoutcast radio with GStreamer is improved, no more dropouts when
2675
       starting a stream.
2676
  ADD: The "Similar Artists" feature (using Audioscrobbler) can now be
2677
       switched off. (BR 95280)
2678
  FIX: Error in Shoutcast http-request, which made it impossible to play
2679
       many radio streams with GStreamer and aRts. (BR 97211, 98569)
2680
  CHG: Better default directory for selecting a custom cover.
2681
  FIX: ContextBrowser reloads after setting a custom cover. (BR 96548)
2682
  FIX: Cover-Manager's full-screen view works with Bughira (brushed metal).
2683
  ADD: Script-Manager can auto-run scripts on application startup.
2684
  ADD: aKode engine, depends on KDE 3.4. No configure check yet.
2685
  FIX: Don't add non-audio files to the Collection.
2686
  CHG: We now use the SqlLoader, which greatly improves the performance of
2687
       adding stuff to the playlist from SmartPlaylists and the Collection.
2688
2689
VERSION 1.2-beta4:
2690
  ADD: It is now possible to select the right image if there are multiple
2691
       results from Amazon. Patch from Gregory Isabelli <g_isabelli@yahoo.fr>.
2692
       (BR 93287)
2693
  CHG: Reorganized the DCOP interface. We used to have all DCOP functions in the
2694
       "player" group. Now it's splitted up into several categories. Attention
2695
       script writers: Adjust your DCOP calls!
2696
  FIX: The loader is now more robust and should always find amarokapp.
2697
  CHG: The search-browser has been integrated into the file-browser.
2698
  CHG: OSD can have fake transparency and new fancy shadow.
2699
  ADD: DCOP function "shortStatusMessage", shows a temporary message on the
2700
       application's statusbar.
2701
  FIX: Frequent crashes when writing tags. (BR 95344)
2702
  FIX: CoverManager updates its status display correctly.
2703
  FIX: "isPlaying" DCOP function now works correctly. (BR 90894)
2704
  ADD: Automatic crash report generator, sends backtraces to amaroK HQ.
2705
  ADD: DCOP function "saveCurrentPlaylist". Writes the playlist to current.xml,
2706
       for scripts that need to access the playlist contents.
2707
  ADD: Playlist2html, a script for playlist exporting. (BR 96199)
2708
  ADD: Improved statusbar, with animated error notification widget.
2709
  ADD: New progress display system, can show multiple expandable progress
2710
       widgets in the statusbar.
2711
  ADD: Alarm script, starts playing music at specified alarm time.
2712
  ADD: Script-Manager for DCOP script extensions is now functional. Refer to the
2713
       amaroK Wiki for information on script writing.
2714
  ADD: Collection-Browser shows a help message in flat-mode when filter is
2715
       empty. (BR 97000)
2716
  CHG: It is possible to select the Database Engine (SQLite, MySQL) runtime,
2717
       without amaroK restart. New Database Engines can be added, they need to
2718
       inherit DbConnection and implement its' virtual methods (see
2719
       SqliteConnection and MySqlConnection).
2720
  CHG: New amaroK icon "Blue Wolf", made by Da-Flow.
2721
  FIX: Possible crash when enabling Player-Window. (BR 94668)
2722
2723
VERSION 1.2-beta3:
2724
  ADD: Smart Playlists can have a random order or a score weighted random order
2725
       (BR 90861)
2726
  ADD: Show total length of selected songs in statusbar. (BR 90284)
2727
  ADD: Context-Browser now caches the tab widgets. Patch from Matias Costa
2728
       <mcc3@alu.um.es>. (BR 95999)
2729
  FIX: RAND and REP buttons were always enabled at startup. (BR 95861)
2730
  ADD: Implemented "Append Suggestions" functionality. It means that when
2731
       enabled, amaroK will append a couple of suggested songs to playlist when
2732
       you play a track. This produces a continuous playlist, something similar
2733
       to listening to radio.
2734
  ADD: Implemented "Play Media..." functionality.
2735
  FIX: Playlist-Browser was appending to playlist when clicking "Load". Now it
2736
       replaces the current playlist again, as intended.
2737
  ADD: Profile for KDELIRC (Remote Controls). Patch by Dirk Ziegelmeier
2738
       <dziegel@gmx.de>.
2739
  ADD: Remove Duplicates now also removes dead entries from playlist.
2740
  FIX: Accept album-dragging from the ContextBrowser. (BR 86020)
2741
  FIX: Configure check was missing for the Konqueror Sidebar (depends on
2742
       KDE-Base).
2743
  FIX: Browser splitter was drawn incorrectly with some styles. (BR 95333)
2744
  ADD: DCOP call for relative seek. Patch by Andreas Pfaller. (BR 84989)
2745
  CHG: Bumped TagLib dependency to 1.3.1. (1.3 is too damn buggy)
2746
  FIX: CTRL-M can show the menubar again after hiding. (BR 94139)
2747
  ADD: Support for last.fm streams.
2748
  FIX: amaroK icon shows correctly in window decoration under GNOME.
2749
  ADD: Support for ID3v2 cover images. (Thanks to M. Thiesen!) (BR 88492)
2750
  ADD: DCOP calls for the status of Random Mode, Repeat Playlist and Repeat
2751
       Track.
2752
  ADD: DCOP call to return the sample rate.
2753
  ADD: DCOP call to return the track number. (BR 94825)
2754
  FIX: GStreamer-engine provides better scope synchronisation.
2755
  ADD: Save current track position and play queue on exit. (BR 90379)
2756
  FIX: Fix Directory column on playlist, show absolute directory path instead of
2757
       empty string. (BR 90361)
2758
  ADD: DCOP call to scan your collection. (BR 84621)
2759
  FIX: When an engine fails to load, respect the rank while choosing the next
2760
       engine.
2761
2762
VERSION 1.2-beta2:
2763
  FIX: Classic amaroK theme looks better.
2764
  ADD: Context Browser has CSS styling.
2765
  FIX: Cover fetching improvements/fixes.
2766
  ADD: Last played: yesterday, etc. in ContextBrowser.
2767
  FIX: Big speedup for PlaylistLoader, when adding many items.
2768
  ADD: Show songs you once played, but didn't play for the longest time on
2769
       ContextBrowser's Home-page. (least played) (BR 89479)
2770
  FIX: Don't crash on song switch, when there's only one visible playlist item
2771
       and repeat-list is activated. (BR 94030)
2772
  CHG: Add and queue tracks after the current track. (BR 94121)
2773
  ADD: DCOP call to raise the equalizer configuration dialog.
2774
  ADD: Konqueror sidebar to view playing info and control amaroK.
2775
  ADD: DCOP call to clear the playlist. (BR 90149)
2776
  ADD: DCOP call to enable/disable the equalizer.
2777
  ADD: DCOP call to return the score of the currently playing track.
2778
  ADD: Audioscrobbler submit queue stored on disk. Tracks that are listened when
2779
       offline will be available for submitting later.
2780
  CHG: "Start Scan" button was renamed to "Update". Now it starts an incremental
2781
       scan instead of a full rescan.
2782
  FIX: Lyrics parsing failed for certain songs. (BR 94269)
2783
  ADD: xine-engine saves config, and implements crossfade, bug fixed too.
2784
  ADD: Player-Window can also show the BlockAnalyzer.
2785
  CHG: Run incremental scanning once a minute instead of every 30 seconds.
2786
  FIX: When collection scanning was interrupted with Cancel, incremental
2787
       scanning didn't work any longer.
2788
  CHG: Handle incremental file scanning in a thread. Now the GUI doesn't get
2789
       blocked every 30 seconds, anymore. (BR 93564)
2790
  ADD: CollectionBrowser now offers two operation modes:
2791
       The classical TreeView and a new FlatView (like the WinAmp Library).
2792
  FIX: Caching of local cover images was broken for non-unique filenames.
2793
       (BR 94068)
2794
  FIX: "Visualizations" menu entry was always disabled.
2795
  FIX: Play button was sometimes stuck in disabled state.
2796
  FIX: OSD was showing "%artist - %track" instead of "%artist - %title".
2797
  FIX: Forward command line option --engine to amarokapp.
2798
  FIX: CoverFetcher was always looking for "album - album".
2799
2800
VERSION 1.2-beta1:
2801
  ADD: Full support for Audioscrobbler, including submission of tracks.
2802
  FIX: Arts engine resumes from position when session is restored.
2803
  ADD: Vorbis stream metadata support (GStreamer-engine). (BR 82378)
2804
  ADD: Cover image and lyric fetchers include filters for common extensions,
2805
       such as (Disc 1). (BR 90630)
2806
  ADD: Ability to choose from four different Amazon locales. (BR 90664)
2807
  ADD: OSD now draws gradient instead of solid colour.
2808
  ADD: 'Stop after current song' functionality. (BR 88652)
2809
  FIX: Queue function from context/collection browsers actually properly queues
2810
       tracks. (BR 90319)
2811
  ADD: MySQL database support. Patch by Andreas Mair <am_ml@linogate.com>.
2812
       Please refer to mailing list for detailed instructions.
2813
  ADD: Metadata history for streams in Context-Browser. (BR 89839)
2814
  ADD: Command line option --engine.
2815
  ADD: OSD text is now configurable, and it displays the album cover.
2816
  FIX: Remote folders are read recursively when dropped on the playlist.
2817
  FIX: Audiocd protocol in filebrowser had empty folders.
2818
  ADD: Cache system for current-track animation in playlist. Reduces CPU load
2819
       when the playlist is visible.
2820
  ADD: 10-band IIR equalizer for GStreamer and xine engines.
2821
  FIX: The background gradient effect in Context-Browser is now much faster. The
2822
       gradient also looks nicer. (BR 91276)
2823
  FIX: Password-protected streams did not work correctly. (BR 91184). Patch by
2824
       <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
2825
  ADD: NMM-engine was rewritten and updated for the latest NMM release. Supports
2826
       audio and video playback.
2827
  ADD: Cover-Manager supports drag-and-drop.
2828
  ADD: Tags are now read from the Collection database if they are already
2829
       stored. This speeds up adding items to the playlist. (BR 90137)
2830
  ADD: Context-browser shows "Suggested Tracks", utilizing audioscrobbler.
2831
  FIX: Configure does no longer print "Good - Configure has finished" when a
2832
       dependency is missing.
2833
  ADD: Intelligent automatic resize for playlist columns
2834
  ADD: Shaded current-track marker in playlist.
2835
  ADD: Automatic song lyrics display.
2836
  CHG: Internal SQLite upgraded to 3.0.8.
2837
2838
VERSION 1.1.1:
2839
  FIX: Crash when using GStreamer-engine on 64bit. (BR 90869)
2840
  CHG: New splash screen by Nenad Grujicic <mchitman@neobee.net>.
2841
  FIX: Crash when fetching 1 missing cover using the fetch button. (BR 90673)
2842
  REM: Unsupported option "Show Metadata in Playlist".
2843
  ADD: Menubar (optional).
2844
  FIX: GStreamer-engine now resumes playback at correct position.
2845
  ADD: iCandy for Context-Browser: Background gradient and toolbar.
2846
  CHG: Collection-Browser now has a toolbar instead of menubar.
2847
  FIX: With "Title Streaming" disabled GStreamer could not play streams.
2848
  FIX: Osssink is now the default sink for GStreamer. If sink initialization
2849
       fails, a dialog will ask to select another sink.
2850
  FIX: Pausing failed on some systems with GStreamer-engine. (BR 90417)
2851
  FIX: Never scan the same directory twice.
2852
  FIX: Disable CD-burning menu for streams. (BR 90336)
2853
  ADD: Open Cover-Manager from Context-Browser popup-menu and main menu.
2854
  FIX: Made amaroK build with --disable-amazon flag.
2855
  FIX: Docs translations were not installed correctly. (BR 90307)
2856
  FIX: GStreamer-engine refused to play some mp3 files. (BR 90317)
2857
2858
VERSION 1.1:
2859
  FIX: Huge speedup for Context-Browser, makes changing tracks faster.
2860
  ADD: Progress display for Cover-Manager.
2861
  CHG: Systray animation is now optional.
2862
  CHG: Updated included sqlite to 3.0.7 (stable).
2863
  ADD: Tag editor can operate on multiple files (mass tagging).
2864
  FIX: Collection encoding broken for non-latin1 characters. (BR 89747)
2865
  ADD: Popup-menu for cover images in Context-Browser.
2866
  FIX: The first track to play is now random for random-mode. (BR 77055)
2867
  FIX: Show systray on startup. (BR 89661)
2868
  FIX: Let xine recognise tracks that have non lower-case extensions.
2869
2870
VERSION 1.1-beta2:
2871
  ADD: K3B integration for burning CDs. (BR 88052)
2872
  ADD: Third category for Collection-Browser. (BR 83609)
2873
  ADD: Playlist search now supports categories. (BR 86296)
2874
  ADD: Support for MAS (Media Application Server). MAS-engine
2875
       is in experimental state.
2876
  ADD: Context-Browser shows information about radio streams.
2877
  ADD: Custom Smart Playlists with built-in editor.
2878
  ADD: Systray icon shows track progress and play status.
2879
  CHG: Imported SQLite3 and ported CollectionDB.
2880
  ADD: "Cool-Streams", a list of amaroK Squad recommended streams for
2881
       playlist-browser.
2882
  ADD: Detecting Sampler/VA discs in CollectionBrowser (shown as
2883
       "Various Artists"). (BR 81683)
2884
  ADD: Configuration GUI for xine-engine.
2885
  ADD: Next and previous track buttons for Tag-Editor.
2886
  ADD: Player-window adapts to current color scheme.
2887
  ADD: Crossfading and fade-in/out function for GStreamer-Engine.
2888
  ADD: Genre and Favorite Tracks by Artist smart playlist in the
2889
       Playlist-Browser.
2890
  ADD: IMMS-like rating system for songs.
2891
  FIX: aRts-engine has been ported to the new engine interface and is
2892
       available again (but not recommended).
2893
  FIX: Try to autodetect Sampler-Discs and show them properly in the
2894
       Contextbrowser. (BR 87182)
2895
  FIX: Multiple items can now be selected in the CoverManager.
2896
       Thanks John Hughes (BR 87584)
2897
  FIX: Various fixes for certain Artist/Album names, which had problems
2898
       with cover support.
2899
  FIX: Sorting the collection is now case-insensitive. (BR 84141)
2900
  CHG: Symlink infinite recursion check for collection scan.
2901
  FIX: Show all accessible cover images in the tooltip. (BR 87283)
2902
  FIX: Clicking an album in the ContextBrowser adds items in the correct
2903
       order, now. (BR 87733)
2904
2905
VERSION 1.1-beta1:
2906
  ADD: Wizard for configuring amaroK on first startup.
2907
  CHG: Made it possible to use the next/previous buttons when amaroK is
2908
       not playing.
2909
  ADD: DCOP call to switch Random Mode on or off. (BR 84460)
2910
  ADD: DCOP call to retrieve current track's cover image. (BR 85364)
2911
  FIX: Problem with cover-saving for certain artist/album names. (BR 84171)
2912
  FIX: Show contextual information for songs, even if they are not in the
2913
       current collection instead of an ugly empty box.
2914
  ADD: GstEngine: Support for custom output plugin parameters. (BR 83949)
2915
  ADD: CoverManager - for downloading and managing album cover images.
2916
  CHG: Refactored engine plugin interface. Each engine can now provide specific
2917
       configuration GUIs.
2918
  ADD: As-you-type search for FileBrowser.
2919
  ADD: Seeking with mousewheel in playerwindow.
2920
  REM: Stream-Browser.
2921
  ADD: New meta-info dialog, with editable tags and MusicBrainz support.
2922
  ADD: Inline-tag editing auto-completion based on the Collection Database.
2923
  ADD: Deleting files physically from playlist context menu. (BR 75208)
2924
  ADD: Fadeouts for GStreamer-Engine.
2925
  ADD: New Playlist Browser, organizes multiple playlists, and offers smart
2926
       playlist functionality.
2927
  ADD: Support for redirected streams and streams with no specified port.
2928
  ADD: KIO support for GStreamer engine. Allows playing media via all
2929
       protocols supported by KIO (ftp, audiocd, fish, etc).
2930
  ADD: SearchBrowser operation can now be aborted.
2931
  ADD: Progressbar in CollectionBrowser informs about scan progress, and a
2932
       button was added for aborting the scan. (BR 83019)
2933
  ADD: Playlist sliders (volume and position) now move directly when clicked
2934
       outside of the handle. (BR 83611)
2935
  ADD: Untagged tracks now go into Collection too, listed as "unknown".
2936
  ADD: Automatic album cover fetching is back and improved.
2937
  ADD: Option for automatically switching to Context when playback is started.
2938
  CHG: Stream timeout value is now determined from KDE user settings.
2939
  ADD: Support for password-protected streams, by wef <javapojken@yahoo.se>.
2940
  FIX: GStreamer engine must not allow non-audio filetypes in playlist.
2941
  ADD: Icon for "Menu" button in toolbar. Improves Usability.
2942
2943
VERSION 1.0.2:
2944
  ADD: xine-engine plugin, audio only.
2945
  FIX: aRts-engine: Compatibility with newer aRts versions improved.
2946
  FIX: aRts-engine: Streams sometimes stopping shortly after playback was
2947
       started. (BR 84417)
2948
  CHG: Increased stream connect timeout to 12 seconds.
2949
2950
VERSION 1.0.1:
2951
  FIX: Short dropouts after starting a stream with GStreamer.
2952
  FIX: amaroK starting invisible when systray icon is disabled.
2953
  FIX: Playlist analyzer looks freaky on some systems. (BR 83671)
2954
  FIX: Display filename in title column for wav files. (BR 83650)
2955
  FIX: Don't show crash dialog when no engine plugins are found.
2956
  FIX: Compile issue for KDE < 3.2.1 users. Sorry :(
2957
2958
VERSION 1.0:
2959
  FIX: Plugin versions are validated. Prevents crashes with ancient plugins.
2960
  FIX: Configure now checks for gtk/gdk headers for the XMMSwrapper.
2961
  REM: Removed cover download feature for this release.
2962
  FIX: Do not crash if an unreadable dir is added to the collection.
2963
  FIX: Check database-sanity on startup and recreate broken tables (BR 83205).
2964
  FIX: CollectionBrowser was broken, when amaroK was running "localized".
2965
  FIX: TitleProxy hogging 100% CPU when unable to connect to server.
2966
  CHG: Bumped GStreamer requirement to 0.8.1.
2967
  ADD: Glowing player window icons.
2968
  ADD: amaroK finally remembers if it was hidden on exit.
2969
  ADD: OSDPreview now has snap to regions.
2970
  FIX: Newly shown columns in playlist can now be resized.
2971
  FIX: BR 82020: next/prev buttons disabled when they shouldn't be.
2972
  ADD: ToolbarAnalyzer remembers it's framerate, allowed fps: {50, 40, 30, 20}.
2973
  ADD: Full streaming audio support for GStreamer engine.
2974
  FIX: Don't allow user to get into a situation where there is no Menu.
2975
  ADD: Using Welcome-page power-links you can switch between XMMS and amaroK mode.
2976
  CHG: New icons and splash screen, by Roman Becker <roman@formmorf.de>.
2977
  ADD: Allow the current GL analyzer to be detached/attached from the
2978
       main window with the 'd' key.
2979
  FIX: Filtering the collection now searches the second category, too (BR 81681).
2980
  FIX: Filter in playlist was only working for the first argument.
2981
  CHG: Collection-Monitor now processes removed dirs in a thread.
2982
  ADD: Added a switch to toggle OSD's text-shadow. (BR 82011).
2983
  ADD: More detailed track information dialog for Collection Browser.
2984
  FIX: Track length was always 0 for certain filetypes (e.g. mod, wav) (BR 82673).
2985
  FIX: Gst engine refusing to add certain filetypes to the playlist, when
2986
       the engine was idle (BR 82713).
2987
  FIX: Rare playlist redraw bug, which resulted in messed up items.
2988
2989
VERSION 1.0-beta4:
2990
  ADD: CollectionDB now caches and rescales images. This binds cover art usage
2991
       in amaroK to the collection, but offers greatly improved speed for cover
2992
       retrieval and uses less memory.
2993
  FIX: Cover not shown in ContextBrowser, when song gets played for the first
2994
       time ever (BR 81241).
2995
  ADD: Cover art fetcher, downloads album cover images from amazon.com.
2996
  ADD: Configure->Playback->Device && default device option for audiosinks.
2997
  ADD: ContextBrowser now also shows your overall-favorites and the newest tracks
2998
       in your collection. Therefor I had to reset the statistics, sorry.
2999
  FIX: Decode %-encoded characters in filenames, like %2f for a slash. (BR 74576).
3000
  CHG: Songs you click in ContextBrowser will now directly start to play and won't
3001
       be added to the playlist, if they already are there.
3002
  FIX: "Start Scan" menu-entry gets disabled while scanning. (BR 81619).
3003
  FIX: Directories with non-ascii chars don't get scanned (CB) in multibyte locales.
3004
  CHG: Enhanced "Fill-Down" feature for track column (auto-increment) (BR 81194).
3005
  FIX: Closing xmms-visualizations freezes amaroK (BR 81326).
3006
  FIX: CollectionBrowser does not sort by tracknumber (BR 79600).
3007
  FIX: ContextBrowser's URLRequests need to be escaped.
3008
  FIX: Always show OSD (if enabled) on volume changes.
3009
  FIX: Filtering the collection using tokens with number(s) at the beginning
3010
       or end failed. (BR 81621).
3011
  FIX: FileBrowser didn't remember its current folder (BR 81816).
3012
  ADD: Expand/collapse items by doubleclicking in Collection (BR 81710).
3013
  FIX: Allow OSD still to be shown via shortcut when disabled (BR 80388).
3014
  FIX: Collection: live-monitoring dirs for changes works again.
3015
  FIX: Changing volume by mousewheel on systray icon works again.
3016
  ADD: Collection automatically rescans itself on startup.
3017
  ADD: "Add to Playlist" feature in CollectionBrowser, appends tracks to playlist.
3018
  ADD: Clear button for CollectionBrowser search.
3019
  FIX: Problem with invisible "Play next" marker in playlist.
3020
  FIX: Don't try to create sql-tables on every startup, but only on
3021
       sql-scheme (DATABASE_VERSION) changes.
3022
  FIX: Display splash screen on correct desktop with Xinerama.
3023
  CHG: CollectionBrowser filter now works in "search-as-you-type" mode.
3024
  FIX: Prevent TitleProxy from showing the same metadata over and over.
3025
  FIX: Compatibility bugfixes to TitleProxy, thanks to Daniel Molkentin
3026
       <danimo@kde.org>. I think we've now got 100% Shoutcast compatibility.
3027
  ADD: Allow changing volume by using the mousewheel anywhere on the toolbar.
3028
  FIX: Wheel-scrolling toolbar's volume slider doesn't change volume (BR 81155).
3029
  FIX: ContextBrowser is now shown in proper colors for every scheme.
3030
  CHG: Added track's physical location to the Meta Information dialog.
3031
  FIX: Show last playtime in localtime instead of UTC.
3032
  FIX: ContextBrowser not showing all items for current album.
3033
  FIX: Not all SQL queries were "string-escaped".
3034
  ADD: Added statistics database, which keeps track of how often and when you play
3035
       a specific song.
3036
3037
VERSION 1.0-beta3:
3038
  ADD: Additional volume slider for playlist window.
3039
  ADD: ContextBrowser shows you images and information to the current song/artist.
3040
       It depends on the collection and is presented as an HTML widget.
3041
  CHG: Improved color handling and visual feedback in the GUI.
3042
  ADD: Global shortcut for play/pause action, as requested by multimedia-keyboard
3043
       users (BR 79541).
3044
  CHG: Small player-window can be switched off now.
3045
  FIX: CollectionBrowser out of order after scanning.
3046
  FIX: TitleProxy partly rewritten. Should be more compatible with many streams
3047
       and not be able to freeze the app any longer.
3048
  FIX: When playing a stream with title streaming activated, the track is not
3049
       marked as playing (BR 79999).
3050
  FIX: Invoking "Track Information" in Collection Browser sometimes crashed
3051
       the application (BR 80266).
3052
  FIX: In CollectionBrowser's folder setup dialog pressing cancel did not abort
3053
       (BR 80451). Thanks to Michael Pyne <pynm0001@comcast.net> for patch.
3054
  ADD: Option for selecting sound output system (OSS/Alsa). Currently only
3055
       used with GStreamer engine.
3056
  CHG: Extended and updated handbook, thanks to Mike Diehl <madpenguin8@yahoo.com>.
3057
  ADD: Context menu item "Make Playlist" in Collection Browser generates new
3058
       playlists on the fly, without the need for drag-and-drop.
3059
  CHG: Renamed several files and folders in the source code tree, resulting in
3060
       improved code accessibility.
3061
3062
VERSION 1.0-beta2:
3063
  FIX: Crash on AMD64 due to assumption about pointer size.
3064
  CHG: SQLite library sourcecode now included with amaroK.
3065
  CHG: The collection-thread now inserts its data in a temporary database while
3066
       scanning, which allows us to safely use the collection in the meantime.
3067
       This is done by two concurrent sqlite-connections (thread-safe). Wrote a
3068
       new class named CollectionDB, which handles the database communication
3069
       for the collection.
3070
  ADD: URLDrag from Playlist, so you can drag and drop to xmms. Doesn't work with
3071
       the FileBrowser yet, but it will!
3072
  CHG: CollectionBrowser now fills the database inside of a thread, resulting in
3073
       improved performance.
3074
  ADD: Mini track-position slider in statusbar.
3075
  FIX: Don't try to crossfade with engines that do not support this feature.
3076
  ADD: XMMS visualization plugins can be configured with their GUI.
3077
  FIX: Collection filtering had some regressions
3078
  FIX: Loader on some systems not able to start amaroK.
3079
  FIX: Switching engines at runtime breaking volume control.
3080
  FIX: GstEngine skipping tracks directly after starting, when crossfading enabled.
3081
  CHG: Database system now works with linked tables. Saves hdd-space and cpu-time.
3082
  CHG: If you remove the current song from the playlist, we don't define the next
3083
       song anymore, but let it be randomly selected (only when random mode is on!)
3084
  CHG: Random Mode now respects the playlist filter and only picks items, which are
3085
       currently visible in the playlist. Also removed a crash situation.
3086
  CHG: Removed the search-token index. Searching now iterates through the playlist,
3087
       offering direct and specific access to the metadata.
3088
  FIX: Bug where fill-down would cause lots of extra tags to be written when a search is
3089
       in progress (BR 79482).
3090
  FIX: Defect in plugin framework code, leading to a crash on some systems
3091
       during engine plugin initialization.
3092
  FIX: Restoring current playlist on startup (BR 79436, BR 79439).
3093
  ADD: Searching the Collection with a filter.
3094
  FIX: BrowserWin's QLabels are painted white in amaroK's own color scheme.
3095
3096
VERSION 1.0-beta1:
3097
  ADD: Search Browser - search stuff on your hdd
3098
  ADD: song count on playlist statusbar
3099
  ADD: support for XMMS visualization plugins
3100
  ADD: Collection Browser - a database powered music collection manager
3101
  ADD: Playlist toolbar is now configurable
3102
  ADD: toolbar analyzer in playlist window
3103
  ADD: use XML playlists internally within amaroK so tags don't have to be
3104
       loaded/reloaded all the time. Makes undo/redo much quicker.
3105
  FIX: non latin1 locale issues with loading directories and tags (thanks Leo Zhu)
3106
  ADD: clicking shuffle will sort the playlist by the nextQueue first, and
3107
       randomise the rest
3108
  ADD: Play Next can now handle several songs through a queue. The queue can be
3109
       manipulated by using the context menu or by CTRL+right clicking.
3110
  ADD: much improved gstreamer engine, now working with visualizations
3111
  CHG: GstEngine requires gstreamer-0.8
3112
  FIX: Show move pointer instead of hand when moving preview OSD.
3113
  ADD: sorting by artist subsorts by album and track, sorting by album subsorts
3114
       by track, enjoy!
3115
  ADD: browserTabs float over the playlist when in set to not overlap
3116
  FIX: communication loader<-->amarok failing on FreeBSD
3117
  FIX: loader forgetting to close socket descriptors
3118
  FIX: FileBrowser remembers that state of its view between sessions
3119
  CHG: converted engines to plugins. they are now dynamically loaded at runtime
3120
  ADD: plugin framework
3121
  CHG: made amaroK aRts-independent. with the --without-arts configure switch
3122
       it's possible to build the app without aRts support, using only NMM or GST
3123
  ADD: Shift drag appends items to the end of the playlist.
3124
  FIX: startup notification icon staying on screen when amaroK started by loader
3125
  FIX: amaroK showing the "X" icon instead of the correct one
3126
3127
VERSION 0.9:
3128
  CHG: playlistBrowser removed until next release
3129
  FIX: playerWidget font is now configurable, you need to start new track for the
3130
       scrolling marquee to get updated. Default font is used by default.
3131
  FIX: fixed several stability issues concerning stream-playback
3132
  ADD: whatsthis for all configurable options.
3133
  FIX: amaroK registering with dcop as "amarok-PID". it's back to just "amarok" now.
3134
  FIX: OSD not updating correctly when changing volume
3135
3136
VERSION 0.9-beta3:
3137
  ADD: "Show Current Track" button in playlist.
3138
  ADD: Volume OSD when changing with mousewheel over trayicon.
3139
  CHG: software volume mixer uses a logarithmic function to make the scale more natural
3140
  ADD: Global shortcuts to display OSD and increase/decrease volume.
3141
       (Win+o and Win+KP_Add/KP_Subtract by default, respectively)
3142
  ADD: DCOP calls to control OSD and playback volume
3143
  ADD: ported config-GUI for audio decoders to new engine (works currently with
3144
       modplug_artsplugin)
3145
  FIX: show correct track-length when playing .mod or .sid with aRts-engine
3146
  ADD: loader application, starts and controls amaroK. it reduces the lag when handing
3147
       command line arguments to amaroK and makes the splash load faster
3148
  ADD: playlist items, which couldn't be opened / read (for some reason) will be marked
3149
       with a grey background color
3150
  ADD: pasting clipboard selection into playlist with MidButton, X11-style
3151
  CHG: refined on-screen-display with more polished look
3152
  FIX: skipping broken/non-existant tracks
3153
  CHG: If the current song is paused, the Play Button will resume, not restart it.
3154
  FIX: respect "hide playlist with main window" and playlist minimize/hide behaviour.
3155
  ADD: new OSD configuration options: bgcolor, screen position
3156
3157
VERSION 0.9-beta2:
3158
  CHG: some look-and-feel polishing in the main player window
3159
  ADD: option to turn off analyzers
3160
  ADD: splash-screen shown during program startup (optional)
3161
  FIX: made stream playback with TitleProxy more stable (by using an unbuffered socket)
3162
  ADD: show stream metadata in on-screen-display
3163
  CHG: transformed "EQ" button into a togglebutton, which can also hide the effect browser
3164
  ADD: new OpenGL analyzer, contributed by Enrico Ros <eros.kde@email.it>
3165
  FIX: FreeBSD compile fixes, contributed by Markus Brueffer <brueffer@phoenix-systems.de>
3166
  FIX: rewritten configure: checks properly for kdemultimedia presence,
3167
       and adds --without-opengl and --without-gstreamer arguments
3168
3169
VERSION 0.9-beta1:
3170
  ADD: display warning when artsd is not running with realtime priority
3171
  ADD: Audioproperties are loaded as you scroll the playlist and get saved to playlist files
3172
  ADD: If trackname column is hidden, the title column will show the trackname until a title
3173
       tag can replace it. If no title tag is found the trackname stays.
3174
  CHG: Pressing "back" in Random Mode now works as expected and walks backwards
3175
       through the list of recently played songs.
3176
  ADD: TitleProxy searches for a free local port (contributed by Stefan Gehn)
3177
  CHG: Random Mode now stores the recently played songs in a buffer, which prevents
3178
       playing the same songs too often.
3179
  ADD: "Play Next" context menu option
3180
  ADD: selected aRts-effects will be remembered on next program start, including settings
3181
  FIX: sort numerical playlist columns in correct order
3182
  ADD: logarithmic fading algorithm makes crossfading smoother
3183
  ADD: Select a series of tracks, start inline tag-editing a tag and amaroK will prompt you to
3184
       edit that tag for all tracks one-by-one. Also available: fill-down.
3185
  ADD: improved crossfading: will fade out smoothly when the stop button is pressed
3186
  FIX: O(n) behavior for playlist scrolling fixed
3187
  ADD: setting to make playlist colours the KDE defaults
3188
  ADD: support for tag-editing directly in playlist
3189
  CHG: replaced old FileBrowser with the comfortable fileselector from KDevelop
3190
  CHG: analyzers now powered by a new, more flexible FFT routine
3191
  ADD: hide/show selected playlist columns
3192
  CHG: upgrade streambrowser to kderadiostation 0.5
3193
  FIX: many streams not loading from browser and AddItem dialog
3194
  CHG: amaroK moved out of kdenonbeta. we are now member of KDE Extra Gear 1
3195
  ADD: on-screen-display (OSD), shows an overlay with information on the currently playing track
3196
  CHG: use KMultiTabBar for browser selection
3197
  CHG: migrated settings system to KConfig XT
3198
  ADD: playlist columns for length and bitrate
3199
  ADD: merged new audio engine in. this provides a generic interface class, with multiple
3200
       backends. right now there is a backend for aRts and one for GStreamer (still rudimentary)
3201
3202
==BEGIN KDE 3.2 DEPENDENCY==
3203
3204
VERSION 0.8.3:
3205
  FIX: build issue
3206
3207
VERSION 0.8.2:
3208
  ADD: added Hide/Show Playlist global shortcut (thanks gogo)
3209
  CHG: mousewheel over trayicon behaviour changed
3210
  CHG: search tokens can now be entered in random order
3211
       ("Presley Elvis" will find "Elvis Presley")
3212
  FIX: qt 3.1 compile issues
3213
3214
VERSION 0.8.1:
3215
  FIX: compilation problem with KDE < 3.1.3
3216
3217
VERSION 0.8.0:
3218
  FIX: KDE 3.1 compatibility re-gained
3219
  ADD: hitting return in the search field of the playlist starts playback of the
3220
       first visible playlist entry (Qt >=3.2 only)
3221
  FIX: fixed crash bug in playlist searching
3222
  FIX: fixed crash bug when removing playlist-items
3223
  CHG: new layout has been adopted
3224
  ADD: added accepting files dropped onto systray icon
3225
  FIX: significant reduction in memory consumption for PlaylistItems
3226
  FIX: hardware mixer works again
3227
  CHG: replaced sliders with custom slider class, which fits better in our design
3228
  FIX: exchanged c32-app-amarok.png with the correct (active) version
3229
  FIX: amarok.desktop file. now we show up in the k-menu again.
3230
  FIX: crossfading aRts module. the fading is now much smoother than before
3231
  FIX: crossfading bug. before the fix amaroK sometimes mixed up the two xfade sources,
3232
       so it sort of faded in reverse (==crap)
3233
  ADD: tag reading in separate thread
3234
  ADD: re-added m_optCrossFade, so we don't lose the crossfade length on switching it on/off.
3235
       set default crossfade length to 2500.
3236
  CHG: "Title Streaming" on by default
3237
  CHG: integrated streambrowser into playlist window
3238
  ADD: added dcop implementation for url adding. Relevant diffs for mediacontrol are
3239
       available.
3240
  FIX: libamarokarts detection code
3241
  ADD: added long-awaited DCOP methods for manipulating the playback. This also adds
3242
       integration with kdeaddons/kicker-applets/mediacontrol.
3243
  CHG: moved DCOP handler to a separate class/file
3244
  ADD: threaded playlist insertion
3245
  FIX: removed bugs and waste code keyhandling in browser*, it mostly works as expected
3246
       now with various keypresses going to the correct places
3247
  FIX: cleaned the playlist class's public interface, also fixed some unreported bugs in
3248
       process (inconsistent recursive behavior), please keep the encapsulation, it's a
3249
       good thing (tm)
3250
  FIX: tweaked undo/redo behavior
3251
  CHG: exchanged old player icons with new ones made by
3252
       Alper Ayazoglu a.k.a. cubon <cubon@cubon.de>
3253
  ADD: clicking on EQ button activates effect selection widget
3254
  ADD: KJanusWidget as a sidebar for filebrowser mode selection
3255
  FIX: pushing enter in lineedit goes up a level
3256
  ADD: a stream browser, can only DnD, separate window, not great yet
3257
  FIX: finally fixed the ancient "annoying-noise-when-pressing-pause" bug
3258
  FIX: should keep track of currently played item no matter what you do to the playlist,
3259
       has a nice side effect of remembering the last played song, too. <berkus>
3260
  FIX: write undo for Shuffle <berkus>
3261
  FIX: the expandbutton doesn't fire events when it has had its stack expanded
3262
       (behaviour a-la Winamp Classic) <berkus>
3263
  FIX: crash when pressing right mouse button while stream is connecting
3264
  ADD: show bitrate for streams with icecast support
3265
  FIX: save stream names as #EXTINF in m3u files
3266
  ADD: bug report dialog
3267
  ADD: proxy for decoding shoutcast/icecast metadata (experimental!)
3268
  ADD: amaroK now in bugs.kde.org
3269
  ADD: configurable delay after each track.  currently 0-10 seconds in 1 sec increments
3270
       but could easily be made to use finder increments if ppl want - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
3271
  ADD: viswidgetv2.  it seems a lot smoother on my machine.
3272
       its quite easy to tweak the dynamics is needed.  is accessible the same as the other
3273
       widgets, just click until it appears (though it looks the same as the original widget
3274
       it just acts differently) - piggz (www.piggz.co.uk)
3275
  ADD: combo with history and completion for dir/file chooser
3276
  ADD: in configure.in.in for checking the version of TagLib, if compiled from CVS, if not,
3277
       then show, that it uses bundled version of TagLib - Stormy
3278
  FIX: font dialog sizing issues
3279
  ADD: resume playback option. Using this means your track starts up again where you left it
3280
       last time you quit amaroK. Excellent feature for us developers :-)
3281
3282
VERSION 0.7.0:
3283
  FIX: collection of fixes related to showing/raising/hiding the playlist
3284
  when showing/raising/hiding the mainWidget
3285
  FIX: by muesli: make playlist searches a bit faster at the expense of memory
3286
  FIX: (partial fix) bitrate/samplerate font overlap at large font sizes
3287
  change: less staccato loading of widgets
3288
  change: pause makes the analyser bars fall to zero rather than just vanish
3289
  ADD: xfade when starting tracks by doubleclick
3290
  FIX: global shortcuts can now be changed
3291
  FIX: tracks skipping randomly
3292
  change: "BrowserWin Enabled" on by default
3293
  change: "Save Playlist" on by default
3294
  change: "Show Metainfo" on by default
3295
  FIX: make loading playlist not block UI
3296
  FIX: on startup load playlist after UI is shown
3297
  change: "Software Mixer Only" on by default
3298
  FIX: make timedisplay also work for streams
3299
  FIX: volume slider adjusting
3300
  FIX: when dropping tracks to PL, order will stay the same as in FileBrowser
3301
  ADD: FileBrowser sortable by clicking on header
3302
  ADD: analyzer that distorts a bitmap
3303
  ADD: multiple analyzers now possible
3304
  ADD: "Software Mixer Only" option
3305
  Removed stale sigplay()
3306
  Cleaned a couple "deprecated" warnings
3307
  ADD: undo and redo playlist actions
3308
  FIX: rewritten config dialog and moved into separate file
3309
  ADD: started configurable colors
3310
  change: spectrum analyser bars now have dynamics, ie. they move smoothly between values
3311
  ADD: mouse wheel over systray icon changes the track, hold shift to change the volume
3312
  change: rearranged menu order for systray (quit = last)
3313
  change: moved volume slider to the right, lets see if this is better
3314
  ADD: started a font selection page in settings
3315
  FIX: Stream urls are now properly demangled/unescaped (%20 => space etc)
3316
3317
VERSION 0.6.91:
3318
  FIX: ExpandButton submenu now slightly delayed
3319
  FIX: dropping items into playlist
3320
  ADD: drop-target indicator line in PlaylistWidget, providing visual feedback
3321
  ADD: tray menu
3322
  ADD: random mode
3323
  ADD: crossfading between tracks
3324
  ADD: vertical lines between columns in Playlist
3325
  ADD: alternating item colors in Playlist
3326
  ADD: column "directory" in PlaylistWidget (for Grue:)
3327
  ADD: sorting by clicking on column headers in PlaylistWidget
3328
  FIX: rewrote directory reading code in BrowserWidget.cpp.
3329
       code is now much more readable, and it also fixes a bug.
3330
  ADD: additional columns in playlist for tags
3331
  FIX: made metainfo reading algorithm faster
3332
  change: switched to TagLib for metainfo reading
3333
  ADD: button "play" in PlayerWidget.cpp is now a toggleButton
3334
  ADD: tray icon
3335
  FIX: playlist window is optionally hideable with main widget when iconified to tray
3336
3337
VERSION 0.6.0:
3338
  Release :)
3339
3340
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE5:
3341
  fixed: animated buttons don't get stuck anymore
3342
  fixed: invoking help
3343
  changed: MetaInfo reading now off by default. the slowdown was potentially
3344
           confusing to new users
3345
  added: documentation
3346
  fixed: cleaned up Makefile.am a bit
3347
  fixed: defined new APP_VERSION macro, since the old approach did not work
3348
         with CVS
3349
  changed: put amarok into KDE CVS (KDENONBETA)
3350
  added: applied Stormchaser's button patch. the AmarokButtons now work
3351
         in a more standard conform way. Thanks Stormchaser, blessed be :)
3352
3353
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE4:
3354
  added: buttons in playlist window for play, pause, stop, next, prev.
3355
    a.k.a. stakker mode :)
3356
  removed: "load" button. this functionality is now provided by "Add item"
3357
  added: more sanity checks on pointers
3358
  fixed: when track in playlist does not exist, we now skip to the next track
3359
  fixed: all aRts references are freed correctly at program exit
3360
  fixed: effects will not be forgotten any more when EffectWidget is closed
3361
3362
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE3:
3363
  fixed: crash when URLs were dropped onto filebrowser from other apps
3364
  fixed: URL dialog now accepts remote files
3365
  added: correct caption for ArtsConfigWidget
3366
  added: "amaroK Handbook" menu entry, calling KHelpCenter
3367
  changed: amarok gets installed into multimedia now
3368
  fixed: PlayObject configuration
3369
3370
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE2:
3371
  changed: safety question at program exit now off by default
3372
  removed: button "sub" - it was useless
3373
  changed: clearing playlist does not stop playing anymore - for Grue ;)
3374
  fixed: potential crash at startup
3375
  added: menu option to configure PlayObject
3376
  fixed: crash when removing currently playing track
3377
3378
VERSION 0.6.0-PRE1:
3379
  fixed: flicker in glowing item
3380
  fixed: another memory leak in analyzer (hopefully the last one!)
3381
  added: playlist widget can display metainfo instead of filenames
3382
  added: repeat track / repeat playlist
3383
3384
VERSION 0.5.2 - 0.5.2-DEV6:
3385
  fixed: memory leak in analyzer code.
3386
  added: shortcut for copying current title to the clipboard
3387
  added: slider position can be changed by just clicking somewhere on the slider
3388
  added: icon
3389
  added: url can be entered directly above the filebrowser widget
3390
  changed: removed the "jump" widget. you can now enter a filter string
3391
    directly above the playlist widget
3392
  added: playlists (.m3u and .pls) can now directly be dragged into the playlist
3393
  added: support for .pls (audio/x-scpls)
3394
  added: amarok is now completely network-transparent. any kind of folder,
3395
    local as well as remote, can be browsed and played.
3396
  added: check for libamarokarts. amarok won't crash anymore if it's not found
3397
  added: the time display now has a mode for showing the remaining time, too
3398
  fixed: crash when clearing playlist, after playlist has played till the end.
3399
    clearing the playlist stops the playing now.
3400
  added: new gfx in playerwidget
3401
  fixed: progressbar sometimes not working, zero tracklength
3402
  fixed: font of bitrate/frequency display too big on some systems
3403
  added: command line options
3404
  added: timedisplay is now updated during seeks
3405
  added: saving window positions and size on exit
3406
  added: due to popular request, I finally changed the behaviour of the "play"
3407
    button. it's now possible to start a track on a fresh playlist without
3408
    double-clicking an item.
3409
  fixed: compile error on GCC 3.3.1 in visQueue.cpp. bugfix by thiago
3410
  added: completely rewrote drag-and-drop code. works recursively now (optionally).
3411
    plus dragging stuff from other applications into amaroK also works now.
3412
3413
VERSION 0.5.1:
3414
  added a Tip of the Day at startup to explain the user interface a bit
3415
  added restarting of artsd on first program start to make sure it registers
3416
    the new mcopclasses
3417
  fixed possible compile error in viswidget.cpp
3418
  amaroK uses much less CPU now than it used to. This was mainly achieved by
3419
    using a new FFT-analyzer module, which I took from Noatuns "Winskin"-plugin,
3420
    and modified slightly to my needs. Also some other optimizations were made,
3421
    which improved the standby performance, when no song is playing. I'm still
3422
    not satisfied with overall performance, tho, but it seems that most of the
3423
    load is produced by the aRts code itself, so this will rather be difficult
3424
    to improve.
3425
  fixed crash when "next" or "previous" was pressed without a track
3426
    loaded
3427
  thanks to valgrind I was able to find and squish some serious bugs,
3428
    most of which were related to pointers. to sum it up: pointers are evil.
3429
    valgrind is great.
3430
  lots of UI-changes in the main widget. uses a background pixmap now, a
3431
    custom font and widget for the time-display, and generally looks better
3432
  fixed issues with the liquid skin. unfortunately, there seems to be no way
3433
    to display pushbuttons correctly with a black background under liquid. so,
3434
    until I find a solution for that, the expandbutton widget doesn't look quite
3435
    as cool as it used to. maybe I should ask mosfet about this..
3436
3437
VERSION 0.50:
3438
  renamed 0.15 to 0.50
3439
3440
VERSION 0.15:
3441
  playing streams now works! *yipeeee*
3442
  fixed tons of bugs in aRts playing code. i think i got it right now.
3443
  fixed loading and saving of playlists. can cope with all protocols now.
3444
  fixed a bug in EffectWidget.cpp, that gave a compile error on some systems.
3445
  Converting QString into std::string was not done correctly. Thanks to
3446
    Whitehawk Stormchaser for that one :)
3447
  changed project name to "amaroK" and built new project-file
3448
3449
VERSION 0.14 (internal):
3450
  implemented use of arts-software-mixing, in case hardware-mixing
3451
  (/dev/mixer) doesn't work
3452
  fixed crash when play was pressed without selecting a file
3453
  changed the direction of the volume-slider. maximum is now at the top
3454
  added automatic saving of current playlist on exit
3455
  added previous/next track
3456
  added two radiobuttons in the playerwidget for toggling the
3457
    playlist/equalizer on and off. admitted, the equalizer doesn't yet exist, so
3458
    it's just a dummy button :P
3459
  added popup-menu for the playerwidget. opens on
3460
    right mouse button. this menu finally replaces the ugly menubar.
3461
  added some icons (from noatun) for the player-buttons instead of text
3462
  added pause function
3463
  changed most names in the source to comply with the
3464
    (unofficial?) KDE c++ coding standard (using the prefix "m_" for member
3465
    attributes and so on). This was real slave-work :/
3466
  cleaned up code in several classes
3467
  fixed problem where subwidgets got keyboard focus and were drawn dark with
3468
    the liquid style. switched off focus completely, since it's not needed for
3469
    this type of application
3470
3471
VERSION 0.13 (internal):
3472
  added cute animated pushbuttons with sub-menus
3473
  added saving playlists
3474
  added dragging items inside of playlist widget
3475
  added forward declarations in header files to reduce compile time
3476
  added saving of browserwin/splitter size
3477
  rewrote track information widget. used a html table for the text. looks much
3478
  nicer now :)
3479
  fixed sorting function
3480
  fixed jump widget. removed huge memory leaks in the widget
3481
  fixed flicker in analyzer widget
3482
  tons of bugfixes in playing code. partly rewritten. seems to be much more
3483
  stable now
3484
3485
VERSION 0.12 (internal):
3486
  added ChangeLog and TODO
3487
  added grid under scope display
3488
  added saving of options, like current directory and playlist
3489
  added detection of mimetypes
3490
  added adjusting volume by mousewheel
3491
  added skipping to next track after playing
3492
  added loads of sanity/safety checks
3493
  bugfixes (tons of) in playlist code, partly rewritten
3494
  bugfixes in scope code
3495
3496
3497
VERSION 0.1 - 0.11:
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  internal versions, no changelog
3499
  tried no less then 4 different sound interfaces:
3500
    mpg123, smpeg, alsaplayer, and finally aRts