Topic author: noiz
Subject: Sorune 0.5 Released!
Posted on: 01/29/2005 11:45:27 AM
Message:

Sorune 0.5 was released today and many great features have been added to this release along with many bug fixes. according to the changelog, the new features are:

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Release 0.5
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new: optionally left justify audio browser text
new: sweet logo/splash screen by Kevin Smith
new: handle duplicate album names (e.g. "Greatest Hits") by appending
"[artist]" or if necessary "[artist, date]" to the album name
new: follow symlinks under non-windows platforms
new: audio browser menu ordering (gui only, firmware doesn't support
this feature yet)
* new: option to normalize the database (titlecase all words and convert
underscores to spaces)
* new: option to remove or place at end the initial "The" in artist names
new: display different file browser icons for songs which have been
added/deleted/sync'd
(many thanks to Matthias Halibrand for these new icons)
new: remove songs using the file browser
new: create playlist using the file browser
new: right click menu added to file browser
new: added status lines to add/sync/rebuild/reset in gui
new: use sorunerc.cfg file if in same dir as sorune
* new: tag comparison support (see README).
change: incorporate latest wav, wma and mp3 module versions
change: building win32 executable with ActivePerl 5.8.6.811
change: new color schemes and default color scheme changed to 'Cordial'
change: try to get the track number out of the beginning of the filename
if it's not a defined tag
change: updated documentation
change: using tabs in gui configuration
bugfix: win9x support restored
bugfix: div0 CLI bugfix by Jan Depner
bugfix: use mp3frame module to determine length of mp3 files if mp3info
returns zero length
bugfix: play .m3u playlists from file browser
bugfix: find duplicates bugfix and default search attributes changed to
artist/title
bugfix: sorune not finding required libs on startup due to @INC being
setup too late
bugfix: --reset doesn't remove Neuros music directory bug fixed
bugfix: no longer necessary to do --sync with --rebuild and --rebuild_full
bugfix: check free space before doing sync and abort if too low
bugfix: minor bugfixes

* note: happens when songs are initially added to the database, so you'll
need to clear and rebuild the database in order for this to work
on existing files

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