Sonata

Changelog

June 5, 2008 (Version 1.5.2):

• Improved artwork/lyrics caching through case-insenstive searching
• Add Turkish translation (Gökmen)
• Bug: Fix artwork for files with unicode characters
• Bug: Fix crash if mpd library is empty
• Bug: Fix regression where dbus-python became required
• Bug: Bold titles lose sync if song changes with visible filterbar
• Bug: Doesn't scrobble when same song is repeated
• Bug: Python conflict when installed with sugar (OLPC)
• Bug: Fix artwork display in song notification window for RTL languages
• Bug: Fix progressbar seeking for RTL languages
• Bug: No play/pause indicator in egg tray icon if started while mpd is active

May 3, 2008 (Version 1.5.1):

• Swap 'shuffle' and 'random' to be consistent with MPD
• "Save list to">"foo" can now either replace playlist or append songs
• Add Catalan translation (Franc)
• Add Arabic translation (Ahmad)
• Bug: Fix play/pause with multimedia keys (Vinay)
• Bug: Prevent possible traceback from gobject.filename_from_utf8
• Bug: 'play after replace' when in shuffle mode plays 1st song, not random
• Bug: Fix random, repeat, and toggle commands from console
• Bug: Songs not tagged with the album name don't show up
• Bug: Cannot disconnect when MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT are set
• Bug: Fix %D and %N formats within brackets

April 3, 2008 (Version 1.5):

• Replace album view with genre view for library
• Display covers for albums in artist/genre views
• Add menu items and shortcuts for playing library items after add/replace
• Allow setting artwork for streams
• Optional stylized album art with cases (Aidan)
• New, faster python mpd interface (jat)
• --popup argument to popup song notification (requires D-Bus) (Oleg)
• Show 'Untagged' artists/genres in their respective library views
• Allow DND of cover art from a web browser (Артем)
• Allow DND of music from a file manager into playlist (requires mpd 0.14)
• Preserve column percentages for current tab across window resizing
• Speed up mpd-related commandline arguments
• Switch back to last tab on second cover art click
• Retain selection in lists after removing items
• Hidden config option to expand notebook tabs (tabs_expanded)
• Set ServiceProxy cachedir for lyrics to work around ZSI bug
• Add Estonian translation (Mihkel)
• Bug: Fix multimedia keys for gnome 2.22
• Bug: Fix artwork for artists/albums with "/" in them (e.g. AC/DC)
• Bug: Fix egg trayicon with vertical system tray
• Bug: Weird bug in library-view
• Bug: Prevent failure to load if tab positions are saved as None
• Bug: Fix non-ascii characters in files for non-utf8 filesystems (zap)
• Bug: Prevent crash with certain locales like turkish (jat)
• Bug: Using filter causes playlist to jump to the top
• Bug: Fix AudioScrobblerQuery (kigurai)

February 9, 2008 (Version 1.4.2):

• Add %D for disc tag in display formatting options
• Better handling if no read permission (e.g. no/bad mpd password supplied)
• Bug: Fix seeking in progress bar
• Bug: Fix blank album info when there is an ampersand
• Bug: Missing color in notification window
• Bug: Notebook arrow clicks are ignored due to gtk bug
• Bug: Potential ordering bug when sorting via column heading click
• Bug: Make desktop file compliant
• Bug: Column widths can collapse when exiting while minimized to the tray

February 2, 2008 (Version 1.4.1):

• Remove queue support (it was removed from mpd-svn, complain to them)
• Improved re-ordering of playlist songs (including multiple selected songs)
• Add album info into info tab
• Use hand2 instead of hand1 for song info links
• Bug: Traceback can occur after enabling audioscrobbler
• Bug: Text background color on tabs (ecik)
• Bug: Visible background of eventboxes for info tab links, etc.
• Bug: Can't click (more) link in non-English locales
• Bug: Crash when using libegg with system tray icon disabled
• Bug: Disable tag editing link in info tab for streams/remote files
• Bug: Unescape common html codes from lyrics fetching, enable formatting
• Bug: The main notebook should be scrollable

January 15, 2008 (Version 1.4):

• Integrate info window into main player
• Update to audioscrobbler protocol 1.2 and scrobbling bug fixes (mveers)
• Implemented caching of scrobbles across client restarts
• Vertically center currently playing song
• Updated artwork (Adrian Chromenko)
• IPv6 support for the mpd connection (Shane Kerr)
• Allow screen center for notification popup
• Preference for saving lyrics to music file's directory (like artwork)
• Allow hiding and reordering notebook tabs (e.g. playlists, streams, info)
• Retain library path when re-opening Sonata
• Remove confusing 'remote only' and 'remote, then local' artwork options
• Ability to hide progress bar (can create very minimal player)
• Skip fallback artwork search of just album name if primary searches fail
• Make system tray icon scalable
• Shortcuts to search library (ctrl-h), randomize current playlist (alt-r)
• Use gtk theme's link-color if available (only for gtk 2.12 and above)
• Bug: Right-click menu can cause accidental actions with some gtk themes
• Bug: Prevent crash on negative disc/track numbers
• Bug: Filter + Edit Tags edits a different song than selected
• Bug: Prevent possible exception regarding cover art on first load
• Bug: Fix retrieving some non-English lyrics (ecik)
• Bug: Allow MPD_HOST to override GUI
• Bug: {} displays in the Current column title
• Bug: Fix manpage path to be FHS compliant
• Bug: Ensure that the version of ZSI is compatible with sonata

October 29, 2007 (Version 1.3):

• Playlist queue support (requires mpd 0.14 - currently mpd-svn)
• Use-configurable columns in playlist by using "|" in prefs > format (xsdnyd)
• Switch from SOAPpy to newer ZSI library for lyrics fetching
• Use xmms-like search filter by default when user types (no more ctrl-j)
• Ctrl-i shortcut to center currently playing song
• Use case insensitive sorting for library (holy_robot)
• Ignore "the" when sorting library in artist/album views (holy_robot)
• Better logic when sorting playlists and new "dir+file" sort option (sed)
• Allow saving/overwriting existing playlists and streams
• Hidden config options to set browser, hide column headers
• Update license to GNU GPLv3
• Added Brazilian translation (Alex Tercete Matos)
• Added Danish translation (Martin Dybdal)
• Bug: Fix nl.po translation causing crash
• Bug: Remember playlist position when adding from library
• Bug: Fixed tracebacks with certain encodings
• Bug: MPD_HOST with password doesn't work on first install
• Bug: Fix desktop file to match current XDG standard (nigel)
• Bug: Search Amazon artwork using latin1 since it no longer supports utf8
• Bug: Possible tag editing issues w/non-latin encoding (requires tagpy 0.93)
• Bug: Fix czech translation to use cs.po

August 23, 2007 (Version 1.2.3):

• Incorporate disc tag in album sorting (Emmanuel Viaud)
• Significantly reduced wakeups/sec according to powertop
• Add stream name as a formatting option
• Added Italian translation (Gianni Vialetto)
• Added Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)
• Added Dutch translation (Olivier)
• Bug: Stupid parsing of amazon URLs, reduced success of cover art fetching
• Bug: Default cover remains after refetching when not using ~/.covers
• Bug: Czech translation incorrectly labeled Swedish
• Bug: Song played after a replace is first in list, even in shuffle mode
• Bug: Collapsed view doesn't work properly in some WMs (e.g. Fluxbox)
• Bug: Display 'update library' menu item even when library is empty

July 22, 2007 (Version 1.2.2):

• Bug: Fix artwork fetching (Amazon gzip'ed xml returns garbage)
• Bug: Prevent connection error if the interface hasn't yet been run
• Bug: Prevent possibility of deleting image file when choosing local art file
• Bug: Don't load gnome-settings-daemon if it's not running (kinote)

July 16, 2007 (Version 1.2.1):

• Bug: Using MPD with a password causes error

July 15, 2007 (Version 1.2):

• Audioscrobbler support (requires python 2.5 or python-elementtree) (Owen)
• Support for multiple profiles (and, e.g., "sonata --profile=2")
• Ability to set search terms for lyrics
• Ability to rename playlists (requires mpd >= 0.13)
• Prevent continually searching for artwork/lyrics if not found the first time
• Search for additional artwork filenames
• Allows resetting artwork to the default image
• 'Save All' button for tag editing window
• Display MPD status in systray icon
• Prevent GUI blocking when connecting to MPD, where possible
• Added Finnish translation (lkka Tuohela)
• Bug: Multimedia keys no longer work in Gnome 2.18 (Florian)
• Bug: Hide statusbar in collapse mode when showing from systray
• Bug: Cover artwork filename doesn't use system's locale charset
• Bug: MPD_HOST variable doesn't work when it includes password

May 18, 2007 (Version 1.1.1):

• Add Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)
• Bug: Incorrect artist can sometimes be set for album art/info (vEX)
• Bug: Artwork isn't set when there is a single image in the song's dir
• Bug: Improve handling under tiling WMs like ion3
• Bug: A 2nd instance isn't prevented with dbus/python 2.4 (Sebastian)

May 7, 2007 (Version 1.1):

• Ctrl-J for xmms-like search filter (vEX/Eduard)
• Implemented logic for Various Artists albums
• Cover art pref: save to ~/.covers or file's respective dir
• Support for GNOME session management
• Allow searching through ALL metadata in library
• Link artist and album name in song info window to wikipedia entry
• Add shuffle, repeat, --visible, and --hidden commandline arguments
• Show if mpd is updating in statusbar
• Save last used option in library search
• Update code for dbus-python 0.80 API (Jordan)
• Ellipsize text in treeviews, current playing song (Jordan)
• Add button for listing of shortcuts to About dialog
• Resize cover art to fit song info window
• Added Simplified Chinese translation (Desmond Chang)
• Bug: Prevent tracebacks between withdrawing app & gtk.StatusIcon
• Bug: Fix error if mpd is not running and sonata starts hidden
• Bug: Can't manually set artwork across filesystems
• Bug: Can't use find-as-you-type in the current playlist
• Bug: Right-click menu closes right away for some users

February 13, 2007 (Version 1.0.1):

• Make lyrics fetching optional
• Allow editing of stream name/url
• Hide the notification window when it is clicked
• Small usability improvements to gtk.StatusIcon
• Improvements to reordering the current playlist with drag-n-drop
• Bug: Info window freezes when editing currently playing song's tags
• Bug: Tag editing doesn't work with older version (0.90.1) of tagpy
• Bug: Prevent strange potential freeze with gc.collect()
• Bug: Cover art doesn't update correctly if Local Only artwork set
• Bug: Lyrics occassionally don't stay synced with current playing song

January 21, 2007 (Version 1.0):

• Multiple views for library: filesystem, artists, albums
• Editing of song tags (requires optional taglib & tagpy)
• Auto-fetching of song lyrics (requires optional soappy)
• Improved song info window and access to it
• Allow pls/m3u/extm3u's as stream inputs
• Sort current playlist (by metadata, random, reverse)
• Optional statusbar (playlist length, time)
• Revert to gtk's StatusIcon if gnome-python-extras isn't installed
• Make system tray icon optional
• Pref to write xmms-info like status file to use with IM, IRC.. (Tim)
• Allow drag-n-drop of images to set album art
• If there is only one image in the song's dir, set as art (Ivan)
• Album art priority preference (local vs remove)
• Formatting options (genre, song length, elapsed time, year) (Ivan)
• Pref to play enqueued items on activate (i.e. enter/double-click)
• Play friendler with other clients for shuffle/repeat/crossfade
• Reduced startup time/memory usage
• Use curly brackets {} to have formatting appear only if all enclosed tags are available
• Ability to run on OLPC's Sugar user environment (Owen)
• Added Ukranian translation (Господарисько Тарас)
• Bug: No more freezes due to threading! Finally! Seriously!
• Bug: Cannot set album art for album/artist with "/" in name
• Bug: Prevent interface jumping because of progress bar font
• Bug: Notification window isn't positioned correctly for dual-head

November 19, 2006 (Version 0.9):

• Added stream support
• Use local artwork (cover.jpg, folder.jpg) first, if it exists (requires music_directory to be specified in preferences)
• Allow crossfading (mixing) between songs
• Fetch higher-resolution cover art
• Allow specifying search terms for remote album art
• Improved song info viewer
• Make remote images window non-blocking
• Popup song notification on un-pause
• Pick up tooltip album background color from gtk theme
• Store cover art in ~/.covers for consistency with gmpc
• Add German translation (Paul Johnson)
• Bug: Prevent infrequent crash when fetching album art
• Bug: Intermittent interface freezes due to threading
• Bug: Unable to delete playlists with ampersand, etc.
• Bug: Player can become the wrong height on expand
• Bug: Ensure local art is correctly applied on song changes
• Bug: Searching library doesn't work for non-english locale

October 19, 2006 (Version 0.8.1):

• Add Polish translation (Tomasz Dominikowski)
• Bug: Correctly send mpd password when using manual connect
• Bug: Prevent certain keys from causing events
• Bug: Prevent potential crash if not able to obtain mpd status

October 7, 2006 (Version 0.8):

• Allow user formatting of current playlist, library, and title
• Pref for song notification location
• Allow song notification for users without gnome-python-extras
• Pref to hide playback buttons
• Pref to update MPD library on start
• --info, --status displays current song info or MPD status
• Pref to autoconnect on start, connect/disconnect buttons
• Fetch album art in background (non-blocking)
• Correctly retain previous library state when ending search
• Add russian translation [Andrew Lukoshko]
• Bug: Display path when filename is empty or http/ftp prefixes
• Bug: Fix crash if changing connection w/o gnome-python-extras
• Bug: Prevent --help, --toggle, etc. from happening twice if dbus is installed
• Bug: Some shortcuts don't work with numslock enabled

September 27, 2006 (Version 0.7.1):

• Bug: Fix crash if dbus is not installed
• Bug: Fix crash if song does not have some id3 info specified

September 27, 2006 (Version 0.7):

• Ability to search library by type (can be disabled in prefs)
• Optional notification popup on song changes
• Show larger image on left-click of cover art
• Reduce (pygmy's) default polling time
• Retain selection of browsed directories in library
• Retain selection after drag-n-drop
• Keep width of tooltip fixed
• Show previous instance of app if user tries to open a second instance [Mike Massonnet patch]
• Add --version, --help; print usage
• --toggle argument to minimize to tray or show (requires D-Bus)
• Add french translation [Floréal M]
• Additional shortcuts (see docs)
• Bug: repeat/shuffle isn't updated if mpd is restarted
• Bug: Unable to delete multiple playlists at once
• Bug: Crash when playing ogg streams [patch]

September 18, 2006 (Version 0.6):

• Add support for playlists (save, load, queue, delete)
• Ability to use local image for album cover
• Support for multimedia keys
• Fetch cover art if an artist, but not album, is specified
• Add Ctrl-U and Ctrl-Shift-U for updating library (see docs)
• (Re-)display systray icon if tray is (re-)opened
• Fix mpdclient3.py to return all playlist objects
• Bug: Delete key doesn't remove songs from playlist

September 15, 2006 (Version 0.5.2):

• Correctly update interface after updating MPD library
• Interface prefs: show album art, show volume, sticky, above
• Behavior prefs: minimize to systray, stop playback on exit
• Increase iter time if connection timesout (to make gui responsive)
• Use gtk.STOCK_JUSTIFY_FILL instead of custom playlist icon
• Try gnome-open/exo-open first for opening help, then fallback
• Ability to set translations (see TRANSLATIONS file)
• Use dbus to prevent multiple instances
• More shortcuts (see documentation)
• Minor bugfixes

September 13, 2006 (Version 0.5.1):

• Increment to mpdclient3 to prevent incompatibility issues
• Bug: Running Sonata without systray causes crash

September 12, 2006 (Version 0.5):

• Added album art (and ability to choose from alternatives if the one automatically selected is incorrect, via right-click)
• Integrate playlist and library into one app
• Change song progress with mousewheel over progressbar
• Change volume with mousewheel over volume button, systray icon
• Change volume icon based on volume level
• Added playback, etc, shortcuts
• Added Replace menu and dir/file icons to library browser
• Removed toolbar, cleaned up interface
• Removed horizontal scrollbar
• Don't update systray icon based on playback status
• Moved config to freedesktop.org standard
• Keep app width constant when (un)expanding
• Keep currently playing song visible in list
• Removed python-empy, glade
• Bug: mpdclient2/app doesn't accept passwords (crash)
• Bug: mdpclient2 - lsinfo skips the first file found after dirs
• Bug: Cannot remove multiple rows from right-click
• Bug: Crash if user has MPD connection but no read access
• Bug: GTK+ treeview search does not work
• Bug: Right-Click checkbox doesnt set value on start
• Bug: Doesn't properly retain view when browsing playlist
• Added documentation
• Other bugfixes, tweaks