Rhythmbox 0.13.0 "Albatross" released

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

Rhythmbox 0.13.0 "Albatross" is now available. This is the start of a
new series of releases focussed on adding new features and addressing
the latest round of platform updates.

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Highlights:

* Improved GStreamer codec installation (Jonathan Matthew)
* New metadata fields: comment (Josh Green), BPM (Mattias Eriksson),
  Album artist (JM)
* MMS and RTSP streams should work properly now (Robert Ancell)
* Always visible on startup when started manually (JM)
* New implementation of the MPRIS D-Bus interface spec (JM)
* Creates nested folders on MTP devices (JM)
* Installs header, VAPI and pkg-config files for external plugins (JM)
* DAAP plugin now uses libdmapsharing (W. Michael Petullo)
* Library, playlist and podcast syncing for media players (based on Paul
   Bellamy's Summer of Code project)
* Fixed interaction with Brasero for CD burning (Philippe Rouquier)
* New application icon (Lapo Calamandrei)
* Displays HTML podcast episode descriptions using WebKit (JM)
* Updates for Magnatune's new purchase process (Adam Zimmerman)

Bugs fixed:

310774 - Music player sync
320507 - Deal with HTML in Podcast Descriptions
324845 - Podcast syncing
341702 - Clobbers empty/nonexistent tags
404698 - Track transfer fails with "failed to find acceptable mime type"
454889 - Support for the BPM tag
457088 - track transfer on out of space messages stack up
501554 - generic audio player synchronization support
520046 - copying files to full iPod leaves 0-byte files scattered on the device
525094 - Grab lyrics from darklyrics.com
527898 - Assertion in rhythmdb_property_model_delete_prop()
530775 - Crossfade backend can't play Real Audio streams
537868 - Restore window when rhythmbox is closed from tray icon
538240 - Progress bar while copying to storage media is non-sensical
559849 - Human friendly names instead of language codes
560940 - support "Comment" id3 tag in rhythmbox
566852 - Move DAAP code to use common libdmapsharing
581885 - rhythmbox can't play mms radio
592470 - "Do you want to overwrite..." dialogue box lacks yes/no to
all and cancel buttons
593641 - Folder support for MTP-Devices
593968 - problematic way of asking to skip files on copy
595425 - Use accessor functions instead direct access (use GSEAL GnomeGoal)
596615 - Use a single HTTP connection for podcast downloads where possible
612714 - IM Status plugin does not reset status message on end playback
612867 - Automatic playlists editor is missing "does not equal" in
Rating criterions
612942 - After one error in radio streaming, rhythmbox fails with all
radios channels.
613526 - Crash due to MTP device disappearing immediately after access
613941 - genre tab displays numbers in magnatune catalogue instead of
genre names
614084 - Translatable string fixes
614139 - New icon
614184 - No python binding for rhythmdb_query_model_copy_contents
614351 - Crash due to playing stream signal emitted on non-main thread
616411 - crash when transferring files with no extension
616636 - use g_ascii_strtod to read the db version
617157 - use g_strcmp0 when checking properties in song info widget
617587 - fix python initialization code for python 2.6.6
618025 - Add KWUR to initial internet radio station playlist
618520 - implement MPRIS dbus spec
619247 - TerraParser does not catch all HTML entities
619576 - Brasero does not remove temporary projects because of
G_SPAWN_FILE_AND_ARGV_ZERO in the plugin
619677 - Expose file grabbing functions to python plugins
619907 - Add more bindings for Vala
619925 - Add translator comment for "Volume usage"
620069 - add python bindings for the rating widget
620199 - fails to build: "pause" already used by eglibc <unistd.h>
620256 - RBSource has no default implementation for rb_source_can_pause
620857 - Support detection of files in the library being renamed/moved
while rhythmbox is running
621434 - Source code typo in sources/rb-library-source.c
622215 - [Patch] Allow building rhythmbox with gtk+ 2.21.1 or newer
622613 - segfault in rb_player_gst_xfade_bus_cb
622723 - Sync string is used in two different contexts
622753 - segfault in rhythmdb_add_import_error_entry

New and updated translations:

- bg, courtesy of Krasimir Chonov
- cs, courtesy of Marek Černocký
- da, courtesy of Ask Hjorth Larsen
- de, courtesy of Mario Blättermann
- el, courtesy of Simos Xenitellis
- es, courtesy of Jorge González
- et, courtesy of Mattias Põldaru
- fr, courtesy of Claude Paroz
- gl, courtesy of Fran Diéguez
- hi, courtesy of karthik
- hu, courtesy of Gabor Kelemen
- it, courtesy of Luca Ferretti
- ko, courtesy of Kang Bundo
- lt, courtesy of Aurimas Černius
- pa, courtesy of A S Alam
- pl, courtesy of Piotr Drąg
- pt_BR, courtesy of Daniel S. Koda
- sl, courtesy of Andrej Žnidaršič
- sr, courtesy of Милош Поповић
- sr latin, courtesy of Miloš Popović
- th, courtesy of Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
- uk, courtesy of Sergiy Gavrylov
- zh_CN, courtesy of Funda Wang

enjoy,
-jonathan