Elisa Media Center 0.5.3 Release
Florian Boucault
florian at fluendo.com
Mon Jul 28 21:14:38 CEST 2008
Dear Elisa users,
This mail announces the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.3 codenamed
"Attraction".
Installers and sources can be downloaded from
http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/
Features added since 0.5.2:
- iPod support has been improved: it shows the available Artists then
the Albums of the selected artist.
- Pluggable devices support on Linux has been fixed: USB hard drives,
iPods and such are browsable from Elisa
- The Music section hierarchy has been reworked and now starts with
Music Library containing entries to browse your music collection by
albums, artists, genres, release date, or folders
- A new playlists entry has been added to the Music section containing
automatically created playlists: Most Listened Tracks, Most Recently
Added Tracks, Most Recently Listened Tracks
- Shoutcast radio station names are now automatically cleaned up based
on custom heuristics
- GNOME screensaver is automatically deactivated when Elisa is playing
- Important improvements were made in the performance department most
notably on all the list and grid widgets
There are still some known issues in this release and we are working on
solving them as fast as possible:
- Audio Visualization does not work on Windows
- Audio CD are not detected
- DAAP support missing
Have a nice day,
The Elisa team
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Elisa 0.5.3 "Attraction"
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This is Elisa 0.5.3, second release of the 0.5 branch.
Features added since 0.5.2:
- iPod support has been improved: it shows the available Artists then the
Albums of the selected artist.
- Pluggable devices support on Linux has been fixed: USB hard drives, iPods
and such are browsable from Elisa
- The Music section hierarchy has been reworked and now starts with Music
Library containing entries to browse your music collection by albums, artists,
genres, release date, or folders
- A new playlists entry has been added to the Music section containing
automatically created playlists: Most Listened Tracks, Most Recently Added
Tracks, Most Recently Listened Tracks
- Shoutcast radio station names are now automatically cleaned up based on
custom heuristics
- GNOME screensaver is automatically deactivated when Elisa is playing
- Important improvements were made in the performance department most notably
on all the list and grid widgets
Bugs fixed since 0.5.2:
- 250494 filesystem browsing of localized version
- 250805 Sounds For A Video Plays After Elisa Quits
- 251585 [Win32] Elisa (re)deadlocks at exit
- 251880 Metadata slave not restarted on ConnectionLost
- 232958 local media fails on wrong encoding in filename
- 233757 .srt subtitles are not shown
- 244625 double click messes with history
- 249070 [win32] closing the window does not close elisa
- 249527 poblesec history management improvements
- 249896 media scanner issue with empty tags
- 250780 Locking of the Pigment rendering thread
- 250787 Leaked controllers causing performance issues
- 232631 Media scanning progress reports
- 249145 Apple remote does not work for Imac and macbook on windows
- 250785 pigment.graph.drawable slowness
- 250791 Continued list and grid widgets scrolling slowness
- 246245 [win32] EXIT button press on the remote freezes Elisa
- 249392 Warnings when trying to add directories
- 248758 hal plugin doesn't mount devices anymore when they are hotplugged
- 249066 [win32] hide crash report of sub processes
- 249130 new lirc_input provider
- 251129 elisa.core.pattern_matcher.PatternMatcher matches things it shouldn't
Download
You can find source releases of Elisa in the download directory:
http://elisa.fluendo.com/download
Elisa Homepage
More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com
Support and Bugs
We use an issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug
Developers
All code is in a Bazaar branch and can be checked out from there.
It is hosted on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/elisa
Contributors to this release:
- Alessandro Decina
- Benjamin Kampmann
- David McLeod
- Florian Boucault
- Gernot Klimscha
- Guido Amoruso
- Gunnar Holmberg
- Jes?s Corrius
- Joshua Eichen
- Lionel Martin
- Olivier Tilloy
- Philippe Normand
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