Gtkpod Changelog

What's new in Gtkpod 2.1.1

Jan 9, 2012
  • Incremental release:
  • FEATURE: Clarity plugin for alternative display of coverart using clutter/opengl
  • IMPROVEMENT: Make splash screen preference to allow it to be disabled
  • IMPROVEMENT: Update core app code to align with current anjuta
  • BUGFIX: Reintroduce track normalization
  • BUGFIX: Allows the LOG path to contain spaces.
  • Thanks to Walt Ogburn for the bug report and patch.
  • libgtkpod:
  • BUGFIX: Allow broadcast of string preferences
  • BUGFIX: Provide some sensible sorting of tracks when added from files / directories
  • BUGFIX: Ensure progress bar is updated when saving ipod database
  • BUGFIX: Avoid possibility of symlinks, when adding files, hanging gtkpod
  • BUGFIX: Display track conversion progress correctly
  • Edit Track Details:
  • BUGFIX: Fix for track volume control
  • Coverart Display plugin
  • BUGFIX: Avoid trying to unreference NULL album art in cover art display plugin
  • BUGFIX: Ensure signal handlers are disconnected on plugin deactivation
  • Track Display plugin:
  • BUGFIX: Fix incorrect default preferences
  • BUGFIX: Ensure order of tracks in playlist is preserved on ipod
  • BUGFIX: Make the track display filter case-insensitive
  • Repository Editor plugin:
  • BUGFIX: Fix runtime errors on getting active model iter
  • Playlist Display plugin:
  • IMPROVEMENT: Allow multiple selection of playlists
  • BUGFIX: Smart playlist wizard not correctly displaying playlist rules
  • Sort Tab Display plugin:
  • IMPROVEMENT: Allow multiple selection of entries in filter windows

New in Gtkpod 2.1.1 Beta 1 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Text entered into the track display filter tab will find tracks not confined to same case.
  • Fixes FS#75 - Search is case-sensitive

New in Gtkpod 1.0.0 (Aug 11, 2010)

  • Updated Hebrew translation
  • Remaining Chinese untranslated string translated.
  • Corrected questionable plural case russian translations
  • Update Catalan and German translations with google's attempts

New in Gtkpod 0.99.16 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • Explicitly check for and link libvorbis
  • Changes in the default DSO linking behavior on Fedora exposed the fact that gtkpod used symbols from libvorbis but had relied on other libraries it linked against to pull it in.

New in Gtkpod 0.99.14 (Jan 19, 2009)

  • NEW FEATURE: Help system, still very preliminary.
  • NEW FEATURE: Video thumbnail generation, thanks to M. Sean Finney
  • NEW FEATURE: Lyrics may be viewed and edited via the Details window for a track. Only mp3 files are supported currently (patches welcome to remove this limitation). Writing lyric tags may still have compatibility issues on some iPod's. Thanks to Dudy Kohen.
  • NEW FEATURE: Add a search bar, to quickly filter tracks.
  • UPDATE: New application icon.
  • UPDATE: Preferences dialog redesigned from the ground up for GNOME HIG compliance.
  • UPDATE: Hebrew translation. Thanks to Assaf Gillat.
  • UPDATE: Italian translation. Thanks to Daniele Forsi.
  • UPDATE: Romanian translation. Thanks to Alex Eftimie.
  • UPDATE: Spanish translation. Thanks to Alejandro Lamas Daviña.
  • UPDATE: Swedish translation. Thanks to Stefan Asserhäll.
  • NEW FEATURE: Added simple Chinese translation. Thanks to Tan Zhixin.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Numerous UI cleanups
  • IMPROVEMENT: Support for chapter data, thanks to Michael Tiffany
  • IMPROVEMENT: Use cairo for coverart display effects. This allows the dependency on libgnomecanvas to be dropped.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Coverart display performance has been improved.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Better support for Windows compilation in Cygwin, thanks to Éric Lassauge.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Set track->lyrics_flag for mp4 files in addition to mp3 files.
  • IMPROVEMENT: Use the Artist tag for the Artist and fall back to the Album Artist tag only when the former does not exist. For Album Artist, use the Album Artist tag, but only if the Artist tag does exist. Thanks to Dudy Kohen.
  • BUGFIX: The Photo "playlist" is now a separate object in the Playlist view.
  • BUGFIX: Numerous memory leaks fixed, thanks to Andrea, Tomas Carnecky, and others.

New in Gtkpod 0.99.12 (Oct 6, 2008)

  • NEW FEATURE: Import and management of photographs on ipods that support them. Update of README to include photo management.
  • UPDATE: Application requires libgpod version 0.6.0 or higher.
  • UPDATE: Better icon theme specification compliance.
  • BUGFIX: Fixes to tomboy script.
  • BUGFIX: Issues with display of track length. Inconsistent units used in conjunction with libgpod (Jorg).
  • UPDATE: Cover art preview window either displays an album cover to its full size or to a size consistent with the user's desktop.
  • UPDATE: Download of Album Art from the net feature modified to the ability of dragging-and-dropping a .jpg image from a web browser. This has been changed due to licensing concerns over album art. Drag and Drop section of README updated accordingly.
  • BUGFIX: Issues on detecting changed local / podcast database.
  • BUGFIX: Issues addressed on Details Window.
  • BUGFIX: Crash avoided when auto-detecting an iTunes database that cannot be read.
  • UPDATE: Display of error output of scripts (Jorg).
  • IMPROVEMENT: Configuring and Compilation support (Todd).
  • UPDATE: New scripts for flac, ogg, mp3, m4a, wav conversion to mp3 and m4a.
  • BUGFIX: Model number identified and written to ipod upon loading to ensure libgpod can read the ipod's artwork.
  • UPDATE: Updates and bug fixes to gapless playback.
  • BUGFIX: When Cover Art Display is widened, covers space out rather than stretch.
  • BUGFIX: Fixed memory leaks in CoverArt Display and Details window.
  • UPDATE: French translation.
  • UPDATE: Italian translation.
  • UPDATE: Hebrew translation
  • UPDATE: Swedish translation.
  • NEW FEATURE: Added Romanian translation support.
  • NEW FEATURE: Added Russian translation support.