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[svn] Cache the decoder used for each PlaylistEntry. This reduces the amount of times we probe a resource to a strict limit of two times. (Once to detect the type, and the second time to get the stream information.) Something this simple should have been done to begin with...

BMP 0.9.7.1

Enhancements
* New (free) ClearSky skin by Will Reinhart
* New desktop icon
* New GConf schema
* New multi-thread mode for ALSA plugin
* Support for customizable accelerators
* Queue support in Jump to Track
* Partial support for new XMMS 1.2.11 remote control functions
* New translations (Finnish, Georgian, Hindi, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese)
  and updates

Miscellaneous
* Log file renamed to 'log'
* Minor GUI tweaks

Bugfixes
* Fixed some ALSA playback issues
* Fixed crashes when output plugin returning sound volume for only 1 channel
* Fixed crashes when input plugins do not set title when getting song info
* Fixed infinite recursion in logger
* Fixed bogus values returned by xmms_remote_get_info()
* Fixed general/visualization plugin About dialogs not opening correctly
* Fixed centering of playlist in Playlist Editor
* Fixed incorrect length of 1st track read from .m3u files
* Fixed gcc4 compilation errors
* Fixed 64-bit issues setting/getting ESD volume
* Fixed MimeType value in desktop file
* Fixed text clipping of non-ASCII titles in Playlist Editor

Thank you and see you soon in BMPx!


BMP 0.9.7

Enhancements
* Multiple encoding support for trying ID3 title conversion
* GUI refinement tweaks
* New logo and icons
* New command line option to bring BMP to desktop foreground (--activate).
* New compile-time option select XMMS equalization (--with-xmms-eq).
* New translations (Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Czech, Greek, Hungarian,
  Macedonian, Romanian, Slovak)
* Running beep-media-player --version now prints built-in optional components

Bugfixes
* Fixed removal of dead playlist entries
* Fixed dependency information in pkg-config file (bmp.pc)
* Fixed and disambiguated playlist editor accelerators
* Hacked around playlist editor shade bug (now always unshades on launch)
* Many others (see Bugzilla and ChangeLog)


BMP 0.9.7 rc2

Bugfixes
* Include build.list into distribution


BMP 0.9.7 rc1

Enhancements
* Revised GUI according to GNOME HIG
* New window icons
* New About and Preferences dialog
* New file/folder selector using GTK+ 2.4's file chooser
* Skin cursor support
* New equalizer using IIR filtering in time domain
* ID3v2 editing support using id3lib
* ID3 character encoding to assume may now be overrided
* New title formatting tag for conditional fields eg. %{n:text%}
* Experimental GConf and GNOME VFS support
* New translations (Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian,
  Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh)
* Merged configure scripts for shorter build time

Miscellaneous
* Removed EasyMove and DoubleSize
* Removed real-time priority support
* Removed AM_PATH_BMP m4 macro in favour of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
* Removed beep-config in favour of 'pkg-config bmp'

Bugfixes
* Memory leaks
* i18n and l10n
* Many others (see Bugzilla and ChangeLog)


BMP 0.9.6.1
(someone please write this)


BMP 0.9.6
* Port to GTK2
* Rewrote skin functions
(to be continued)