Sonata 1.6.2.1 - Changelog

What's new in Sonata 1.6.2.1:

October 19th, 2009

· Library artwork caching/displaying improvements
· Lyricwiki screen scraping workaround
· Replace Amazon.com cover art fetching with Rhapsody.com
· Bug: Fix library sorting when adding, e.g., albums to playlist
· Bug: Fix window positioning weirdness when unwithdrawing from systray
· Bug: Fix album being labeled various artists when a duplicate exists
· Bug: Fix album tracks in the info tab being out of order sometimes
· Bug: Show songs with a missing date in info album listing
· Bug: Library icons change after adding stream to playlist
· Bug: Cpu spike, tooltips missing in library search results with gtk 2.16.2

What's new in Sonata 1.6.2:

April 22nd, 2009

· Bug: Fix cli options (e.g. 'sonata play')

What's new in Sonata 1.6.1:

April 11th, 2009

· Reduce library's filesystem view row height
· More auto-applying of preferences (e.g. format tab)
· Bug: Fix python version check for Ubuntu Jaunty
· Bug: Traceback if track has multiple date tags
· Bug: Fix infinite loop when format strings end in '{'
· Bug: Fix music directory chooser selecting the wrong folder sometimes
· Bug: Catch OSErrors from os.listdir, e.g. flac files with cue sheets
· Bug: Fix --profile option

What's new in Sonata 1.6:

March 30th, 2009

· Album browsing mode, additional details in library views
· Real-time searching of library (search as you type)
· Fullscreen album art mode (via right-click on artwork) (mips)
· Improve library searching across meta tags
· Sort library search results
· Show file path in tooltip for library search results
· Improved support for updating less than entire library
· Drag-and-drop to copy files from Sonata to a file manager (Kamil)
· Ability to show file paths in tag editing window
· Use plchanges for faster performance (e.g. add to playlist)
· Allow manually fetching remote art when using local art pref (Erik)
· Swap mousewheel behavior for progressbar
· Only minimize to trayicon on click if focused; raise if not focused
· Use new 'listplaylists' command for retrieving playlists
· Allow hiding the application's titlebar in preferences
· Better error trapping
· Make process name 'sonata' for linux (himdel)
· Look for < artist > < title >.txt lyrics files by other clients
· Add Traditional Chinese translation (b4283)
· Add Japanese translation (Masato)
· Add Slovenian translation (Alan)
· Code modernisation, modularisation, overall cleanup, documentation
· A prototype of a plug-in system
· Unicode fixes
· Some helpful error messages if startup fails
· Useless code removed, various code cleanups and refactorings (Stephen)
· Bug: Bad profiles prevent Sonata from starting
· Bug: Error for CLI arguments when Sonata can't connect to MPD (Juan)
· Bug: Files may not update in interface after tag editing
· Bug: Traceback with Turkish locale
· Bug: Lyrics don't work with python-zsi 2.0 on Ubuntu
· Bug: Bell sound when going to parent folder using backspace