news 28 Posted July 11, 2008 Hi, I'm happy to announce the release of Rhythmbox 0.11.6. This release includes much improved last.fm streaming, amazon cover art search that actually works, and a variety of minor features, improvements, and bug fixes. What is Rhythmbox? ------------------ Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. Summary of changes ================== * Relicensed with GPL exception for GStreamer plugins * Improvements to the cross-fading playback backend * Use Amazon ECS 4.0 web service for cover art searches * Remember browser state for (some) removable devices * Automatically remove podcast episodes that are no longer available * Only display error dialogs for manually triggered podcast updates * Allow playlists from DAAP shares to be sorted * Fix transcoding when transferring to MTP devices * Start moving cached data to XDG_CACHE_HOME * More inclusive local cover art search * Lots of improvements to the iPod plugin * Switch to the new last.fm streaming system * Much improved API documentation coverage Contributors to the release: ---------------------------- - Thomas Andersen - Sebastien Bacher - Niels Vorgaard Christensen - Jay Cornwall - Paul Drain - Christophe Fergeau - Luca Ferretti - Marcin Galazka - Alexander Gitter - Maximilian Grothusmann - Andreas Henriksson - Jeremy Katz - Colin Leroy - James Livingston - Edgar Luna - Nikolai Luthman - Jonathan Matthew - John Millikin - Mirco Müller - Bastien Nocera - Alfredo Pironti - Frank Scholz - Shogun - Sjoerd Simons - F. Steinel - Mats Taraldsvik - Philippe Troin - David Turner - Mika Wahlroos - Colin Walters - Thomas Zander - Adam Zimmerman Updated translations -------------------- Petr Kovar, Kamil Páral (cs) Jochen Skulj (de) Simos Xenitellis (el) Jorge Gonzalez (es) Claude Paroz (fr) Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl) Mark Krapivner (he) Luca Ferretti (it) Žygimantas BeruÄka (lt) Arangel Angov (mk) Kjartan Maraas (nb) Tino Meinen (nl) Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya) (oc) Tomasz Dominikowski (pl) Vladimir Melo, Fábio Nogueira (pt_BR) Peter Tuhársky (sk) Daniel Nylander (sv) 甘露(Lu Gan) (zh_CN) Where can I get it? ------------------- Source code: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.11/rhythmbox-0.11.6.tar.bz2 [MD5 sum: b827e047d13954ba956c3c4ea940935e] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.11/rhythmbox-0.11.6.tar.gz [MD5 sum: a51ca597f248af1243c6cceb8ee068e7] Home Page: http://www.rhythmbox.org/ _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post