Tauon Music Box Changelog

What's new in Tauon Music Box 7.7.2

Apr 6, 2024
  • [Windows] Fixed lastfm not working
  • Added experimental Discord presence album art
  • Various other fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.7.1 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Improved search with Chinese text
  • Various tweaks and fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.7.0 (Nov 18, 2023)

  • Two main changes this release:
  • Updated the shuffle and repeat icons. Yep Ive finally caved on this one. Thanks to @skylineone044 for helping design these. These new icons are less confusing and now also show what sub-mode you're in (in an understandable way).
  • There is now a setting to set the background to be artist images rather than just album art under Settings > Theme.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.7 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • Added new options for tracklist folder title format.
  • Added feature to set playlists to use persistent time positions.
  • Other small bug fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.6 (Jun 13, 2023)

  • Hotfix for radio not working under Flatpak.
  • Fixes metadata with some stations not showing.
  • Known issue: HLS streams still not working under Flatpak

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.5 (Jun 11, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • Added option for monochrome themed tray icon.
  • Added setting to pull last.fm loved status on scrobble and rescan.
  • Various other tweaks and fixes.
  • Spotify Changes:
  • New Spotify track indicator, replaces the old green highlight.
  • Improved reliability with playback.
  • Unplayable tracks will how display as such (Requires re-authentication to enable this feature)
  • You can now optionally supply the client secret code. (Fixes needing to re-authenticate sometimes, existing users who enter this, please click "Forget Account" and re-authorize.)
  • [AUR Users] Known issue: Possible crash when using python-tekore version 4.6.0.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.4 (Apr 29, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • Track loves are now timestamped and will be ordered by such in the loved playlist.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.3 (Apr 2, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Tweaked appearance of new slate mini mode.
  • Fixed no sound issue with "Pro Audio" soundcards.
  • VARIOUS BUG FIXES:
  • Tip: You can use the global search while in the slate mini mode.
  • AUR users: If you run into build errors, make sure you're using a clear build directory.
  • Notice: With this release the minimum Python version is now 3.10

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.2 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • Fix Spotify auth not working
  • Added listen along feature
  • Added new mini mode style
  • Various tweaks and bug fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.1 (Mar 24, 2023)

  • Fixes some issues with the new mini mode introduced last release.
  • Added listen along feature
  • Added new mini mode style
  • Various tweaks and bug fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.6.0 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • LISTEN ALONG:
  • This feature provides a web UI that plays what you're playing on Tauon. Its a major rework of the now removed "Outbound Broadcast" feature. Its no longer stream based, so now only works via the web interface, but has the benefit of much reduced latency.
  • NEW MINI MODE STYLE: SLATE:
  • Let me know what you think. It may not be final and may be changed or removed in the future. Remember you can access these mini modes by right clicking in the bottom bar title area. You can then double click the title text area to quick activate.
  • Also due to popular demand, we finally have it, an always on top setting for mini-mode!
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • Spotify users can now generate a "Recommended" playlist based on a given track.
  • Search overlay now includes thumbnails for track results.
  • Some Windows specific fixes.
  • Various other tweaks and fixes.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.5.0 (Feb 13, 2023)

  • SPOTIFY FEATURE UPDATE:
  • This update re-works and updates Spotify support. Changes include improved accessibility to the import functions with them being moved to the bottom panel hamburger menu. Also included are new "Show full album" and "Show full artist" functions.
  • There is also now experimental support for playing audio through Tauon. Due to a technical limitation you'll need to provide Tauon with your Spotify account password to enable this setting. See MENU > Settings > Accounts > Spotify.
  • Reminder: A Spotify premium account is required for there features.
  • WINDOWS SMTC SUPPORT:
  • You can now play and pause using Windows 10/11 desktop controls.
  • Support for album art thumbnails and track seeking is not yet implemented.
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • Importing MP4 and WEBM for audio playback is now supported. You can disable this in the config file.
  • Added new theme "Ash".
  • Fixed auto theme colours in radio layout.
  • Various other fixes.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.7-2 (Jan 2, 2023)

  • Re-package for Windows. Previous build was triggering Windows Defender. Reason unknown. It does appear to be Windows Defender machine learning that triggers it, rather than an exact known match, so is quite likely a false positive. This re-build named v7.4.7-2 doesn't seem to trigger it.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.7 (Dec 22, 2022)

  • Bug fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.6 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Various fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.5 (Nov 26, 2022)

  • Hotfixes a possible crash with introduced in v7.4.4 with the auto-theme function.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.4 (Nov 25, 2022)

  • Track info box now shows a length approximation for CUE tracks.
  • The gallery context menu now has a sub-menu for image management.
  • Album art now shows a fallback for corrupted images.
  • The artist list now ignores the prefix The when sorting alphabetically.
  • Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.3 (Oct 31, 2022)

  • Various tweaks and bug fixes
  • [Windows] Fixes the minimize restore bug

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.2 (Oct 6, 2022)

  • Changes:
  • Various bug fixes

New in Tauon Music Box 7.4.1 (Oct 4, 2022)

  • Changes:
  • Added Jellyfin playlist support
  • Jellyfin tracks now have file metadata and can sort by filepath
  • Physical vs virtual keymap for shortcuts is now an option (latter is default)
  • [Linux] Wayland native is now default preferred mode where available
  • Various other fixes