What's new in XNOISE 0.2.21
Jan 28, 2014
- Fix crasher bug with screen saver management
- Add new screen saver manager
- Update some translations
New in XNOISE 0.2.20 (Dec 13, 2013)
- Redo the import dialog
- Real-Time Monitor media folders for changes
- Check media folders for changes that happened during the time xnoise wasn't running
- GUI improvements/changes
- Change drawing of album art
- Trim Settings dialog
- Use application menu, only
- Remove title-to-decoration plugin
- Automatically activate some of the plugins
- Use new libtaginfo API for tag reading/writing
- Udate tag editing mechanism
- Many Bug fixes
- Updated translations
New in XNOISE 0.2.19 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Don't ignore last song in random mode.
- GUI updates
- Allow compilation with valac 0.22
- Changes for Settings dialog
- AsyncQueues for background worker threads
- Add media browser visibility option to app menu
- Media browser rendering fixes for Adwaita
- Fix rendering of background on Manjaro + Adwaita
- Desktop file fixes
- Localization fixes
- More bug fixes
- Updated translations
New in XNOISE 0.2.18 (May 11, 2013)
- Improvements for 'various artists' albums
- Make use of disk number tag
- Change caching strategy for album art
- New sort mode for music browser: ALBUM-ARTIST-TITLE
- Change panel icon
- Prevent backlight dimming in fullscreen mode
- Use spin button for year tag editing in albums
- Make insertion of imported tracks into music browser faster
- Improve album art discovery
- Work around memory leak
- Require libtaginfo version 0.1.6
- Changes for possible build with clang
- Automatically expire notifications on xfce
- Do not switch main view if device is plugged in
- Separate handling of toolbars with 'Ambiance' / 'Radiance' theme
- Add some possibility for runtime reference tracking
- Translation updates
- Various bug fixes
- Cleanups
New in XNOISE 0.2.15 (Feb 7, 2013)
- Handle 'Various artists' albums and compilations
- Add CD Rom device type (preview listening, only)
- Change button style in toolbar
- Handle tray icon visibility via setting, only
- Add sequencial loading for album art view for better user experience on large search results
- Add commandline option for 'hidden window' mode
- Translate and extend unity quicklist options
- Add DockableMediaManager class (tradiaz)
- Add combobox media selector (tradiaz)
- Add animated showing/hiding of tree media selector
- Add gstreamer-plugins-base to runtime dependencies
- Allow editing of genre
- Adjust volume on scroll on video screen/'now playing' pane
- Add local fallback icons for xnoise
- Use gnome's 'emblem-system-symbolic' for the application button (0rAX0)
- More icon work
- Update some translations
- Many bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.2.13 (Oct 30, 2012)
- Add new Album Art view with search
- New Xnoise Icon (icon by Reda Lazri)
- Recreated 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections
- Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu
- Add Ctr-B keybinding for toggling album art view
- Use symbolic icon in volume slider
- Implement MPRIS 2 seek
- Mingw compatibility fixes
- Enable support for more media types
- Update translations
- Bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.2.8 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Add Magnatune plugin
- Put the UbuntuOne plugin into a seperate deb, so that dependeny to libubuntuoneui is avoided
- Add script that autoamtically creates *.deb pakages on dabian and debian based distros (Tal Hadad)
- Add packaging folder to source distrubution
- Update packaging data
- Update po/cs.po (psimacek)
- Use blue color to indicate active searches because red looks like nothing was found
- Automatically distribute changelog
- Fix crasher with title-to-decoration plugin
- Fix potential crasher in signal handler of mpris plugin
- Bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.31 (Jan 23, 2012)
- port xnoise to gtk+-3.0
- add option for disabling video subtitles
- stop using uris for the title search
- mediabrowser: gtk3 compatible font rendering with linebreaks
- update some translation
- lastfm plugin: make scrobbling optional (cover fetching can be used without logging an user into lastfm)
- remove deprecated HBox/VBox widgets
- use icons for drag'n'drop
- drop dependency to libunique (now gio's application class)
- remove old versions of notification and soundmenu plugins
- many bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.30 (Nov 21, 2011)
- add new lastfm plugin (scrobble, replace lastfmcovers plugin)
- add more support for importing playlist files (Francisco Pérez Cuadrado)
- add new jump to position button
- use Ctrl-M for media browser toggling
- add Czech translation
- update translations
- replace markup reader with wrapper class for glib's markup reader
- autotools: remove *_DEPRECATED macros (fix issue 87)
- fixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.29 (Oct 3, 2011)
- redo import and use of streams
- add mpris v1 plugin (additional to mpris v2 plugin)
- update translations for german, hebrew, italian, polish, portugese, russian
- use a recent vala version
- bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.27 (Sep 12, 2011)
- present the currently played track data together with the album cover in the 'now playing' view
- check missing gstreamer plugins (codecs) and inform the user
- new handler for adding all visible tracks to tracklist
- new option for quitting application on closing window (not default option)
- set_tooltip for compact mode application menu button
- use icons only for hide/show library buttons
- improve track icon loading (for elementary theme)
- move all code to new libxnoise
- changes in project structure; add new name spaces
- use XDG data dir for xnoise data
- add french translation
- add polish translation
- update some translation
- bug fixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.12 (Oct 20, 2010)
- Rework program infrastructure. This results in a big user experience
- improvement for big media collections.
New in XNOISE 0.1.11 (Sep 30, 2010)
- Xnoise:
- create a new playlist handling library (libplaylist)
- add fast forward within track on progressbar scroll
- change track on trayicon scroll
- add mediabrowser automatic linebreaks
- save tracklist column positions and relative width
- open locations dialog
- use tooltip on mouseover for trayicon showing metadata
- show plugin descriptions in plugin manager
- add hebrew and spanish translation
- fix font issue in tracklist
- fix available size calculation in tracklist
- hide mouse pointer when fullscreentoolbar is hidden
- redraw videoscreen as soon as albumcover has arrived
- reload album images that have been removed from hdd
- use spacebar key for play/pause in fullscreen mode
- improve logo visibility
- make some tracklist columns optional
- fix screensaver handling while track paused, fixes issue #47
- honor XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable
- more bug fixes
- Xnoise Plugins:
- add soundmenu integration plugin (ubuntu\\\'s indicator-sound);
- available for Maverick only
- mpris plugin uses mpris v2 now
- add lyricswiki plugin
New in XNOISE 0.1.10 (Jul 9, 2010)
- xnoise:
- add user info system
- add initial import dialog
- add open file dialog (play tracks without adding them to the library)
- improve random mode
- use new icons
- show user info on media import
- distribute vapi directories with released tarballs
- several bugfixes
- xnoise-plugins-core:
- add mpris dbus interface
- add mediakeys plugin
- fix chartlyrics plugin
- use alternative mediawatcher processing
- mediawatcher uses new user information system
- distribute vapi directories with released tarballs
- several bugfixes
New in XNOISE 0.1.6 Pre (Jun 21, 2010)
- Bugfix for crash on media import with corrupted vorbis headers.
- Deactivation of screensavers in fullscreen video mode
New in XNOISE 0.1.5 Pre (Jun 21, 2010)
- This version is fully functional but not feature complete. Music and Video can be collected and played back.
- Plugins are also working.
- There may be some bugs