Amarok 'Fast Forward' 1.4.3

Amarok 'Fast Forward' 1.4.3

All aboard, have your tickets ready - Amarok 1.4.3 is leaving the station. This release is primarily a bug-fix release, with several bugs discovered since the 1.4.2 release fixed. So everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

But if you are a fan of features, don't fret! A couple of features that have been in development since before even 1.4.2 make their first debut in a stable release.

By using simple hashes, File Tracking gives you the flexibilty to re-arrange your music files without losing your statistics.

DAAP Music Sharing now supports the ZeroConfig/Rendezvous protocol, so music shares on the local network will appear automatically.

Saving the current playlist is now a magnitude faster.

Continue reading to see the full ChangeLog.

Version 1.4.3:

Features

• New DCOP: player trackCurrentTimeMs, returns the current track position
  in milliseconds.
• Amarok File Tracking (formerly ATF) goes public!
• DAAP client now supports Zeroconf. With mDNSResponder properly setup
  Amarok automatically shows local DAAP servers.
• DAAP client saves manually added computers between sessions.

Changes

• Performance with big playlists has been improved by a magnitude. This
  also makes application shutdown faster.
• Remove the option to enable/disable history in dynamic mode. (BR 133076)
• Reduce the minimum available tracks to show to 0. (BR 131223)
• Change in file tracking behavior: IDs are no longer embedded into tags
  but are calculated from a portion of the file data instead, letting
  users with read-only music stores take advantage of it.
• Don't report "/dev/hd" style devices as new media devices. (BR 127831)
• Smart Playlists only load media from currently mounted devices.

Bugfixes

• Dequeuing tracks whilst in dynamic mode might not work. (BR 133449)
• When marking podcast episodes as listened, update the channel icon if
  necessary. (BR 133497)
• Don't always mark podcast channel icon as "listened" on rescan if.
  (BR 133495)
• User added streams were not editable once saved. (BR 133483)
• Cover images were not displayed in some cases. (BR 133174)
• Fixed bug which prevented Amarok from creating the collection database
  in rare circumstances using SQLite. (BR 133072)
• Collection scanner would only restart a maximum of 2 times instead of
  20. (fixed in SVN revision 578922)
• MTP mediadevice support would not compile against libmtp versions >=
  0.0.12. (fixed in SVN revision 576121)
• AudioCD playback would stutter and sometimes freeze Amarok. (BR 133015)
• Dynamic Collection broke flat collection view when the Filename column
  was added (BR 132874)
• DAAP client shows connection errors to the user and no longer says
  "Loading" perpetually. After a failed connection, the user can now
  try again.
• Don't empty media device transfer queue when canceling a transfer.
• Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work. (BR 123327)
• Delete covers from the filesystem when requested.
• Show context menu on right-click in empty area of media device
  browser. (BR 127154)
• Sort numeric columns in flat collection view numerically. (BR 130667)

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