Bangarang – a media player

1.0~beta2 Release Notes

Bug fixes since beta 1

  • Prevent crashes when nepomuk is not available – degrade to basic media player functionality.
  • Don’t restart playback when turning shuffle on/off.
  • Fix visual bug when double clicking on currently playing item in playlist.
  • Show proper year for music track in the media item information view.

Improvements since beta 1

  • Show number of items in media and playlists.
  • Improve hold-to-stop behaviour of play-pause button.
  • Support for genre for audio and video.
  • Frequently Played, Recently Played and Highest Rated lists.
  • Ability to remove media information (from nepomuk).
  • Caching for long running queries.
  • A little more visual feedback when loading categories into playlist.
  • Add audio-clips list engine.
  • Different icon for saved media list views.

Known Issues

  • id3v2 artwork isn’t updated when saved.
  • “Play Selected” on video categories doesn’t work.
  • Phonon playback errors not handled.
  • Removing info for all items in the current media list view causes a crash.
  • Item playback-start is blocked by long running query.
  • Double entries sometimes appear in media list for some items.
  • Fullscreen when playing Audio can only be exited with Esc.

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