[Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox 0.9.6 "Live from the shores of lake Burley-Griffin"

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

G'day Everyone,

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


Notable new features include:
- Further improvements to plugin infrastructure and more plugins
- Tag writing[0] and ipod-write support turned on by default
- Local file support for album art plugin
- Gnome-keyring support for storing DAAP password

and many, many more improvements, bug fixes and new minor features. See
below for more details.

[0] gst-plugins-good 0.10.4 is recommended for ID3 tag editing, and Ogg
Vorbis tag editing requires a GStreamer plugin not yet in cvs, see bug
335635



* What is Rhythmbox ?
=====================

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally
inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well
under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media
framework.


* What's changed in 0.9.5 ?
===========================

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

Plus the usual assortment of bug fixes, performance and memory
improvements, and minor features.

Updated Translations
--------------------

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


* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.9/rhythmbox-0.9.6.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: d6933c2aa9f8391708f826a7cb923982]
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.9/rhythmbox-0.9.6.tar.bz2
[MD5 sum: 805459eafd670b18c663ba478ad2ebd4]


Home Page:
http://www.rhythmbox.org/


-- 
James "Doc" Livingston <doclivingston gmail com>