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Tomahawk Changelog

What's new in Tomahawk 0.8.4

Apr 15, 2015
  • Fixed drag & drop issues on sidebar.
  • Fixed starting Tomahawk with a filename as parameter.
  • Update column view when collection changes.

New in Tomahawk 0.8.3 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • Performance improvements for collection browsing.
  • Improved memory footprint.
  • Show cloud collections above your friends in the sidebar.
  • Keep looking for alternative sources even when we found a perfect match.
  • Fixed crash in network code.
  • Fixed repeat one/all icons.
  • Be more lenient about accepting JSPF and M3U playlists.
  • Improved support for compilation albums.
  • (OS X) Fixed settings dialog appearance on Yosemite.
  • (OS X) Fixed SSL errors on Yosemite.

New in Tomahawk 0.8.2 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • Show error message if saving tags failed.
  • Fixed painting issue on search page.
  • Fixed crash during collection scan.

New in Tomahawk 0.8.1 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Disabled sorting for stations.
  • Fixed drag & drop behavior in combination with certain resolvers.
  • Fixed infinite scanning recursion.
  • Prevented adding dupes to the collection when scanning.
  • When playing an artist or album, don't give up when the first track in list isn't playable.
  • Fixed importing M3U playlists.
  • Sort album grids by artist name.
  • Fixed painting issue on 'More Albums' grid.
  • Fixed crash when editing/saving track tags.

New in Tomahawk 0.8.0 (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Redesigned - Shiny new interface. Simplified. New icons.
  • Added Friend Feed.
  • Now Playing notifications (OS X & Windows) - support for OS-level notification systems (e.g. Notification Center) with fallback to its own native notification system.
  • Many actions now available in context menu - including Favorite and Send to a Friend.
  • Drag and drop support for iTunes, Deezer, Beats Music, Rdio, Spotify, SoundCloud links (into Tomahawk) for playlists/tracks/artists/album links.
  • Support for clicking source icon for currently playing track in audio controls to take user to associated page on source's site
  • Added Hatchet plug-in.
  • Added Google Play Music and Beats Music support.
  • Add links to Support site, Bug Reports and Translations to Help menu.
  • Add "What's New" page to display on first launch (or until user dismisses it) - also available from Help menu.
  • Changed label from "Resolvers" and "Services" to more generic "Plug-Ins".
  • Clarified some labels, help text and status messages.
  • Changed icon color a bit.
  • Added "Acoustic" and "Electric" songtypes to Stations options.
  • Removed some stale Chart sources.
  • Playback Queue now saves its state across sessions.
  • Queue now moved to sidebar.
  • Added "Inbox" feature, showing incoming song recommendations. Dropping a track on a user in the sidebar sends a recommendation to them.
  • You will now be asked whether you want to trust invalid SSL certificates.
  • Improved connecting between Tomahawk peers and support having multiple IPs (including IPv6).
  • Removed Top Loved from sidebar.
  • Removed Spotify playlist syncing (we will bring it back in future versions).
  • HTTP(S) streaming is now done by Tomahawk instead of the Phonon backend (fixed HTTPS streaming on MacOS).
  • Heavily reduced memory footprint during and after indexing the database.
  • Retina display and DPI scaling fixes.
  • New Collection views. Re-added support for tracklist view of Collection.
  • Added Telepathy support.
  • Plugin refactoring (and .AXE resolver binaries).
  • Removed Twitter due to change in Twitter's API.
  • Removed auto-playlists.
  • Improved error messages.
  • Added basic remote control API.
  • Add support for Opus codec (requires TagLib 1.9).
  • Support rtmp:// streams.
  • Support custom headers in CustomUrlHandler.
  • Fuzzy search indices for JS Resolvers.
  • Add metadata retrieval of HTTP(S) streams in JavaScript resolvers.

New in Tomahawk 0.7.0 (May 7, 2013)

  • JavaScript Resolvers can now expose collections.
  • Introduced bundle system for JavaScript Resolvers, called "axes".
  • Fixed playback-loop caused by duplicate tracks in a playlist.
  • Improved peer handling and removed connection support through Twitter.
  • Taking an account offline now also disconnects associated peers.
  • Improved spotify protocol handling.
  • Added "Append to Playlist" context menu item.
  • User-friendlier collection handling: added info-buttons for artists and albums. Double-clicking an item expands it now.
  • Charts only load on-demand now.
  • Fixed Diagnostics information not correctly updating.
  • Fixed issue with hidden sidebar and panels.
  • Fixed issues with some color schemes.
  • Fixed playing files with special characters in the filename.
  • Improved stability.
  • Added translations for Catalan, Czech, Galician, Greek, Italian and Chinese.

New in Tomahawk 0.6.1 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Improved stability.
  • Improved UPnP detection and port-forwarding.
  • Fixed scrolling behaviour of grid-views.
  • Lots of small design tweaks and fixes.

New in Tomahawk 0.6.0 Beta 1 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Improved icon theme with vector graphics.
  • Higher resolution artist and album images.
  • You can now click artists, albums and tracks mentioned in artists' biographies.
  • New AudioControl logic - only enable Prev/Skip buttons if available.
  • Added more options to right-click/context menus.
  • Resolver source icon in Audiocontrols now supports being a link-back URL to original source.
  • Make friends' currently playing song (in sidebar) clickable.
  • Improve MusicBrainz plugin to use normalized artist names and avoid duplicate tracks.
  • Access Control queries now stay on the bottom of the job view, removing the tendency to jump away from the mouse.
  • Improved random mode, preventing songs from being played in too rapid succession.
  • You can now choose between various view modes for your playlists.
  • Nicer layout for the Artist, Album & Track pages.
  • Follow HTTP redirects when fetching Playlists.
  • Main menu can now be hidden and instead be shown as a toolbar button.
  • Connectivity controls in the toolbar.
  • Cleaned up settings dialog.
  • Ability to sync Spotify Starred Tracks with Tomahawk's Loved Tracks.
  • Remove YouTube resolver from plug-in directory on request of YouTube.
  • Fixed iTunes m3u playlist support.
  • Support dropping of new Soundcloud user, track, set & likes URLs.
  • Added HotNewHipHop as available chart.
  • Added iTunes as available source for New Releases.
  • Updates and additions to translations including: Japanese, Bulgarian, Finnish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish, Czech and more.

New in Tomahawk 0.5.5 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Changed the Spotify config dialog to indicate when the user is logged in.
  • Fixed bug where the wrong avatar could be shown for a user.
  • Fixed shortcuts not working in the global search field on OS X.
  • Fixed The Echo Nest stations.
  • Code-signed executable on OS X for GateKeeper.
  • Fixed logging in to Spotify when pressing return in the config dialog.
  • Fixed queue not auto-collapsing when playing the last track.
  • Fixed bug where album listings would fail to show up.
  • Improved stability.
  • Fixed bug where it was not possible to drop a mixture of resolved and unresolved tracks onto a playlist.

New in Tomahawk 0.5.0 (Jun 27, 2012)

  • SOCKS5 proxy support improvements for resolvers and more.
  • Initial Access Control support, allowing users to define who is able to access and stream from their collection.
  • Priortize resolution of a track on double-click.
  • Spotify Resolver can now be easily installed on-demand from the settings.
  • You can now sync selected playlists (and updates) with Spotify.
  • Support .aiff (AIFF mimetype) files.
  • Cleaned up Diagnostics window.
  • You can tell Tomahawk to stop playback after a certain track finished.
  • Double-clicking a playlist name (in the sidebar) will start the playlist.
  • You can now import your entire Last.fm playback history into Tomahawk.
  • Fixed sorting of related artists.
  • Support for multimedia keys (Play, Pause, Next etc.) on Windows & Linux.
  • When listening privately scrobbling to Last.fm and Adium is now disabled.
  • Added a toolbar with page back / forward buttons and the global search.
  • New grid-like view with direct playback controls.
  • You can now browse new releases (by genre).
  • Added social sharing widget, which allows you to tweet about a song.
  • Added a track page showing a song's similar tracks and statistics.
  • Separate Loved Tracks and Recently Played views per source.
  • Combine an artist's albums into a single aggregated view.
  • Added translations for Arabic, French, Bulgarian, Spanish and more.
  • Fixed XSPF auto-updating.
  • New Tomahawk logo and icon.

New in Tomahawk 0.4.0 (Mar 11, 2012)

  • Added visual notification for database indexing job.
  • Fixed icons not appearing in resolvers list.
  • Fixed various UI glitches and stray error messages in stations.
  • Fixed bug where album page would resolve bottom-to-top.
  • Fixed bug where Footnotes would not update when changing selected album in Album View.
  • Fixed dragging albums and artists from charts, album, and artist views.
  • Fixed bug where filter text would be one step behind filter value.
  • Fixed bug where resolvers would enable themselves after auto-updating.
  • Fixed occasional crash when dropping tracks onto New Station item.
  • Added jump-to-current-track support for search results page.
  • Fixed out of sync Show/Hide menu items on OS X when hidden with cmd-h.
  • Fixed non-resolving tracks when dragging from album view.
  • Fixed /Volumes directory not showing up on OS X.
  • Fixed fetching album covers for albums with special characters.
  • Show errors and continue gracefully when resolved audio is not available.
  • Fixed various crashes on exit.
  • Added basic command-line options for playback control.
  • Bumped up web api timeouts to allow web clients to finish resolving.
  • Added filename suggestion when exporting a playlist.
  • Cleaned up highlighting of artist names in album view.
  • Cleaned up alignment of playlist items.
  • Fixed potential crash when searching.
  • Added support for disc number.
  • Added SoundCloudWall.com charts.
  • Added ability to "lock on" to a user when listening along, to skip along.
  • Fixed bug where loved tracks would be refreshed much too often.
  • Fixed startup crash on OS X.
  • Fixed some font size issues.
  • Sped up Tomahawk startup by moving chart loading into a separate thread.
  • Added support for parsing Grooveshark and Tinysong tracks and playlists.
  • Reorganized sidebar to follow more logical item groupings.
  • Added artist and album results to global searches.
  • Fixed style and contrast issues when using GTK styles.
  • Fixed paths to artwork when using MPRIS2 interface.

New in Tomahawk 0.3.3 (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Automatically load Super Collection tracks when no official release information is available.
  • Fixed stations not fetching new tracks under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed Footnotes not always updating when selecting a new track.
  • Added support for ow.ly, fb.me, itun.es and tinyurl.com URL shorteners.
  • Fixed dupe menu entry appearing on OS X.