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Next version:

General:

• New commandline switches: -q/--quit, -S/--toggle-shuffle, -R/--toggle-repeat, -A/--toggle-advance and -Q/--queue
• Make dialogs close if you press ESC.
• New option to display time as mmm:ss instead of switching to hh:mm (occurs at 100 minutes). Displaying remaning time will be 'broken' for songs longer than 99:59 as the '-' won't have room to be displayed.

Playlist:

• Use extended information from .pls playlists.
• Longer than 256 character long strings.
• Conditional options which allows the user to display a much more dynamic title for songs lacking information.

Songchange:

• New option to make it possible to run a command at the end of the song.

Equalizer:

• Keybindings to control the preamp/bands.

MPG123:

• Support for unicode (utf8 and utf16) in id3v2 tags.
• Support reading COMM frames.

Controlsocket:

• xmms_remote_playqueue_add(), xmms_remote_playqueue_remove() and xmms_remote_get_playqueue_length() added.

1.2.10:

• Only bugfixes.

1.2.9:

OGG/Vorbis:

• Read YEAR vorbis tag.

Solaris:

• Support for Ensoniq 1371/1373 and Creative Labs 5880 audio controllers.

ALSA:

• Support mmap for cards with more than 8 channels.
• Software volume.
• Many improvements.

MPG123:

• Icecast UDP title streaming is now disabled as default.

gnomexmms:

• Dropped from the distribution.

1.2.8:

Translation/Internationalization:

• New translations: Belarusiani (be), Welch (cy), Macedoniani (mk), Slovenian (sl), Bosnian (bs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Georgian (ka), Albanian (sq) and Uzbek (uz)

General:

• Ability to queue the next song in the playlist. (use 'q' on the keyboard over the song title)
• IPv6 support added (disabled by default)

CD Audio:

• Digital Audio Extraction, enables the use of visualization for CD Audio.
• Support for more than one drive.
• Dropped support for CDIndex (service no longer active)

OGG/Vorbis:

• Replaygain support.

ALSA:

• New output plugin.

NetBSD/OpenBSD:

• New output plugin.

Effects:

• Support for multiple effect plugins.

IDCin:

• Plugin was dropped from distribution.

1.2.7:

General:

• Replaced folder icons. New ones by Jakub Steiner.
• Don't display playlist numbers elsewhere when turned off.
• Support 32-bit and 16-bit "bitfield" bmps in skins.

CD Audio:

• Supply a dummy user and hostname to the cddb server.
• Picked up support for Darwin (from FINK cvs) and NetBSD (from NetBSD cvs)

MPG123:

• Handle UTF-16 encoded tags.
• Major stability fixes

gnomexmms:

• Optionally use a user supplied icon instead of the default one when XMMS is not running.

1.2.6:

Translation/Internationalization:

• New translations: Basque (eu), Tajik (tg), Vietnamese (vi), Nynorsk (nn), Thai (th).

General:

• --play-pause command to toggle playback.
• Updated README/man pages.
• Added xmms_remote_play_pause(), xmms_remote_playlist_ins_url_string()
• Realtime priority works again, it was broken in 1.2.5.
• bzip2 skins should now work regardless of Tar version.
• Key bindings are now saved when you exit XMMS.
• NetWM support updated to the latest specs.
• Handles @ in URL's properly if username:password@host is not used.

Playlist:

• Added 'Sort by date'
• Page Up/Down keys scrolls one page, instead of the 3 line inheritance from Winamp.
• Extended M3U lists now supported.
• Added reading of playlist info for selection.

Equalizer:

• Added Import/WinAMP Presets to the preset menu to import an entire set of WinAMP presets (WINAMP.q1) into the preset list.

Vorbis:

• Fixed an endianess problem on smallendian boxes
• 1.0rc1 or higher required.

MPG123:

• Handle more broken mp3s.
• No more "-" for mp3s with ID3v2 tags that contain no usable information.
• VBR files without XING header are now handled more gracefully.

Mikmod:

• Mikmod plugin now recognizes mod.* files.

CD Audio:

• Setting the environmental variable XMMS_CDDB_CLIENT_NAME, will make XMMS use that instead when identifying to CDDB servers.
• Better handling of CDDB requests.
• Don't poll current time when paused, can cause weird things on some drives.

OSS Output:

• Do endian/sign conversion if necessary.

ESD Output:

• Will use ESD stream volume instead of the OSS mixer as default.

Other:

• Assorted bugfixes/memleaks plugged.

1.2.5:

Translation/Internationalization:

• New translations (gl, pt, id, sr)
• Translations work in libxmms.
• Handles broken translations better.

Plugins:

• Joystick plugin suppports more than 4 buttons.
• Vorbis plugin handles streams.
• Vorbis plugin generate data in native endianness.
• File info dialog for Vorbis plugin.
• Alot of bugfixes to the Vorbis plugin.
• Tonegen input plugin supports more frequencys at the same time.
• Solaris output plugin added.
• Additional fixes to the Solaris plugin after it moved to the XMMS source.
• IR plugin can now configure IR code length.
• OSS Output can now configure the mixer device manually.
• Handle no effect plugins without crash.
• Esd plugin makes use of ESPEAKER variable.
• ID3v1.1 support, ID3v1.0 still saves the entire comment.

Portability:

• CDAudio ported to OpenBSD.
• Fixed glitches in FreeBSD audio playback.
• Compilation fixes for Tru64 Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.

Playlist:

• Physically delete file from playlist.
• Right-click menu in the playlist.
• Playlist counter wraps at ~136 years instead of ~600 hours.
• Pressing middle mouse button in the playlist will try to add the content of the clipboard. Double click will clear the playlist.

Misc:

• MiniIcon now shows up in KDE2 taskbar.
• Gnomexmms shows the title in the tooltip.
• DGA support has been dropped.
• Fullscreen code should be more sane now.
• Man pages. (xmms, gnomexmms, wmxmms)

Core:

• Set realtime mode and drop root privilieges before initalizing GTK. (XMMS would not work with GTK 1.2.10)
• Better shuffleplay support.
• Possible to show WM decorations.
• Fixed segfaults in the controlsocket.
• Generic titles instead of Input plugin specific (mpg123, vorbis, cdaudio).
• %F - File path, for titlestrings.
• Smaller fixes, memory leaks and stability issues.

1.2.4:

• Vorbis plugin included. This plugin depends on the vorbis libraries which are not included.
• Support for using a regular font in the main window.
• Fixed some serious bugs in the UDP metadata streaming.
• Fixed a bug that could make xmms crash on mpeg files with certain id3v2 tags.
• 3DNow! Support in the MPG123 engine.
• Use Solaris plugin as default on Solaris.
• New translations (az, it, tr)

1.2.3:

• Bugfixes.
• New configuration option to enable fontsets in the playlist.
• Support for the "netwm" window manager hints.
• README much updated.
• Support for icecast UDP title streaming.
• Added "Play Directory".
• Skin drawing changed. Skins with incomplete pixmaps look like they should now.
• Loading of equalizer presets from disk.
• New translations (gr, lv).
• Try to load plugins from ~/.xmms/Plugins

1.2.2:

• Bugfixes.
• Updates to the song change plugin.

1.2.1:

• Added xmms_remote_quit.
• New languae (eo).
• Workarounds for some compilation problems.
• Bugfixes.

1.2.0:

• MiniIcon for gnome panel/KDE panel.
• I18N support. (different languages)
• Echo/Extra Stereo now save their settings. :)
• Merged Surround Echo with Echo plugin.
• Tone Generator plugin
• URL history for the playlist
• Control socket now supports deleting playlist entries.
• No more resetting of the cdrom while changing cd tracks.
• Support for WSZ skins (winamp skin zip).
• New about logo :)
• nVidia compatible OpenGl Spectrum analyzer.
• Support for local CDDB databases.
• Added support for per-user plugin dir(s) (~/.xmms/Plugins/*)
• New option to disable ID3v2 tags.
• Added xmms_remote_playlist_delete, xmms_remote_get_eq, xmms_remote_get_eq_preamp, xmms_remote_get_eq_band, xmms_remote_set_eq, xmms_remote_set_eq_preamp, xmms_remote_is_shuffle, xmms_remote_is_repeat and xmms_remote_set_eq_band functions to the API.
• Added incremental match jump to file.
• Added support for HTTP redirects.
• Added Enqueue button to mainwin fileselector.
• Made it possible to set the audio device by hand in OSS output.
• Added support for X11R5 session management.
• DnD now supports Netscape, Motif filemanagers and KDE2 (when it's released)
• The additional huge pile of fixes and minor under the hood improvements.