Releases: andrew-bibb/mbmp
General Update
February 2017
This release contains one major UI change. The playlist has been moved from a floating window into the main player window. There is also a new display window available in the player to show album art. Shortcuts to show each are:
- v - for the video window (no change)
- l - for the playlist window (no change)
- t - album art window (new)
Other changes include making the search of the Musicbraiz database more robust and including a user-agent string in the GET header so requests are not automatically rejected. Musicbrainz has apparently become more strict about that.
It is also now possible to specify a Youtube-dl timeout value. Previous to this release the value was hardcoded in at 5 seconds. Now the default is 9 seconds, and can be adjusted from 1-25 seconds. The old 5 second value would often timeout before youtube-dl could competely parse the URL.
January 2017 Release
Only change is a major one. The homegrown IPC code has been replaced with an MPRIS2 compatible IPC. This means MBMP can now be controlled using an MPRIS client, for instance playerctl.
There are also a large number of extended functions added to the base MPRIS code so that it is still simple to obtain media information from the command line or from scripts. These are all documented in the Wiki page.
November Release
Much code cleanup and several bug fixes and additions:
- Fixed malformed XDG paths
- Can parse URL's through youtube-dl if that program is installed.
- Can read Shoutcast (.pls) playlists.
- Fixed an uninitialized pointer which was causing occasional segfaults.
- The IPC now includes tracks and track changes in addition to titles. Useful for streaming media.
- Can disable DPMS and X11 screen blanking from preferences if there is no xscreensaver program found.
Album Art
Various UI and Playlist improvements to include:
- Album art can be downloaded for media files and audio CD's if it can be found.
- Playlist can display album art if it exists and can be found.
- Added details checkbox to playlist to display art and media details.
- Playlist tooltips are automatically turned off when playlist details are active.
- Playlist checkboxes now restored from settings.
- Added shade mode to the GUI.
Note:
If you downloaded the 2016.01.02 version during the short window when it was available please download the 2016.01.03 version to replace it. There were several minor changes and fixes made.
November Release
Changed the internal icons to Awoken set.
Internal icons can be colorized.
Update to September Release
This is a minor update with some bug fixes and these features:
- Added ability to toggle Wrap, Consume and Random modes in the playlist as menu items, keybinds, and from the IPC.
- Added ability to disable XScreenSaver from engaging while playing media.
If you had a previous version of the program installed please remove your ~/.config/mpmb directory before updating. A new local file will be created first time you run the program and this is necessary because some of the configuration files have a format not compatible with the older versions.
September Release
This release adds new features such as:
- Option to send track changes to a notification daemon
- DBus based IPC mechanism
- Russian Translation
- Ability to promote or blacklist individual GStreamer elements
If you had a previous version of the program installed please remove your ~/.config/mpmb directory before updating. A new local file will be created first time you run the program and this is necessary because some of the configuration files have a format not compatible with the older versions.
Release 2015.06.02
Options to save settings
Interface improvements
Stream position slider works
Starting to support using icon themes
Release 2014.04.27
Playlist reworked, playlist items now store data about the entry. Can save and retrieve playlists.