What's new in Decibels 46.0
Apr 12, 2024
- Decibels joined GNOME Incubator!
- As a consequence, the application ID changed to org.gnome.Decibels
- The application's source code is now hosted on GNOME Gitlab's instance instead of GitHub
- Only the header bar is now draggable, instead of the whole app window
- The app is more secure because it only uses the needed sandbox permissions
- Decibels no longer incorrectly advertises being able to open directories
- The waveform now looks better because it has slightly thicker lines
- Fixed crashes when handling invalid audio files
- Added keyboard controls for controlling playback
- It is now possible to scroll on the playback bar to seek forwards or backwards
- Decibels now shows the correct track's durations reliably instead of showing 1:40
- The design of the app was improved with new icons and papercut fixes
- Added Spanish and updated the Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian translations
New in Decibels 0.1.7 (Dec 9, 2023)
- Decibels joined GNOME Circle!
- Enhanced the accessibility of the app by ensuring that every on-screen element is screenreader accessible
New in Decibels 0.1.6 (Nov 10, 2023)
- The buttons allowing to skip forwards and backwards 30 seconds were removed
- Some issues in the Brazilian Translation were fixed
New in Decibels 0.1.5 (Nov 4, 2023)
- The waveform of the track is now reliably generated, and shows volume levels more distinctly
New in Decibels 0.1.4 (Oct 7, 2023)
- A small bugfix and minor improvements release:
- The artist of the currently playing track is shown if the artist is known
- Fix a minor visual issue when dropping a file
- Pause the track after playback ends
- The window size is now correctly saved and restored
- A few issues preventing some content from being translated were fixed
- Decibels was translated to French, Russian, Italian and Turkish
New in Decibels 0.1.3 (Oct 1, 2023)
- A few improvements and papercut fixes
- Support drag and drop
- Seek to the start of a track after it ends
- Allow dragging the app window from everywhere (except the waveform)
- Made the playback speed popover look less cluttered by removing the +/- buttons and mark labels
- Fix an issue that prevented accessing file metadata from within the Flatpak sandbox
- Don't try to play files without audio streams (images and videos without sound)
- Don't try to process video streams even if they were not rendered
- Fixed some issues with the Development build of Decibels
- Fixed a minor glitch with the app icon