What's new in Rhythmbox 0.12.3:

· 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

What's new in Rhythmbox 0.12.0:

· Replaced gnome-vfs with GIO
· New CD burning plugin using Brasero
· Improvements to the cross-fading player backend
· Various improvements to MTP device support
· Updated audio CD metadata code, supporting CD-Text and musicbrainz3
· User data and cached files moved to XDG base directory spec locations
· Much clearer indication of problems with last.fm login and streaming
· Where possible, provide a simple means to duplicate audio CDs
· Greatly improved performance when accessibility is enabled
· Updated Coherence UPnP plugin
· iPod improvements: avoid creating duplicates, add a device properties
· dialog, initialize brand new ipods
· Support for more last.fm stream types
· GTK+ and GLib usage cleanups: use single header includes,
· stop using deprecated functions and widgets
· Reworked tray icon tooltip using GtkTooltip instead of SexyTooltip
· Random play order should repeat itself far less often
· If using pulseaudio, control the output volume using the PA stream volume
· Reworked search infrastructure that might make interesting things possible