Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes.

Rhythmbox is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

Here are some key features of "Rhythmbox":

· Easy to use music browser
· Searching and sorting
· Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
· Internet Radio support
· Playlists

Requirements:

· GStreamer

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Only attempts to install GStreamer audio decoder plugins
· More accurate lyrics and cover art searches
· Problems with M4A files in podcasts fixed
CD playback and ripping improvements:
· Fixed playback when crossfading is enabled
· New entry fields for album artist, genre, year, disc number
· Album artist is used when constructing filenames
· Song title, genre, and artist can be edited in the track list
· Increased extraction buffer size, meaning faster ripping
· Playback position slider updates more frequently
· Better behaviour with PulseAudio's flat volume
· Support for automatic proxy configuration (via libsoup-gnome)
· Clean up empty directories on media player devices
· Improved playback from MTP devices
· Some improvements manually added and IPv6 addressed DAAP servers

Bugs fixed:

· 331272 - track change notification should have Next button
· 345712 - automatic proxy configuration
· 349066 - cover art search inaccuracy
· 358313 - lyrics search inaccuracy
· 382906 - make the position-slider make run more smoothly
· 425239 - Last.fm paid member usability
· 437324 - Freeze when right-click -> Properties after start
· 479897 - Podcast containing m4a always returns failed upon download
· 501217 - Rhythmbox ignores http_proxy
· 502670 - Some typos in Rhythmbox's manual
· 516192 - crash when ejecting audio CD after metadata read failure
· 531310 - Update of documentation
· 537113 - attempts to install missing plugins for video and non-audio files
· 539007 - Gives up instantly on files if mime type isn't recognized
· 550491 - Use album artist information when importing from audio CD
· 556296 - crash due to missing podcast information in database
· 576005 - files played from MTP devices remain in /tmp afterwards
· 583108 - Song rating throught rhythmbox-client
· 583700 - Rhythmbox fails to import or play songs with forward slash from
· MTP devices
· 583934 - don't search for playlists on devices with no playlist format
· information
· 584182 - Additional areas for plugins to add UI elements
· 584248 - "Always show notifications" doesn't work accross restarts
· 584378 - undefined symbol in status-icon plugin
· 584394 - Tooltip for play button does not change to "Stop Playback"
· once track starts playing
· 584588 - Update libnotify required version to 0.4.1
· 584726 - Wrong icon sizes
· 584770 - minor translatable string fixes
· 584804 - audioscrobbler only sends one track with RBPlayerGst backend
· 584927 - daap: Fix â��Hostâ�� HTTP header on manual daap
· 584930 - support for daap servers with ipv6 addresses
· 584958 - fix interaction with pulseaudio 0.9.15 flat volume feature
· 585043 - Last.fm playlist support
· 585114 - status-icon plugin build is broken (missing rb-marshall.h)
· 585524 - add_widget does not allow you to specify packing options
· 586363 - update for totem-pl-parser API additions
· 586365 - update for totem-pl-parser API additions
· 586803 - translator comment addition
· 586922 - proxy authentication not working for last.fm
· 586985 - crash when playback pipeline shutdown fails
· 587329 - allocating GValues in metadata helper incorrectly
· 587479 - crash when processing some metadata load errors
· 587595 - crash at end of playlist (playbin2)
· 587691 - always release gdk lock after calling loader callbacks

Contributors:

· Szilveszter Ã�rdög
· Nguyá»�n Thái Ngá»�c Duy
· Sergey Rudchenko
· Edgar Luna
· John Iacona
· Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester
· Markus Järvinen
· Stefano Frangioni
· Jonathan Matthew

New and updated translations:

· as, courtesy of Amitakhya Phukan
· de, courtesy of Mario Blättermann
· es, courtesy of Jorge González
· et, courtesy of Mattias Põldaru
· fr, courtesy of Claude Paroz
· gu, courtesy of Sweta Kothari
· he, courtesy of Mark Krapivner
· hu, courtesy of Gabor Kelemen
· it, courtesy of Luca Ferretti
· lt, courtesy of Žygimantas BeruÄ�ka
· mr, courtesy of Sandeep Shedmake
· or, courtesy of Manoj Kumar Giri
· pa, courtesy of A S Alam
· pl, courtesy of Tomasz Dominikowski
· pt_BR, courtesy of Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
· sv, courtesy of Daniel Nylander
· ta, courtesy of I. Felix
· vi, courtesy of Phạm Thành Long